The Most Valuable 15 Minutes You'll Spend Today (Jim Rohn Seminar)

章节 1：改变自己，一切随之改变：感恩、心态与行动

📝 本节摘要：

Jim Rohn 指出，想拥有更多，就要让自己变得更好：与其盼着事情变容易，不如盼着自己更优秀。行动应出自自己的思考与结论，而非盲从他人。他回顾自己 25 岁时一贫如洗、总是怪罪外部环境的经历，直到导师让他明白，问题出在个人人生哲学上。人与动物的区别在于能思考、能主宰人生方向。他提出把握今天的几个要点：一是感恩已有的一切；二是心态，要正确看待过去、未来和他人；三是行动，那是创造奇迹的部分。

[原文] [Jim Rohn]: If you will change, everything will change for you. You don't have to change what's outside. All you've got to change is what's inside.

[译文] [Jim Rohn]: 只要你愿意改变，一切都会为你而改变。你不必去改变外在的东西，你唯一需要改变的，是你的内在。

[原文] [Jim Rohn]: To have more, you simply have to become more. Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Start working on yourself, making these personal changes, it'll all change for you. Start from scratch, start from obscurity, start with pennies, start with nothing, and have a chance to transform your life, change your life, set your goals, and see what you can accomplish. Make sure what you do is the product of your own conclusion, not to do what someone else says. Take what someone else says, process it, think about it, ponder it.

[译文] [Jim Rohn]: 想拥有更多，你只需要让自己成为更好的人。别盼着事情更容易，要盼着自己更优秀；别盼着问题更少，要盼着本事更多。开始在自己身上下功夫，做出这些个人的改变，一切都会随之改变。从零开始，从默默无闻开始，从几个硬币开始，从一无所有开始，你都有机会彻底改造自己的人生、改变自己的人生，定下目标，看看自己能成就什么。务必确保你所做的事是你自己得出的结论，而不是照别人说的去做。把别人说的话拿来消化、思考、反复琢磨。

[原文] [Jim Rohn]: If it makes you wonder, if it makes you think, then it's valuable. Then, when you go take action, make sure that the action is not what somebody told you to do. Make sure the action is the product of your own conclusion. If you'll follow just a little bit of those simple guidelines, telling you the learning process can be speedy, swift, powerful, your learning curve can go up, and then applying it to your business, your life, your family, conversations, equities of all kinds, you'll find some progress like I did that first 5 years when I met a teacher willing to share with me, turned my life around. Progress I couldn't believe happened for me.

[译文] [Jim Rohn]: 如果它让你好奇，让你思考，那它就有价值。然后，当你去行动时，要确保这个行动不是别人叫你做的，而是你自己得出的结论。只要你稍微遵循这几条简单的原则，我告诉你，学习的过程可以又快又猛、效果惊人，你的学习曲线会往上走；再把所学用到你的事业、生活、家庭、与人交谈以及各种资产积累上，你就会看到进步，就像我当年一样——在遇到一位愿意倾囊相授的老师后的头五年里，我的人生彻底扭转了。那些进步，连我自己都不敢相信。

[原文] [Jim Rohn]: I used to blame the traffic, the weather, used to blame circumstances. Right? People say I'm too tall, I'm too short, I'm too old, I was raised in obscurity, raised on a farm, parents of modest means, all the stuff. If you were to ask me, "How come you find yourself here, Mr. Rohn, age 25, living in America, land of abundance and opportunity?" Pennies, zero in the bank, not doing well, creditors calling. It would not have occurred to me to blame my philosophy. I found it easier to blame the company, company policy.

[译文] [Jim Rohn]: 我以前总怪交通、怪天气、怪环境。对吧？人们会说：我太高了，我太矮了，我太老了，我出身卑微，在农场长大，父母家境一般，诸如此类。假如你当时问我：「罗恩先生，你 25 岁，生活在美国这片富足又充满机会的土地上，怎么会落到这步田地？」——身上只有几个硬币，银行存款为零，混得很差，债主天天打电话来催。我根本不会想到要怪自己的人生哲学。我觉得怪公司、怪公司政策要容易得多。

[原文] [Jim Rohn]: I used to say, "If this is all they pay, how do they expect you to do well?" So, I figured that, you know, my future was going to be tied to what everybody else was arranging, the economy, and right? Interest rates. I used to say things cost too much. That was my whole explanation, not my philosophy, until my teacher taught me better that this is where the problem was, my own personal philosophy. Here's what's exciting about each person's personal philosophy. That's what makes us different than dogs and animals and birds and cats and spiders and alligator. That's what makes us different than all of the life form. The ability to think, the ability to use your mind, the ability to process ideas, and not just operate by instinct. In the winter, I'm telling you, the goose can only fly south.

