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KT英语——昆山花桥|上海安亭英语培训专家

Do you want to change the world? Start off by making your bed. There’s nothing cute or easy or funny about discipline, especially when it comes to the subject of self-control. if you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride. And it will encourage you to do another task and another and another after that.

你想改变世界吗？从早上整理床铺开始做起。自律，尤其是自控力，不是什么好玩的、容易的、有趣的事情。然而，如果你每天早上都能整理床铺，你就完成了每天的第一个任务。这会给你一点自豪感，而且会鼓励你继续完成一个又一个任务。

And by the end of the day that one task completed will have turned into many different tasks completed. Clean up your room. That’s a great start. Organize your local landscape. Schedule your time. Start taking control of yourself. I think you should stop looking for the quantum leap and start looking for the daily discipline, because that’s where the breakthrough lives. When you make your bed, you have already done something for the day. You’ve already accomplished something even though it’s small. Just accomplishing one little thing can propel you to do the next thing and the next thing and the next thing.

一天过去，那个任务完成了，其他的任务也就完成了。打扫你的房间，这是个很好的开始。规划你的房间布局，计划你的时间，开始掌控自己。我认为，你应该停止幻想一步登天，你要开始寻找每天的自律，因为这样才会有突破。当你整理你的床铺时，你已经做了一天中的一件事了，你已经完成了一件事，虽然它是一件小事。完成一件小事，可以鼓励你去做下一件事，下一件事，再下一件事。

But if you only plan your pleasure and you don’t ever plan on having any pain, if you’ve spent all of your life trying to avoid everything that’s uncomfortable, I can just tell you right now, you’re gonna have one wretched miserable life. You’re gonna be old and all you’re gonna have is regrets. So ask yourself, am I practicing self-discipline in my life? Am I doing the things that I should do because I need to do them? Or am I kind of waiting to feel the moment out? The things that you do and that you don’t do are far more important than you think. We can do something extraordinary with our lives, but you need to discipline yourself every day.

但是，如果你只对享乐做规划，而不对艰苦做规划，如果你一辈子都在逃避令你不适的东西，我现在就可以告诉你，你将会度过可怜又悲惨的一生。你会变老，你只会拥有悔恨。所以，问问自己，我每天都做到自律了吗？我正在做的事情，是不是我需要做、所以该做的？还是说，我只是在虚度时间而已？你做的事和你不做的事，比你想的重要得多。在生命中，我们可以做到一些非凡的事情，但是你需要每天都做到自律。

Greatness will cost you something, not somebody else. It’ll cost you something. It’s going to cost you some time. It’s going to cost you some energy. It’s going to cost you some sacrifice. It might cost you some resources. It might cost you some hours of your life laying down. But paying the price and going the extra-mile, doing what other people are not willing to do, that’s greatness, and greatness is not cheap. Greatness always costs more. That’s why there’s not many people who achieve greatness. They’re not willing to pay the price.

伟大，会让你付出一些东西，而不是让别人付出。它会让你付出。它会让你付出时间，它会让你付出精力，它会让你付出牺牲。它可能会让你付出一些资源，它可能会让你受伤卧床一段时间。但是，付出代价，多走一些路，做其他人不愿意做的事情，这就是伟大。伟大不是廉价的，它总是需要我们付出更多。实现伟大的人并不多，这就是原因。他们不愿意付出代价。

See, a lot of people want, want, want, and want, but then they don’t use the discipline that they should to get what they want. So decide today that you’re going to discipline yourself. When you have the discipline to do the things that you really don’t want to do, then you earn the right to have the things you really do want to have. Self-discipline is the key to being able to perform and being able to keep your life on schedule and being able to keep commitments and promises and meet deadlines. It is essential to success.

你看，很多人只是想要得到某个东西，但是，如果想得到这个东西，他们需要一定的自律，而他们并没有做到。所以，今天就做出决定吧，你要自律。当你能够做到自律，去做那些你并不是很想做的事情，那么你就有权利获得那些你想得到的东西。自律，是让你表现出色的关键，是让你保持生活井然有序的关键，是让你信守承诺的关键，使让你按时完成任务的关键，是让你成功的关键。

Making your bed in the morning will also reinforce the fact that the little things in life matter. If you can’t do the little things right, you’ll never be able to do the big things right, and if by chance you have a miserable day, you will be able to come home to a bed that is made, that you made. And the made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better. You just need to make a choice, a choice that you’re gonna stop being bitter, a choice that you’re gonna stop looking back, a choice that you are not going to waste one more day of your life feeling sorry for yourself.

每天早上都铺床，这也是在强调一个道理，那就是，生活中的小事也很重要。如果你不能做好小事，那么你也无法成大事。而且，如果你哪天刚好过得很糟糕，你回家的时候，能够看到一张铺好的床，你自己铺好的床。这张铺好的床，会鼓励你，明天会更好。你只需要做出选择，你不要让自己再这样悲哀，你不要再回顾过去，你不要再浪费时间来可怜自己。

And I know you may have issues in you, but you’re doing better than you think you are. Somebody needs to know that today. You’re gonna make it. Somebody needs to know today that you’re doing all right and you may not be what you ought to be, but you’re not what you used to be and you’re gonna get there. Don’t you give up. Don’t quit. And don’t you keep putting yourself down. You’re doing better than you think you are. This is not how your story ends. Look again. There’s another chapter. There’s a new beginning. You just know that you need to keep growing, be disciplined, be committed and have heart to be consistent.

我知道，你可能也有很多问题，但是你的表现比你想象的好得多。今天，有人需要明白这个道理，你会成功的。有人需要明白，你做得挺好的，你可能还没变成你应该成为的样子，但是你跟以往已经不一样了，终有一天你会实现目标。不要放弃，不要半途而废，不要看不起自己。你的表现，比你想象的好得多。目前的情况，和你将会看到的结果，是不一样的。再看看，有新的篇章，有新的开始。你只要明白，你要不断成长，做到自律，意志坚定，保持初心。

If you get up and you just have no discipline whatsoever, you get no value out of anything. Your diets don’t work when you don’t do them. Exercise doesn’t work when you don’t do it. Like what is the fire that stirs you, that that you wake up saying, I will do this even when I don’t feel like it? I will do whatever it takes to overcome my temptation for mediocracy, my temptation for excuses, my temptation for reasons and circumstances that hold me back. I won’t allow those to be in my way. And if you have that within you, you’ll achieve whatever you choose. Nothing will be different until you think differently. Nothing will be different until we think differently.

如果你早上起来，这一天没有做到自律，你就什么都得不到。你不节食的时候，你的节食食谱就不会有效。你不运动的时候，你的运动计划就不会有效。你的热爱到底是什么？到底是什么东西让你起床时对自己说，就算我不想做，我也要做？我会付出所有代价，去克服我想变得平庸的欲望，克服我想找借口的欲望，克服一切阻止我前进的原因和情况。我不会让这些东西挡我的路。如果你有这样的想法，那么你会实现任何你想实现的东西。只有改变心态，你才能改变事态。只有改变心态，我们才能改变事态。