7 Tips for Developing Your Personal Philosophy
7 Tips for Developing Your Personal Philosophy
发展个人哲学观的7条建议
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT(个人发展篇)
这里是Success成功杂志社出版的Jim Rohn作品的系列翻译专栏。今天我们为大家带来第四篇：发展你个人哲学观的7条建议。(Part 3 Part 2)
Your philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out. This is how to build a meaningful one.
你的哲学(人生观)是你如何生活的最关键因素。这里是如何(帮你)打造一个有意义的哲学观。
Jim Rohn was broke at 25 and a millionaire by 31. How does an Idaho farm boy make it to Beverly Hills? This is how…
Jim Rohn25岁时破产了，可是在31岁时，他却成了百万富翁。他是如何从一个爱达荷农场出来的小伙子逆袭成为加州比弗利山庄的一位名流呢？这里是答案...
At 25, there was nothing in my bank and I needed to provide for my family. As I was considering what to do, I met John Earl Shoaff, a wealthy entrepreneur who became my employer for the next five years. He revolutionized my life and taught me the importance of developing my personal philosophy, to look for those few things that make the most difference and to spend most of my time doing those things. It isn’t a complex or mystical process but a principle that can make a difference in how your life turns out.
25岁时，我的银行账户空空如也，可我需要养活我的家庭。当我正在考虑我该怎么办时，我遇到了John Earl Shoaff先生--一名富有的企业家，并成为我接下来5年生涯的老板。他给我的人生带来革命性的变化，教我意识到构建个人哲学的重要性，和寻找那些能导致巨大改变的小事，花绝大多数时间去从事它们。它并不是一个复杂或神秘的过程，而是一种能使你的生活有翻天覆地变化的理念。
While there are many puzzle pieces for success, without developing a sound philosophy, the other pieces are of little value. So as you go forward on this journey toward success, remember to:
成功的路上有许多拼图碎片，然而，没有一个明确的哲学观/人生观，别的拼图碎片毫无价值。所以当你前行在通往成功的旅途中，请记得：
a) Set your sail.
设定你的风帆。
The winds of circumstance blow upon all of us. We all have experienced the winds of disappointment, despair and heartbreak, but why do people arrive at such different places at the end of the journey? Have we not all sailed upon the same sea?
环境的风四面八方向我们袭来。我们都经历过失望，绝望和心碎的风，但是，为什么人们在旅途的终点时却到达了如此不同的地方？难道我们不是在同一片海扬帆起航吗？
The major difference isn’t circumstance; it’s the set of the sail, or the way we think—it’s what we do after we’ve set our sails and the wind decides to change direction. When the winds change, we must change. We have to struggle to our feet and reset the sail in a manner that will steer us in the direction of our own deliberate choice. The set of the sail, or how we think and how we respond, has a far greater capacity to destroy our lives than any challenges we face. How quickly we respond to adversity is far more important than adversity itself.
最主要的不同不在于环境；而是帆的设定或我们思维模式的不同--我们设定风帆和风决定改变方向后各自选择的不同导致的。当风改变时，我们必须改变。我们必须努力站稳脚跟，重设风帆引领我们朝着我们自己选择的方向。帆的设定或我们的思维/反应模式有一种比我们生活中所面对的任何挑战都更具破坏性的力量。我们如何迅速地直面逆境比逆境本身更为重要。
The great challenge of life is to control the process of our own thinking.
生活中的最大挑战是控制我们自己思想的过程。
b) Learn from success and failure.
从成功与失败中学习
The best way to establish a new and powerful personal philosophy is to objectively review the conclusions you’ve drawn about life. Any conclusion you’ve drawn that isn’t working for you could be working against you. The best way to counteract misinformation and wrong data is to input new and accurate information. Gather information from personal experience. If you’re doing something wrong, evaluate what you did wrong and change things.
建立一种新的强有力的个人哲学观之最佳方法是客观审视你从生活里得出的结论。你得出的任何对你生活无益的结论可能也正阻碍着你。消弭误解和错误数据的最好方式是输入新的准确的信息。从个人经验里收集信息吧。如果你正做着错误的事，评估你所做的错误并加以改变。
Seek an objective, outside voice about how you are and what you’re doing. An objective opinion from someone you respect can lead you to early and accurate information about your decision-making process. Listen to the freshness of an outside voice—someone who can see the forest and isn’t lost in the trees.
为你正在做的事寻找一个客观的外部声音。来自你尊敬的人的客观评论能使得你获得决策过程中所需的早期准确的信息。聆听外界声音里能纵览全局而不迷失的智者的新鲜(言论)。
Observe the successes and failures of other people. If people who failed were to give seminars, it would be helpful. You could see how people mess up and you wouldn’t do what they did. Past failures and errors prompt us to amend current conduct so we don’t replicate the past.
观察别人的成功与失败。如果失败的人在研讨会上发言，这将是有帮助的。你能看到人们是如何陷入困境一团糟，你将不会去做他们所做的。过去的失败和错误敦促我们修正现在的行为，以便我们不重复过去(的错误)。
Study from people who do well. Each of us should be in a constant search for people we admire and respect and whose behavior we can model. It’s far better to deliberately choose the people we will permit to influence us than to allow bad influences to affect us without our conscious choice.
向成功人士学习。我们每个人应当不断寻求我们所仰慕和尊敬的人士，并效仿他们的行为。慎重选择影响我们自己的人比允许坏影响干扰我们--即没有意识的选择要好太多。
c) Read all you can.
尽其所能地读书
People from all walks of life who’ve had some of the most incredible experiences have taken the time to write of these experiences so we can be instructed and amend our philosophies.
