生活英语听力文章：生活中的事情复合效果
复合效果
In today’s lesson you will learn one of the principle reasons why little things really do matter, and you will comprehend the incredible impact little efforts can have on your life.
在今天的课上你将学习为什么小事很重要的原因,,你会理解这个小的努力对你的生活不可思议的影响。
Over the past month I have read and listened to Darren Hardy’s new book The Compound Effect. It is one of the best books I have ever read on what it really takes to become successful at anything.
在过去一个月我已经阅读和听了达伦·哈迪的新书的复合效应。这是我读过的最好的书之一,它真的要比任何都成功。
Darren makes the argument that the only path to success is through the continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time.
达伦在文章中提出成功的唯一途径是通过持续平凡,不性感,单调乏味的,有时困难日常的小事复合在一起。
If you want to lose weight, let’s assume you cut out just one of your 150 calorie snacks or beverages each day for a year. This simple discipline would result in a weight difference of 15 pounds after one year. (150 x 365 = 54,750 calories saved, divided by 3500 calories per pound = 15.64 pounds difference.) For me, I cut out my daily Coke.
如果你想减肥,让我们假设你减少每天150卡路里的零食或饮料一年。这个简单的纪律会导致一年后体重15磅的不同。(150 x 365 = 150卡路里,除以3500卡路里每磅= 15.64磅的区别。)对我来说,我每天不喝我的可乐
Reaching your goals is achieved by the DAILY effort you put into what you do, not by some magic success formula, new miracle product, or undiscovered Internet business. Every big success is made up of little successes, each building on the previous and compounding over time.
达到你的目标是通过每天的努力你投入你做什么,而不是一些神奇的成功配方,新奇迹的产品,或未发现的互联网业务。每一大成功是由小成功组成,每一个建立在前面然后复合在一起。
Formula for Life
给生活制定公式
Darren created a life formula: “Your life comes down to this formula. You à Choices (decisions) + Behavior (action) + Habit (repeated action) + Compound Effect (Time) = Goals.” Let’s examine each of these components separately.
达伦生活创造了一个公式:“你的生活归结于这个公式。你的选择(决策)+行为(动作)+习惯(重复动作)+复合效应(时间)=目标。“让我们分开检查这些每个组件。
Choices
Darren said, “The difference between becoming fabulously rich, happy and healthy—or broke, depressed and unhealthy is the choices you make throughout your life.” Our lives are a mirror image of the decisions we make each day. For example, the decision to make a healthy food choice, versus something we know is not healthy. One of my all-time favorite quotes by Jim Rohn is “Success comes from making a series of good decisions over time while failure comes from making a series of poor decisions over time.”
选择 Darren说:“之间的区别变得极其富有,幸福和健康,或者在你的生活中沮丧和不健康的选择。“我们的生命是一个每天做出的决定的镜像。例如,决定一个健康食品的选择,和我们知道的东西是不健康的。我一直最喜欢的名言之一是Jim Rohn 的“成功来自一直一系列好的决策而失败来自于一系列糟糕的决策。”
If you want to improve your life, you must improve your decisions. I believe the most important element in making good decisions is making conscious decisions. This is when you actually consider the pros and cons of your decisions before making them. I am convinced most people float through life making decisions on the fly, with little if any thought, only to find themselves wondering why they aren’t happy, healthy, or successful.
如果你想改善你的生活,你必须提高你的决策。我相信好的决策最重要的元素是有意识的决策。这是当你真正考虑你的决定之前的利弊。我相信大多数人浮在生活中做出决定,很少如果任何思想,却发现自己想知道为什么他们不快乐,健康,或成功。
Behavior
What stands between you and your goal is your behavior. Darren said, “If you say you are a dedicated professional, but yet you show up late and unprepared, your behavior rats you out every time.” Do you need to stop doing things so the compound effect doesn’t take you in a downward spiral? Similarly, what do you need to start doing to change your trajectory so you are headed in the right direction? As you consider your goals, what behaviors may be sabotaging your success?
行为 你的行为站在你和你的目标之间。Darren说,“如果你说你很专业,但你迟到和没有准备,你的行为每次把你出卖。“你需要停止做事，不复合效果才不会带你在一个恶性循环中，同样,你需要开始做什么改变你的轨迹,这样你前进的方向是正确的吗?当你考虑你的目标,什么行为可能会破坏你的成功?
Habits
We must establish the right habits—those that repeated over time take us in the right direction. We must look at everything we do consistently and determine if it is a habit that moves us towards or against what we want to achieve. We must create routines or systems of action that become beneficial habits over time.
