Part of me was very frightened and I consciously had to get a grip on myself.
我其实非常害怕,但又不得不有意识地控制住自己。
Similarly, if I get a piece of praise, I’ll remind myself that this is just one view, and not to let it distract me from the bigger goal.
类似的,如果我得到了表扬,我会提醒自己这仅仅是个观点,我不会因此而分散注意力。我有更大的目标!
I realized that if I wanted something and no one was giving it to me, that I needed to find ways to get it myself.
我认识到,如果我想要的东西别人不能给我,那我就要自己想办法去得到。
I locked myself in a bedroom and told my wife to handle our two children without me. Finally, she insisted I get help.
我把自己锁在卧室里,对妻子交代后事,请她务必要照顾好我们的两个孩子。
So I promised myself a reward: out of the refund, I would buy myself a kayak - something I'd been thinking about for awhile to help me get back in shape.
于是我会给一个自己许诺:退款后,我要给自己买一艘独木舟-这样想会帮助我投身到事情中。
Once more and more customers knew me, I'd get inundated with phone call after phone call during lunch and soon I didn't have ANY time during the day to myself.
当越来越多的客户认识我之后,我的午餐时间被一个接一个的电话打断,我也不再有我自己的时间。
My awareness alone has allowed me to get myself out of bed earlier, not grudgingly (okay maybe a little) but willingly - even cheerfully sometimes.
仅仅是我的认知就可以让我在更早的时候就起床,我没有勉强自己(或许有那么一点点),而是很自然地就起床了- - - - - -甚至有些时候还是兴高采烈的呢。
I remember seeing drag queens and men dressed in skimpy attire and thinking to myself: Get me out of here so I can watch a baseball game.
我记得看到了扮成女人的男同志和穿着暴露的男人们,那时候我在想:在这里把我放下吧,我好看一场棒球比赛。
For a code-quality addict like myself, this combination drastically reduces the heebie-jeebies and allows me to get to what I like doing best: writing bullet-proof software.
对于像我一样为代码质量发狂的人来说,这种组合极大地减少了我的 神经紧张,还让我可以得到我想做得最好的东西:编写“防弹”软件。
Relationships allow me to connect with others to get new ideas and learn more about myself through conversation.
人际关系让我能从他人身上吸取新鲜想法,通过交流也更了解自己。
He could see that this was not the way for me to get on, and prevailed upon my brother to allow him to take me to London, and leave me there to myself in a lodging house.
他能看出这可不是让我继续学习下去的好方法,他成功说服我哥哥,让他带我到伦敦去读书,把我一人丢在公寓里⑤。
Yet when I present myself not as a soliloquizing authority, but rather as a resource to help clients get their job done, they seem to trust me more.
但当我不是以自顾自话的权威专家,而是帮助客户完成工作时,他们看起来更信任我。
The next time your self-discipline is about to go off track ask yourself, “How can I get myself to do what a part of me doesn't want to do?
当下一次你发现自己快要失去自律的时候,问问你自己:“追求成功的大脑,是否会允许这样做呢?”
I just need to get my foot in the door at a club who wants me so I can work hard and prove myself again.
我只想去一家真正需要我去的球队,然后努力的证明自己。
I think, for me, it's a matter of finding ways to still get the important stuff done when I'm not feeling productive, and also allowing myself to take breaks now and then.
我想,对于我来说,在我干事没成效时,我会找法子先干那些重要的事,并且时不时的休息一下。
They think I need to get a job and get married and do various other things that they want me to do that mostly depend on me not being myself.
他们认为我需要一份工作,结婚,做其他各种并非真实的我要做的事情。
The next time your self-discipline is about to go off track ask yourself, “How can I get myself to do what a part of me doesn’t want to do?”
当下一次你发现自己快要失去自律的时候,问问你自己:“追求成功的大脑,是否会允许这样做呢?”
Faith helped me get over selfishness and learn to live for others as well as for myself (how else could you explain me writing this blog without any financial reward?)
信仰让我不再自私,让我学会为他人而活而不仅仅是为我自己(要不然我又怎么会不求回报地写下这篇博客呢?)
If I've stopped exercising for a week, I would be ashamed of myself, and my weekly review would get me to the gym first thing Monday morning.
如果我一周没锻炼,我会对自己感到羞愧,我的每周评估中就会安排自己下周周一头一件事去健身房。
I know one can get educated in many ways, but colleges and universities are among the best places to teach me how to educate myself.
我知道一个人可以通过许多方式得到教育,但高等院校才是这些方式之间教我如何教育我自己的最佳去处。
If my go-between can't get permission for me to marry her, I guess I'll have to take the bull by the horns and go to see her father myself.
如果媒人不能帮助我获得迎娶她的许可,我想我会下定决心自己去找她的父亲谈。
Of course, when people recognize me or my popularity is important but, that's when people get to know the whole process of making myself.
当然,人们认可我或者说我受欢迎时很幸福,但当我努力的整个过程被认可的时候更幸福。
Since then, I have encountered situations that make me want to stand still but I've learned that I only hurt myself when I let those feelings get the better of me.
从那以后我遇到过各种让我想停下的情况,可我已懂得让这种感觉战胜自己只会伤害到自己。
I don't try to put myself down after I miss the shot, but it can get frustrating at times as well for me.
打丢球后我不会垂头丧气从而让状态受到影响。但有时候我也同样会很恼火。
The lady who lived next to me saw that I stay around by myself and let me get into her house, she warmly serviced me some tea and cookies.
那个住在我隔壁的妇女看到我一个人在外面就让我去她家坐。她热情地招待了我,给了我一些茶和饼干。
But looking back, now that I'm 58, I don't know whether it was conscious or not, but I must have believed in myself enough so that I didn't really let it get to me.
但是我现在已经58岁了,现在回想当年,我不知道自己当时意识到这个问题了没有,但是我一定很相信自己,只有那样我才能够不让那种想法来左右我。
But for me, I love him at the first sight. I never get it why I should have had that kind of feeling — the moment when I saw him, I felt like my heart had not belonged to myself any more.
而我第一眼看到他我就爱上他了,不知道为什么会有这样的感觉——在看到他的那一刹那,我就觉得我的心已经不属于我自己了。
But for me, I love him at the first sight. I never get it why I should have had that kind of feeling — the moment when I saw him, I felt like my heart had not belonged to myself any more.
而我第一眼看到他我就爱上他了,不知道为什么会有这样的感觉——在看到他的那一刹那,我就觉得我的心已经不属于我自己了。
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