As a rough guess I think it would be fair to say that only 1% of the population is successful while the other 99% can only dream of success and never achieve it.
作个大胆的猜想，1%的人是很成功的，而其他99%的人只能梦想着成功却得不到它，我认为这样说没什么不妥的。
I just can’t help but notice that most people never really get anywhere in life. Although many people have dreams and desires of success, of living a life that would make them truly happy, that is all those people will ever have. Dreams and desires.
我注意到大多数人在人生中从未真正取得成就，对这一点我很无奈。尽管很多人都有成功的梦想和愿望，希望能过上真正快乐的生活，但是他们也只能那样了。只是梦想和愿望。
And on the flipside, why are some people successful with everything they do? It’s like they have superhuman powers.
从另一方面说，为什么一些人就能事事都成功呢？就好像他们有超能力。
Is it possible to learn how to be successful? Can you take actions and adopt habits that ensure success with everything that you do, or is being successful something that’s reserved for a select few through DNA. Some people seem to have it all; great relationships, love, friendship, money and success in every venture they go into. So what makes these people different?
有没有可能去学习一下如何成功呢？是否可以采取一些行动、养成一些习惯来确保你事事都成功，或者说成功从某种角度来说是通过DNA来选取寥寥几个成功人士的。
This post is very much open to discussion because I’m only going to present my personal opinion and the opinions of others that have made an impact on me about this subject.
这个问题的讨论是很开放的，因为我只想表达一下我自己的观点，以及那些对我的成功产生影响的别人的观点。
Success Secret #1 – Your Childhood
成功秘诀1--你的童年
I personally believe that your childhood and early experiences play a huge role in whether you will be successful in your life or not.
我个人认为你的童年和你早些时候的经验在你的成功与否方面扮演着重要角色。
The mere process of your birth could even be the deciding factor of what kind of a person you’ll become. I can’t think of any specific examples, but I remember reading about a person who succeeded despite all odds against him. He was born 1 month before he was due and was in critical condition. Doctors were afraid he wouldn’t make it, but he did. He fought and he survived. And for the rest of his life, he fought through all struggles and succeeded.
仅仅是出生过程就可能决定你将来会成为什么样的人。虽然我想不出来任何具体的事例，但是我记得我读过一个成功人士的故事，而他有着坎坷的经历。他比预产期提前一个月出生，当时情况十分危险。医生说恐怕他活不了，但是他活下来了。他不断抵抗，最终活了下来。并且在他的余生，他与一切困难斗争，取得了成功。
Whether this is true or not isn’t important. I can believe that something like your birth (even though you don’t remember it at all) can greatly influence the strength of your will and character for the rest of your life.
这是不是真的并不重要，我相信一切东西比如你的出生（尽管你什么也不记得了）会很大程度上影响你意志力的优点以及你生活里的性格特点。
After your birth you are subject to all sorts of external influences, your parents being the biggest influence in your younger years.
出生之后，你对外部所有的影响都是主观的，而父母在你的少年时期对你的影响是最大的。
Were you given everything you wanted or did you have to work for it? Were you told that you’ll never be anything or were you encouraged to always follow your dreams and believe in yourself?
你是天生就拥有你想要的一切，还是说你必须去为它们打拼？有没有人说过你什么时候也成不了大器，还是说有人鼓励你要永远追随你的梦想并且相信自己？
You may be wondering why I brought up the topic of your childhood. While it may play a very big part in whether you are successful or not, you have zero control over your childhood, and you’re unable to change it.
也许你会很纳闷为什么我会说起童年这个话题。尽管童年对你的成功与否起很大的作用，但是你没法控制它，你也改变不了它。
The reason why I brought up the topic is simple. Even though you cannot change the past or your childhood, by understanding how you grew up and by reflecting on your early experiences, you may be able to make the necessary changes in your life so that you will be more successful.
我谈论童年的原因很简单。尽管你不能改变你的过去和童年，但是通过了解你是如何成长的，仔细考虑你的早期经验，你可能会做出一些必要的改变，从而让你更成功。
For example, if you were always passive and got what you wanted without really having to work for it, the reason why you’re not successful now may simply be because you don’t work hard enough and you give up when you don’t get what you want.
举个例子来说，如果你总是被动的，并且你的所得也并非通过你自身的努力所得，那你之所以不成功，原因很简单，就是因为你工作不够努力，并且你得不到自己想要的东西时你就选择了放弃。
You have no control over the past, but you have the power to change your future through the actions you take from today onwards.
