The written word is a part of every day life. At its most basic, writing is a way of communicating.
文字是每天生活的一部分。從最基本的方面講，寫作是一種溝通方式。

This is the one inalienable characteristic of writing itself, whether you’re communicating with a colleague or friend or you’re actually communicating with yourself – though a shopping list, for instance.
這是寫作本身一個不可分割的特點，無論你是和同事溝通、和朋友溝通亦或是和你自己溝通——例如列一張購物清單。

Aside from the fact that writing is an inescapable part of every day life, there are many good reasons you should make a good session of writing part of your daily routine, even if it’s just a few hundred words. You don’t have to be a pro to reap the benefits of creating the written word.
除了寫作是每天生活中不可避免的活動這一事實，有很多好的理由讓寫作成為你每天生活的一部分，即使只是寫百十來字。你不必成為一個職業的寫手來從寫作中獲利。

1. Remove stress from mind, place on paper
1.放下思想的包袱，擺好紙張

Writing can be therapeutic. It can be a way to vent all the pent-up frustrations burdening your mind into a far less volatile form, paper (or screen). You can address your anger, fear, worry and stress without bludgeoning the person who embodies those emotions for you with a paperweight.
寫作可以是個內科醫生。它可以是一種用來把你思想上壓抑很久的負擔宣泄到很容易緩解的程度的方法，寫在紙上（或輸出到屏幕上）。你可以把你的憤怒、恐懼、焦慮和壓力寫出來而不必用鎮紙對帶給你這些情緒影響的人大打出手。

Writing can serve as a form of cathartic stress relief where you finally get to say what you can’t say out loud, in real life. Just don’t let your vented feelings get into the wrong hands, or you may end up paying some pretty hefty blackmail cash.
寫作可以作為一種宣泄壓力的形式，你可以說出你不能大聲在現實生活中想說的東西。只是不要讓你宣泄的感情被錯誤的人利用，否則你可能需要付出巨大的代價來結束它。

2. Sweep Your Mind
2.梳理你的頭腦

A daily writing habit gives you regular time to sweep your mind for forgotten tasks and ideas that have been fermenting in the back of your head without your knowledge. It allows you to take the unordered thoughts floating around your head like lost puppies in zero gravity, and turn them into ordered plans and actions.
每天的寫作習慣讓你有規律的時間來對你的大腦進行梳理，對那些忘在腦后的任務和想法進行梳理。它能使你讓那些無序的想法在你鬧鐘無重力的天馬行空，讓這些想法成為有序的計劃和行動。

This is the fundamental principle that the mindsweep and weekly review are based on: getting everything you can think of out of your head, and into a written format. This simple process can save your life when things are getting overwhelming and complicated.
這是基本的原則，即大腦梳理和每周回顧的依據是：想方設法獲得你的大腦能想到的一切東西，讓他們付諸與書面的形式。當事情變得十分艱巨和復雜時，這個簡單的過程可以節約你寶貴的時間。

3. Keep Your Writing Skills Sharp
3.保持你的筆鋒

Write every day to keep your skill with the written word sharp. Like any skill, the ability to communicate clearly, concisely and aesthetically degrades without practice. As a result, many people who don’t write regularly can freeze up, lost for words, on something so simple as an email to a friend.
每天寫作以保持你用詞準確的寫作技巧。像其他的技能一樣，能讓溝通清楚、簡潔和美觀的能力也會下降，如果你練習的話。因此，那些不經常寫作的人會出現頭腦空白，難以言語，即使是給朋友寫一封E-Mail這么簡單的事情上。


Writing every day, even in a stream-of-consciousness, unedited format will maintain and gradually improve your writing skills, and since dealing with the written word is a fundamental part of daily modern life, there’s nothing bad about that.
每天寫作，即使是意識流，沒有經過修改過的形式也會保持和逐步提高你的寫作技巧，而現在處理文字已經是現代生活的基本組成部分的時代，常常寫作也沒有什么壞處。

4. Make Some Pocket Money
4.賺些零花錢

If you’re not a professional writer, pocket money is probably all you’ll ever want to earn from your words. But if you’ve got a knack for it and just had a great dinner at a new restaurant and written about it for your daily pages, then isn’t it better to have a shot at getting that review published instead of letting the piece do absolutely nothing?
如果你不是一位專業的作家，零花錢可能是你最想從你的文字中賺取的了。但是，如果你有訣竅，如剛剛在一個新的餐廳吃了個午飯，然后像往常一樣把它寫下來，那么是不是讓它成為一個出版的作品比讓它什么都不是來的更好呢？

These days, it’s easy to submit to many publications without spending considerable time and money doing so. While you’re unlikely to get too many bites without a good track record as a writer, it’s certainly easy enough to be worth the effort, and your wallet will be pleased.
如今，你可以很容易提交到許多出版物上而不必花費大量的時間和金錢。雖然你不太可能像有良好記錄的作家那樣得到太多的關注，但至少很容易讓你的付出得到回報，相信你的錢包是十分高興的。

5. Turn the Noise Off
5.遠離噪音

Get away from the constant low-quality input and output systems of day-to-day life, such as meaningless small-talk and weather conversations, text messaging, Twitter, checking the mailbox, and most email and many websites. You receive and create barrages of useless distractions that don’t help you or the people you know; sitting down to write lets you get away from it all.
遠離這種持續的低質量的輸入輸出系統般的生活，如無意義閑談和關于天氣的交流，發短信、Twitter，查看郵箱，郵件和很多網站。你接收了大量無用的干擾，既無益與你也無益于你認識的人；靜下心來寫作讓你遠離他們。

