拥有梦想拥有成功(转载)

How do we turn our dreams into reality? How do we step outside the circle of influence that constantly directs us? Our minds are so strongly influenced by our environment that it is easy to lose touch with our own passion.

如何将梦想变为现实？如何跳出干扰我们行动方向的影响？我们的思想受环境的影响如此之大，激情轻易就消逝了。

The word “dreamer 梦想家” and “visionary 幻想者” are often used in a derogative way to describe people who are not in touch with the way things are.Everyone is under a subtle pressure to conform to a limited consensual reality. For most people, it is easy to follow the path of least resistance and just work on surviving and dealing with the demands placed on you.However, our passion, and our dreams, and our vision, is who we are, and when we refuse to give them the space to expand in our minds and hearts, something dies inside us.The most important thing you can do is to keep your dream alive.Here are some simple steps to take:One, fully expand on your dream. 最大程度地详述你的梦想。

Write it out in detail. You can make a list of what you want. You can write out your ideal scene. Or you can collect pictures and paste them up on a board.Two, review your graphic representation of your dream every morning as soon as you wake up and every night just before you go to bed. 每天早晨醒来时和晚上睡觉前，想一想梦想中的画面。

This simple ritual makes a strong impression upon your subconscious mind, and activates it to start looking for ways to make your dream real.Three, spend at least 15 minutes running a mental movie in your mind of what it would be like to actually be experiencing your dream. 至少花十五分钟在脑子里“过电影”，体验一下梦想实现的滋味到底怎样。

Four, write up a simple plan. 拟一份简单的计划。Even if you have no idea how to achieve your dream, begin with a simple step. If, for example, you wish to be a millionaire, but work in a dull job and have absolutely no idea how to make more money… begin by reading a biography of a millionaire.The importance of your first step is that you are telling your subconscious mind that you are serious. It will then give you a suggestion as to the next step to take after that one. Insights will come once you take a step. Begin the journey with your first step.Five, create a daily ritual, in which you are taking a step forward. 建立一种让你前进的行为，每天都要做。

It might be reading inspiring material. It might be writing in your journal. It might be learning a new skill.Again, you are reinforcing the power of your dream upon your own mind. You are saying, “This is what I want!”Finally, refuse to partake in things that drain you…things that limit your dream, that make it seem unimportant. 远离消耗斗志的活动--它们制约你的梦想，让梦想变得无关紧要。

Set aside those habits that get in the way of your dream… whether the bad habits simple lower your self esteem or fatigue or distract you, they must go.Once you seize the courage to dream, the next step is to keep your dream alive. These five suggestions will then make your dream more vivid in your mind. Once this happens, you will start to have new insights and develop more and more ways to make your dream more and more possible.In the beginning, most dreams appear to be impossible dreams, but once you engage the imagination, the will, and move forward with simple plans, you begin the journey towards actualizing your power in ways that you cannot presently even envision. The impossible slowly becomes possible. It does take courage and effort…but what could be more rewarding than moving in the direction of your fondest aspiration?

Greatest Olympians 杰出的奥林匹克运动员们

Beijing 2008 will prove a test for the cream of the world's sporting talent but will any of the athletes be able to go beyond mere victory and attain greatness?

Here are some Olympic legends that set the benchmark by which future Olympic hopefuls must be measured.

Britain's Sir Steve Redgrave is the only athlete to win a gold medal at five consecutive Olympic Games from Los Angeles in 1984 to Sydney in 2000. As a rower he pushed himself to his physical limits and even defied his doctors by continuing to compete at the highest level after being diagnosed with diabetes.

In a TV interview immediately after finishing the race in which he won his last gold medal, an exhausted Redgrave memorably invited the public to "shoot him" if they ever saw him in a rowing boat again.

American Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics in 1936, setting a 20-year world record in the process. He also made a mockery of the distorted racial theories of the German Nazi party which was in power at the time by proving a black athlete could be as good as, or better than, a white one.

But what of China? Who are their great Olympians?

Probably the most recent contender for the position of China's greatest Olympic athlete is Liu Xiang, the 110m hurdler.

Liu Xiang took gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics, tying for a world record time of 12.91 seconds. It was China's first Olympic gold medal in track and field for a male athlete.

Will Liu Xiang win a second gold medal? Will other Chinese athletes taste glory? The answers will be revealed in August in Beijing.

Journey to the West 西游记

The Monkey King battles monsters in the BBC's Olympic title sequence !!

What do you get when you combine a 16th century work of Chinese literature, a renowned Chinese theatre director and a British rock star?


The result is Monkey: Journey to the West, a show which blends acrobatics, music, animation and martial arts to tell the story of Sun Wukong and his travelling companions on their journey of redemption.


Performed in Mandarin to sell-out crowds in London's Royal Opera House last week, the show is a stage adaptation of the famous Chinese novel Journey to the West.


"An unclassifiable extravaganza" was how The Guardian described the show, while another reviewer said it was a performance that "left no genre untouched and whose scale of ambition could only be marvelled at."


