Success is so much more than just money or fame. Success is about being able to live a happy and fulfilling life that allows you to be true to who you really are.
成功远远不止是金钱和名利。能够活得快乐、能够追求忠于自我的人生,才是真正的成功。
If you want to have a successful life, if you want to create a life that makes you feel passionate to be alive, here are the three things you need to focus on.
如果你想要活得成功、如果你想要创造挥洒激情的人生,有这么三个要素你必须关注。
1. Believe In Yourself
1、相信自己
If you don't believe in yourself, how do you expect other people to?
如果连你自己都不相信自己,要怎么让别人相信你呢?
If you don't believe that you can have the life you desire, if you don't believe that you can achieve all that you are setting out to achieve, it is going to be very difficult to create a successful life.
如果你不相信你能得到你所追求的生活、如果你不相信你能得到你想要的东西,要想活得成功就非常困难了。
When you believe in yourself, it fuels your creativity, your ambitions and your motivation to do things. It also helps you to take a leap of faith when it comes to going after what it is that you truly desire.
当你有了自信,它会点亮你的创意、野心和做事的动力。它同样能让你在追求心之所向时放手一搏。
2. Know Your Intention
2、了解你的追求
If your intention is simply rooted in money and fame, chances are you are never going to truly feel successful.
如果你的追求只是金钱和名利,你很可能永远都不会感到成功。
The feeling of success that is given through money and fame is only temporary and is not enough to sustain a long-term feeling of fulfillment and happiness.
金钱和名利带来的成功仅仅是暂时的,不足以给你长期的满足和快乐。
For a truly successful life, your intention has to be rooted in your purpose, in your passions and in what feels good to you.
想要真正的成功人生,必须把追求放在目标上、放在热情所在之处、放在最适合自己的地方。
When your intention is to serve your purpose, make a change in the world and express your gifts and talents, you will feel true success and satisfaction no matter what the outcome.
当你的追求在于达成目标、改变世界和发挥天赋上,你会感受到真正的成功和满足,无论结果如何。
3. Realize You Are Already Successful
3、明白你已经很成功了
Success is all around you and flows through you and the more you can welcome that into your life, the more you will start to feel it.
成功就在你周围,就流淌在你的身体里。你越是对它敞开心胸,就越是能感受到它。
Being grateful for the tiniest successes in life will also help you to create more and more success. This is a powerful mindset shift and one that will help you to align with your ambitions and dreams.
The truth is that you are already successful and once you realize this, there is no stopping what you can do.
事实上,你已经足够成功了,明白了这点,你将无可匹敌。
Not until you realize that life itself is a beautiful thing will you really start to live. Although living combines tragedy with splendor, life is beautiful and even tragedies reflect something engaging. If you were simply to live, do more than that; live beautifully.
Through the sea of darkness, hope is the light that brings us comfort, faith, and reassurance. It guides our way if we are lost and gives us a foothold on our fears. The moment we lose hope is the moment we surrender our will to live. We live in a world that is disintegrating into a vicious hatred, where hope is needed more than ever but cannot be discerned. Finding that is rare while the world lives in fear, but the belief in something better, something bigger than this, is what keeps life worth living.
Then you hear a baby speaking her first word, you see seniors holding hands, you feel the first spring rain, or smell the pine tree at Christmas, and remember that no matter how awful it is, there is always hope. No matter how weak we are, we will always survive.
The gas station nearest my house happens to face a strip club. It is apparently a very successful strip club, as they could afford to install a LCD screen on their roof that might be visible from the Space Station. It's certainly visible from the gas station. At some point my eyes will drift up while pumping gas, and there will be a one-story image of a young woman in some stage of near-undress.
As I was getting some gas this morning, I wondered for the first time what a woman pumping gas thought when she looked at that screen. Though it would depend on the woman, I thought. A woman who had once been an exotic dancer herself would certainly look at that image differently than a Catholic nun.
The image would look different to each of us. And when I say look different, I mean we would be seeing what amounts to a different image. For while the young woman's pose and attire that I see are identical to the pose and attire that every other man, woman, and child sees, the story that image tells me is told uniquely by me, by my own ideas about women and advertising and maybe even gas stations.
The image is nothing; the story is everything. Good to remember if you're a writer. Writers don't report the facts. The fact that there is a strip club with a giant LCD screen blazing near-nudity for all to see means nothing in reality. All that ever matters is what a person believes when they look upon it. What a person believes is the terrain of the storyteller.
And by the way, it is the only terrain of the storyteller. Storytellers, whether they are conscious of it or not, wish to alter reality. We are not so interested in changing the image that flashes on the great LCD screen of the world. Mostly that's beyond our control. We could march, or protest, or fill out petitions to get the screen changed, but it's faster, ultimately, to tell ourselves a story about what we see there.
I sometimes forget I have to power to change that story. My mind drifts as idly from thought to thought as my eyes drift from gas pump to pinup. What occurs in this exchange between the world I look upon and the story I tell can happen so fast, can be so habitual, that I can lose track of who is telling the story I am hearing. The moment I remember, the moment I see my mind as a blank page on which to write my life, I am the author once more, and my life is mine again.