4. Start with the hardest task of your day.

　　从最棘手的任务着手。

　　Maybe you have an important call to make that you also fear might be uncomfortable. Maybe youknow you have gotten behind on answering your emails and have big pile to dig into. Maybe youhave the last five pages of your paper to finish.

　　或许你得打一个重要电话，但你心里有些抗拒;或许你意识到邮件已经积了一大堆，必须得去处理了;又或许你的论文还有最后五页需要赶一赶。

　　Whatever it may be, get it out of your way the first thing you do.

　　不管是什么任务，都请立马动手处理吧。

　　If you start your day this way you will feel relieved. You feel relaxed and good about yourself. Andthe rest of the day – and your to-do list – tends to feel a lot lighter and easier to move through.It’s amazing what difference this one action makes.

　　如果每天先处理棘手任务，你将大大松一口气、放松且自我感觉良好。接下来你的任务清单也更容易搞定。只需采取小小行动，你将发现效果大有不同!

　　5. Just make a decision. Any decision.

　　只需下定决心，任何决定都行。

　　We feel bad when we sit on our hands and don’t take action because it’s unnatural. The naturalthing is to be a decisive human and take action.

　　当我们干坐着什么也不做时，情绪会变得很坏，因为这是有违天性的。我们的天性就是不断作出决定、采取行动。

　　When you procrastinate you want to do something but you don’t take the action that is inalignment with that thought. You become conflicted within.

　　你明明想做某件事，但却一拖再拖、不采取行动来配合那个想法，那么你的内在就变成了一个矛盾体。

　　What you do always sends signals back to you about who you are. Sure, doing affirmations whereyou say to yourself that you are confident can help you. But taking the confident actions you wantto take over and over again is what really builds your self confidence and a self-image of you beinga confident person.

　　你所做的事能反映出你是个怎样的人。自然，当你暗示自己自信时，也确实能产生积极效果。只有反复不断地采取自信行动，才能真正塑造你的自信心，让你成为一个自信的人。

　　6. Face your fear.

　　直面内心恐惧。

　　I think this is true. It’s easier to live on that “someday…” thought. It’s harder to just take action.To risk looking like a fool. To make mistakes, stumble and not avoid that pain. To takeresponsibility for your own life.

　　我觉得这一点很正确：人们很容易陷入“将来某一天……”的思维模式，却很难拿出行动来。请像傻瓜一样去冒险吧，请去犯错误、去碰壁、去经历痛苦吧。你要为你自己的人生负责。

　　The easier choice can come with a sense of comfort, with a certain level of success, pangs of regretfor all the things you never dared to do and a vague sense of being unfulfilled. You wonder aboutwhat would have happened if you had taken more action and more chances.

　　容易的选择能带来舒心和某种程度的成功，但你也将会为所有不敢尝试的事情而感到后悔，你将会感到空虚，你会特别想知道：如果抓住更多机遇、采取更多行动，事情将会怎么样呢?

　　7. Finish it.

　　坚持完成。

　　Not taking the first step to start accomplishing something can make you feel bad. But not finishingwhat you have started can also leave you in a sort of negative funk. You feel fatigued or stressedand sometimes you don’t even know why. It’s like someone zapped your inner power.

　　没有迈开第一步去完成某事会让你感到糟糕，但没有完成已经开始的事情也会让你变得情绪低落。你会感到疲倦或压力重重，有时你甚至也搞不懂到底怎么了。就好像有什么东西掏空了你内心的力量一样。

　　If that is the case, go over tasks and projects what you are currently involved in. Is theresomething there you know you want to finish but haven’t yet? Try to get that finished as soon asyou can you will start to feel a whole lot better.

　　如果你遇到了这种情况，那就去回顾一下自己已经着手的任务或项目吧。你是不是有什么想完成的事情、但一直还没去做?试着尽快去搞定它吧，搞定后你肯定会感到大为畅快的!

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