You can put yourself in the right place at the right time more often by identifying an area in which you have the necessary skills and knowledge to capitalize on sudden opportunities.

你可以把自己放在正确的地点在合适的时间，尽可能的确定好一个领域，你要有必要的技能和知识，以便抓住那突如其来的好机会。

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It's most effective if you put that 15-minute block of time right on your calendar and respect the appointment with yourself as if it were a meeting with Warren Buffet, Oprah, or Tiger Woods.

当你把这15分钟的时间算作日程的一部分，并把你与自己的约会看得跟你与沃伦·巴菲特、奥普拉或老虎伍兹的约会一样重要时，就能得到最佳效果。

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Ask yourself the right type of questions; the ones which will put you (mentally) in a positive, practical, productive and solution-focused head space.

问自己一些正确的问题类型：问一些问题，可以使你精神上处于更加积极、务实、富有成果和着重解决问题的思考空间。

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If you can read the code a year later, even code you wrote yourself, it's a good sign that you put good comments in, right?

如果你还能读懂1年前的代码，就算是你自己写的代码，这也说明了你放进去的注释,已经非常好了，对不对？

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On the other hand, if you can put yourself in the right frame of mind, it does liven up the experience of fetching yourself a glass of tap water.

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What I want to talk about today instead is investing in yourself in ways that can just be put into action right now, without a lot of expenditure of money.

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