来自各行各业的有着最宝贵经验的人花时间写下那些经验，我们可以用它们来指导和修正我们的哲学观/人生观。
The contributions of other people enable us to reset our sails based upon their experiences. Books offer treasures of information that can change our lives, fortunes, relationships, health and careers for the better.
别人的文章能使我们基于他们的经验重新设定风帆。书籍提供着"信息的珍宝"---能够更好地改变我们的生活，财富，关系，健康和事业。
There are two books you need to read to build your philosophy: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason.
有两本你需要读的书来构建你的人生哲学：拿破仑·希尔的《思考致富》和乔治·S.Clason的《巴比伦最富有的人》。
d)Keep a journal.
保持写日志的习惯
A journal is a gathering place for all of our observations and discoveries about life. It’s our own handwritten transcript that captures our experiences, ideas, desires and conclusions about the people and the events that have touched our lives. The past, when properly documented, is one of the best guides for making good decisions.
日志是一个收集生活里“观察与发现”的地方。它是我们自己的手写版本---捕捉触及到我们生活的人与事的经历，观点，欲望和结论。被正确记录的“过去”是做出正确决策的最好指导之一。
The very act of writing about our lives helps us think more objectively about our actions. Writing tends to slow down the flow of information and gives us time to analyze and ponder the experience. The intense scrutiny of journal writing can enable us to make refinements in our philosophy that are truly life-changing.
写下我们的生活(本身)帮我们更加客观地思索我们的行为。写作旨在使信息流放缓步伐，给我们时间去分析和思考经历。不断审查日志写作能优化我们的哲学观，使生活发生真正的改变。
Jot down what you learn and be a buyer of empty books. It’s the small disciplines that lead to great accomplishments.
去买一个日志簿，记录下你所学到的。小的自律会引发大的成就。
e) Observe and listen.
观察和聆听
Pay attention during your day, watch what’s going on. Surround yourself with people you respect and admire. Find people whose personalities and achievements stimulate, fascinate and inspire you, and then strive to assimilate their best qualities. This is called the skill of selecting. Don’t waste your time on the silly and the shallow.
在日常生活中注意和观察正在发生的事物。与你所尊敬和仰慕的人为伍。寻找那些品质与成就刺激吸引并激励你的人,然后努力吸收他们最好的素质。这叫做选择的技能。不要把时间浪费在愚蠢和浅薄的人身上。
One of the major reasons people don’t do well is because they keep trying to get through the day while a more worthy cause is to get from the day. We must become sensitive enough to observe and ponder what is happening around us. Be alert. Be awake. Often the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among seemingly insignificant events.
人们无法做的好的主要因素之一是因为他们每天试图得过且过，即使有一个更值得的事业正在行进。我们必须足够敏锐地去观察和思索发生在我们身边的事物。保持警惕和觉醒。通常，最惊人的机会恰恰隐藏在表面看来最无关紧要的事物中。
Be a good listener. Find a voice of value and stay for a while. With so many voices vying for your attention, you need to develop the skill of selective listening and only dial into the radio station that appeals to you. If a voice is not leading to the achievement of your goals, exercise caution in how long you listen.
做一个好的聆听者。发现有价值的声音时要多听一会儿。每天有如此多不同的声音竞相引起你的关注，你需要培养“选择性聆听”的技能，只把号拨到对你有吸引力的频道。如果一个声音无助于你目标的达成，当心你已经听了太久。
f) Be disciplined.
自律
Every day is filled with dozens of personal crossroads, moments when we’re called upon to make a decision regarding minor as well as major questions. These decisions chart a path to a future destination. With careful mental preparation, we can make wise choices.
每天都充满了无数的人生十字路口和召唤我们做出大大小小决定的时刻。这些决定绘制了一条未来之道。只有认真的思想准备才能帮助我们做出聪明的选择。
The development of a sound philosophy prepares us for making sound decisions. When we eat healthy foods, we experience positive results in a short time. When we start exercising, we feel a new vitality almost immediately. When we begin reading, we experience a growing awareness and a new level of self-confidence.
一种健康哲学观的发展有助于我们做出正确的决策。(恰恰像)当我们吃健康的食物时，我们不久就能体验到积极的结果。当我们开始锻炼时，我们立即感到一种新鲜的能量。当我们开始阅读时，我们有一种成长的意识和达到一种自信的新高度。
New disciplines practiced daily will produce exciting results. The magic of new disciplines causes us to amend our thinking.
每天练习新的自律会产生令人激动的结果。新自律的魔力驱使着我们修正我们的思想。
g) Don’t neglect.
不可忽视
Neglect is the major reason people don’t have what they want. If you don’t take care of things in your life, neglect becomes a disease. If you neglect to do good things with your money, you probably neglect to do good things with your time. If you don’t know what’s going on with your health or your bank account, you could be at risk.
忽视是人们不能拥有他们所渴望东西的主要原因。如果你不关心生活中的事物，忽视会变成一种疾病。如果你忽视用你的钱做正确的事，你可能会忽视用你的时间做正确的事。如果你不知道你的健康或你的银行账户正在发生着什么，你可能会处于危险中。
Set up new disciplines to change your life. Don’t neglect. Everything is within our reach if we will read books, use journals, practice the disciplines and wage a new and vigorous battle against neglect.
设定新的纪律来改变你的生活。不要忽视。如果我们保持读书，写日志，锻炼自律性并发起一场新的积极的斗争来对抗忽视，每一件事都将会在我们掌控中。
Build your philosophy. Commit yourself to a new journey and say, I’m going to change my life. Once you do, you’ll never look back.
构建你的哲学。让自己踏上一个新的旅程，并告诉自己，我要改变我的生活。一旦你这样做了，你将再不回头。
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