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生活英语听力文章:幸福是一种选择

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Happiness is a Choice

幸福是一种选择。

Although it may be tempting to dismiss a call to happiness during this time of worldwide struggle and strife as overly optimistic or too simplistic, let me tell you now that I believe this is the perfect time for a reminder that when it comes to happiness, all of us have a choice.

尽管可以将在全球斗争和冲突中过于乐观或过于简单的态度看做幸福,现在让我告诉你,我相信这是一个完美的时间提醒人们那就是当谈到幸福时,我们都有一个选择。

In fact, choosing to be happy is one of the very few essential decisions that we get to keep regardless of age, stage of life, or present situation. It’s a decision that can’t be taken away, and no one else can make it for you.

事实上,选择快乐是为数不多的重要决策,无论我们的年龄大小、人生阶段还是现状如何。这是一个决定,不能带走更没有其他人可以代替你。

Each one of us gets to choose, every single moment of every day, whether or not we decide to be happy.

每个人都可以选择,每一天中的每一时刻我们是否幸福。

It Pays to Be Happy

快乐是值得拥有的!

When we choose to be happy, the rewards are truly great. First and foremost, happy people are more likable and desirable to be around. Isn’t it amazing how we’re drawn to people with sunny dispositions? One of the many consequences of this phenomenon of human nature is that happy people regularly benefit from the enthusiastic help and cooperation of others.

当我们选择快乐时,回报是真实美好的。首要的是,快乐的人更可爱,更值得拥有。是不是我们用阳光般的性格与别人交流会更吸引人?在人的多种性格中,有一种现象是,快乐的人经常受益于别人的热心帮助和合作。

Secondly, happy people consistently report an improved quality of life. They enjoy life and everything in it more than people who aren’t happy.

其次,快乐的人总是生活质量的改善报告。他们享受生活,一切都比不快乐的人美好。

I can personally attest to the connection between happiness and improved quality of life. Many years ago, I decided that I would be intentional about choosing to be happy. I didn’t just say I wanted to be happy, I found out what I needed to do to make happiness a daily reality for me.

我可以亲自证明幸福之间的联系并改善生活质量。许多年以前,我决定有意识的选择幸福。我没说我想要幸福,我发现我需要做些什么来让幸福成为我日常生活中的一部分。

Nine Choices Happy People Make

九种选择快乐的方法!

In their book, How We Choose to Be Happy: The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People, authors Rick Foster and Greg Hicks present the results of interviews with happy people all over the world, from all walks of life. They found and wrote about nine specific choices commonly made by happy people. As you can see, most of these are things we already know about, and may even already practice.

在他们的书中,我们如何选择幸福:作者里克·福斯特和格雷格·希克斯选择了九种及其快乐的人进行采访,结果是,世界各地的人的快乐来自各行各业。

The key, as I discussed in What is Easy to Do is Not Easy to Do, is to use your personal initiative to do the little things that are easy to do, and do them consistently. Here’s the list of choices that Foster and Hicks came up with:

关键的是,当我们讨论什么事容易去做,什么事不容易去做,通常是按照自己的计划去做容易做的小事情,并坚持去做。这是福斯特和希克斯选择并提出的列表:

1. Intend to Be Happy. This is the fully conscious decision to choose happiness over unhappiness. Check out Learn to Enjoy What You Don’t Enjoy.

1.想要幸福。这是全意识决定选择快乐而不是痛苦。通过学着去做我们不喜欢的事情。

2. Be Accountable. You make the choice to assume full personal responsibility for your actions, thoughts and feelings, as well as to refuse to blame others for your own unhappiness. It is also the practice of seeing ourselves as having control over our own lives, rather than being at the receiving end of circumstances.

3. Discover Your Needs. This is the ongoing process of identifying for ourselves what makes us truly happy. You may want to review my post Was Napoleon Hill Wrong?

2.具有责任感。你要选择承担个人的行为责任,想法和感受,以及拒绝把自己的不幸归咎于别人。学着去控制我们的生活,学会自我欣赏,而不是接受极端环境。 3.发现你所需要的。这是一个持续鉴别什么才是让我们真正幸福的过程。你可能想要审查我的文章是拿破仑·希尔的吗?

4. Centralize Your Goals. Creating a dream list is the happy person’s non-negotiable insistence on making that which creates happiness a central activity in life.

4.把精力集中在你的目标上。快乐的人总是创建一个不可转让的坚持梦想的计划,这是创造幸福人生的核心活动。

5. Turn Problems into Opportunities. Recasting is to change the form of something. Look at experiences in positive ways and change your problems into challenges.

5.把问题转化为机遇。重铸是改变的形式。学着积累积极经验的方式,来改变你的问题使其转化为挑战。

6. Explore Options. Make the decision to approach life by being open to any new possibilities and take a flexible approach to life’s journey.

6.探索选项.生活方式的决定被开放给任何新的可能性,采取灵活的方式和生命的旅程。

7. Express Appreciation. Communicating gratitude and giving thanks to the people around you daily brings happiness. For more on this valuable point read my post on The Power of Showing Your Appreciation

7.表达感激。每天沟通感激和感恩可以给你周围的人带来幸福。在读到我所公布的最有价值的一点是展示你感激力量。

8. Share Unselfishly. The art of giving is the act of sharing one’s self with friends, community and the world at large without the expectation of a ‘return on investment.’

8.无私的分享。把自己的行为分享给朋友,社会和全世界,即使得不到任何回报,但是这是一种艺术。

9. Be Truthful at All Times. Make a contract with yourself and design a means by which to check your thoughts and actions against your own internal, personal code. For more thoughts on the value of truthfulness, check out my blog: Being Honest With Ourselves

9.使所有的时间都变得真实。制定自己的约定并设计的一种方法,来检查你的内在思想和行为与个人准则是否相反。更多的想法真实的价值,看看我的博客:诚实面对自己。

Though I’m fortunate that I have experienced a rewarding career and professional life, it’s not my achievements that are to be credited for my happiness and the outstanding quality of life I now enjoy. Rather, it’s the little decisions I consistently make each day—just like these—that continue to help me in my choice to be happy.

不过我很幸运,我曾经历过这样一个有益的事业和职业生活,这并不是要将我的成就要归功于我我现在喜欢的幸福的,优质的生活。相反,我始终每天做着像这样小的决定,并一直帮助我选择幸福。

If you’ve never considered happiness as a choice before now, let me say again that I don’t think there has ever been a better time than now to begin choosing happiness. Will you commit to being intentional about making one of the choices listed above each day for the next nine days? I hope you will.

在此之前,如果你从没有考虑过幸福是一种选择,让我再说一次,我并不认为曾经有过比现在选择幸福更美好的时光了。你会承诺在接下来的九天中每天都去故意选择以上的一种方法吗?我相信你会的.

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