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1 Good Morning SunshineGood morning sunshine,阳光早安youre my only light唯你是我光源lying with me by my side,请陪伴我身边you keep me warm all day 让我整日温暖 When the sun is up, 日上三竿on a clear blue sky,青天湛蓝you will act like a lover你像恋人，形影相伴When the sky is grey,乌云满天and the rain comes down,细雨绵绵you will run for the cover你也逃离，踪迹不见When its cloudy and windy或有风云起and the snowflakes arrive,亦会雪满天you somehow just make me feel Im alive有你吾生义更显Feel the heat, come out of cold,穿透阴寒，贡献温暖and your arm is touching me拥我入怀Good morning sunshine,阳光早安be with me all day与我整日相伴（程若水译）January 1st One Whats your life?However mean your life is,meet it and live it;do not shun it and call it hard names.It is not so bad as you are.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.Love your life,poor as it is.You may perhaps have some pleasant,thrilling,glorious hours,even in a poor-house.The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich mans abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,and have as cheering thoughts,as in a palace.The towns poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.Most think that they are above being supported by the town, but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means.Which should be more disreputable.Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,like sage.Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,whether clothes or friends,turn the old,return to them.Things do not change;we change.Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.亨利戴维梭罗（Henry David Thoreau，1817-1862），美国作家、哲学家无论你的生活如何卑微，要正视它，生活下去；不要躲避它，也不要恶语相加。你的生活不像你本人那么糟糕。你最贫穷的。吹毛求疵的人即便在天堂也能挑出瑕疵。要热爱你的生活，尽管它可能是一贫如洗。即使身处贫民院，你也可能享受一段愉快、兴奋、辉煌的时光。西斜的落日映照在贫民院窗户上的余晖，与照射在富贵人家的豪宅上一样光芒万丈；门前的积雪一样在早春消融。我只看到，一个气定神闲的人在那里可以过着自得其乐的生活，抱着振奋乐观的思想，如同居住在皇宫里一般。依我之见，城镇的贫民倒是往往过着最独立的生活。也许他们十分伟大，对任何事情皆可坦然受之。大多数人认为他们不屑于接受城镇的施救；但是实际上他们经常使用不诚实的手段来维持自己的生计，这是更为不体面的。如同栽培花园中芬芳的花草一般在贫困中耕耘吧。犯不着千辛万苦以求获得新东西，无论是衣服还是朋友。把旧的翻新再回归其中。万事万物没有变，是我们在变。衣履可鬻，所思必存。2 January 2nd Two Success in LifeSuccess means different things for different people. Some may equate it with fame, some with wealth and still some with accomplishments. For me, it means fulfilling ones dreams. Whatever your dreams are, you have a goal there and then focus all your attention on it. Dreams bring you hope and happiness. In the process of struggling for it, you cry, sweat, complain or even curse, but the joy of harvesting makes you forget all the pains and troubles you have gone through. So an old proverb says that the sweetest fruit is one that has undergone the bitterest ordeal. There are several keys to success. First, your goal must be practical and practicable. If you set your goal too high, chances are that you will never attain it. Next, you have to make a plan of doing it. You can take some steps to realize it. Since the process is quite tough, you need to be diligent, patient and persevering. Even if you meet with some difficulties or frustrations, just take them in your stride. You can always tell yourself that there is nothing insurmountable. With this will and determination, success is sure to wait for you at the end of the tunnel!3I will avoid with fury the killers of time. Procrastination I will destroy with action; Doubt I will bury with faith; Fear I will dismeber with confidence.Where there are idle mouths I will listen not; Where there are idle hands I will linger not; Where there are idle bodies I will visit not. Henceforth I know that to court idleness is to steal food, clothing and warmth from those I love. I am not a thief. I am a man of love and today is my last chance to prove my love and my greatness.The duties of today I shall fulfill today. Today I shall fondle my children while they are young; Tomorrow they will be gone, and so will I. Today I shall embrance my woman with sweet kisses; tomorrow she will be gone, and so will I.Today I shall lift up a friend in need;tomorrow he will no longer cry for help, nor will I hear his cries. Today I shall give myself in sacrifice and work;tomorrow I will have nothing to give, and there will be none