成功源于积极的习惯

 　　The single most important factor that contributes to success is what you do every single day. It is as simple as that. You habits will determine whether you are successful or not. If you have strong and healthy positives habits, it does not matter whether or not you fail today because you are guaranteed to succeed in the long run. Having positive habits does not mean that you will succeed every single time. However, in the long run, there is no doubt that you will achieve all you goals and be successful. On the other hand, if you have strong negative habits, you are guaranteed to fail in the long run. It does not matter whether you succeed today or not. If your habits are self-destructive, you will fail in the long run.

　　Why are Habits so Important?

　　Because you repeat the same actions and the same behaviors every single day. A single positive action will not change your life, but the same action repeated 1 000 times will have a significant impact on your life. For example, if you go to the gym one time, you won’t see a big difference in your life. However, if you go to the gym 1 000 times over a five year period, you will see a big difference in your body. The same principle applies to finance, health, relationships, work, career, and school. Simple positive actions repeated every single day will have a tremendous impact on your life in the long run.

　　Guaranteed Success

　　When you have strong positive habits, it does not matter whether you fail right now or not, because you are guaranteed to succeed in the long run. Do you know the law of sowing and reaping? The law of sowing and reaping states that you reap what you sow. If you are always sowing good positive actions, the only logical result will be success. A man who has a strong work ethic¹ and who has a clear goal will succeed no matter what. This man has developed the habit of working hard. It does not matter whether he fails an exam or miss a sale. The man will keep working until he succeeds. I am not worried about this man. He will be successful.

　　Guaranteed Failure

　　When you have negative habits, failure is guaranteed for you until you take the conscious decision to change you habits forever. Negative habits include overeating, gambling², smoking, drinking and taking drugs. However, let’s not forget those other negative habits that are often the real cause of failure. These negative habits are character traits that will stop you from achieving success. I’m talking about mental habits such as procrastination³, laziness, fear, shyness, lack of courage, etc. Procrastination is the worst negative habit. It is a dream killer⁴. Instead of taking action and working hard to achieve his goal, the procrastinator⁵ decides to delay and to wait until tomorrow. However, when tomorrow becomes today, the procrastinator keeps delaying. The only solution to his problem is to start taking action right now.

　　How to Develop Positive Habits

　　There’s nothing easier than developing positive habits. You simply have to do every single day the action you want to make a habit. If you want to develop the habit of running, run almost every day. If you want to develop the habit of eating healthy, eat healthy every day. If you want to develop the habit of reading, read every day. Habits are created by repetition. The more you do an action, the easier it becomes in the long run.

　　How to Eliminate Negative Habits

　　The only way to destroy negative habits is to stop reinforcing them. If you are a smoker⁶, stop smoking. If you are a drug user, stop using drugs. If you are a procrastinator, stop procrastinating⁷ and start taking action right now. Yes, it will be very difficult at the beginning. The first week will be very hard. After three weeks, you will feel a lot better. Eliminating negative habits is hard because you associated a lot of pleasure to these habits in the past.

　　How Psychology⁸ Can Help

　　If you want to be successful in changing your habits, you should think about changing your inner beliefs about your habits. For example, your old belief was: “I love cigarette because it makes me feel good and relaxed. I need cigarette to be happy and relaxed.” If you keep this belief, you won’t be able to keep your resolution to stop smoking for very long. Instead, you should adopt this new belief: “I love yoga because it makes me feel good and relaxed. Cigarette is toxic⁹ and destroys my body. Yoga makes me happy.” You should analyze¹⁰ your beliefs and make sure they won’t stop you from changing your habits. The same is true when you try to form positive habits. If you want to start eating healthy food, here are some positive beliefs you should start thinking about: “Healthy food is very good for my health. It gives me a lot of energy and I feel very good.”

