英语名篇诵读 精彩人生

A Great Life

精彩人生

A great life doesn't happen by accident. A great life is the result of allocating¹ your time,

energy, thoughts, and hard work towards what you want your life to be. Stop setting yourself up

for stress and failure, and start setting up your life to support success and ease. A great life is the

result of using the 24/7 you get in a creative and thoughtful way, instead of just what comes next.

Customize these “secrets” to fit your own needs and style, and start creating your own great life

today!

1. S — Simplify. A great life is the result of simplifying your life. When you focus on

simplifying your life, you free up energy and time for the work that you enjoy and the purpose for

which you are here. In order to create a great life, you will have to make room for it in yours first.

2. E — Effort. A great life is the result of your best effort. Creating a great life requires that

you make some adjustments. It means looking for new ways to spend your energy that coincide

with your particular definition of a great life. Life will reward your best effort.

3. C — Create Priorities . A great life is the result of creating priorities. It's easy to spend

your days just responding to the next thing that gets your attention, instead of intentionally² using

the time, energy and money you have in a way that's important to you. Make sure you are

honoring your priorities.

4. R — Reserves. A great life is the result of having reserves — reserves of things, time,

space, energy, money. With reserves, you acquire far more than you need. Reserves are important

because they reduce the fear of consequences, and that allows you to make decisions based on

what you really want instead of what the fear decides for you.

5. E — Eliminate distractions³. A great life is the result of eliminating distractions. Look

around at someone's life you admire. What do they do that you would like to incorporate into

your own life?Ask them how they did it. Find ways to free up your mental energy for things that

are more important to you.

6. T — Thoughts. A great life is the result of controlling your thoughts so that you accept and

allow for the possibility that it actually can happen to you!Your belief in the outcome will directly

dictate⁴ how successful you are. Motivated people have specific goals and look for ways to

achieve them.

7. S — Start. A great life is the result of starting. There's the old saying everyone's familiar

with “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”.  There's no better time to start than

today. Don't wait for a raise, or until the kids get older, or the weather is better. It's what you do

TODAY that will make a difference in your life tomorrow.

精彩人生不是天上掉的馅饼。精彩人生是你把时间、精力、思想和艰苦劳动奉献于你

想要的那种生活的结果。不让自己为忧虑和失败而困扰，做好准备，迎接成功舒畅的生

活。实现精彩人生，你要周详而富有创意地用好每周7天、每天24小时的时间，而不是当一

天和尚撞一天钟。调整这些“秘诀”，适合你的需要和风格，今天就开始创建你自己的精彩

人生吧！

1. 化繁为简（Simplify）。精彩人生是简化生活的结果。当你注重简化生活的时候，你

就释放出时间和精力，去做自己喜欢的工作，实现你要达到的目的。为了创造精彩人生，

你的人生首先得为此留出时间和空间。

2. 尽心尽力（Effort）。精彩人生是你尽心尽力的结果。创造精彩人生要求你做出一些

调整。这就意味着寻求新的方式使用自己的精力，同你精彩人生的特定定义相符。你做出

最大努力，生活自会犒赏你的辛劳。

3. 分清主次（Create Priorities）。精彩人生是分清主次的结果。随波逐流混日子很容

易，而用心考虑你拥有的时间、精力和金钱，用在重要的地方却很难。确保自己分清轻重

缓急。

4. 有备无患（Reserves）。精彩人生是拥有储备的结果——储备东西、时间、空间、

金钱。有了储备，你就会得到远超需要的收获。储备是重要的，因为它们减少了对后果的

担忧，使你把决策建立在真实需要而不是担惊受怕之上。

5. 排除杂念（Eliminate distractions）。精彩人生是排除杂念的结果。看看你身边你所

羡慕的人的生活。他们做的什么让你想融入到自己的生活中去？问问他们是怎么做的。找

到释放你精力的方法，去做对你更重要的事情。

6. 坚定信念（Thoughts）。精彩人生是控制思想的结果，接受并允许这种可能性：成

功真的会发生在你身上。对结果的信念会直接决定你的胜算。动机明确的人有具体目标，

并且努力去实现目标。

7. 立即行动（Start）。精彩人生是立即行动的结果。有一种家喻户晓的说法“千里之行

始于足下”。要行动，没有什么比今天更合适的时间。不要等到加了薪，不要等到孩子长大

了，不要等到天气好转了。是今天的所为，改变你明天的生活！

1 allocating   

分配，分派( allocate的现在分词 )； 把…拨给

参考例句：

• Administrative practice generally follows the judicial model in allocating burdens of proof. 在分配举证责任方面，行政实践通常遵循司法模式。
• A cyclical multiplexing technique, allocating resources in fixed-time slices. 以固定的时间片分配资源的循环复用技术。

2 intentionally   

ad.故意地，有意地

参考例句：

• I didn't say it intentionally. 我是无心说的。
• The local authority ruled that he had made himself intentionally homeless and was therefore not entitled to be rehoused. 当地政府裁定他是有意居无定所，因此没有资格再获得提供住房。

3 distractions   

n.使人分心的事[人]( distraction的名词复数 )；娱乐，消遣；心烦意乱；精神错乱

参考例句：

• I find it hard to work at home because there are too many distractions. 我发觉在家里工作很难，因为使人分心的事太多。
• There are too many distractions here to work properly. 这里叫人分心的事太多，使人无法好好工作。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 dictate   

v.口授；(使)听写；指令，指示，命令

参考例句：

• It took him a long time to dictate this letter.口述这封信花了他很长时间。
• What right have you to dictate to others?你有什么资格向别人发号施令？