How to gain control of your free time | Laura Vanderkam | TED

Translator: Leslie Gauthier Reviewer: Camille Martínez

Translator: Sari Rachmatika Reviewer: Ade Indarta

When people find out I write about time management,

Ketika mengetahui bahwa saya menulis tentang manajemen waktu,

they assume two things.

orang-orang biasanya berasumsi dua hal.

One is that I'm always on time,

Pertama, saya selalu tepat waktu,

and I'm not.

dan kenyataannya tidak.

I have four small children,

Saya punya empat anak kecil,

and I would like to blame them for my occasional tardiness,

dan saya ingin menyalahkan mereka jika kadang saya terlambat,

but sometimes it's just not their fault.

tapi kadang itu bukan salah mereka.

I was once late to my own speech on time management.

Saya pernah terlambat berceramah tentang manajemen waktu.

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

We all had to just take a moment together and savor that irony.

Kita harus mengambil waktu sejenak untuk merenungkan ironi itu.

The second thing they assume is that I have lots of tips and tricks

Kedua, mereka berasumsi saya punya banyak tips dan trik

for saving bits of time here and there.

untuk meluangkan waktu.

Sometimes I'll hear from magazines that are doing a story along these lines,

Terkadang saya dihubungi majalah yang mengulas topik ini,

generally on how to help their readers find an extra hour in the day.

biasanya untuk membantu pembaca mereka meluangkan waktu.

Idenya, kita menghemat sedikit waktu dari setiap kegiatan sehari-hari,

And the idea is that we'll shave bits of time off everyday activities,

add it up,

kumpulkan semuanya,

and we'll have time for the good stuff.

supaya kita punya waktu untuk hal-hal yang ingin kita lakukan.

I question the entire premise of this piece, but I'm always interested

Saya meragukan logika pemikirannya, tapi saya ingin tahu

in hearing what they've come up with before they call me.

pendapat mereka sebelum mereka menghubungi saya.

Some of my favorites:

Jawaban favorit saya:

doing errands where you only have to make right-hand turns --

menghindari belanja di tempat yang melewati lampu merah --

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

Being extremely judicious in microwave usage:

Bijak dalam menggunakan microwave:

it says three to three-and-a-half minutes on the package,

di bungkusnya tertulis 3 hingga 3,5 menit,

we're totally getting in on the bottom side of that.

gunakan batas waktu minimum untuk menghemat waktu.

Dan favorit saya, yang agak masuk akal,

And my personal favorite, which makes sense on some level,

merekam tayangan TV favorit Anda supaya Anda bisa melewati iklan.

is to DVR your favorite shows so you can fast-forward through the commercials.

Anda bisa menghemat 8 menit setiap setengah jam,

That way, you save eight minutes every half hour,

jadi dari dua jam menonton TV,

so in the course of two hours of watching TV,

Anda bisa berolahraga 32 menit.

you find 32 minutes to exercise.

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

Which is true.

Yang mana benar.

You know another way to find 32 minutes to exercise?

Anda tahu cara lain untuk bisa meluangkan 32 menit untuk olahraga?

Don't watch two hours of TV a day, right?

Jangan nonton TV 2 jam sehari, ya kan?

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

Anyway, the idea is we'll save bits of time here and there, add it up,

Jadi idenya adalah menghemat sedikit waktu di sana-sini, kumpulkan semuanya,

we will finally get to everything we want to do.

dan kita bisa melakukan apa yang kita inginkan.

But after studying how successful people spend their time

Tapi setelah meneliti bagaimana orang sukses memanfaatkan waktu mereka,

and looking at their schedules hour by hour,

dan melihat jadwal mereka setiap jam,

I think this idea has it completely backward.

sepertinya ide ini adalah kebalikannya.

We don't build the lives we want by saving time.

Kita tak membangun kehidupan yang kita inginkan

dengan menghemat waktu.

We build the lives we want,

Kita membangun hidup yang kita inginkan,

and then time saves itself.

dan ada waktu yang tersisa.

Here's what I mean.

Saya akan menjelaskannya.

I recently did a time diary project

Baru-baru ini saya mengerjakan proyek

looking at 1,001 days in the lives of extremely busy women.

yang mempelajari 1.001 hari kehidupan beberapa wanita super-sibuk.

