文章摘自杨永龙的《走进健康》

健康是人类生存极为重要的内容，它对于人类的发展，社会的变革，文化的更新，生活方式的改变，有着决定性的作用。那么，一个人怎样才算健康呢？ 1948年世界卫生组织明确规定：健康不仅是身体没有疾病，而且应当重视心理健康，只有身心健康、体魄健全，才是完整的健康。可见心理健康是人的健康不可分割的重要部分。怎样保持健康的身心呢？以下几点建议供你参考：

• 树立明确的生活目标

斯大林说：“只有伟大的目标，才能产生伟大的毅力”。目标是灯塔，目标是旗帜，一个人如果没有生活的目标，就只能在人生的征途上徘徊，永远达不到理想的彼岸，生活就显得平庸、乏味、无聊，就可能滋生各种有害健康的恶习。人生在世，需要追求的东西很多，但由于受到生活环境层次、社会文化情景层次和个人实际条件等主、客观因素的限制，往往是“熊掌和鱼”不可兼得。这就要求我们在现实生活中牢牢把握这样一个原则：要“鱼”，还是要“熊掌”，即确定明确的奋斗目标。如果没有固定的人生追求目标，一会儿要“鱼”，一会儿要“熊掌”，过一会儿“鱼”和“熊掌”都想要。但令人遗憾的是，一生生活得十分艰辛，却没有干成一件像样的事情。

寓言故事《白头翁》就形象地描绘了这样的人生：它听见黄鹂鸟歌唱得婉转动听，便跟黄鹂学唱歌，唱了一段时间，它嫌唱歌嗓子难受，便不学了；它又看见麻雀搭窝既美观又舒适，于是就跟麻雀学搭窝，后来它说：天天衔树枝，口衔烂了，翅膀也累断了，太没有意思了；它又跟老鹰学飞行，天天都在飞行，既单调又枯燥，它气馁了；后来它又跟猫头鹰学打猎，昼伏夜出，既看不见美丽的景色又一动不动地侧耳倾听猎物的动静，它学了几天就烦了…

白头翁干什么都虎头蛇尾，半途而废，头发白了还是一事无成。这个寓言故事深刻地揭示了，没有一个固定的人生目标，要成功是不可能的。同时，一个人的时间、精力都十分有限，要在有限的时间内实现人生的价值，求得较大的发展，取得一些令你神清气爽、其乐融融的成就，没有明确的目标就更不行。事实上，能够在这个世界上独领风骚，享受人生快乐，而健康生存的人，都是“咬定青山不放松”，专注于一事物而登上成功巅峰的人。由于有了明确的追求目标，他们的生活就变得充实而富有诗意，从而也有效地排除了各种消极情绪和外界的不良干扰，规律地生活与起居而精力充沛，生机勃勃。这是确保人生健康的最重要的精神力量。

拓展阅读：《怎样设定目标》系列

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周末英语角，简单有意义的英语美文。

It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: with out demands, without abrasions, without disappointments. People would have time for reflection. Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the collectivity. Competition would never enter in. conflict would be eliminated, tension become a thing of the past. The stress of creation would be at an end. Art would no longer be troubling, but purely celebratory in its functions. Longevity would be increased, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor. Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human heart.

Ah, how unrelieved boring life would be!

There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore a sham. Does this mean that success does not really exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events now not all success, obviously, is worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth cultivating. Which are and which are not is something one soon enough learns on one’s own. But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless. To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging. It is, in its implications, to remove all motives for competence, interest in attainment, and regard for posterity.

We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.

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周末英语角，简单有意义的英语美文。

The significant inscription found on an old key - “If I rest, I rust” - would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.

Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture - every department of human endeavor.

Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist. The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer.

Labor vanquishes all - not inconstant, spasmodic, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success.

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• 为你的进程制图

最近我发表了我怎样制图，以跟进每一个目标的进程。这些图表不仅为我提供回顾和考察当前任务的信息，更是让我紧跟目标的激励机制。如果我每天都勤快地核对图表，打上点或者叉，我就会想把它们都打上点（表示完成），我会想着，“要想打上点今天我得把这事做了。”好了，这就是一个激励，虽然小却足以派上用场，相信我。有人喜欢用五角星；有人用训练日志，都很好，也可以试试乔的目标。总之，无论使用什么方法，都要紧跟计划，另外每次完成点什么，都不要吝啬给自己一点小骄傲。

