前言
将明确目标运用于工作
组织智囊团
积极心态(PMA)
机智
正义感
情绪的控制
展现信心的力量
付出一点点
培养个人进取心
培养积极心态
百分之二的成功者
加入百分之二俱乐部
如何培养热枕
强化自律
习惯控制
控制你的注意力
激发团队的合作精神
逆境变成一种祝福
创造力是今日世界不可少的能力
有效的身心刺激物
个人盘点
运用自然力量
迅速回顾
《成功的钥匙》强化自律 [打印本页]
强化自律
Enforce Self-Discipline
前面几章我们所强调的，是控制思想的重要性，对思想的 控制，是你的个人进取心、积极心态和热忱控制的关键因素， 而自律则是结合所有这些努力的过程。
Earlier chapters have placed heavy emhasis on the importance of taking control of your mind. This control is pivotal to your personal initiative, positive mental attituded, and controlled enthusiasm. Self-discipline is the process that ties all these efforts together for you.
一个人能达到自律要求后，在其他原则方面必然也会有 所进步。自律要求自我认识以及对自己能力的正确评估。同 样的，如果缺乏自律功夫，其他原理也无法真正付诸行动。自 律可说是一条管道，而你为了达到成功目标，所必须表现出来 的所有个人力量，都会流经这个管道。
It isn't possible to achieve self-discipline without making some progress on theose other principles; self discipline requries self-knowledge and an accurate assesssment of your current abilities. Likewise, the other principles can't really be put into action without self-disciples can't really be put into action without self-discipline. It is the channel through which all your personal power for success must flow.
把你的心智想像成是一座贮存你潜在力量的贮存库，你现在应学习从库中释放适当数量的力量，并将它导引到正确方向，这就是自律的本质。
Think of your mind as a reserveoir in which you have been storing up potential power. You will now learn to release that power in precise quantities and specific directions. This is the essence of self-discipline.
控制你的情绪
Controlling Your Emotions
大多数的人都是先行动再思考行动的后果，自律则要求相反的程序：你将学习“谋定而后动”。
Most people act first and think about the consequesnces later. Self-discipline will reverse that process. You will learn to think before you act.
学习这种程序的主要方法，就是控制你的情绪。我们再 来回顾一下14种主要的情绪：
The primary means to this ecd is your control of your emotions. For review, the fourteen major emotions are repeated below.
积极情绪
Positive Emotions 消极情绪
Negative Emotions
1．爱 Love
2．性 Sex
3．希望 Hope
4．信心 Faith
5．热忱 Enthusiasm
6．忠诚 Loyalty
7．欲望 Desire
1．恐惧 Fear
2．嫉妒 Jealousy
3．仇恨 Hatred
4．报复 Revenge
5．贪婪 Greed
6．愤怒 Anger
7.迷信 Superstition
所有这些情绪都是一种心理状态，所以也是你能掌控的 对象。你可以想像如果不能控制那些消极情绪，会造成多么 大的危险。同样的，如果你不能有意识地控制那些积极情绪 的话，它们也会造成破坏性的结果。
All these emotions are states of mind and are thus subject to your control. YOu can see right away how dangerous the negative emotions can be if they are not mastered. The positive emotions can also be destructive if you do not organize and release them with conscious control.
隐藏在这些情绪里的，是具有爆炸威力的力量。如果你 能适当地控制这股力量，它就可能使你获得成就；但如果你任 由它自行奔放，它就可能把你扔到失败的深渊之中，使你头破 血流。
Inherent in these emotions is explosive power. If you regulate that power properly, it can lift you to the heights of achievement. But if you let it run wild, it can dash you to pieces on the rocks of failure.
从前面几章中，你已学到明确的目标加上有推动力的动 机，是所有成就的起始点。这股动机必须非常强烈，促使你所 有的思想和努力，都以达成明确目标为依归……但是你的推 动力——你的情绪——也必须由你的判断力来控制，以期你 的热忱和欲望不致脱离你的智慧范围成为脱缰野马。换句话 说，你必须约束你自己，以使得你的推动力永远受到控制，而 且会被导引到正确的管道中。
You learned in earlier chapters that a definite major purpose, activated by a driving motive, is the starting point of all worhwhile achievement. This motive must be so strong that it will subordinate all your thoughts and efforts to the attainment of your definite purpose. But your drive--your emotions--must also be subject to your own good judgment so that your enthusiasm and desire will not run over your wisdom. In other words, you must discipline yourself so that your drive is always under control and directed in the proper channels.