你把握不了过去，但是从今往后，你行动起来，你会有改变未来的能力的。
Success Secret #2 – Believe In Yourself
成功秘诀2--相信自己
I’ve noticed that successful people have an unwavering belief in themselves.
我注意到成功的人对自己都有着坚定地信仰.
To others this belief may seem like foolish stubbornness but I think that belief in oneself is a crucial ingredient in the recipe of success.
对于别人来说，这种信仰看似是愚蠢的固执，但我认为，相信自己是取得成功的灵丹妙药。
You have to know with every fiber of your body that you’re going to be successful. It doesn’t matter how long it takes, how many times you have to try or how many times you fail. With 100% belief that you’re going to be successful, it’s just a matter of time and persistence before you achieve the success that you know you’re going to get.
你必须全心全意的相信你会成功的。不管花费多长时间，也不管你尝试了多少次或者失败了多少次，要100%地相信你会成功，在你取得这理应得到的成功之前，这只是一个时间和坚持的问题。
Life has a tendency to throw some big and bad obstacles our way which can easily cause us to lose faith in pretty much everything we believe in. I say it’s okay to lose faith in many things, but never lose faith in yourself. Always keep believing in yourself and in the fact that you’ll get what you focus your mind on. When you have this mindset, as I mentioned earlier, it’s just a matter of time before you achieve the success you know you’re going to get.
生活总是会抛给我们一些巨大的糟糕的挫折，这很容易让我们放弃对我们所坚持的一切的信仰。我觉得放弃对许多事情的信念可以，但是绝对不要放弃对自己的信仰。要始终相信自己，相信你会得到你想要的一切如果你拥有了这样的思想倾向，那么就像我刚才说到的，取得成功只是一个时间问题。
That brings me to success factor number 3: persistence.
这就引导我到了第3个成功因素：坚持不懈。
Success Secret #3 – Never Give Up
成功秘诀3—决不放弃
Most (if not all) successful people have faced more obstacles and failure then you can even imagine.
大多数（如果不是所有的话）成功人士都曾经遇到过你难以想象的很多的挫折和失败。
Did you know that the man who started Coca Cola, the now multi billion dollar company, had 17 failed business ideas to his name? He failed 17 times with different business ideas before he succeeded, but he kept believing in himself and he never gave up.
你知不知道开创可口可乐的那个人曾经失败了17次，就为了给他的公司取个名字？但是这个公司现在拥有几十亿的资产。因为各种各样的商业想法，成功之前他失败了17次，但是他坚持相信自己，决不放弃。
Take any professional athlete. How many countless hours, days, weeks and months of training do you think they’ve put in before they’re able to perform the way they do?
就拿专业运动员来说吧，你知道他们倾注了多少个小时、多少天、多少周、多少个月的训练，才得以用那样好的状态来展示自己吗？
If you want to be successful, you have to have unlimited persistence.
你要是想成功的话，就必须有持之以恒的精神。
You have to see failure as a learning experience that allows you to move closer to success rather than proof of your incompetency.
你必须把失败当作一次让你离成功更近的学习经验，而不是把它当作你无能的证据。
You may need to change your approach or method you’re using to obtain success, but you should never give up on your end goal of success.
你可能需要改变你所运用的取得成功的方法，但是你绝对不能放弃，知道你实现最终的成功目标。
Will Smith has a great attitude towards achieving success and never giving up. Here’s one of my favorite quotes by him:
威尔史密斯对于取得成功和决不放弃有一伟大的观点。这是我最喜欢的他的语录之一：
“The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is that I’m not afraid to DIE on a treadmill. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, but if we get on a treadmill together, there are two things:
我和别人唯一的明显的不同之处就在于我不怕死在跑步机上。你可能比我有才，你也可能比我聪明，但是如果我们一起去跑步机上锻炼的话，结果只有两个：一个是你累的受不了会先下来，第二个结果就是我会死在跑步机上。就是那么简单。
Success Secret #4 – Visualize Your Goals Daily
成功秘诀4—每天设想一下你的目标
The older I become and the more I learn about life, the more I realize that you’re able to attract things into your life.
年龄越大，对于生活我就了解的越多，我更加认识到你可以吸引一些东西进入到你的生活中。
Yes, I’m talking about what people call ‘The Law of Attraction’. I won’t start talking about all sorts of magic methods or secret hanky-panky formulas that allow you to get the life you desire by merely thinking about it. Not at all.