They had demanding jobs, sometimes their own businesses,

Mereka punya tuntutan karier, kadang bisnis sendiri,

kids to care for, maybe parents to care for,

mengurus anak, mungkin mengurus orang tua,

community commitments --

tanggung jawab di komunitas --

busy, busy people.

orang-orang super-sibuk.

I had them keep track of their time for a week

Saya catat kegiatan mereka selama seminggu.

so I could add up how much they worked and slept,

Saya hitung waktu kerja dan tidur mereka.

and I interviewed them about their strategies, for my book.

Saya tanya strategi mereka untuk buku saya.

One of the women whose time log I studied

Satu wanita yang jadwalnya saya teliti

goes out on a Wednesday night for something.

pergi keluar pada Rabu malam.

She comes home to find that her water heater has broken,

Saat pulang, pemanas airnya rusak,

and there is now water all over her basement.

dan air memenuhi lantai dasar.

If you've ever had anything like this happen to you,

Kalau Anda pernah mengalami hal serupa,

you know it is a hugely damaging, frightening, sopping mess.

Anda tahu kejadian ini membuat semua berantakan.

So she's dealing with the immediate aftermath that night,

Jadi, dia mengalami semuanya malam itu.

next day she's got plumbers coming in,

Besoknya, dia memanggil tukang ledeng.

day after that, professional cleaning crew dealing with the ruined carpet.

Besoknya lagi, dia panggil tukang bersih karpet.

All this is being recorded on her time log.

Semuanya tercatat dalam diary-nya.

Winds up taking seven hours of her week.

Ternyata semua ini memakan waktu tujuh jam.

Seven hours.

Tujuh jam.

That's like finding an extra hour in the day.

Itu seperti mencari tambahan waktu dalam sehari.

But I'm sure if you had asked her at the start of the week,

Tapi saya yakin jika Anda menanyainya di awal minggu,

"Could you find seven hours to train for a triathlon?"

"Apakah Anda punya waktu tujuh jam untuk berlatih triatlon?"

"Could you find seven hours to mentor seven worthy people?"

"Apakah Anda punya waktu tujuh jam untuk membimbing tujuh orang berbakat?"

I'm sure she would've said what most of us would've said,

Saya yakin Anda tahu jawabannya,

which is, "No -- can't you see how busy I am?"

"Tidak. Anda tak bisa lihat betapa sibuknya saya?"

Yet when she had to find seven hours

Tapi saat dia harus mencari tujuh jam

because there is water all over her basement,

karena lantai dasar kebanjiran,

she found seven hours.

dia bisa punya tujuh jam.

And what this shows us is that time is highly elastic.

Ini membuktikan bahwa waktu itu sangat elastis.

We cannot make more time,

Kita tak bisa menambah waktu,

but time will stretch to accommodate what we choose to put into it.

tapi waktu akan merentang untuk mengakomodir apa yang kita lakukan.

And so the key to time management

Jadi, kunci manajemen waktu

is treating our priorities

adalah memperlakukan prioritas kita

as the equivalent of that broken water heater.

seperti pemanas air rusak itu.

To get at this,

Untuk memahaminya,

I like to use language from one of the busiest people I ever interviewed.

saya akan memakai istilah salah satu orang tersibuk yang saya wawancarai.

By busy, I mean she was running a small business

Dia menjalankan usaha kecil

with 12 people on the payroll,

dengan 12 karyawan,

she had six children in her spare time.

dan mengurus enam anak di waktu luang.

I was getting in touch with her to set up an interview

Saya menghubunginya untuk mengatur jadwal wawancara

on how she "had it all" -- that phrase.

tentang bagaimana dia "melakukan semuanya".

I remember it was a Thursday morning,

Saya ingat, waktu itu Kamis pagi,

and she was not available to speak with me.

dan dia tak bisa bertemu saya.

Of course, right?

Sibuk, kan?

But the reason she was unavailable to speak with me

Tapi alasannya tak bisa bertemu

is that she was out for a hike,

adalah karena dia mendaki gunung,

because it was a beautiful spring morning,

saat itu musim semi begitu indah,

and she wanted to go for a hike.

dan dia ingin mendaki.

So of course this makes me even more intrigued,

Tentu saja ini membuat saya penasaran,

and when I finally do catch up with her, she explains it like this.

dan saat kami bertemu, dia berkata demikian,

She says, "Listen Laura, everything I do,

"Laura, semua yang saya lakukan,

every minute I spend, is my choice."

tiap menit yang saya pakai, adalah pilihan saya."

