成长:超越卓越的你(英语阅读)

　　孩子需要肯定之为快乐而做
( To continue)Instead ---Focus on Learning. Instead of making a goal to achieve more in your job, decide instead to read and learn how to do one new thing each week. Focus on Time. Schedule your time to include what's important to you, like reading time, or exercise time, or family time, or learning time. Focus on the Why. Instead of just forcing yourself to mop the kitchen floor, tap into the higher goal that mopping the kitchen floor supports (having a clean and healthy home). How does that feel? Not bad, huh! If you focus on the pleasure that a desire gives you, you'll find it easier to put in the work that it takes. (One author gives the example of giving blood --- while the experience itself may be less than pleasant, the joy comes in knowing "why" you're doing it). And I absolutely guarantee that you will achieve more, maintain your efforts, and have a much better journey along the way. Over the next 12 months, instead of focusing on the effort, FOCUS ON THE JOY. Focus on the people and things that are most important to you. Focus on the pleasure you get out of moving towards your goals. Focus on the process of creating something, not what results you expect. Invest in yourself more than you ever thought was allowed. Not only will you reap rewards, but those around you will benefit more than you ever believed. ( finished)　　中文：　　（续）相反——　　注重学习。不要为自己的工作定一个目标，以取得更多的成绩，而是下决心每周读书或者学会做一件新的事情。　　注重时间。把一些重要的事情安排到你的日程中，例如读书时间、锻炼时间、与家人团聚的时间，或者学习时间。　　注重原因。不要强迫自己去拖厨房的地板，选择更高的目标（拥有一个清洁健康的家庭）。　　你觉得怎么样？不错吧？哈哈！如果你注重自己所期望的欢乐，你会发现深入工作中很容易。（一位作家举了献血的例子——体验本身可能不是那么有趣，快乐源于清楚自己这么做的原因）。　　我绝对敢保证你会得到更多，继续努力，你会拥有更好的经历。　　来年的12个月，不要只注重苦干了，要注重欢乐。注重对你来说最重要的人和事物。注重你在取得目标的过程中所得到的欢乐。注重创造事物的过程，而不是你期望得到的结果。　　赋予自己比所期望的更多，不但你能收到回报，而且超出你的想象，连你周围的人也会受益。（完）Consider YOU. In all time before now and in all time to come, there has never been and will never be anyone just like you. You are unique in the entire history and future of the universe. Wow! Stop and think about that. You're better than one in a million, or a billion, or a gazillion. You are the only one like you in a sea of infinity! You're amazing! You're awesome! And by the way, TAG, you're it. As amazing and awesome as you already are, you can be even more so. Beautiful young people are the whimsey of nature, but beautiful old people are true works of art. But you don't become "beautiful" just by virtue of the aging process. Real beauty comes from learning, growing, and loving in the ways of life. That is the Art of Life. You can learn slowly, and sometimes painfully, by just waiting for life to happen to you. Or you can choose to accelerate your growth and intentionally devour life and all it offers. You are the artist that paints your future with the brush of today. Paint a Masterpiece. 　God gives every bird its food, but he doesn't throw it into its nest. Wherever you want to go, whatever you want to do, it's truly up to you. 　　试想一下你！一个空前绝后的你，不论是以往还是将来都不会有一个跟你一模一样的人。你在历史上和宇宙中都是独一无二的。哇！想想吧，你是万里挑一、亿里挑一、兆里挑一的。 　　在无穷无尽的宇宙中，你是举世无双的！！！ 　　你是了不起的！你是卓越的！没错，就是你。你已经是了不起的，是卓越的，你还可以更卓越、更了不起。美丽的年轻人是大自然的奇想，而美丽的老人却是艺术的杰作。但你不会因为年龄的渐长就自然而然地变得"美丽"。 　　真正的美丽源于生命里的学习、成长和热爱。这就是生命的艺术。你可以只听天由命, 慢慢地学，有时候或许会很痛苦。又或许你可以选择加速自己的成长，故意地挥霍生活及其提供的一切。你就是手握今日之画笔描绘自己未来的艺术家。

画出一幅杰作吧！

上帝给了鸟儿食物，但他没有将食物扔到它们的巢里。不管你想要去哪里，不管你想要做什么，真正做决定的还是你自己。