No Low Hanging Fruit

没有可轻易实现的目标

There’s no “secret diet” that will give you the body of your dreams. You already know what you’re supposed to be eating.

实现你的梦想没有“秘密食谱”，你已经知道你应该要什么。

There’s no spouse that will allow you to have an amazing marriage filled with bliss… In order to have a great marriage, “you” will have to become the “type of person” who has a great marriage. You have to mature and ripen enough to handle that level of relationship.

ripen

ripen,是动词，意思是“成熟、使成熟”。

例句：

Gardens are in full bloom, the citrus crops ripen, and balmy weather invites outdoor recreation .

花园里百花盛开，柑果黄熟，温和的气候吸引着人们到户外进行娱乐活动。

没有一个伴侣会让你令人惊讶的婚姻满是福佑。为了有一个好的婚姻，“你”要成为有一个很棒的婚姻的“那种人”。你必须得成熟，成熟到可以应付自如这种关系。

There are no secrets, easy solutions, or quick fixes. It’s all you! You have to change, if your life is ever going to change.

没有秘密、捷径或者快速到位，一切在于你。如果你的生活都不变的话，你得改变。

In other words, you have to change your thinking!

换句话说，你得改变你的思想。

You may say … “You always say I have to change my thinking, this is redundant.” Well the question is, “Have you changed your thinking yet?”

redundant

redundant,意思是“多余的、剩余的”，由此可以衍生出“下岗人员”等意义。

例句：

Meanwhile, concerns are weighing that the business model may be redundant in the internet age.

与此同时，人们日益担忧，在互联网时代，这种商业模式或许是多余的。

你可能会说……“你总是说我得改变我的思想，那纯属多余。”可问题是，“你曾经改变过你的思想吗？”

You don’t get to go to the 4th grade until you passed the 3rd grade. The truth is everything begins and ends with your thinking. Your life is formed, shaped and created from your thoughts.

不经过3年级你到不了4年级。真理开始和结束于你的思考。你的思维形成、塑造和创造你的生活。

There are no opportunities out there that will offer you immediate success

并没有让你即刻成功的机遇

Don’t think: “If I had only joined that business on the ‘ground level,’ then I would be rich,” or “If had only purchased a thousand shares of Microsoft, then I would be living the life of my dreams right now.”

grand level

grand level,意思是“地平面、基础水平”。在本文中，是指“生意刚开始时”。

例句：

Brazilian farmers pioneered "no-till" agriculture, in which the soil is not ploughed nor the crop harvested at ground level.

巴西农民首创了“免耕”农业，不需要耕地，作物也不从根部收割。

不要想“如果我从那生意基础的时候就投入，现在我可能就富人了，”或者“如果我当时买了微软的一千股，现在我可能过着我梦想中的生活了。”

The reality is, you didn’t purchase that stock for a reason, and it’s because at that time in your life you hadn’t grown up into the person who makes those types of purchases. So you need not regret that decision.

现实是，你因为某些原因并没有买股票，因为当时生活中的你还没有长成会做那些类型购买的人，所以你不要后悔当时的决定。

Decisions

决定

We can’t talk about change without talking about your decisions. The saying is true, “your decisions decide your life,” but a more important truth is that you decide your decisions. And you’re making those decisions, which are deciding your life, based on the person that you are “on the inside,” and if the person on the inside doesn’t change, then your life can never change!

我们不能光谈变化不谈你的决定。“你的决定决定了你的生活，”这个说法是正确的。但是更重要的事实是你决定了你的决定。根据你内心里是个什么人，你做出了决定，那些决定决定了你的生活，如果一个人里面不改变，你的生活永远也不会改变！

Change

改变

You think you’re upset now because you missed some great opportunities in life, but if you don’t change your thinking, you’re going to miss the next opportunity, and the next one, and guess what, yes, the next one. Success only occurs when you grow up and make it occur. It’s not about waiting for the right opportunity.

occur

occur,意思是“发生、出现”。

例句：

He also showed that cigar singularities could not occur.

他也证明了雪茄奇异点不可能发生。

你觉得现在很困惑，因为你错过了生活中的很多机遇，但是如果你不改变自己的思想，你可能会错过下一个机遇，然后再下一个，猜猜，是的，再下一个的再下一个。成功只在你长大了然后让它出现的时候出现，和等待正确的时机无关。

You have to grow up and say “Enough is enough, I’m tired of being sick, I’m tired of being broke, I’m tired of being overweight, I’m tired of things not changing, I’m tired of going around this same mountain every year.” You have to say, “I am going to change! I can’t blame my mother anymore, I can’t blame my neighborhood anymore, and I can’t blame my spouse anymore. I’m responsible for my life; I alone am the creator of my results.”

spouse

spouse,是“配偶”的意思。本文中就是如此。它作动词用，还可以表示“与……结婚”。

例如：

You cannot, for example, pay your children to respect you, any more than you might pay your spouse to love you.

