Change Begins With Choic---改变始于选择

1、Change Begins With Choice-改变始于选择by Jim Rohn 吉姆.罗恩 美 Any day we wish; we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. W

2、e can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year. 任何时候只要我们想，我们都能够约束自己作出彻底改变。任何时候只要我们想，我们都能翻开一本使自己获取新知识的书籍。任何时候只要我们想，我们都可以着手做新的事情。任何时候只要我们想，我们都可以开启改变人生的旅程。我们可以马上动手，也可以拖到下一周、下个月或者下一年。 We can also do nothing. We can pretend rather than perform. And if the idea of having to change ours

3、elves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labor, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make. But while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause. 当然，我们也可以什么都不做。我们可以假装一下，而不用真的行动。如果必须改变自身的这

4、种想法让自己觉得不舒服，我们也可以维持原样。我们可以选择休息而非劳动，选择娱乐而非学习，选择错觉而非真相，选择迟疑不定而非信心满满。选择权在于我们自身。可是当我们事后抱怨结果时，我们只是在继续助长这种成因。 As Shakespeare uniquely observed, The fault is not in the stars, but in ourselves. We created our circumstances by our past choices. We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better

5、choices beginning today. Those who are in search of the good life do not need more answers or more time to think things over to reach better conclusions. They need the truth. They need the whole truth. And they need nothing but the truth. 正如莎士比亚的独到见解，“错误并在于天上的星辰，而在于我们自身。”我们过去作出的选择决定了我们现在的处境。从今天开始，我们

6、都有这样的能力和责任去作出更好的选择。追求美好生活的人不需要更多的答案，也不需要更多的时间思考以取得更好的结果。他们需要的是真相，完全的真相，仅此而已。 We cannot allow our errors in judgment, repeated every day, to lead us down the wrong path. We must keep coming back to those basics that make the biggest difference in how our life works out. And then we must make the very

7、 choices that will bring life, happiness and joy into our daily lives. 我们不可以每天反复作出错误的判断而使自己走上歧途。我们必须不断回归到基本的方向上，让自己的人生变得与众不同。我们也必须做出一些让人生充满生机、欢乐和喜悦的选择。 And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life - If you dont like how things are, change it! Youre not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform. every area in your life - and it all begins with you