Indeed, for director Chen Shi-zheng, bringing the wildly imaginative Chinese tale to a 21st century Western audience was a creative challenge that allowed him and his team to mix together a wide range of influences.


The score was composed by British musician Damon Albarn, lead singer of Blur and co-creator of the virtual cartoon band Gorillaz. It is played by an orchestra that uses both Western instruments and the traditional Chinese pipa, guzheng and zhongruan.


Another aspect which makes this show stand out is the use of animation, which is projected onto a large screen behind the stage. Director Chen said "the integration of animation and sound was really a work of genius."


The Monkey King, as Sun Wukong is known in English, as well as Pigsy, Sandy and a host of other characters and monsters are brought to life by 40 acrobats from the Dalian circus troupe.
Even though The Monkey King is less well-known outside North-East Asia, many British people fondly remember a cult 1970s TV series called Monkey.


And this isn't the last British people will be seeing of The Monkey King this summer.
The team behind the stage show have produced an animated title sequence for the BBC's Olympic coverage which shows Monkey and his friends battling monsters on their way to Beijing's Olympic Stadium.

庆祝你的生命吧！

Life is a gift we're given each and every day.

Dream about tomorrow, but live for today.

To live a little, you've got to love a whole lot.

Love turns the ordinary into the extraordinary.

生命是一份我们每日都收到的礼物。

要梦想明天，但要活好今天。

即便是短暂的人生，你也要付出无限的爱。

爱让平凡变得精彩。

Life's a journey always worth taking.

Take time to smell the roses...and tulips...

and daffodils...and lilacs...and sunflowers...

生命永远是一段值得享受的旅程。

驻足去闻一下花香：玫瑰，郁金香，

水仙，丁香花，向日葵......

Count blessings like children count stars.

The secret of a happy life

isn't buried in a treasure chest...

It lies within your heart.

It's the little moments that make life big.

细数幸福,就像孩子数星星一样。

幸福人生的秘密并非藏在财宝箱里.....

而是埋在你的心底，

是那些小小的瞬间让生命变得伟大。

Don't wait. Make memories today.

Celebrate your life!

不要等待。今天就留下美好的记忆吧。

庆祝你的生命吧！

One hundred years of dreaming

Googling such key words as "Olympics dream", we get both hilarious and sad stories of athletes from different countries. Some have won their berths and are coming to Beijing with high expectations while others are seeing their dreams dashed as a result of injuries or other problems.

Their laughter or tears only enhance our conviction that the simple "One World, One Dream" theme does follow the fundamental principles of Olympism.

Enshrined in the Olympic Charter, these stipulate, among others, the way of life "based on the joy of effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles"; and the service of sport for "the harmonious development of man, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity".

"Dream"here means aspiration and goal, but I believe even today not many people, especially those in the West who are busy pointing fingers at human rights problems in China, are aware how much humiliation, subjugation, wars and poverty the Chinese have suffered but overcome to realize the one Olympics dream.

While the history of modern Olympics started 114 years ago, the Chinese began to dream of the Olympics in 1908, the year when London hosted the Summer Olympics for the first time.

Until the early 1990s, a nonagenarian in Tianjin still remembered watching a slide show of the gala ceremony of the world sports event along with students from Nankai University. He also recalled seeing the students hanging banners with three questions:

"When will China be able to send athletes to the Olympics?"

"When will China win an Olympics gold medal?"

"When will China host the Olympics?

"It was 24 years since then before the first lonely Chinese, Liu Changchun, embarked on the Chinese people's first journey to the Olympics in Los Angeles in 1932 and competed only in the heats of the 100m and 200m.

Another 52 years passed before Xu Haifeng, China's sharp shooter, won the country's first-ever Olympics gold. And it is yet another 24 years later that the Olympics opens in Beijing.

I know it is really hard for those former colonialists who once enjoyed bullying the Chinese and treating them as the "Yellow peril" or "Asian weak" to share with them the efforts in making Beijing the home of the 2008 Olympics for the world's athletes.

It is also very difficult for those who preach Western supremacy to see the Chinese exploring and blazing our own trail of development and winning the trust of the world to host the Olympic Games.It is only natural for them to try to smear or even spoil the world's eagerness for a successful Beijing Olympic Games and to scrutinize anything Chinese with colored microscopes.

And it should be no wonder they see the patriotism of the young Chinese as a "threat", even though patriotism is deeply embedded in Americanism or the French idea of liberty. While trying to impose their values, they are actually robbing other people of their own national identity and dignity.Since we have come a long way to prepare for hosting the Olympics through many twists and turns, we should learn to live with the ridicules and even the slander while pursuing and enjoying the dream. It is not only our own but one of the world's.

We should also be realistic that we are, after all, human. Since no human being is perfect, we are bound to miss a few steps and leave some loopholes. It simply doesn't matter as long as we correct our mistakes, plug the loopholes, smile and apologize.

We are making our once-in-a-lifetime dream come true, so let's enjoy.

By Li Xing (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-07-31 07:29

Life is like

Life is like a cup of coffee

giving us a taste of both its bitterness and its sweetness.

Life is like a sea,

and only a strong-willed man can cross it.

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time,

and sometimes you weep.