And rather than say,

Jadi, bukannya berkata,

"I don't have time to do x, y or z,"

"Saya tak punya waktu untuk x, y, atau z,"

she'd say, "I don't do x, y or z because it's not a priority."

dia berkata, "Saya tak melakukan x, y, atau z karena itu bukan prioritas."

"I don't have time," often means "It's not a priority."

"Saya tak punya waktu," sering berarti "Itu bukan prioritas."

If you think about it, that's really more accurate language.

Jika dipikir, istilah ini lebih akurat.

I could tell you I don't have time to dust my blinds,

Saya bisa bilang tak punya waktu membersihkan kerai,

but that's not true.

tapi itu salah.

If you offered to pay me $100,000 to dust my blinds,

Jika ditawari $100.000 untuk membersihkannya,

I would get to it pretty quickly.

saya akan langsung kerjakan.

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

Since that is not going to happen,

Karena itu takkan terjadi,

I can acknowledge this is not a matter of lacking time;

saya bisa nyatakan ini bukan masalah kurangnya waktu.

it's that I don't want to do it.

Saya hanya tak mau melakukannya.

Using this language reminds us that time is a choice.

Ini mengingatkan kita bahwa waktu adalah pilihan.

And granted,

Dan benar,

there may be horrible consequences for making different choices,

mungkin ada konsekuensi buruk karena memilih hal berbeda,

I will give you that.

dan saya sepakat.

But we are smart people,

Tapi kita cerdas,

and certainly over the long run,

dan dalam jangka panjang,

we have the power to fill our lives

kita mampu mengisi hidup kita

with the things that deserve to be there.

dengan hal-hal penting.

So how do we do that?

Bagaimana melakukannya?

How do we treat our priorities

Bagaimana melihat prioritas

as the equivalent of that broken water heater?

seperti pemanas air yang rusak itu?

Well, first we need to figure out what they are.

Pertama, cari tahu apa saja prioritas itu.

I want to give you two strategies for thinking about this.

Saya akan memberi Anda dua strategi.

The first, on the professional side:

Pertama, dari sisi profesional:

I'm sure many people coming up to the end of the year

Saya yakin banyak orang di akhir tahun

are giving or getting annual performance reviews.

memberi atau mendapat ulasan kinerja tahunan.

You look back over your successes over the year,

Anda meninjau kesuksesan selama tahun itu,

your "opportunities for growth."

"kesempatan untuk tumbuh" Anda.

And this serves its purpose,

Ini ada tujuannya,

but I find it's more effective to do this looking forward.

tapi menurut saya, lebih efektif untuk melihat ke depan.

So I want you to pretend it's the end of next year.

Saya ingin Anda berpura-pura ini akhir tahun.

You're giving yourself a performance review,

Anda mengulas kinerja Anda,

and it has been an absolutely amazing year for you professionally.

dan tahun ini, secara profesional, kinerja Anda sangat luar biasa.

What three to five things did you do that made it so amazing?

Sebutkan tiga sampai lima hal yang membuat hal ini mungkin.

So you can write next year's performance review now.

Jadi, buat ulasan kinerja untuk tahun mendatang hari ini.

And you can do this for your personal life, too.

Ini pun bisa dilakukan untuk kehidupan pribadi.

I'm sure many of you, like me, come December,

Saya yakin kita semua, saat Desember tiba,

get cards that contain these folded up sheets of colored paper,

mendapat kartu berisi lipatan kertas warna-warni,

on which is written what is known as the family holiday letter.

bertuliskan apa yang disebut surat liburan keluarga.

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

Bit of a wretched genre of literature, really,

Semacam genre literatur yang mengenaskan,

going on about how amazing everyone in the household is,

berisi betapa mengagumkan seluruh penghuni rumah,

or even more scintillating,

atau bahkan lebih hebat,

how busy everyone in the household is.

betapa sibuknya seluruh penghuni rumah.

But these letters serve a purpose,

Tapi surat ini punya tujuan,

which is that they tell your friends and family

yaitu memberi tahu teman dan keluarga Anda

what you did in your personal life that mattered to you over the year.

yang Anda lakukan dalam kehidupan personal, yang penting di tahun itu.

So this year's kind of done,

Tahun ini hampir berakhir,

but I want you to pretend it's the end of next year,

tapi berpura-puralah ini akhir tahun depan,

and it has been an absolutely amazing year

dan tahun ini sangat luar biasa

for you and the people you care about.

bagi Anda dan orang-orang yang Anda sayangi.