是的，我就是在说人们所说的“吸引力法则”。我不会谈论各种各样的魔法或者神秘的骗人的方法，好让你仅仅通过心想就能得到你渴望的生活。坚决不会。
I’ve noticed that the thoughts you think and send out and the way in which you interact with others allows you to see opportunities that will bring you closer to your goals and desires in life.
我注意到，你心里的想法和你表达出来的想法以及你同别人相互交往的方式，这些会让你看到机遇，而这些机遇会引领你离你的目标和你的生活愿望更近。
I’ve read and heard stories from successful people who had the image of their success in their minds for years before they achieved it. They knew exactly what they wanted and how they were going to get it, it was just a matter of time and hard work before they got it.
我读过也听说过一些成功人士的故事，他们取得成功之前成功的影像已经在他们脑海中存在多年。他们清楚的知道他们想要什么，也知道要如何取得成功，成功之前一切都只是时间和努力工作的问题。
Some people even attribute their success to meditating daily and focusing all their energy on visualizing their goals every day for 10 or 15 minutes. They would sit in a quiet place free of distractions and imagine their success (whether that be a Ferarri and big mansion or the woman of their dreams).
一些人甚至把他们的成功归功于每天深思熟虑，每天花费10到15分钟把精力放在设想他们的目标上他们会坐在一个安静的远离尘嚣的地方来想象他们的成功（不管是法拉利汽车，高楼大厦还是他们心仪的女人）。
This is not just some theory that I’ve come up with, it’s actually been proven in a book by Napoleon Hill, called Think and Grow Rich . This book is a study of the mindsets, attitudes and methods of 500 incredibly successful people and how they got to where they are.
这不仅仅是我个人的一些理论，它在拿破仑·希尔的一本叫《思考与致富》的书中被证明过了的。这本书研究的是500个令人难以置信的成功人士他们的思维倾向，态度和方法以及他们是如何取得今天的成就的。
Visualizing your goals on a daily basis is another crucial ingredient in the recipe of success. I’d recommend putting up pictures or posters of the goals you wish to achieve. Put these pictures in a place where you’ll see them when you wake up in the morning and before you go to bed at night.
每天设想一下你的未来是取得成功的另一剂良药。我建议你可以把你希望取得的目标的图片或者海报张贴出来。把这些图片贴在一个你早上醒来和晚上睡觉时就能看到的地方。
Success Secret #5 – Live Below Your Means
成功秘诀5—量入为出
In order to make progress towards your success you’ll often need to make sacrifices.
要想使你的成功有些进展，通常你需要做出牺牲。
I’m not talking about sacrificing a goat or some other crazy ritual, I’m talking about sacrificing your immediate desires of instant results.
我不是说要牺牲一只山羊或者一些其他疯狂的例行仪式。我说的是牺牲你当前想快速成功的渴望。
I know you want results NOW. You want your trophies, your money, your house, your partner, your friends. And you’d like to have it all right now.
我知道你现在就想要结果。你想要战利品、金钱、房子、伴侣、朋友，你想要所有的这些，并且是现在就想要。
But you can’t have it now, because you have to earn it first.
但是你现在不能拥有它，因为你必须先赚得它。
If you try to have your results before you earn them, you’re going to put yourself in such a position that it’s almost impossible for you to be successful.
如果你不去争取就想要得到成功，那你就不可能会成功。
For example, let’s say you want to enjoy the lifestyle of a millionaire but you don’t yet have the means to do so. You decide to ignore the principle of delayed gratification (sacrificing immediate short term pleasure for long term pleasure) and you take out loans with as many bank accounts as possible.
举个例子，比如说你想享受一下一个百万富翁的生活方式而你又不知道如何享受。你决定忽略迟来的报酬的原则（牺牲短暂的快乐来换取长期的愉悦）并且你从尽可能多的银行贷款。
You buy the car you’ve always wanted, you buy the apartment of your dreams and you buy every possible gadget you want. You’re living the lifestyle of a millionaire, but at the cost of being so in debt that it’s almost impossible to pay it off and make enough money to be a real millionaire so you can enjoy what you have.
你买了你心驰神往的汽车，买了你梦寐以求的房子，也买了每一样你想要的东西。你正享受着一个百万富翁的生活，但是代价是你负债累累，你几乎不可能偿还的了，你也不可能挣得足够的钱，不可能真正成为百万富翁来享受你所拥有的一切。
Warren Buffet, one of the world’s wealthiest men, built a fortune from scratch by always living below his means. He always spent far less than he had or earned, and this allowed him to save money that he could invest in his ideas. This (and luck or unique intelligence) helped him become as successful as he is today.