It’s important to keep the noise to a minimum so you can focus on creating and receiving strong material, things that are really worth reading and writing.
保證噪音在最小的范圍讓你能夠專注于創造和接收那些真正值得閱讀和寫作的有益的材料是十分重要的。

6. Enhance Your Communication Skills
6.增強你的溝通技巧

Use daily writing to enhance your communication skills. In this culture, communication is so often hampered because we don’t know how to express ourselves, whether it be verbal or written. Writing regularly can hone the skill of self-expression, something that is useful in written communications such as email, and that can translate into improved verbal communication.
每天寫作可以提高你的溝通技巧。如今，溝通經常被阻礙因為我們不知道如何表達我們自己，不論是口頭上還是書面形式。經常寫作可以磨練自我表達技巧，這在書面溝通上很有用，例如寫E-Mail，并且能轉化為更好的口頭交際能力。

If you have trouble communicating what you want or asking tough questions, regular writing will give you a mind for structuring words quickly to achieve the desired affect in a diplomatic way.
如果你在溝通中講述你的需求或詢問棘手的問題時遇到了麻煩，定期的寫作是能給你提供思路、組織語言讓你快速達到預期效果的有效途徑。

7. Know What You Want
7.知道什么才是你想要的

Part of the reason so many people do not get what they want in life is because they do not know what they want from it. Certainly not the main reason that people don’t get what they want, but in so many cases it is the obstacle. How can you get what you want or achieve your dreams if you’re not 100% clear on what they are?
很多人沒有從生活中得到他們想要的東西，其中的原因是因為他們根本不知道他們到底想要得到什么。當然這不是主要的原因，但在很多情況下這是一種阻礙。你怎么能得到你想要的或實現你的夢想如果你不是100%清楚他們到底是什么？

Writing each day gives you time to think carefully and reflect on what you want to achieve the most, and develop a clearer, achievable image and plan for that result.
每天寫作給你時間仔細思考，反省一下你最渴望的是什么，并為實現這一結果制定一個更清晰的切實可行的計劃。

8. Develop Your Analytical Skills
8.提升你的分析技能

Writing regularly develops your analytical and rational skills. Working through your problems with a piece of paper encourages you to think things through clearly, in both linear (sequential) and non-linear (creative) ways. The best solutions come from a mix of both logical and creative thinking.
定期寫作能提升你合理分析的能力。當在一張紙上解決你的問題時能激勵你清晰地想問題，不論用線性（一般思維）還是非線性（創意思維）的方法。最好的解決方案來自邏輯性和創造性思維二者的組合。

Many people tend to panic and react emotionally to their problems, but if you’re used to solving them by processing each component of the problem in writing, you’ll develop a better approach and skillset. You’ll at least pause to think through the situation before hitting the panic button next time something comes up!
許多人往往會恐慌和很情緒地面對他們的問題，但當你習慣于把問題各部分分解寫出來解決他們時，你會發現一個更好的方法和技巧。至少在下次問題來臨時你會在陷入恐慌之前停下來透徹的看待當前情形。

9. Get Away from Technology
9.遠離高科技

In #5 we talked about turning the noise off for a while, which comes from all sorts of sources – not just tech-related sources. But another problem of ours is our dependence on technology, and it seems that everything that can be done on a computer, is done on a computer.
在第5點中我們已經談及了遠離噪音，那是從所有來源——不僅僅是科技相關的來源。但另一個問題時我們對科技的依賴，而且似乎是可以在電腦上完成的一切，都是在電腦上完成的。

If you opt to use a pen and paper instead of a computer, you give yourself valuable time away from technology to gather your thoughts without constant, meaningless interruptions and distractions. But more importantly, you give yourself time with the tactile and real.
如果您選擇使用一支筆和一張紙，而不是一臺電腦，你就給了自己許多遠離科技的寶貴時間來收集你的想法而不用受那些不固定的，毫無意義的打斷和干擾。但是更重要的是，你給了自己時間來感受觸覺和真實。

10. Meet Yourself All Over Again
10.重新徹底認識你自己

In a fast-paced society it’s easy to forget things like what you believe in and what you’re doing this (whatever this may be) for. Letting words flow out of your brain unedited can introduce you to a part of yourself you’d been censoring from yourself to cope with everyday life. Why did you start down the path you’re currently on? This is an important question whether you consider your current path to have begun on the weekend, or a decade ago.
在這個快節奏的社會很容易讓人忘記一些事情，譬如你所相信的和你做這件事（不論這件可能是什么事）為了什么。讓文字在腦中天馬行空可以把你介紹給你那自我設定的來對付日常生活的自己。你為什么走上了你當前的道路？這是一個非常重要的問題，無論你認為所在的道路是從幾天前開始的還是從十幾年前開始的。

Discontentment, disillusionment, and unhappiness often come from forgetting why we’re doing something (or, on a different track, not having a good reason for living a certain way) and it is important to keep those simple reasons at the forefront of your mind or you run the risk of letting your life become a series of boring, menial actions.
不滿，失望和失落往往來自于忘記了為什么我們要做這么些個事情（或者，從另一個角度來說，以一種特定的方式生活沒有一個很好的理由），并且讓這些簡單的原因保持在思想的最前面是很重要的，否則你很可能使你的生活變成一系列的無聊的卑微的行為。

It’s not only important to remind yourself of your motives for your current actions; it’s important to monitor your actions to see if they align with your life goals so that you can change them. Sometimes, the only way to keep such a close monitor on your actions and goals is to write about them every day.
不僅提醒你自己你的當前行為的動機是很重要的；更重要的是監督你的行為，以了解他們是否很你的生活目標一致，以便你可以改變他們。有時，唯一能密切監督你的行為和目標的方法就是每天把他們寫下來。

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