What three to five things did you do that made it so amazing?

Tiga sampai lima hal apa yang membuat tahun ini luar biasa?

So you can write next year's family holiday letter now.

Jadi, Anda bisa menulis surat liburan keluarga tahun depan, sekarang.

Don't send it.

Jangan dikirim.

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

Please, don't send it.

Tolong, jangan dikirim.

But you can write it.

Tapi Anda bisa menulisnya.

And now, between the performance review and the family holiday letter,

Antara ulasan kinerja dan surat musim liburan,

we have a list of six to ten goals we can work on in the next year.

ada daftar enam sampai sepuluh target untuk dikerjakan tahun depan.

And now we need to break these down into doable steps.

Kita perlu memecahnya menjadi langkah-langkah praktis.

So maybe you want to write a family history.

Mungkin Anda ingin menulis sejarah keluarga.

First, you can read some other family histories,

Pertama, Anda bisa baca sejarah keluarga lain,

get a sense for the style.

dan memahami gayanya.

Then maybe think about the questions you want to ask your relatives,

Lalu, coba pikirkan pertanyaan yang ingin Anda tanyakan ke keluarga,

set up appointments to interview them.

atur jadwal untuk mewawancarai mereka.

Or maybe you want to run a 5K.

Atau mungkin mau lari 5 km.

So you need to find a race and sign up, figure out a training plan,

Jadi, jika ingin ikut lomba lari, daftar dan rencanakan latihan,

and dig those shoes out of the back of the closet.

keluarkan sepatu dari lemari.

And then -- this is key --

Kemudian -- inilah kuncinya --

we treat our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater,

atur prioritas seperti menghadapi pemanas air yang rusak itu,

by putting them into our schedules first.

dengan mendahulukannya.

We do this by thinking through our weeks before we are in them.

Kita harus memikirkannya jauh sebelum menjalaninya.

I find a really good time to do this is Friday afternoons.

Waktu yang pas untuk saya adalah Jumat sore.

Friday afternoon is what an economist might call

Jumat sore adalah yang disebut ekonom sebagai

a "low opportunity cost" time.

waktu "bernilai potensi rendah".

Most of us are not sitting there on Friday afternoons saying,

Kebanyakan orang tak duduk santai di Jumat sore dan berkata,

"I am excited to make progress

"Saya ingin mengembangkan

toward my personal and professional priorities

sisi pribadi dan profesional saya

right now."

sekarang juga."

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

But we are willing to think about what those should be.

Tapi kita mau memikirkan soal itu.

So take a little bit of time Friday afternoon,

Jadi, luangkan sedikit waktu di Jumat sore,

make yourself a three-category priority list: career, relationships, self.

buat prioritas untuk tiga kategori: karier, hubungan, diri sendiri.

Making a three-category list reminds us

Membuat daftar tiga kategori mengingatkan kita

that there should be something in all three categories.

bahwa seharusnya ada sesuatu dalam ketiga kategori ini.

Career, we think about;

Kita memikirkan karier;

relationships, self --

hubungan dan diri sendiri,

not so much.

tidak terlalu.

But anyway, just a short list,

Tapi, ini hanya daftar singkat,

two to three items in each.

dua - tiga hal per kategori.

Then look out over the whole of the next week,

Lalu siap-siap untuk minggu berikutnya,

and see where you can plan them in.

kapan Anda bisa merencanakannya.

Where you plan them in is up to you.

Itu terserah Anda.

I know this is going to be more complicated for some people than others.

Saya tahu ini rumit bagi beberapa orang.

I mean, some people's lives are just harder than others.

Hidup beberapa orang lebih keras daripada yang lain.

It is not going to be easy to find time to take that poetry class

Tidak mudah menemukan waktu untuk mengikuti kelas puisi

if you are caring for multiple children on your own.

jika Anda merawat banyak anak seorang diri.

I get that.

Saya tahu itu.

And I don't want to minimize anyone's struggle.

Saya tak mau mengecilkan perjuangan siapa pun.

But I do think that the numbers I am about to tell you are empowering.

Tapi saya pikir angka yang saya sebutkan akan cukup memotivasi.

There are 168 hours in a week.

Ada 168 jam dalam satu minggu.

Twenty-four times seven is 168 hours.

Dua puluh empat dikali tujuh adalah 168 jam.

That is a lot of time.

Banyak waktu.

