After I moved to Tokyo and lived there for a number of years, I got used to having a pile of to-do lists, and my calendar always looked like a mess, with loads of things to do written across it.

当我搬到东京并在那里住了几年之后，我习惯了列一堆待办事项清单，而且我的日程表看起来总是乱糟糟的，上面写满了要做的事情。

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My family is definitely not on the same schedule My wife, loves her bed, however I have noticed that she can no longer have a lie in at the weekend like she used to do.

我的家庭时间表和我的妻子是不同的，她喜欢睡觉，尽管我已经警告她再也不能在像她以前那样在周末躺在床上。

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When creating to-do lists, setting goals and the like, I always assume that these things will be used by the dumbest person I can think of - me.

当我列要做的事情的单子，或是设立目标，这一类事情的时候，我总是设定世界上最笨的人将要做这些事—我自己。

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Like her, I used to wonder: how do people good at networking get that way?

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This year though, just like the excuses I used to give for failing to do my homework at school, I simply haven't had time to do enough practice runs.

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