Two Frog- the power of encouragement

A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs saw how deep the pit was, they told t he two frogs that they were as good as dead. The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit with all their might. The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs took heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down and died.

一 群青蛙在穿越樹林，其中兩個掉進了一個深坑。當其他的青蛙看到那個坑那麼深，他們告訴那兩個青蛙他們和死了一樣，沒希望逃出來了。兩個青蛙沒聽他們的話， 使盡全身力氣想跳出來。其他的青蛙一直對他們說停下來吧，不可能跳出來了。最後，其中一隻青蛙聽取了其他青蛙的說法，放棄了。他掉落了下去，死了。

The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die. He jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, "Did you not hear us?" The frog explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the entire time.

另外一隻青蛙繼續全力地跳著。再一次的，上面的青蛙群對他喊，別那麼痛苦了，放棄吧。而他卻跳得更有勁了，最後竟然跳了出來。他出來以後，其他青蛙問，「你沒聽見我們說什麼嘛？」這只青蛙解釋說，他是聾的。他以為他們從始至終一直在鼓勵他！

 This story teaches two lessons: 這個故事給了我們兩個啟迪：

 1. There is power of life and death in the tongue. An encouraging word to someone who is down can lift them up and help them make it through the day.

1，你的話有決定生死的力量。一句鼓勵的話可以讓落魄的人重新振作，讓他們重新面對生活。

2. A destructive wor d to someone who is down can be what it takes to kill them.

2，而一句消極的話足以殺掉一個消沉的人。

Be careful of what you say. Speak life to those who cross your path. The power of words... it is sometimes hard to understand that an encouraging word can go such a long way.

注意你所說的話。對你身邊的人說鼓勵的話。語言的力量...有時難以想像一句鼓勵的話會有如此深遠的影響。

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Joseph Wang

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我的”secret”

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happy life and just be happy.  A great life doesn't happen by accident. A great life is the result of allocating your time, energy, thoughts, and hard work towards what you want your life to be. Stop setting yourself up for stress and failure, and start setting up your life to support success and ease. A great life is the result of using the 24/7 you get in a creative and thoughtful way, instead of just what comes next. Customize these "secrets" to fit your own needs and style, and start creating your own great life today!

 

 1. S—Simplify. A great life is the result of simplifying your life. People often 2)misinterpret what simplify means. It's not a way to remove work from your life. When you focus on simplifying your life, you free up energy and time for the work that you enjoy and the purpose for which you are here. In order to create a great life, you will have to make room for it in yours first.

 2. E—Effort. A great life is the result of your best effort. Creating a great life requires that you make some adjustments. It may mean re-evaluating how you spend your time, or choosing to spend your money in a different way. It may mean looking for new ways to spend your energy that coincide with your particular definition of a great life. Life will reward your best effort.

 3. C—Create 3)Priorities. A great life is the result of creating priorities. It's easy to spend your days just responding to the next thing that gets your attention, instead of intentionally using the time, energy and money you have in a way that's important to you. Focus on removing the 4)obstacles that get in the way of you making sure you are honoring your priorities.

 4. R—Reserves. A great life is the result of having reserves—reserves of things, time, space, energy, money. With reserves, you acquire far more than you need—not 6 months living expenses, but 5 years worth; not 15 minutes of free time, 1 day. Reserves are important because they reduce the fear of consequences, and that allows you to make decisions based on what you really want instead of what the fear decides for you.

 5. E—Eliminate 5)distractions. A great life is the result of eliminating distractions. Up to 75% of your mental energy can be tied up in things that are draining and distracting you. Eliminating distractions can be a difficult concept to many people, since they haven't really considered that there is another way to live. Look around at someone's life you admire. What do they do that you would like to incorporate into your own life? Ask them how they did it. Find ways to free up your mental energy for things that are more important to you.

 6. T—Thoughts. A great life is the result of controlling your thoughts so that you accept and allow for the possibility that it actually can happen to you! Your belief in the outcome will directly dictate how successful you are. Motivated people have specific goals and look for ways to achieve them. Believing there is a solution to the same old problems you encounter year after year is vitally important to creating a life that you love.

  7. S—Start. A great life is the result of starting. There's the old saying everyone's familiar with "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." In order to even move from the couch to the refrigerator, you have to start. There's no better time to start than today. Don't wait for a raise, or until the kids get older, or the weather is better. Today, right now, is the right day to start to take a step in the direction of your heart's desires. It's what you do TODAY that will make a difference in your life tomorrow.

