1. 你的人生由你自己決定 No matter what your goals are in life, there is one great law that you need to obey in order to be successful: No one else is going to climb the ladder of success for you. No one else is responsible for your health, wealth, happiness, or success. From the day you leave your parents' house and start to make your own choices, you are responsible for your life and the choices you make. You choose the job you work in, the person you live with, and how much you exercise every day. Only you can choose how you spend your time, and the decisions you make on a consistent basis will make or break your life. 無論你的人生目標是什麼，為了成功，你都必須遵守一條偉大的法則：沒有人會替你爬上成功的階梯。沒有人對你的健康、財富、幸福或成功負責。從你離開父母家開始做出自己選擇的那一天起，你就要對自己的生活和選擇負責。你可以選擇你的工作，和你一起生活的人，以及你每天鍛鍊的時間。只有你才能選擇如何利用自己的時間，你持續做出的選擇將決定你的生活。 If you want a better life, you need to make better decisions. You can blame other people for your lack of results or happiness all life long, but it doesn't change anything. Only you can change your life by changing the choices you make. Take responsibility for everything in your life, even if you can't directly influence it. Even if it's not in your direct control, you can always choose how you respond. 如果你想要更好的生活，你需要做出更好的決定。你可以因為自己一無所成或不夠幸福而責怪別人，但這不會改變任何事。你只能通過改變自己的選擇來改變你的生活。對生活中的每件事負責，即使你不能直接影響它。即使它不在你的直接控制之下，你也可以選擇如何迴應。 2. 成功最大的敵人 According to motivational speaker Brian Tracy, the biggest enemy to success is the path of least resistance. If you choose what is fun and easy over what is necessary, you will never reach the levels of success and happiness you are capable of achieving in your life. That's because every great victory requires great sacrifice. If success was easy, everybody would be successful. But because success in any area of your life requires hard work and sacrifices, most people will never reach their full potential. 勵志演講家布賴恩·特蕾西說，通往成功的最大敵人是阻力最小的道路。如果你選擇做有趣和容易的事，而不是必要的事，你將永遠無法達到你在生活中能夠達到的成功和幸福的水平。那是因為每一次偉大的勝利都需要巨大的犧牲。如果成功很容易，每個人都會成功。但是，因為在生活的任何領域取得成功都需要努力付出和犧牲，大多數人永遠無法充分發揮出他們的潛力。 Whenever you decide not to do what you should be doing, you not only waste your opportunity to grow as a person, but you also lose confidence in yourself. You start to see yourself as lazy and unsuccessful, and that self-image will become a successful prophecy. 每當你決定逃避你應該做的事情時，你不僅浪費了一個成長的機會，而且也失去了對自己的信心。你開始認為自己懶惰、失敗，然後你就會真的自暴自棄。 To achieve any goal you have, there are only three things you need: A clear vision for what it is you want, a plan to get there, and massive action consistently repeated over time! While the first two parts are the easy parts of the equation, most people struggle with the last part: Hard work. 要實現任何目標，你只需要做三件事：清楚你想要的是什麼，一個實現目標的計劃，以及隨著時間的推移不斷重複的大量行動！前兩部分很簡單，大多數人都難以做到最後一部分：努力。 There is nothing that you can't achieve with hard work, so it is necessary that you build the habit of choosing what is hard and necessary over what is fun and easy to do. Doing this is probably the surest way to succeed in life. 沒有什麼是你通過努力無法實現的，因此你有必要養成習慣，選擇困難和必須做的事情，而不是選擇有趣和容易做的事情。這可能是通向成功最可靠的路。 3.做長遠的考慮 To quote Abraham Lincoln, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” If you ever wonder where you will be 10 years from now, look at your current life. What actions are you taking to make your goals reality? How many books are you reading to grow as a person, and how many new things are you learning? Which people are you associating with? Are you putting in the effort necessary to achieve your goals today? 亞伯拉罕·林肯說過：“預測未來的最好方法就是創造未來。”如果你想知道10年後你會在哪裡，看看你現在的生活。你正在採取什麼行動來實現你的目標？