為夢想而活

LIVE YOUR LIFE BASED ON YOUR DREAMS

If you want success in business or in life, you need to start living your life based on your dreams, not on your circumstances. The most successful people in the world know that the place in life you have right now isn’t a place you need to stay.

Before becoming a box office superstar, Jim Carrey was homeless and lived in his car. He now is one of the most famous actors in Hollywood.

J.K. Rowling, the author of the successful Harry Potter series, was divorced, unemployed and living on welfare before she published her first book. It’s now said that she has more money than the queen of England.

So what does all this have to do with you? Both the two people come from unpleasant circumstances. Their lives were so hard that it would have been extremely easy for them to give up their dreams. But your circumstances don’t make you who you are, and no situation lasts forever. If you want success, you need to start living and thinking as if you were successful. That doesn’t mean spending money you don’t have, but it does mean walking with your head up and presenting yourself as a positive, motivated and successful person.

Nobody wants to be in business with a negative person with no confidence. When you start living the life you want instead of the life you are accepting, everything starts changing for the better.

Success is something anyone can have. Start living as if you’re going to be one of the successful people, and soon you will be!

【助讀詞匯】

◇perception n. 觀念，看法

◇proactive adj. 積極主動的，搶先的，先發制人的

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為夢想而活

如果你想在事業上或生活里獲得成功，你就得為夢想而不是為你的境遇而生活。世界上最成功的人深知現在你在人生中所處的位置并不是你該待的地方。

在成為票房大明星前，金凱利無處居住，睡在自己車里。而現在他是好萊塢最出名的男演員之一。

J.K. 羅琳，炙手可熱的哈利波特系列的作者，在出版第一本書前離了婚，沒有工作，靠福利金生活。而現在呢，據說她比英國女王還有錢。

那么這些和你又有什么關系呢？這兩個人都來自不幸的境遇，他們生活艱辛，放棄夢想是極其容易的。但是你的境遇無法造就真正的你，沒有哪一種情況會持續到永遠。如果想成功，你就得開始像已經成功了那樣生活，那樣思考。這并不是說沒錢的你得大肆揮霍，而是說你得昂首闊步，展現一個積極向上成功的你。

沒人愿意和自卑消極的人共事。當你開始過自己想要的生活而不是逆來順受的生活時，一切都會開始好轉。

成功每個人都可以擁有。開始好像自己即將步入成功人士的行列那樣生活，這樣用不了多久你就會美夢成真。

【人生啟迪】

也許你現在成績還不是很出色，也許你現在還在一家公司的最底層干，但這只是現在而已。要想名列前茅，你就得像學習拔尖的同學那樣發奮讀書，要想爬到管理層，你就得像公司CEO那樣培養自己的能力。是向夢想一步步邁進，還是停滯不前，這與境遇一點關系都沒有，就看你是否行動。