习惯。我们必须养成良好的习惯——通过不断重复这些习惯，我们才能保持正确的前进方向。我们要一直注意自己做的每件事，然后判断这种习惯能让我们实现目标还是南辕北辙，离目标越 来越远。我们做事时要形成一种习惯和体系并不断重复，它们就会变成对我们有益的好习惯。
Darren said, “A routine is something you do every day without fail, so that eventually, like brushing your teeth or putting on your seatbelt, you do it without conscious thought. Just as investments compound over time, so do our daily actions. If they are good they take us down one path. If they are bad or destructive, they take us down a completely different path.”
达伦曾说过：“习惯就是你每天都会做的事，而且不会间断，所以到最后你就会习惯成自然。例如每天刷牙和每次坐车系安全带一样。我们的日常生活行为就像长时间的投资复合一样。如果 是好习惯，我们就能循着它找到正确的方向;如果是坏习惯，我们就会被领向一条完全不同的路。”
The Compound Effect
Darren defines the Compound Effect this way: “It’s the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices. Success is earned in the moment to moment decisions that in themselves make no visible difference whatsoever, but the accumulated compounding effect is profound.”
复合效果。达伦是这样定义复合效应的：复合效应是指从一系列微小而明智的选择中得到巨大回报的准则。成功是在一个一个决定中得来的。这些选择本身看起来并没有什么作用，但是它们 却有影响深远的复合效果。
If you want to save money so you can enjoy your retirement, consider the compounding effect of spending $4 a day on coffee. If you choose to invest $4 a day at 8% interest rather than spending it on a cup of coffee it would result in $51,833.79 in 20 years. The same result could also be reached by making your own lunches rather than eating out. Do both and you will have saved an extra $100,000.
如果你想省钱,所以你可以享受你的退休,考虑每天花4美元喝咖啡的复合效应。如果你选择投资4美元一天8%的利息,而不是花费在一杯咖啡会导致20年来的纪录高位51833 .79美元。同样的结果也可以达到通过做自己的午餐,而不是外出就餐。做这两个,你会省下一个额外的100000美元。
Patience is the Answer
耐心就是答案
In order for the compound effect to work, you need to be patient. Most of these daily changes won’t provide immediate results. If you reduce your calories by 150 today, you won’t see a difference today or even this week. The same is true with working out. You can go bust your butt at the gym and you won’t see results today or this week. These daily disciplines must be given time to produce results.
为了使复合效应有效,你需要有耐心。大多数这些日常的变化不会提供直接的结果。今天如果你减少150卡路里，你不会看到今天的差异甚至本周。工作也是如此。你可以在健身房弄破你的屁股,也不会看到今天或本周的结果。这些日常规则必须给定时间产生结果。
Darren said, “What’s most interesting about the process to me is that even though the results are massive, the steps, in the moment, don’t feel significant. Whether you are using this strategy for improving your health, relationships, finances or anything else, the changes are so subtle, they’re almost imperceptible.”
Darren说,“最有趣的过程对我来说,即使结果是巨大的,在当下,过程也感觉不明显。无论你是使用此策略改善你的健康,人际关系,财政或其他东西,这些变化是如此的微妙,他们几乎无法察觉的。”
The Path Upward
走向成功
If achieving your goals and living the life you have always dreamed of is important to you, I have three challenges for you.
如果实现你的目标和生活你一直梦想的生活对你来说很重要,我有三个挑战。
1. Make a list of all the choices you make throughout each day and ask these questions. When these choices are compounded over time will they move me closer to the accomplishment of my goals or will they take me further away? Will the time I spend reading the morning newspaper help me achieve my goals? Will the time I spend watching TV help me achieve my goals? Will this lunch choice help me achieve my goals?
列出所有的选择在每一天,问这些问题。当这些选择是加剧随着时间的推移,他们会动我更接近我的目标的完成或他们会带我远吗?我早上读报纸所花的时间会帮助我实现我的目标?我看电视所花的时间能帮我实现我的目标?这午餐的选择能帮我实现我的目标?
2. Review your goals and make a list of the habits you must create each day to achieve them. After making this list, commit to reading this list and applying each of the points listed for the next 21 days. Once you have done them consistently, every day for 21 days, they will start to become habits and will be much easier to sustain over the long term.
回顾你的目标和列出的习惯你每天必须创建实现。使这个列表后,致力于阅读这个列表,列出的每个分申请下一个21天。一旦你做了他们坚持,每天21天,他们将开始成为习惯,将更容易长期维持。
3. Buy, study and dissect Darren’s new book, available at (Darren Hardy is the visionary force behind SUCCESS magazine as the Publisher and Editorial Director. More from Darren on his blog, Facebook or Twitter.)
购买、研究和解析达伦的新书,(达伦·哈迪是成功背后的力量杂志出版商和编辑主任。更多的来自达伦。在他的博客上,Facebook或Twitter)。
To achieve something you have never achieved before, you must be willing to do what you have never done before.
为了实现一些你之前从未实现,你必须愿意做你从未做过的。
