As I write to you, I write to myself because what comes out of us either verbally or in the written form is often the thing very thing that we (ourselves) need to work on.

就像是我写给你看一样，我也在写给我自己看。 因为我们所说的或者所写的正是那我们需要为之努力实现的事。

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Thinking back what I've experienced, I took some time to write myself some advice.

在回想了我的经历后，我花了一些时间给自己写了一些建议。

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Applying my own rule, I determined to write them in alphabetical, never letting myself leave out a tough idea.

我决定用我自己的规则，把它们按字母顺序写下来，绝不让自己漏掉一个艰难的想法。

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Every year, I promise myself to write a column about this in the middle of the summer because it is as relevant then as it is now.

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So I will end now as even this is taking a toll sometimes it can take me two to three hours to write these but I do benefit from being able to express myself.

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Being closer to 60 than 50 myself, this next sentence is hard to write.

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