What it takes to say "no"?

这一小节就有好几处标记和值得体会的话。

1. The enemy of the "best" is often the "good". 

2. the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, for you let it.

“不满足是向上的车轮”，要是很容易被“good”给满足，那就较难做到“best”了。

我一直对那些敬业、精益求精的人们感到由衷地敬佩，被这种精神所感动。现在自己还比较胆怯，不敢用力，怕消耗多了对身体不好怎么的，受一些观点影响，有些患得患失和纠结。应该更加坚决，做完决定、选择后就瞄准那一个大方向。

也要舍弃一些东西，像标题和正文（下面3~4句话）提到的，对不重要的事情say "no"，这样才会专注在重要且不紧急的事情上。

3. the initial time for Quadrant Ⅱ has to come out of Ⅲ and Ⅳ.  

4. You have to be proactive to work on Quadrant Ⅱ because Quadrant Ⅰ and Ⅲ work on you. To say "yes" to important Quadrant Ⅱ priorities, you have to learn to say "no" to other activities, sometimes apparently urgent things. 

5. Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven't really internalized Habit 2.

对，作者一语中的。我们的根本问题是优先意识不牢固，没有内化第二个习惯——begin with the end in mind。就像打靶射击，没有瞄准正中心，没有全神贯注，就多半会打偏。

真的要像个指挥家一样，领导、决策和规划好自己的核心事件，再像信徒一样去虔诚地履行。

这段时间就是要去树立我的priorities，建立好自己的center和Circle of Influence。

6. The way you spend your time is a result of the way you see your time and the way you really see your priorities.

这对我来说是一句有警示作用的话。“你是怎样度过你的时间”这一结果（现象）背后就是“你怎样看待你的时间和优先事项”的。

我印象里有从一两本与时间相关的书籍中看到用记录“事项-时间”的方式，来较清晰地知道自己的时间花到哪儿去了。结合这句话阐明的逻辑关系，是可以这样来检视自己是怎样对待时间和优先事项的。

管理自己，记得多反思、总结，再调整。

7. Only when you have the self-awareness to examine your program——and the imagination and conscience to create a new, unique, principle-centered program to which you can say "yes"——only then will you have sufficient independent will power to say "no", with a genuine smile, to the unimportant. 

试译：只有当你有自我意识去检视你的运作程序，有想法和决心去创造一个新的、独特的、以原则为中心的运作程序，这个程序也是能够让你很坦荡地说“yes"。那时你也就自然有足够的独立意志，用真诚的微笑对不重要的事情去说“no"了。

多么好的状态和模样啊！特别是用自己发自内心的微笑拒绝不重要的事，坦荡与真诚汇集一身，向这般的我靠近吧~