to receive.And if it is the last, it will be my great monument.This day I will make the best day of my life. This day I will drink every minute to its full. I will savor its taste and give thanks. I will make the every hour count and each minute I will trade only for something of value. I will labor harder than ever before and push my muscles until they cry for relief.4 The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.Attitude to me is more important than facts.It is more important than the past,than education,than money,than circumstances, than failures,than successes,than what the other people think,say,or do.It is more important than the appearance,the giftedness or skill.It will make or break a company,a church ,a home.The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day, regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.We cannot change our past.We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.We cannot change the inevitable.The only thing we can do is play on the one stage we have.And that is our attitudes.I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me ,and ninety percent how I react to it.And so it is with you.We are in charge of our attitudes.5 Once a circle missed a wedge. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, it admired the flowers along the way. It chatted with worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching. Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly. It was so happy. Now it could be whole, with nothing missing. It incorporated the missing piece into itself and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to notice flowers or talk to the worms. When it realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.There is a wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations, who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and not feel like a failure for doing so. There is a wholeness about the man or woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy and survive, she can lose someone and still feel like a complete person.人生的完整从前有个圆圈，它丢失了一小段。它想变得完整，于是它到处寻找它所丢失的那部分。由于不完整，它只能滚的非常慢。在路上，它羡慕过花儿，它与虫子聊过天，它享受了阳光的照耀。它遇到过很多不同的小段，可是没有一个适合它。所以它把它们丢在路边，继续寻找。有一天，圆圈找到了可以与它完美结合的一小段，它非常高兴。它现在终于完整了，不缺任何东西了。它把丢失的那段装到自己身上，然后滚了起来。它现在是个完整的圆圈了，它可以滚的很快，快到忽视了花儿，快到没有时间和虫子们说话。当它意识到由于它滚的太快，世界变得如此的不同时，它便停了下来，把找到的那段卸下丢在路边，慢慢地滚走了。人生的完整性，在于接受自己的缺陷，勇敢地丢弃不切实际的幻想，并且不觉得这样做是失败的；人生的完整性，在于知道自己足够强大，可以承受人生的苦难，可以在失去一个人时仍然觉得自己是完整的。6 Today I shed my old skin which hath ,too long ,suffered the bruises of failure and wounds of mediocrity.Today I will pluck grapes of wisdom from the tallest and fullest vines in the vineyard,for these were planted by the wisest of my profession who have come before me ,generaton upon generation.Today I will savor the taste of grapes from these vines and verily I will swallow the seed of success buried in each and new life will sprout within me .The career I have chosen is laden with opportunity yet it is fraught with heartbreak and despair and the bodies of those who have failed ,were they piled one to another ,would cast a shadow down upon all the pyramids of the earth.Yet failure no longer will be my payment for struggle just as nature made no provision for my body to tolerate pain neither has it made any provision for my life to suffer failure.Failure ,like pain ,is provision for my life to past I accepted it as I accepted pain ,Now I reject it and I am prepared for wisdom and principles which will guide me out of the shadows into the sunlight of wealth, position ,and happiness far beyond my most extravagant dreams until even the golden apples in the Garden of Hesperidins will seem no more than my just reward.7 January 7th 7 Golden WindowsThere was a small boy living on a farm, he needed to get up before sunrise every morning to start his chores and out again later to do the evening ones.有一个小男孩生活在一个农场里，每天天不亮就要起床开始做琐碎的家务。然后，晚些时候再出来做那些晚上的工作。During sunrise he would take a break and climb up on the fence. So in the distance he could see the house with golden windows. He thought, how great it would be to live there! And his mind would wander to imagine the modern equipment and appliances that might exist in the house. He then promised to himself, “ some day I will go there and see this wonderful place.”