（弥缝注：你也可以使用弥缝以前制作的《习惯培养清单》，或参考系列《什么是甘特图（Gantt Chart）》。）

当然，表格上也会有些不好的记录，没关系，别让它们阻碍你前进，化失落为取得下一个进展的动力。

长此以往，只要坚持这个激励技巧，就会取得许多好的记录，那将是世上最美妙的体验之一。

原文：Top 20 Motivation Hacks - #20 - Zenbahits

译者：Sylvia（GTD翻译小组核心成员）

周末英语角，简单有意义的英语美文。

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

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• 加入一个在线（或离线）小组，以保持注意力和热情

一年前当我开始长跑，我不时在各种网站上注册一些不同的论坛，像Men’s Health（消除啤酒肚俱乐部）、跑步者世界、酷跑，以及About.com上的跑步小组。戒烟的时候我也这样做。

（弥缝注：推荐一个国内不错的GTD讨论小组：GTD Life交流圈、落實第八個習慣+感動和褪墨QQ群：8964762）。

每次加入一个论坛，它都帮助我不偏离轨道。在那儿我不仅结识了和我做着相同事或者已经有所成就的人，还能分享进程中的成就（和失败）。他们给我好的建议和精神上的支持，使我在想放弃的时候坚持了下来。

如今，有许多类似的小组和论坛，各有优点和特色。别害怕闯进去（阅读常见问题后），说声大家好，介绍自己，问问题，发布你的进步，遇到问题就讲出来，求得帮助，保持回来浏览，这样你的热情就会持久。

也有现实版本的以不同目标为追求的小组，从长跑到戒烟戒酒，还有更多。找找你生活区附近这样的小组，给他们致电。在线、离线相结合的小组同样有效。

原文：Top 20 Motivation Hacks - #18 - Zenhabits

译者：Sylvia（GTD翻译小组核心成员）

褪墨最新系列短篇：你的生活由自己选择，挖掘激情与激励！

• 可视化你的目标

可视化你的目标，把有关你目标的图片贴在看得见的地方（比如书桌或者冰箱上）。你所想的就是你所能达成的，无论是经济上的目标，像去罗马旅行或者建一所梦想中的房子；还是体质上的目标，像跑完一次马拉松或者让小腹变得扁平，把它们可视化都是一条能有效帮你实现目标的激励机制。

从杂志或者网络上找一张图，贴在最好时时都能见得着的地方，或把它当作电脑桌面或放在个人主页里，以此利用视觉将你的注意力集中到目标上。注意力有助于保持长期热情——一旦失去注意力就会丧失热情，因此用一些办法让你的目标牵住你的注意力将帮助你保持热情。

其他类似主意：制作个人激励海报（注：这里有些不错的《10幅使人激励的海报》）。做一本梦想剪贴簿，贴上有关每个目标的照片和图画，也可以用手镯或其他饰物作为提醒工具。

原文：Top 20 Motivation Hacks - #17 - Zenhabits

译者：Sylvia（GTD翻译小组核心成员）

周末英语角，简单有意义的英语美文。

We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear. Maybe some of our fears are brought on by your own experiences, by what someone has told you, by what you’ve read in the papers. Some fears are valid, like walking alone in a bad part of town at two o’clock in the morning. But once you learn to avoid that situation, you won’t need to live in fear of it.

Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear can destroy fortunes. Fear can destroy relationships. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.

Let me tell you about five of the other enemies we face from within. The first enemy that you’ve got to destroy before it destroys you is indifference. What a tragic disease this is! “Ho-hum, let it slide. I’ll just drift along.” Here’s one problem with drifting: you can’t drift your way to the top of the mountain.

The second enemy we face is indecision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity and enterprise. It will steal your chances for a better future. Take a sword to this enemy.

The third enemy inside is doubt. Sure, there’s room for healthy skepticism. You can’t believe everything. But you also can’t let doubt take over. Many people doubt the past, doubt the future, doubt each other, doubt the government, doubt the possibilities and doubt the opportunities. Worse of all, they doubt themselves. I’m telling you, doubt will destroy your life and your chances of success. It will empty both your bank account and  your heart. Doubt is an enemy. Go after it. Get rid of it.

The fourth enemy within is worry. We’ve all got to worry some. Just don’t let conquer you. Instead, let it alarm you. Worry can be useful. If you step off the curb in New York City and a taxi is coming, you’ve got to worry. But you can’t let worry loose like a mad dog that drives you into a small corner. Here’s what you’ve got to do with your worries: drive them into a small corner. Whatever is out to get you, you’ve got to get it. Whatever is pushing on you, you’ve got to push back.

The fifth interior enemy is over-caution. It is the timid approach to life. Timidity is not a virtue; it’s an illness. If you let it go, it’ll conquer you. Timid people don’t get promoted. They don’t advance and grow and become powerful in the marketplace. You’ve got to avoid over-caution.

Do battle with the enemy. Do battle with your fears. Build your courage to fight what’s holding us back, what’s keeping you from your goals and dreams. Be courageous in your life and in your pursuit of the things you want and the person you want to become.

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