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第7章 打造自己的生活

How to Build Your Life

佚名 / Anonymous

Every person creates his or her own reality. Authorship of your life is one of your absolute rights; yet so often people deny that they have the ability to script the life they desire. They look past the fundamental truth that it is not our external resources that determine our success or failure, but rather our own belief in ourselves and our willingness to create a life according to our highest aspirations.

Clearly, the challenge here is to create and own your own reality. When you begin to live your life understanding that what you make of it is up to you, you are able to design it according to your authentic choices and desires. You will learn lessons here, such as responsibility and limitlessness, which will lead you to the life you were meant to live. These lessons provide you with the essential tools you need in order to take command of your life.

To take responsibility means you admit your accountability and acknowledge your influence and role in the circumstances in which you find yourself. It means you are answerable for your behavior and you fully accept any consequences created by your actions.

To take responsibility will propel you forward and onward to your greater good. I know of a woman named Mary whose story of personal responsibility has always inspired me. Mary was born in Cuba and moved to Miami with her family when she was 2 years old. They lived in terrible poverty in a dangerous part of the city, where crime and drugs were part of everyday life. Mary was determined, however, even at the young age of 8, to make something of her life other than follow the expected route of becoming a maid, or a cashier at the local supermarket. So she got herself to school each and every day, sometimes having to step over drunks passed out in the doorway, just so she could get education and give herself a better life.

Mary eventually left Miami, obtained a good education, and fostered her natural music ability. Mary could have given in to the life she was born into, or remained mired in blaming her parents and culture for her circumstances. She could have refused to take responsibility for the situation. Instead, however, Mary took responsibility for herself and created a life of which she can be proud.

Responsibility is a major lesson of adulthood. If you still haven’t learned the lesson of responsibility, it’s not too late. Remember, life will provide you with plenty of opportunities to get it right.

Limitlessness, the final lesson you must learn is limitlessness, it is the sense that there are no boundaries to what you can become or do. You learn it when you know that your evolution is never-ending and your potential for growth reaches to infinity.

You were born knowing your limitlessness. As you grew and became socialized in this world, however, you might have come to believe that there are boundaries that prevent you from reaching the highest levels of spiritual, emotional, or mental evolution. However, boundaries exist only in your mind. When you are able to transcend them, you learn the lesson of limitlessness.

When I was young, I had a teacher who understood the importance of this lesson. She reminded us every day that we could do anything we set our minds to, no matter how impossible it might seem or how strong the opposition is. It is my sincere hope that there is a teacher like Mrs. Carbene in every school around the world, so that our children can know the wonder and power they have within themselves and will strive to access it. In this world, we have countless people who have proven that a person can do whatever he or she strives to do.

每个人都在创造着自己的生活。拥有自己的生活是你的绝对权利。然而,人们总是否认自己拥有描绘所渴望的生活的能力,他们忽视了这样一个最根本的真理:决定我们成败的不是外部环境,而是我们内心深处的自我信念和创造我们最想得到的生活的意愿。

显然,这里的挑战是创造和拥有你自己的真实生活。当你开始过着自己的生活,认识到怎样去营造完全取决于自己时,你就能根据自己的选择和渴望来设计生活。你会在这里学到一些东西,比如责任和无限,他们将会指引你打造自己想要的生活。这些启示将会赋予你打造生活所必需的基本工具。

承担责任意味着承担义务,并承认你对环境的影响和你在环境中的角色。它意味着你要对自己的行为负责,并完全接受你的行为所导致的一切后果。

承担责任将会促使你不断前进,直到实现更大的目标。我认识一个叫玛丽的女士,她对自己负责的故事一直鼓舞着我。玛丽出生在古巴,两岁时和全家一起搬到迈阿密。他们住在迈阿密最危险的贫困区,那里每天都充斥着犯罪和吸毒。然而,玛丽年仅8岁时,就决定打造自己的生活,不走当女仆或在当地做超市收银员的老路。于是,她每天去上学,有时候不得不跨过门口的醉汉,只有这样她才能接受教育,过上更好的生活。

玛丽最终离开了迈阿密,受到了很好的教育,并开发了自身在音乐方面的潜力。她本可以屈从于生来注定的命运,或者一味埋怨她的父母和所处的环境;她也可以拒绝对当前的情形负责。但是,她却对自己负责,打造了能引以为豪的生活。

责任是成年人的主修课,如果你还没有学会这堂课,现在还不晚。记住,生活会赐予你足够多的机会让你完全学懂。

无限,你最后必须学会的课程是无限,它是一种你去成就自我或创造生活时没有任何束缚的感觉。当你懂得自己的发展永无止境、潜能无穷无尽时,便学会了这门课。

你生下来便知道自己的潜能。可是,当你长大成为社会中的一员,你可能会开始相信,有太多的限定阻碍你实现最高的精神、情感或智力进展。然而,限定只存于你的心里。当你能超越他们的时候,你就学会了无限这一课。

我孩提时的一位老师深谙无限的重要性。她每天都提醒我们,无论多么艰难,只要用心,我们就能成就任何事。我衷心地希望世界上的每一个学校都有一位像卡波恩夫人这样的老师,那样,我们的孩子就能知道自身的潜力,并努力去挖掘。世界上,无数的人都证明了这个道理:世上无难事,只怕有心人。

记忆填空

1. They look the fundamental truth that it is not our external resources that determine our success or failure, but our own belief in ourselves and our willingness to create a according to our highest aspirations.

2. You will learn here, such as responsibility and limitlessness, will lead you to the life you were meant to live. These lessons provide you with the essential you need in order to command of your life.

3. Responsibility is a lesson of adulthood. you still haven’t learned the lesson of responsibility, it’s not too . Remember, life will provide you with plenty of opportunities to get it .

佳句翻译

1. 它意味着你要对自己的行为负责,并完全接受你的行为所导致的一切后果。

2. 当你能超越他们的时候,你就学会了无限这一课。

3. 她每天都提醒我们,无论多么艰难,只要用心,我们就能成就任何事。

短语应用

1. These lessons provide you with the essential tools you need in order to take command of your life.

take command of:开始担任……的指挥

2. She could have refused to take responsibility for the situation.

take responsibility for:负起对……的责任,对……负责

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