晨讀| Don’t allow your troubles to get the best of you.

雙語美文 英漢對照讀美文，感悟語言的藝術

If your life feels like it is lacking the power that you want and the motivation that you need,

如果你覺得心有餘力不足，覺得缺乏前進的動力，

sometimes all you have to do is shift your point of view.

有時候你只需要改變思維的角度。

Your life can be enhanced, and your happiness enriched, when you choose to change your perspective.

一旦變換看問題的角度，你的生活會豁然開朗，幸福快樂會接踵而來。

Don't leave your future to chance, or wait for things to get better mysteriously on their own.

別交出掌握命運的主動權，也別指望局面會不可思議地好轉。

You must go in the direction of your hopes and aspirations.

你必須與內心希望與熱情步調一致。

Begin to build your confidence, and work through problems rather than avoid them.

建立自信，敢於與困難短兵相接，而非繞道而行。

Remember that power is not necessarily control over situations, but the ability to deal with whatever comes your way.

記住，力量不是駕馭局勢的法寶，無堅不摧的能力才是最重要的。

Always believe that good things are possible, and remember that mistakes can be lessons that lead to discoveries.

請堅信，美好的降臨並非不可能，失誤也許是成功的前奏。

Take your fear and transform it into trust; learn to rise above anxiety and doubt.

將惶恐化作信任，學會超越擔憂和疑慮。

Turn your "worry hours" into "productive hours".

讓“誠惶誠恐”的時光變得“富有成效”。

Take the energy that you have wasted and direct it toward every worthwhile effort that you can be involved in.

不要揮霍浪費精力，將它投到有意義的事情中去。

It is not easy to think positive thoughts when the world around you appears to be so negative.

當你周圍的人或物都看似消極時,讓你持有樂觀思想並非是件容易的事。

In fact, it can be as difficult as anything you’ve ever done.

實際上,這和你做過的任何一件事一樣難。

However, it is absolutely possible to fill your mind with positive thoughts no matter what the environment is.

然而,無論身處怎樣的環境,用樂觀的思想填充你的大腦是完全可能的。

Doing so makes you powerful like nothing else can.

這樣做會使你變得無比強大。

To think positively is to align yourself with the truth that you’re immersed in limitless, growing abundance.

樂觀地思考就是在證明一個事實——你的生活正處於日益豐盈的狀態。

To think positively is to pleasantly accept that your life is full of meaningful and unique achievements.

樂觀地思考也是在欣然接受一個事實——你的生活充滿著意義深遠、與眾不同的成就。

Instead of placing a judgment on your situation, apply your most positive purposes to that situation.

不要只顧著對你所處的形勢作出評價,要把你的積極目標付諸於實際。

Instead of seeing the world as negative, see yourself as a powerful agent of the positive possibilities.

不要只看到世界的消極一面,要看到自己能夠創造積極可能性的強大力量。

If you find yourself giving in to negativity, you are selling yourself short.

如果你發現自己正向消極屈服,那麼你就是在輕視自己。

The moment you feel the slightest pain of a negative thought, stop and remind yourself how powerful you are.

在你感受到消極思想所帶來的一絲疼痛的那一刻,停下來吧,提醒自己你是多麼強大。

Do the intentional work of keeping your thoughts positive.

做一些有利於塑造積極思想的事情,

Because whatever you always think is where your life will surely and steadily go.

因為你的思想正引領著你生活穩步前行的方向。

Don’t allow your troubles to get the best of you.

不要被煩惱擊敗,

Instead, allow those troubles to make the best of you.

相反,要讓這些煩惱磨練出更優秀的你

Don’t tire yourself out fighting against the challenges.

不要因與挑戰作鬥爭而身心疲憊,

Instead, find new energy by embracing those challenges and working through them to create real value.

相反,要在接受挑戰、戰勝挑戰的過程中找到活力去創造真正的價值。

Always remind yourself that discouragement is nothing more than a response you’ve chosen.

時常提醒自己,氣餒只不過是你自己的選擇。

When you find that you’ve chosen to let it be, you can just as surely choose to let it go.

當你發現是你選擇了氣餒,你當然也可以選擇不這樣。

Replace discouragement with determination.

用決心消除氣餒,

It is your life’s energy, and you can point it in whatever direction you choose.

這就是你生命的活力,是放之四海而皆準的。

Your most powerful response is not based only on what has already happened.

你最有力的反應不僅僅受所發生的事情的影響,

Your most powerful response also takes into account what you wish to make happen next.

而且與你期待發生的事情有一定關聯。

Look forward, and envision in great detail the future you desire.

向前看,詳盡地展望你所期盼的未來。

Then gather all your energy, and step forward to make it be.

然後集中你所有的精力,努力前進,讓夢想成真。