　　Action Plan

　　It’s now time for you to develop positive habits in your life and eliminate your negative habits. Write down 3 positive habits that you would like to develop and 3 negative habits that you would like to eliminate. For each positive habit, write down exactly what actions you’re going to take every single day in order to develop the new habit. For each negative habit, write down exactly what actions you’re not going to take in the next weeks. Here are some positives habits that will lead to success: exercise, healthy food, reading, saving, studying, healthy relationships, hard work, etc. Here are some negative habits to eliminate: gambling, drug and alcohol abuse, overeating, procrastination, shyness, etc.

　　You Can Do It!

　　Everybody can change. All it takes is courage and commitment. Decide right now to improve your life by changing your habits. Take action right now! Don’t be afraid. Yes, you will probably make mistakes along the way. But never forget that success is guaranteed for you if you have positive habits in your life. If you refuse to quit, success will be yours.

　　引导成功的唯一最重要的因素是你每一天所做的事情。就这么简单。你的习惯将会决定你成功与否。如果你有强大而且健康的积极的习惯，你现在是否失败都无所谓，因为你将来注定会成功。保有积极地习惯并不意味着你每一次都会成功。然而，从长远看来，毫无疑问你将会实现所有的目标，成为成功人士。相反，如果你有强大的消极的习惯，你将来注定会失败。无论你现在成功与否。如果你的习惯是自我毁灭性的，你将来必定失败。

　　为什么习惯如此重要？

　　因为你每一天都在重复同样的动作和同样的行为。一次积极的行动不会改变你的人生，但是同样的行动重复1000次，将会对你的人生产生巨大的影响。比如，如果你去做一次健身，你看不到有什么大不同。然而，你5年里去做了1000次健身，你就会发现你身体的大变化了。这对于理财、健康、人际关系、工作、职业和上学是同样的道理。每一天都充分简单的积极地行动，将会对你以后的人生产生巨大的影响。

　　必定的成功

　　如果你有强大的积极地习惯，你现在失败与否都无所谓，因为你将来注定成功。你知道播种与收获的道理吗？这个道理是你将会收获你播种的东西。如果你一直做良好的积极的事情，唯一符合逻辑的结果就是成功。一个有着良好的职业道德和明确的目标的人无论怎样都会成功。这个人已经形成了努力工作的习惯。一次考试的失败或是丢掉了一点销售额都没有关系。这个人会继续努力知道成功。我不担心这样的人。他必定会成功。

　　必定的失败

　　如果你有消极的习惯，你必定失败，除非你主动采取措施永远改掉这些习惯。消极的习惯包括暴饮暴食、赌博、吸烟、喝酒和吸毒。然而，我们不能忘记其他那些真正导致失败的消极习惯。这些消极习惯是可能阻止你走向成功的性格特点。我指的是精神层面的习惯，例如浪费时间、懒惰、胆小、害羞、缺乏勇气，等等。浪费时间是最坏的消极习惯。它是梦想的杀手。非但不采取行动为达到目标努力工作，取而代之的是拖延，明日复明日。然而，当明天变成了今天，仍旧在拖延。唯一的解决办法就是立即行动起来。

　　怎样形成积极的习惯

　　没有什么是比形成积极地习惯更简单的了。你只需要每一天都做你希望能形成习惯的事情。如果你想养成跑步的习惯，那就几乎每天都去跑步。如果你想养成健康饮食的习惯，那么每天都吃健康食品。如果你想有阅读的习惯，每天都阅读。习惯是由重复养成的。你重复的越多，以后做起来就越容易。

　　怎样摒弃消极的习惯

　　打破消极的习惯的唯一方式就是停止重复它们。如果你是个烟民，停止吸烟。如果你是个吸毒的人，停止吸毒。如果你是个磨蹭的人，停止拖沓并且现在就采取行动。当然，开始的时候将会很难。第一周将会很痛苦。三周以后，你就会感觉好一点了。摒弃掉消极的习惯是很难的，因为你在过去的许多乐趣都跟这些有关。

