英语美文:给自己成功的机会(在线收听

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1. 给自己定目标,一年,两年,五年,也许你出生不如别人好,通过努力,往往可以改变70%的命运。破罐子破摔只能和懦弱做朋友。
Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
别对你的梦想和现实之间的差距感到畏惧,如果你有梦想,你就能实现它。
关于说话
2. 不喜欢的人少接触,但别在背后说坏话,说是非之人,必定是是非之人,谨记,祸从口出。
Don't become part of a workplace clique. As much as you might like some coworkers, you should maintain professional boundaries. Don't get drawn into gossiping, and don't take on other people's workplace battles just because you consider them friends.
不要拉帮结派。你可能对某些同事有好感,但要保持工作界限。不要散布流言蜚语,不要因为你和某人是朋友就参与到他们的办公室争斗之中。
关于惰性
3. 是人都有惰性,这是与生俱来的,但是我们后天可以改变这种惰性,因为有很多人正在改变。对于某种事物或是生意不要等别人做到了,我才想到。不要等别人已经赚到钱了,我才想去做。没有人相信的是市场和机遇,大家都相信的叫做膨胀。
Many 20-somethings don't know what they want to do, so they hang around the house or in low-level jobs waiting for the spirit to move them. Not making a choice is a choice. These 20-somethings think they are keeping their options open, but they are actually closing doors. Resumes start look thin, their peers begin surpassing them and they may get stuck in underemployment.
很多20几岁的年轻人不知道自己想要什么,就宅在家里,或做一些没有技术含量的工作,等到哪天兴致来了再去找更好的出路。不选择也是一种选择。这些20几岁的年轻人觉得自己向机会敞开了大门,实际上他们是在把前路堵上。他们的简历会看上去很单薄,被同龄人赶超,还会受限于没有充分的工作经验。
关于业余时间
4. 空闲时间不要经常上网做无聊的事和玩一些没有意义的游戏,读点文学作品,学习一些经营流程,管理规范,国际时事,法律常识。这能保证你在任何聚会都有谈资。
To sum up, often the hardest thing about combining work with study is making the decision to do it in the first place. Once you get started you will probably find that it’s not as difficult as you’d imagined. Studying doesn’t have to take over your life: just a few hours each week can make all the difference.
总的来说,在职学习最困难的部分往往在于一开始做出这个决定。一旦你开始学习也许就会发现,并没有自己想象的那么困难。没有必要让学习占据你全部的生活:每周哪怕只学习几个小时也会有很大不同。
关于成功 
5. 要做一件事,成功之前,没有必要告诉其他人。成功之后不用你说,其他人都会知道的。这就是信息时代所带来的效应。
Always have your destination in mind; keep dreaming your big dreams. Once you cease dreaming, soon you will also lose your energy and be back to mediocrity.
始终铭记你的梦想,做你的梦,不要停。一旦你停止梦想,你就会失去继续前行的力量,又变回一个平庸的人。
关于命运
6. 不要相信算卦星座命理,那是哄小朋友的,命运掌握在自己手中。
When we fail, we might be tempted to think that we have wasted our time and thus regret it. But that’s should not be the case. The fact that you have done something is much better than doing nothing. Rise up and move on. The regret lies not in doing, but in not doing.
当我们遭遇失败的时候,我们可能会后悔自己浪费了那么多的时间去做一件失败的事情。但事实并不是这样的,去做永远比不做好。失败了,就再站起来,继续前行。我们不应该后悔去做了什么事,而是要后悔没去做什么事。
关于出路 
7. 出路出路,走出去了,总是会有路的。困难苦难,困在家里就是难。
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. ——Andrew Carnegie, Founder of Carnegie Steel Company
随着我渐渐变老,我越来越少在意人们在说些什么。我只观察他们做什么。——安德鲁-卡内基,卡内基钢铁公司,被誉为“钢铁大王”。
关于上进
8. 力求上进的人,不要总想着靠谁谁,人都是自私的,自己才是最靠得住的人。
When you live for others’ opinions, you are dead.
如果你为别人的看法而活,那你已经死了。
关于失败 
9. 面对失败,不要太计较,天将降大任于斯人也,必先苦其心志,劳其筋骨,饿起体肤……但要学会自责,找到原因,且改掉坏习惯。 二十岁没钱,那很正常;三十岁没钱,可能是没有好的家境,需要更大的努力;四十岁没钱,只能自己找原因。穷人变成富人是可能的,而且很可能。穷人能穷一辈子,也是必然的,存在就是理由,只是有所选择。
Failure is inevitable if we are to succeed in life. Unfortunately, many people do not know how to overcome failure, and they are stopped by it when they encounter one. The ability to overcome failure is one big difference between successful and mediocre people.
如果我们想要在生活中获得成功,失败就是不可避免的。然而,我们很多人在遇到失败的时候,都不知道如何去战胜它,只好停滞不前。成功人士和平庸的人的区别就在于他们战胜失败的能力。
关于机会
10. 每个人都有成功的机会!就看你给不给自己机会!
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.——Theodore Roosevelt
相信自己能做到,你就已经成功了一半。——西奥多·罗斯福(美国总统)
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