沃伦·巴菲特，世界上最富有的人之一。他量入为出，摸滚打爬，创造了财富。他花费的总是远远少于他拥有的或者他赚得的，这样他就可以存钱来让他的理念付诸行动。这（还有运气或者独一无二的才智）帮助他让他变的像今天那样成功。
Don’t spend what you don’t have. In fact, spend less than what you have and then you’ll be able to save enough to invest into business ideas that will eventually allow you to really have the success you desire.
你要是没钱的话就不要花。事实上，花费的钱比你拥有的要少，然后你才能节省足够的钱来投资到你的商业理念中，而这些理念最终会让你真正获得你想要的成功。
Success Secret #6 – Constructive Criticism
成功秘诀6—有建设性的批评
Another thing that I’ve noticed about successful people is that they’re very critical of themselves.
我注意到另一个关于成功人士的事情是他们对自己很苛刻。
They constantly analyze their own methods, progress, actions etc. to see if there’s room for improvement. Successful people are always open to the opinions of others (they listen to the opinions of others but only follow these opinions if they agree with them).
他们时不时的分析总结他们的方法、长进、行为等等，看是否有提升的空间。成功的人对别人的观点总是很开明的（他们听取别人的意见，但是只有同意他们的观点了他们才会采纳）。
It’s important that I add the fact that although successful people are very critical of themselves and their actions, this criticism is constructive criticism.
尽管成功人士对他们自己以及他们的行为很挑剔，但是这些批评是有建设意义的批评，我添加这样的一个事实是很重要的。
Successful people are critical of themselves and their actions to be able to improve. This means that any criticism is backed up with facts and room for improvement. Successful people don’t tear themselves down or fill themselves with negativity.
成功的人对自己和自己的行为要求很苛刻，以便能够有所提高。这就意味着任何一个批判都是以求提升空间为目的的。成功的人不会摧毁他们自己，也不会给自己灌输消极思想。
In order to be successful you must be critical of yourself, your actions and the actions of others, but you must be constructively critical. Don’t be negative, hateful or destructive. Only be critical to be able to improve.
要想成功，就必须对自己严格要求，对自己的行为和他人的行为严格要求，但是你必须做出有帮助的批评，不要消极，不要厌烦，也不要有破坏性，仅仅针对有所提高而要求苛刻。
Success Secret #7 – Manage Your Work, Don’t Do It
成功秘诀7-管理事务，而不是干活
You’ll hardly ever hear of successful people who do the grunt work in their business.
你肯定很少听说成功的人在生意场上干杂活。
It’s true that most successful people started out doing all the small things and physical labor in their business, and they can do pretty much every task in their business. However, successful people know that the way to be successful is to take a management position towards their work and have other people do all the small and time-consuming things.
的确，大多数成功的人都是从各种各样的小事和体力劳动起家的，并且他们可以做好每一件事。但是成功的人知道成功的方法就是要在工作中处于领导地位，让别人来做那些琐细耗时的事情。
If you are the head of your business, then your ideas and creativity is the most valuable thing. Be critical of your entire work-chain, jump in where you have to in order to make things run smoothly, but overall, take a management position. Oversee everything and make sure that everything is as it needs to be without spending your valuable time and energy on small tasks.
如果你是工作的领导人，那么你的想法和创新性就是最有价值的东西。对你工作的整个环节要求严格，跳到你应该所处的位置，好让事情顺利进展。总之，要处在领导地位，监督凡事，让一切按照它应该的发展方式来发展，不要在小事上浪费你宝贵的时间和精力。
For example, I could spend hours building links to my blog to get better rankings in search engines (which will result in more visitors to my site), or I could pay someone to do it for me and spend my time writing quality articles (which is what will result in people subscribing to my site and which will allow me to build a relationship with them and eventually make more profit).
比如说，我可以花费好几个小时来为我的博客建立联系，以便在搜索引擎上获得更好的排名（这样会让我的博客有更多的访客），再或者，我可以花钱请别人来为我做这些，而我就可以把时间花费在写高质量的文章上（这样会让人们订购我的文章，我也可以和他们建立某种联系，最终获得更多的利润）。
Where you can, spend your time doing what you do best and outsource the rest.
如果可以的话，花费时间来做那些你擅长的，剩余的事情可以外购。
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