 

 美麗人生的7大秘訣

 

 美麗人生不會從天而降。你要懂得分配好自己的時間、精力、心思，向著自己的生活目標努力邁進，才可以成就美麗的人生。別讓自己再活在憂慮和失敗中，開始裝備自己，迎接成功舒懷的生活。實現美麗人生，你要周到而有創意地用好一週七天每天24小時的時間，而不是做一天和尚敲一天鐘。根據自己的需要和作風進一步調整下面的「秘訣」，今天就開始為自己打造美麗的人生吧！

 

 1. 化繁為簡。美麗人生源於對生活棄繁從簡。人們往往誤解了簡化生活的意思，這不是要你放棄所有的工作。生活從簡，你就能把精力和時間釋放出來，從事你喜歡的工作，為目標奮鬥。要創造美好的人生，你得首先為自己騰點時間空間出來。

 

 2. 盡心努力。美麗人生源於你苦心下功夫。創造美麗人生，你需要作出一些改變，這意味著重新分配時間，或者把錢花在不同的地方，也意味著你把精力重新投放到能引領美麗人生的地方去。你的努力是不會白費的。

 

 3. 理清主次。美麗人生源於懂得優先考慮重要的問題。見一步走一步確是易事；不用心考慮最重要的事情，你就是在浪費時間、精力和金錢。確保自己理清頭緒，定出輕重緩急，掃清障礙，完成最重要的目標。

 

 4. 有備無患。美麗人生源於懂得為自己作些預留——預留物品、時間、空間、精力和金錢。有了儲備，你可以得到更多——不是六個月的生活費，而是五年的；不是15分鐘的閒暇，而是一整天。儲備是很重要的，因為它能減少你對行動後果的顧慮，讓你遂心地作決定，不讓擔憂左右抉擇。

 

 5. 專心行事。美麗人生源於心無旁騖。耗力分心的事會浪費掉你75%的精力。對很多人來說，清除雜念是個難以接受的概念，因為他們從來沒有想過生活原來還可以有另外一種方式。身邊有沒有誰生活方式令你羨慕不已？他們的哪些做法是你想學習的呢？請教他們是怎樣做到的。想辦法把心思轉移到你認為重要的事情上。

 

 6. 堅持信念。美麗人生源於堅信凡事皆有可能。這種信念會直接決定你的勝算。有行動力的人目標明確，積極想辦法達成目標。要活得滿意稱心，有一點很關鍵，就是要相信自己年復一年面對的老問題總有方法可以解決。

 

 7. 立 刻行動！美麗人生源於坐言起行。「千里之行始於足下」這句古諺大家再熟悉不過了。小事諸如從沙發走到冰箱前，還是得先動起來。要行動，就得從今天開始。別 說等加薪了，等孩子長大點了，又或者說等天氣好一點再說。今天，此刻就是起步邁向心頭目標的最好時機。今天你所做的會為你明日的生活帶來精彩的變化。

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Joseph Wang

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Kite

One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing. As the strong winds gusted against the kites, a string kept them in check.

 

　　在一個有風的春日，我看到一群年輕人正在迎風放風箏玩樂，各種顏色、各種形狀和大小的風箏就好像美麗的鳥兒在空中飛舞。當強風把風箏吹起，牽引線就能夠控制它們。

 

Instead of blowing away with the wind, they arose against it to achieve great heights. They shook and pulled, but the restraining string and the cumbersome tail kept them in tow, facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled and trembled against the string, they seemed to say, "Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!" They soared beautifully even as they fought the restriction of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose. "Free at last," it seemed to say. "Free to fly with the wind."

 

　　 風箏迎風飄向更高的地方，而不是隨風而去。它們搖擺著、拉扯著，但牽引線以及笨重的尾巴使它們處於控制之中，並且迎風而上。它們掙紮著、抖動著想要掙脫線 的束縛，彷彿在說：「放開我！放開我！我想要自由！」即使與牽引線奮爭著，它們依然在美麗地飛翔。終於，一隻風箏成功掙脫了。「終於自由了，」它好像在 說，「終於可以隨風自由飛翔了！」

 

Yet freedom from restraint simply put it at the mercy of an unsympathetic breeze. It fluttered ungracefully to the ground and landed in a tangled mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. "Free at last" free to lie powerless in the dirt, to be blown helplessly along the ground, and to lodge lifeless against the first obstruction.

 

　　然而，脫離束縛的自由使它完全處於無情微風的擺佈下。它毫無風度地震顫著向地面墜落，落在一堆亂草之中，線纏繞在一顆死灌木上。「終於自由」使它自由到無力地躺在塵土中，無助地任風沿著地面將其吹走，碰到第一個障礙物便毫無生命地滯留在那裡了。

 

How much like kites we sometimes are. The Heaven gives us adversity and restrictions, rules to follow from which we can grow and gain strength. Restraint is a necessary counterpart to the winds of opposition. Some of us tug at the rules so hard that we never soar to reach the heights we might have obtained. We keep part of the commandment and never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.

 

　　有時我們真像這風箏啊！上蒼賦予我們困境和約束，賦予我們成長和增強實力所要遵從的規則。約束是逆風的必要匹配物。我們中有些人是如此強硬地抵制規則，以至我們從來無法飛到本來能夠達到的高度。我們只遵從部分戒律，因此永遠不會飛得足夠高，使尾巴遠離地面。

 

Let us each rise to the great heights, recognizing that some of the restraints that we may chafe under are actually the steadying force that helps us ascend and achieve.

 

　　讓我們每個人都飛到高處吧，並且認識到這一點：有些可能會令我們生氣的約束，實際上是幫助我們攀升和實現願望的平衡.

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Joseph Wang

My Blog： http://myengteacher.blogspot.com/

~~Seize the Day
Live the Day~~成功屬於堅持到最後的人  
  
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