　　怎样用心理学来帮助你

　　如果你想成功地改掉你的习惯，你应该改变你内心的关于这些习惯的想法。比如，你的旧观念是：“我喜欢香烟，因为它使我感觉很好很轻松。我需要香烟来使我快乐和放松。”如果你保有这样的想法，那么你的戒烟行动将不会持续很久。想反，如果你采取这样的观念：“我喜欢瑜伽，因为这使我感觉舒适而且放松。香烟是有害的并且破坏了我的健康。瑜伽使我快乐。”你应该分析你的观念，确保你不会停止改掉恶习。当你试图形成良好的习惯的时候也是同样的道理。当你想开始健康饮食的时候，你应该开始想这些积极的观念：“健康的食物对我的健康是有益的。它给我许多能量，我感觉非常好。”

　　行动计划

　　现在就是你形成生活中的积极地习惯改掉恶习的时候了。写下3个你想形成的积极的习惯和3个你想改掉的消极的习惯。对于每一个积极的习惯，准确的写下你将每一天采取什么行动来形成新的习惯。对于每一个消极的习惯，准确的写下你下周打算不做什么。这些是将会引导你成功的积极的习惯：锻炼身体、健康饮食、阅读、节俭、学习、健康的人际关系，努力工作，等等。这些是应该改掉的消极的习惯：赌博、吸毒、嗜酒、暴饮暴食、拖沓、害羞，等等。

　　你能行

　　每个人都可以改变。这所需要的就是勇气和承诺。现在就下定决心通过改变习惯来改善你的生活。现在就行动起来。不要害怕。是的，你也许会在这条路上犯一些错误。但是永远不要忘记如果你生活中有着积极的习惯，你必定会成功。如果你坚持到底，成功注定属于你

1 ethic   

n.道德标准，行为准则

参考例句：

• They instilled the work ethic into their children.他们在孩子们的心中注入了职业道德的理念。
• The connotation of education ethic is rooted in human nature's mobility.教育伦理的内涵根源于人本性的变动性。

2 gambling   

n.赌博；投机

参考例句：

• They have won a lot of money through gambling.他们赌博赢了很多钱。
• The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。

3 procrastination   

n.拖延，耽搁

参考例句：

• Procrastination is the father of failure. 因循是失败的根源。
• Procrastination is the thief of time. 拖延就是浪费时间。

4 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。

5 procrastinator   

n. 拖延者, 拖拉者, 因循者

参考例句：

• General Peckem's communications about cleanliness and procrastination made Major Major feel like a filthy procrastinator. 佩克姆将军谈到清洁和拖延的那些简报，使梅杰少校感到自己象一个邋遢的、作风拖拉的家伙。
• This is also a great help if you are a procrastinator. 如果你是一个拖拉的人，这样会对你很有帮助。

6 smoker   

n.吸烟者，吸烟车厢，吸烟室

参考例句：

• His wife dislikes him to be a smoker.他妻子不喜欢他当烟民。
• He is a moderate smoker.他是一个有节制的烟民。

7 procrastinating   

拖延，耽搁( procrastinate的现在分词 )； 拖拉

参考例句：

• Begin while others are procrastinating. Save while others are wasting. 当别人拖延时你开始。当别人浪费时你节约。
• Before adjourning, councillors must stop procrastinating and revisit this controversial issue. 在休会之前，参议员必须停止拖延，重新讨论这个引起争议的问题。

8 psychology   

n.心理，心理学，心理状态

参考例句：

• She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
• He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。

9 toxic   

adj.有毒的，因中毒引起的

参考例句：

• The factory had accidentally released a quantity of toxic waste into the sea.这家工厂意外泄漏大量有毒废物到海中。
• There is a risk that toxic chemicals might be blasted into the atmosphere.爆炸后有毒化学物质可能会进入大气层。

10 analyze   

vt.分析，解析 (=analyse)

参考例句：

• We should analyze the cause and effect of this event.我们应该分析这场事变的因果。
• The teacher tried to analyze the cause of our failure.老师设法分析我们失败的原因。