[译文] [Jim Rohn]: 我以前常说：「他们就给这么点钱，还指望你能干得好？」所以我觉得，你知道，我的未来取决于别人怎么安排——经济形势，还有，对吧？利率。我以前常说东西太贵了。这就是我的全部解释，从没想过是我的人生哲学出了问题，直到我的老师点醒了我：问题恰恰就出在这里，出在我自己的人生哲学上。而每个人的人生哲学，有一点特别令人振奋：正是它让我们有别于狗、动物、鸟、猫、蜘蛛和鳄鱼，让我们有别于所有其他生命形式。那就是思考的能力、运用头脑的能力、处理想法的能力，而不只是凭本能行事。我告诉你，到了冬天，大雁只能往南飞。

[原文] [Jim Rohn]: What if south doesn't look too good? Tough luck. It can only fly south. But see, human beings are not like a goose can only fly south. I mean, you can turn around, go north, you can go east, you can go west, you can order the entire process of your own life. So, hopefully you'll find some inspiration here today. To get the most out of today, couple more notes. Number one, be thankful. Be thankful for what you already have. That shouldn't be any problem in America, being thankful.

[译文] [Jim Rohn]: 要是南边看起来不太妙呢？那也没辙，它只能往南飞。可你看，人不像大雁那样只能往南飞。我是说，你可以掉头往北，可以往东，也可以往西，你可以安排自己人生的整个进程。所以，希望你今天能在这里获得一些启发。为了让今天收获最大，再说几点。第一，要心怀感恩。对你已经拥有的东西心怀感恩。在美国，感恩应该不成问题。

[原文] [Jim Rohn]: Everything we need is available in America. Everybody wants to come here, right? The last time I was here, that little presentation I gave, everybody wants to come here, America. Why? Everything's available here. All the books you need, all the sermons you need, all the churches you need, all the schools you need, all the instruction you need, all the inspiration you need, all the capital you need, all the markets you need, all the challenge you need, all the information you need, all the seminars you need. Everything's available here. This is America. So, number one, let's be thankful for what we already have. Number two is attitude.

[译文] [Jim Rohn]: 我们需要的一切，在美国都能找到。人人都想来这里，对吧？我上次来这里做那个小演讲时也说过，人人都想来美国。为什么？因为这里什么都有。你需要的书、你需要的布道、你需要的教会、你需要的学校、你需要的指导、你需要的激励、你需要的资本、你需要的市场、你需要的挑战、你需要的信息、你需要的研讨会，这里应有尽有。这就是美国。所以，第一，让我们为已经拥有的一切心怀感恩。第二是心态。

[原文] [Jim Rohn]: We're affected by how we feel. First, we're affected by what we know and the decision and the decisions we make. Second, we're affected by attitude. How you feel about the past? Got to have a good attitude about the past, use it as a school, not a club. Don't beat yourself to death with your past, falls, failures, losses. Let the past be a schoolmaster to teach you, not to threaten you, but to teach you. Next is how you feel about the future. Set your goals. Goal setting, promise of the future is an awesome force to affect your life every day.

[译文] [Jim Rohn]: 我们会受到自身感受的影响。首先，我们受自己所知道的东西以及所做的决定影响；其次，我们受心态影响。你怎么看待过去？对过去必须有良好的心态，把它当成学校，而不是棍棒。别拿过去的跌倒、失败和损失把自己往死里打。让过去当你的老师来教导你——不是来吓唬你，而是来教导你。接下来是你怎么看待未来。定下你的目标。设定目标、对未来的期许，是一股每天都在影响你人生的巨大力量。

[原文] [Jim Rohn]: Without a future well designed, we take hesitant step. And all you have to have is hesitant steps for 6 years, you'll be timid, driven into a corner, not boldly willing to go and take your portion, take your share. Next is how you feel about everybody else. Got to have a good attitude about everybody else 'cause it takes everybody else to make a market. One person doesn't make a family. One person doesn't make a business. One person doesn't make a corporation. One person doesn't make a community.

[译文] [Jim Rohn]: 没有精心规划的未来，我们就会步履迟疑。只要你迟疑地走上 6 年，你就会变得畏首畏尾，被逼到角落里，不敢大胆地去争取属于你的那一份。接下来是你怎么看待其他人。对其他人必须有良好的心态，因为市场是靠所有人共同构成的。一个人成不了一个家庭，一个人撑不起一门生意，一个人构不成一家公司，一个人也组不成一个社区。

[原文] [Jim Rohn]: One person doesn't make a nation. It takes all of us to make a dynamic economy, a nation second to none. Here was number three, activity. This is the work part, the labor part, taking action. And the activity is the miracle working piece. A miracle being something we don't quite understand how it works, doesn't mean it doesn't work. It means we just don't quite understand how it works. Miracles work. God says, now I'm an amateur on God, but here's my best analysis, God says, "If you'll plant the seed, I'll make the tree." Now, that's a good arrangement.

[译文] [Jim Rohn]: 一个人也成不了一个国家。需要我们所有人一起，才能造就充满活力的经济、一个首屈一指的国家。第三点是行动。这是工作的部分、付出劳动的部分、采取行动的部分。而行动正是创造奇迹的那一环。所谓奇迹，就是我们不太明白它是怎么运作的东西，但这并不代表它不起作用，只是说明我们不太明白它的原理而已。奇迹确实会发生。上帝说——我对上帝只是个门外汉，但这是我能给出的最好解读——上帝说：「只要你种下种子，我就让它长成大树。」这可真是个好安排。