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The road to success

Each human being is born as something new, something that never existed before.He is born with what he needs to win to life.Each person in his own way can see,hear, touch, taste,and think for himself. Each has his unique potentials ----his capabilities and limitations. Each can be a significant, thinking, aware, and creativively productive person in his own right----a winner.

Success means succeeding in every area of your life. Concentrate first on succeeding in one area; the confidence and momentum that you build in the process leads you with more surety and confidence into next area. When you succeeded in one area, you’ll be amazed at how that success transfers over to other areas.

Why is it that what ever we do something never feels enough? You know how it is when you pass the exam, reach your target weight, gain a promotion,complete a project... it can be a bit of an anticlimax and so you immediately start looking for next challenge.

We expect much more of ourselves than we do of others and this often leads to dissatisfaction as we forget to celebrate each success and just push those goal posts out a bit further. Recognize every one of your achievements. Allow yourself to be a success.

林肯给儿子老师的信

Lincoln’s Letter to his Son’s Teacher

“My son starts school today. It is all going to be strange and new to him for a while and I wish you would treat him gently. It is an adventure that might take him across continents. All adventures that probably include wars, tragedy and sorrow. To live this life will require faith, love and courage.

So dear Teacher, will you please take him by his hand and teach him things he will have to know, teaching him - but gently, if you can. Teach him that for every enemy, there is a friend. He will have to know that all men are not just, that all men are not true. But teach him also that for every scoundrel there is a hero, that for every crooked politician, there is a dedicated leader

Teach him if you can that 10 cents earned is of far more value than a dollar found. In school, teacher, it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat. Teach him to learn how to gracefully lose, and enjoy winning when he does win.

Teach him to be gentle with people, tough with tough people. Steer him away from envy if you can and teach him the secret of quiet laughter. Teach him if you can - how to laugh when he is sad, teach him there is no shame in tears. Teach him there can be glory in failure and despair in success. Teach him to scoff at cynics.

Teach him if you can the wonders of books, but also give time to ponder the extreme mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun and flowers on a green hill. Teach him to have faith in his own ideas, even if every one tell him they are wrong.

Try to give my son the strength not to follow the crowd when everyone else is doing it. Teach him to listen to every one, but teach him also to filters all that he hears on a screen of truth and take only the good that comes through.
Teach him to sell his talents and brains to the highest bidder but never.

敬爱的老师：
今天，我儿子开始上学了。他的一生好比是穿越新大陆的冒险，所以，亲爱的老师，请您耐心教育他，教给他必须懂得的道理。
我想，必须教给他，并非人人正直、人人忠诚。同时也教给他，有卑鄙龌龊的无赖，必有正气凛然的英雄；有自私自利的政客，必有克己奉公的领袖。
要教给他，有敌必有友。要知道，路遥知马力，日久见人心。
教给他，宁可通过劳动挣得1元钱，也不白要5元钱。
要教给他，胜不骄，败不馁。让他不能心存嫉妒，要教给他偷笑的秘诀。
要让他尽早懂得，恃强凌弱者最不堪一击。
教给他读书的奥妙，但也要给他时间安静思考，去思索天上飞鸟的永恒神秘，还有阳光下的蜜蜂、绿山上的花朵。
在学校里，要教给他，失败比作弊光彩得多。
教给他，要相信自己的观点，纵然所有的人告诉他这些观点是错误的。
教给他，要以善良待善良，以粗暴对粗暴。
教给他，在忧伤的时候学会微笑；教给他，眼泪并不是羞耻。也要让他有愤怒的勇气、有勇敢的耐心。
要温和地教育他，但也不要宠爱，因为，只有烈火才能炼出好钢材。

亚伯拉罕·林肯