比如，你不能付钱要你的孩子尊重你，就像你不能付钱给你的配偶以获得对方的爱一样。

你必须得长大，然后说“适可而止，我厌倦生病了，我厌倦被伤害了，我厌倦超重了，我厌倦事情一成不变，我厌倦每年围着这同一座山转悠了。”你必须说，“我要改变!我不能再责备我妈，不能再责备我的邻居，也不能再责备我的伴侣。我应该对自己的行为负责，我是一切事情的渊薮。”

And the only way to change my results is to change me. And the only way to change me is to change my thinking. You have to commit that nothing is more important than seeing and saying what you will become, to the exclusion of everything else. You have to begin to say who you want to be, and you have to declare how you’re going to get there. You have to speak and see your life the way you want it. You have to change your thinking, by first changing your words.

declare

declare,意思是“宣布、说明”。

例句：

What group has the power to declare war?

哪个小组有能力宣布战争？

唯一能够结果的方式就是改变我自己，唯一能改变我的就是改变我的思想。你得承认，没有比看着和说着你排除重难成为一个什么样的人这更重要的。你得开始说你想成为谁，你得说明你怎样到那儿。你得说出和看你想要的生活方式。你得改变你的思想，首先改变你的语言。

Words

语言

You have to talk to yourself. Tell yourself what you should be thinking. There’s nothing wrong with that!

你得和自己说，告诉你自己你应该怎样思考，那没有什么错！

You don’t mind letting the television talk to you; you let the media talk to you, and the news; why don’t you talk to yourself!

你不介意让电视跟你谈，你让媒介、新闻跟你谈，为什么不自己跟自己谈谈！

Why don’t you say who you are, why don’t you say where you’re going. Why don’t you prophecy your own future. Don’t let statistics and the results of your friends and family dictate where you go. Go where you want to go, do what you want to do, become who you want to become.

statistics

statistics,是“统计学、统计资料”之意。

例如：

Offer the sales figures for the sale statistics, analyst and management.

提供销售报表，用于销售业绩的统计、查询、管理。

你为什么不说你是谁，为什么不说你将要去哪，为什么不预言你自己的未来。不要让统计数据和朋友及家人的结果指示你去哪。去你想去的地方，做你想做的事，成为你想成为的人。

And you do this by deciding to change the way you speak and the way you think.

决定改变你说话和思考的方式来使你做这些。

Thoughts

思想

When your thoughts change, you will change. You only grow to the degree that your thoughts change. When your thoughts become the thoughts of a “Level 10 Person,” a “Level 7 Problem” will seem like child’s play to you. You’ll wonder how you struggled for as long as you did. You’ll think, “I can’t believe I use to eat that way, or I can’t believe I couldn’t come up with a creative way to make more money.”

creative

creative,意思是“创造性的、有创造力的”。

例如：

She had a great eye for color and came up with some creative ideas for our house.

她对色彩有非常好的眼光，并且对我们的房子提出了一些创造性的想法。

当你的思想改变的时候，你就会改变。你只能依你思想的深度而成长。当你的思想变成了“10级人”时，一个“7级问题”就像小孩游戏那样简单。你可能在想只要你做了你该怎样奋斗。你会想，“我不相信我曾经是那样吃的，或者我不相信我想不出能赚更多钱的有创造性的方法。”

When your thinking matures, your life will mature!

当你的思想成熟了，你的生活就会成熟！

In Closing

最后

Be the person who commits to changing their thoughts; don’t miss this opportunity right now to decide to change your thinking.

做那个承诺改变他们思想的人，不要错过现在决定改变你思想的机会。

If you miss this opportunity, the next great opportunity won’t matter, because you won’t see it.

如果你错过了这次机会，下一个好机会就无关紧要了，因为你根本不会看得到它。

Don’t think, “I’ve heard this before.” To hear and not do doesn’t profit you anything. Only those who execute what they know get results. You can have the best plan in the world, but if it’s not executed, then it doesn’t matter.

profit

profit,意思是“利润、有益于”。

例如：

The difference is profit for the investor.

之间的差价就是投资者的收益。

不要想，“我以前就听过这些了。”听了却没做你不会得到任何好处。只有那些执行了他们所知的才得到了结果。你可以有世界上最好的计划，但是如果没被执行，它就什么也不是。

Don’t learn all of this stuff and not do it. Don’t be so close to the truth and yet unable to arrive because you’re too lazy to put the truth into action.

别学了所有这些却什么也不做，别那么接近事实却无法到达，因为你太懒惰而无法将真理付诸于行动。

This day, decide to change your thinking, because it’s the only way to change your life. Decide that your life will never be the same. Decide to speak your life into existence, if you do, your life will never, ever, ever be the same.

今天，决定改变你的思想，因为那是改变你生活的唯一方法。决定你的生活不会永远一成不变。决定将你的生活说成存在，如果这样做，你的生活将绝不可能永远不变。

编辑点评：要成功，先要改变。这是最重要的。而在改变当中个，最重要的是我们自己。