為了個人成長，你讀了多少本書，你在學習什麼新東西？你和哪些人交往？你今天是否投入了必要的努力來實現自己的目標？ People oftentimes think that their lives will suddenly change through some magical event in the future, but that is not the case. Your life changes only to the extent that you change. If you are not happy with your current circumstances, are you taking actions to change them? If not, you are justdaydreaming¹. Nothing will ever change if you don't change what you do daily. As Aristotlenoted²over 2,000 years ago, “We are what we repeatedly do.Excellence³then, is not an act, but a habit.” 人們常認為生活會因為未來的一些神奇事件而突然改變，但事實並非如此。只有你做出改變，生活才會改變。如果你對目前的情況不滿意，你是否開始採取行動改變現狀？如果沒有，你只是在做白日夢。如果你不改變你每天做的事情，什麼都不會變。正如亞里士多德在2000多年前指出的，“我們反覆做的事決定我們成為什麼樣的人。因此，卓越不是一種行為，而是一種習慣。” A great way to

actively⁴create your future is to ask yourself: If I already achieved my goals, how would I act on a daily basis? What books would I read, how often would I work out, and how would I spend my time at the office? 積極創造未來的一個好方法是問問自己：如果我已經實現了目標，我每天會怎麼過？我會讀什麼書，多久鍛鍊一次，我會如何利用辦公時間？ Once you answer these questions, you know what to do. 一旦你回答了這些問題，你就知道該怎麼做了。 4.挫折是成功的一部分 In life, nothing worth having comes easy. You have to make sacrifices in the form of time, effort, pain, and hard work if you want to succeed. There will be many setbacks, and any time you get close to finally succeeding, there will be some more adversity testing how bad you really want it. Only after passing one more test, and then another, will you be able to succeed. 在生活中，任何值得擁有的東西都來之不易。如果你想成功，必須付出時間、精力、痛苦和努力。人生有很多挫折，每當你接近最終成功的時候，都會有更多的逆境來測試你到底有多想成功。只有通過一次又一次的測試，你才能成功。 The great tragedy of life is that most people give up right before achieving success. They already made it to the five yard line, and all they need is one final push to make the touchdown and bring home the sweet victory. But right before they do that, there is one final obstacle

standing⁵in their way – one last failure that they need to overcome. Way too many people give up right then and there, without realizing how close they are. 人生最大的悲劇是大多數人在取得成功之前就放棄了。他們離成功只有一步之遙，他們所需要的只是最後一搏，就能觸地得分，並帶回甜蜜的勝利。但就在他們這麼做之前，還有最後一個障礙擋在面前——這是他們需要克服的最後一個失敗。太多的人直接放棄了，卻沒有意識到他們離成功有多近。 If you just take one thing from this post, let it be this: Whenever you encounter failure and adversity, keep going! Success is supposed to be hard because that's what makes it so special. If it was easy, anybody could do it. 如果你只能從這篇文章中學到一件事，那就是：無論何時遇到失敗和逆境，都要堅持下去！成功是艱難的，這也是它如此特別的原因。如果容易的話，任何人都能成功。 The only way to grow as a person is by facing the biggest challenges in life and enduring long enough to succeed. No matter how long it takes or how hard it gets, always remember the words of motivational speaker Les Brown: “It's not over until I win!” 成長的唯一途徑是面對生活中最大的挑戰，並堅持下去以取得成功。無論需要多長時間，無論有多困難，都要記住勵志演說家萊斯·布朗的話：“我贏了才算結束！” 5.做好決不放棄的準備 To make sure that you stay strong in the face of adversity, make sure to resolve in advance how you will respond once it occurs. You need to have a plan for what to do when all hell breaks loose, or else it is too easy to just give up. When writing your goals, commit to making them come true, no matter how hard it may be. Determine how you will respond to failures and setbacks so you can bounce back stronger and better than ever before. 為了在逆境面前保持堅強，一定要事先確定一旦困難出現你將如何應對。你需要有一個計劃，當最壞的情況出現時你該怎麼做，否則就很容易放棄。定下目標時無論有多困難，要保證將其實現。確定你將如何應對失敗和挫折，這樣你才能比以往任何時候都更堅強、更好地站起來。 If you make this commitment and never break it, you will succeed at anything you set your mind to. Maybe not immediately, but definitely. 如果你許下這個承諾，並且堅持下去，你下定決心做的所有事情都能成功。也許不會馬上成功，但肯定會。