If you are working a full-time job, so 40 hours a week,

Jika Anda bekerja penuh waktu, ada 40 jam satu minggu,

sleeping eight hours a night, so 56 hours a week --

tidur delapan jam per malam, jadi 56 jam per minggu --

that leaves 72 hours for other things.

yang menyisakan 72 jam untuk hal lain.

That is a lot of time.

Ini waktu yang sangat banyak.

You say you're working 50 hours a week,

Misal Anda bekerja 50 jam per minggu,

maybe a main job and a side hustle.

penuh waktu dan sedikit sambilan.

Well, that leaves 62 hours for other things.

Itu menyisakan 62 jam untuk hal lain.

You say you're working 60 hours.

Anda bilang bekerja 60 jam.

Well, that leaves 52 hours for other things.

Yah, itu menyisakan 52 jam untuk hal lain.

You say you're working more than 60 hours.

Anda bilang bekerja lebih dari 60 jam.

Well, are you sure?

Anda yakin?

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

There was once a study comparing people's estimated work weeks

Pernah ada riset, membandingkan perkiraan jam kerja mingguan

with time diaries.

dengan catatan waktu.

They found that people claiming 75-plus-hour work weeks

Orang yang mengaku kerja lebih dari 75 jam per minggu

were off by about 25 hours.

ternyata selesai dalam waktu 25 jam.

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

You can guess in which direction, right?

Anda bisa tebak arahnya, kan?

Anyway, in 168 hours a week,

Dalam 168 jam per minggu,

I think we can find time for what matters to you.

kita bisa menemukan waktu untuk hal-hal penting bagi Anda.

If you want to spend more time with your kids,

Jika ingin menghabiskan waktu dengan anak-anak,

you want to study more for a test you're taking,

ingin belajar untuk menghadapi ujian,

you want to exercise for three hours and volunteer for two,

berolahraga tiga jam dan jadi relawan dua jam,

you can.

Anda bisa.

And that's even if you're working way more than full-time hours.

Itu bisa dilakukan bahkan jika kerja Anda lebih lama dari kerja penuh waktu.

So we have plenty of time, which is great,

Jadi kita punya banyak waktu, dan ini bagus,

because guess what?

karena apa?

We don't even need that much time to do amazing things.

Kita tak perlu waktu sebanyak itu untuk melakukan hal hebat.

But when most of us have bits of time, what do we do?

Tapi saat kita punya sedikit waktu, apa yang kita lakukan?

Pull out the phone, right?

Mengambil HP, kan?

Start deleting emails.

Mulai menghapus surel.

Otherwise, we're puttering around the house

Kalau tidak, sibuk dengan pekerjaan rumah

or watching TV.

atau menonton TV.

But small moments can have great power.

Tapi momen kecil bisa punya kekuatan besar.

You can use your bits of time

Anda bisa gunakan sedikit waktu Anda

for bits of joy.

untuk bersenang-senang.

Maybe it's choosing to read something wonderful on the bus

Mungkin membaca di bus

on the way to work.

dalam perjalanan ke kantor.

I know when I had a job that required two bus rides

Dulu saat kerja, saya harus naik bus dua kali,

and a subway ride every morning,

lalu kereta bawah tanah sekali.

I used to go to the library on weekends to get stuff to read.

Saya biasa pinjam buku di perpustakaan di akhir pekan.

It made the whole experience almost, almost, enjoyable.

Ini membuat pengalaman berangkat kerja menyenangkan.

Breaks at work can be used for meditating or praying.

Jeda kerja bisa digunakan untuk meditasi atau berdoa.

If family dinner is out because of your crazy work schedule,

Jika makan malam keluarga terlewat karena padatnya jadwal kerja,

maybe family breakfast could be a good substitute.

mungkin sarapan keluarga bisa jadi ganti yang bagus.

It's about looking at the whole of one's time

Ini tentang melihat keseluruhan waktu seseorang

and seeing where the good stuff can go.

dan melihat di mana hal baik bisa terjadi.

I truly believe this.

Saya sangat percaya ini.

There is time.

Selalu ada waktu.

Even if we are busy,

Meskipun kita sibuk,

we have time for what matters.

ada waktu untuk hal-hal penting.

And when we focus on what matters,

Saat kita fokus pada yang penting,

we can build the lives we want

kita bisa membangun hidup yang baik

in the time we've got.

dengan waktu yang ada.

Thank you.

Terima kasih.

(Applause)

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