決定過你的理想生活
What is your most ideal day? Do you know exactly how you want to live your life for the next five days, five weeks, five months or five years? When was the last best day of your life? When is the next?
你最理想的一天生活是怎樣的？你知道你想怎樣度過接下來的五天、五週、五個月甚至五年嗎？你度過的最後一個美好的一天是什麼時候？下一個美好的一天又將何時到來？
The best day of our lives is today. The past is no longer here. We cannot enjoy it any longer. To dwell on the past is to waste the opportunity to enjoy the present. The future is a promise, a time that will not come because what we have is only today. When tomorrow comes, it will not be tomorrow any more; it becomes your today. You cannot enjoy tomorrow unless you know how to enjoy your today. If you are to live thirty more years, you are going to experience 10,950 todays. But every day that passes without your notice is a day cut off from your life. Your life is a day shorter every new day.
在我們的生活中，今天是最美好的。過去已經消逝，我們無法再享受它。沉溺於過去只會糟蹋了享受現在的。機會。未來是一句承諾，一段尚未來到的時光，因為我們擁有的只是現在。當明天到來，它也即將不再是明天，而變成你的今天。只有當你懂得如何珍視今天，你才能學會如何享受明天。如果你還有三十年的光陰，你將經歷10950個今天。但每一個逝去卻得不到你注意的日子都是生命的一天損失。每一個嶄新的一天都意味着生命隨之減少一天。
Each day is a decision to live. Today is a gift; this is why it is called the “present”。 How you use this day is up to you. At each new day, you decide whether to unwrap that gift, or let it stay in the corner and spoil. Each day is a decision to live your ideal life.
每天都是一次生活的選擇。今天是一份禮物，這也正是為什麼它被稱作“禮物”（英文中，“現在”一詞也有“禮物”的意思）。你將如何利用這一天是你的選擇。每天，你都要作出選擇:是拆開這份禮物，還是把它留在牆角，毀掉它。每天都是一次通往理想生活的抉擇。
幸福是一種思考狀態
Every day of your life, it is important to take the time to “smell the roses” — to appreciate the experiences that lead to happiness. This is part of being truly happy.
在你生活中的每一天，花些時間“聞聞身邊的玫瑰”是十分重要的 —— 停下腳步，品味那些帶給你幸福的經歷。這是真正快樂的一部分。
Happiness is a state of mind. It starts with accepting where you are, knowing where you are going and planning to enjoy every moment along the way. You know how to be happy, and feel that you have enough time or money or love or whatever you need to achieve your goals. And just feeling that you have enough of everything means that you do indeed have enough.
幸福是一種思考狀態。當你開始接受自己現在的生活狀態，知曉你將來如何發展，並已做好準備享受這過程中的每個瞬間時，幸福便已悄悄來到你身邊。你知道如何才能幸福，並感到自己擁有充裕的時間和金錢，足夠的愛，和其他任何能夠幫助你達成目標的東西。當你感到自己已擁有一切，這才是真正的知足。
You have to choose to be happy, and focus upon being happy, in order to be happy. If you instead focus upon knowing that you will be happy if you achieve something, you will never be happy, as you have not learned to “smell the roses”。 The irony is that when you are happy, you are inevitably more productive, and far more likely to achieve what everything-seekers are seeking.
如果你想幸福，就必須去選擇它。你需要專注於幸福這件事本身，以使幸福降臨。但如果你總是想着，你若能完成某件事就會變得很幸福，那麼你將永遠無法得到幸福，因為你沒有學會“聞聞身邊的玫瑰”。而諷刺的是，當你感到幸福美滿，你將不可避免地更加富有成就，並更有可能比那些“執着於得到一切的人”擁有更多。
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