If your hands are really tied on you have no control over how your time is spent, what's the point of reading productivity blogs like this anyways?

如果手头上真忙得不可开交，又不知道时间是怎么花掉的，那在这里读关于生产力的博客又有什么意义？

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Many reasons... Though I'm a person who very much like to be in control of my life, I guess there are many things which is beyond my control at this point of time!

有很多原因…虽然我是那种希望生活都在我掌控中的人，但是我觉得有太多东西不在我的掌控中！

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So at this point they just seem to be burning, if not out of control at this point, it looks like a fire maybe sort of 10 feet wide at this point on the second floor.

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That said, one of the things New Directions does that we really like is point out that while the idea of taking control of your working life can be initially unsettling, you come to this new phase with far more skills than you initially may have thought.

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If the point is to critique power and centralized control, and the reformers like Mayor Bloomberg are guilty of this approach, then it makes sense to critique the reformers.

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