在朝阳升起的时候，他可以爬到篱笆上面坐着休息一下。这样，他就能看到遥远的地方有一栋嵌着金色窗户的房子。他暗自揣测，要是能住在哪里该有多好！想着想着，他的脑海里就充满了那所房子中可能有的现代化的家居器物和用具的形象。从那以后，他就对自己发誓将来有一天一定要到那所房子里去看一看。Then，one morning his father told him to stay at home and his fater would do the chores. Knowing that this was the chance, he packed the sandwich and headed acrossed the fields towards the house with the golden windows.后来有一天，他的爸爸要自己去做家务，让他在家里歇着。他知道这是不可多得的机会，就赶紧装上了几块三明治，穿过了片片田野，向着有金色窗户的房子走去。As the afternoon went on, he begin to realize how he misjudged the distance and something else was very wrong. As he approached the house, he saw no golden windows but instead a place in bad need of painting surrounded by a broked-down fence.日头渐渐过午了，他才开始意识到越来越不对劲儿，自己原来低估了这段距离。当他最终走近这所房子的时候，根本看不到什么金色的窗子。而是一个油漆剥落，篱笆残损的地方。He went to the tattered screen door and knocked. A small boy very close to his age opened the door. He asked him if he had seen the house with the golden windows. The boy said, “sure, I know!” And invited him to sit on the porch. As he sat there, he looked back from where he just came, where the sunset turned the windows on his home to gold.他走上前去敲了敲那扇破败的房门。一个和他年龄相仿的小男孩打开了门。他问那个男孩是否知道关于金色窗子的事情。男孩说，“当然，我知道！”于是男孩邀请他一起在门廊上坐下。当他坐在那里时，向着他走来的路看去，在那里他家的窗户被夕阳的余晖染成了金色。8 The time you spend at the office may be the most stressful part of your day, but it doesnt have to be. You have a greater ability to shape your office environment than you may realize.Take breaks throughout the day. It will help clear your mind and relieve pressure. Something as simple as going to the water cooler for a drink may do the trick.To help your workday go smoothly, try pacing your activities: Do more demanding work in the morning, when your energy level is higher, and easier work later in the day, when you may be tired.Try listening to music recordings, such as a pounding surf or songbirds, to help you relax. Such tapes are sold commercially. Use headphones if youll be listening to them in the middle of the workday.Get to work early or stay late once a week. You may be able to accomplish more when you vary your routine.If your stress comes from job insecurity, take stock of yourself.Update your resume, and remind yourself of your skills and strengths. Also, make sure you keep up with new developments in your field. This will make you valuable to employers.Dont let work rumors, which are usually false, cause you worry. A co-worker may just be thinking out loud about worst-case scenarios.在办公室里度过的时光可能是你一天中最紧张的一段时间,但是这种情况是可以改变的.你有很强的能力来营造良好的办公气氛,只是你可能并没有意识到自己的这种能力。一天中偶尔小憩一会儿，这会使你头脑清醒，并缓解压力，你可以做些简单的事情，例如去冷水机旁喝水，这样就可以达到休息的目的。为了使你的工作日一切顺利，试着有条不紊地安排工作：上午精力相对充沛时多做一些要求较高的工作；下午感动疲劳时做一些较轻松的工作。试着听听音乐，这有助于你放松身心，例如听听海浪拍打岩石或鸟儿歌唱的声音。这些磁带市面上都有卖。如果你在工作中听音乐的话，最好使用耳机。一周中有一天早点上班，晚点下班，通过这种方式来改变日常惯例，这样你可能会完成更多的工作。如果你的压力来自工作的不安全感，你可以对自己进行评估，更新简历，提高自己自身的技能和实力。当然，你也要确保跟上所在领域的发展，这样可以保证你对于老板来说是有价值的。9 anuary 9th Nine Sizzle! Sizzle!Everyone likes excitement. When people bubble with personal energy, others enjoy being around them. Business firms like to hire a staff that brings zest to the establishment. Some national restaurant chains, for example, train their staff to form an impromptu ensemble and sing “Happy Birthday” or “Happy Anniversary” to their customers on special occasions. It produces more than noise. People keep coming back.One restaurant, knowing how people respond to excitement, devised a special plan. When a customer ordered a steak dinner, the chef placed the meal on a hot steel plate. Then, just before the waiter left the kitchen, he would drop an ice cube on the platter.The waiter was instructed, “Walk slowly to the table. We want everyone to hear the sound of that hot platter.” It wasnt the steak that was sizzling, but the ice. The plan worked like instant advertising. If customers were in the process of ordering, theyd hear that sound and choose a steak. The sizzle produced the sale.Today, think creatively. Ask yourself, “How can I add some excitement to what I plan to de