雙語 ● Self Motivation-How to Motivate Yourself　成功動力——自我激勵的6種技巧

Self Motivation-How to Motivate Yourself　成功動力——自我激勵的6種技巧

◎ Donald Latumahina

1. Have a cause

1．找到一個理由

I can’t think of a more powerful source of motivation than a cause you care about. Such cause can inspire you to give your best even in the face of difficulties. It can make you do the seemingly impossible things.

在激勵里，沒什么原動力比理由更為強大了。這些理由能在困難當前時把你激發(fā)起來。它能讓你去做一些看似不可能的事。

While other causes could inspire you temporarily, a cause that matters to you can inspire you indefinitely. It’s a spring of motivation that will never dry. Whenever you think that you run out of motivation, you can always come to your cause to get a fresh dose of motivation.

盡管也有其他一些理由能暫時激發(fā)你，與你休戚相關的那些目標能無限期地激發(fā)你。這是一口永不干涸的激勵泉水。當你覺得自己沒動力了，就去找找自己的目標以獲得新的動力泉水。

2. Have a dream. A big dream

2．有一個夢想。一個夠大的夢想

“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.”

“能摸多高我就長多高，能探多遠我就走多遠，能看多深我就看多深，能做多少夢我就做多少夢。”

——Karen Ravn

——凱倫

Your cause is a powerful source of motivation but it’s still abstract in nature. You need to make it concrete in the form of a dream. Imagine how the world will be in the future. Imagine how people will live and work.

你的目標動力對于激勵來說是個強大的來源，但還是太抽象。你得把它具體化成一個夢想。想象一下未來的世界會怎樣。想象一下人們怎么生活工作。

Having a dream is important because it’s difficult to be motivated if you don’t have anything to shoot for. Just think about people who play basketball. Will they be motivated to play if there is no basket to aim at? I don’t think so. They need a goal. You need a goal. That’s what your dream is for.

如果你無的放矢，根本沒法激勵自己，所以有一個夢想還是很重要的。想想那些打籃球的人。如果根本沒有籃筐去投，他們還會有動力嗎？我看就沒有了。他們需要目標。你也是。不然你的夢想拿來做什么用？

But just having a dream is insufficient. Your dream must be big enough to inspire you. It must be realistic but challenging. It must stretch your ability beyond your comfort zone.

但光有一個夢想還不夠。這個夢想必須足夠高遠，那才能激勵你。它必須切合實際，又得具有挑戰(zhàn)性。它還得能迫使你離開安逸的環(huán)境去大展身手。

3. Be hungry

3．要有饑渴感

“‘Wanting’ something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.”

“‘想要’什么那還不夠。你一定要對它充滿渴望。你的動力必須絕對引人注目，那才能跨過總是出現(xiàn)在路上的障礙。”

——Les Brown

——萊斯·布朗

To be truly motivated, you need to have hunger and not just desire. Having mere desire won’t take you through difficult times since you don’t want things badly enough. In many cases, hunger makes the difference between the best performers and the mediocre ones.

要想真正得到激勵，你不僅僅是“想要”，還要是“渴望要”。僅僅是普通的愿望沒法幫你度過艱難的時刻，因為你又不是非要不可。在很多情況下，有沒有饑渴感就是將軍和士兵的差別。

How can you have hunger? Your cause and your dream play a big role here. If you have a cause you care about and a big dream related to it, you should have the hunger inside of you. If you think that you are losing hunger, all you need to do is to connect again to your cause and dream. Let them inspire you and bring the hunger back.

怎樣才能有饑渴感？你的動機目標和夢想會在這里扮演一個很重要的角色。如果你有關心的目標，又有與之相關的夢想，你就該有一種饑渴感才對。如果你認為自己正在喪失這種饑渴感，你所要做的就是再一次聯(lián)結起目標和夢想。讓它們繼續(xù)激發(fā)你，并給你帶來饑渴感。

4. Run your own race

4．別管別人

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. ”

“我不想比別人跳舞跳得好。我只想著跳得比自己好而已。”

——Mikhail Baryshnikov

——米凱亞·巴瑞辛尼科夫

Comparing yourself with others is an effective way to demotivate yourself. Even if you start with enthusiasm, you will soon lose your energy when you compare yourself with others.

要想灰心喪氣，拿自己跟別人比較可謂立竿見影。即使一開始你豪氣沖天，一和別人比較，你馬上就繳械投降。

Don’t let that happen to you. You have your own race so how other people perform is irrelevant. Comparing yourself with others is like comparing the performance of a swimmer with a runner using the same time standard. They are different so how can you compare one with the other?

千萬別這么做。你跑自己的，管別人呢！拿自己和別人比，就像讓一個游泳運動員和一個跑步運動員用同一時間標準來斗快。他們是不一樣的，天曉得你怎么比較出來。

The only competitor you have is yourself. The only one you need to beat is you. Have you become the best you can be?

自己才是自己的唯一敵人。這也是你唯一要戰(zhàn)勝的對手。你做到最好了嗎？

5. Take one more step

5．再多走一步

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

“成功不是結局，失敗并非毀滅；重要的是要有勇氣繼續(xù)前進。”

——Winston Churchill

——溫斯頓·丘吉爾

When you meet obstacles along the way, there could be the tendency to quit. You may think that it’s too difficult to move on. You may think that your dream is impossible to achieve. But this is where you can see the difference between winners and losers. Though both of them face the same difficulties, there is one thing that makes the winners different: the courage to continue.

當你半路遇到困難，你可能想過要溜掉。你可能覺得難于上青天。你可能覺得自己的夢做得太離譜。但就在這里，成功者和失敗者的區(qū)別就突顯出來了。盡管他們面臨同樣的麻煩，有一點使成功者與眾不同：繼續(xù)向前的勇氣。

In difficult situations, just focus on taking one more step forward. Don’t think about how to complete the race. Don’t think about how many more obstacles are waiting for you. Just focus on taking the next step.

困境里，你應該集中精神向前多邁一步。別想著怎樣才能跑完。別想著前面還有多少障礙等著你。只想著你的下一步。

6. Let go of the past

6．讓往事如煙飄走。

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.”

“搞定每一天，你就能做任何能做的事。”

——Ralph Waldo Emerson

——拉爾夫·瓦爾多·愛默生

Believe it or not, one of the best demotivators is your past. Your past can drag you down before you realize it. Your past can give you a heavy burden on your shoulders.

信不信由你，你的過去在擾亂軍心上可謂極具殺傷力。你還沒意識到，就被它扯了后腿。它給你背上了一個沉重的負擔。

The good news is it’s a burden you don’t have to carry. Take it off your shoulders and leave it. You might make mistakes in the past. You might disappoint others with what you did. But it’s over. It’s already in the past and there’s nothing you can do about it.

不過，好消息是這些負擔你根本不必去背。從肩膀上拿下來，扔掉它吧。過去你可能犯了錯?？赡芤驗樽约旱乃魉鶠樽屓舜笫?。但都過去了，再怎么樣你都沒法彌補了。

Today is a new day and you have the chance to start again. No matter how bad your past might be, you still have a bright future ahead waiting for you. Just don’t let the burden of the past stop you.

今天是新的一天，你又有機會重新來過。不管過去你多么不走運，你仍然前程似錦。別讓那些過去的負擔束縛了你。

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