After college, I had collected a few trinkets here and there, maybe a couch and a bed, but moving was still fairly easy. Now, a move involves countless hours of sorting and decluttering. It's incredibly stressful because there are so many moving targets (not to mention moving boxes). Dozens of people will need to know about my address change. In the midst of this pandemonium, I had to make an important decision.

毕业后，我从各处收集了一些廉价的小物品，一张躺椅或一张床，但是搬动起来相当方便。而现在，一次搬家需要花费漫长的挑选和整理时间。这真的是让人压力山大了，这么多的搬家杂物（还没说搬运箱子了）。一堆人要知道我的搬家地址，就在这一片乌烟瘴气中，我必须做出重要的决定。

Then it hit me: I needed to reduce the chaos.

忽然，我就想到了：我得想办法减少这堆乱糟糟的东西

This is the one step that's so important. You have to be ruthless about it. If you have a major decision to make, it's important to do whatever you can to resolve any other problems, reduce your stress, get back into a regular routine, and find some peace. If you don't, the stress will overwhelm you. (It's the same reason I try to manage stress and not my time.)

这就是关键的一步。你必须无情地踏出这一步。如果你要做出一个重要的决定，那么对于你来说，竭尽所能解决其他的问题，减轻压力，恢复正常轨道，获得平静就是最重要的。如果你无法踏出这一步，压力便会把你扑倒。（这也是笔者努力管理压力而不是管理时间的原因。）

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