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一直以来都很喜欢博恩崔西这位世界级的销售、培训专家与潜能开发大师，他的文章用词浅显易懂，结构也非常清晰明了，作为英语初学者，阅读文章从他的文章开始是一个非常好的选择，只要阅读完他的1-10篇文章，扫清所有的单词和句型障碍，基本上你的英语就足够用了。
下面这篇文章就来自他的博客，如何吃掉一头大象，为大家详细阐述了如何征服一个目标，克服挑战，获得成功。
同时，我也用红色标注了下面五句话，好好的抄写、背诵和分析这五句话，将它们内化成为你的记忆深处的宝藏，你的英文一定会因为积累这五句话而得到一个大的进步。
Eating the Elephant
By Brian Tracy
You have heard the question, "How do you eat an elephant?" The answer is, "one bite at a time.一次一口" This metaphor applies to achieving any big goal, as well. How do you achieve a huge goal? You accomplish it one step, one task, one measure at a time.
Identify Your Most Valuable Task 判断对你来说最有价值的任务
Ask your boss, "What one thing do I do that is more valuable than anything else?" Whatever his or her answer, look for ways to perform more and more of that task and to get better and better at doing it. It is absolutely amazing how much you can accomplish if you break your tasks down into bite-sized pieces, set deadlines, and then do one piece at a time, every single day.
Continuous and Never Ending Improvement 持续不断的提升和进步
If you want to increase your hourly rate and your income, look for ways to get a little bit better at the most important tasks you do, every single day. Read one hour per day in your field. Listen to audio programs on your way to and from work. Take additional courses whenever you can. These activities will propel your entire career onto the fast track. When you invest an extra one or two hours per day in self-improvement, the cumulative effect on your greater ability to get results can be extraordinary.
Save Your pennies and the Dollars Will Save Themselves节省每一分钱
If you want to become wealthy, begin to question every single expense. Set a goal to save $3, $5, or $10 per day. Put this money away in a savings account and never touch it. As it grows, invest it carefully in well-chosen mutual funds or index funds. Make daily, weekly, and monthly saving and investment into a habit, and keep it up for the rest of your working life.
Become a Learned Person 善于学习
If you read fifteen minutes each evening, rather than watching television, you will complete about fifteen books per year. If you read the classics of English literature for fifteen minutes each day, in seven years you will have read one hundred of the greatest books ever written. You will be one of the best-educated and most erudite people of your generation. And you can achieve this just by reading fifteen minutes each evening before you go to bed.
Increase Your Income 提升收入
If you are in sales and you want to increase your income, keep careful track of how many calls, how many presentations, how many proposals, and how many sales you are making each day, each week, and each month. Then set a goal to increase your number of calls, presentations, and proposals per day. Set a goal to increase your number of sales each week and each month. Every day, measure yourself against your own standards.
If You Measure It, You Can Manage It 量化目标，才能不断改善
In each area of your life, analyze your activities carefully and select a specific number that, more than anything else, determines your level of success in that area. Then focus all of your attention, all day long, on that specific number. The very act of focused attention will cause you to perform better in that area, both consciously and unconsciously.
Action Exercise 行动练习
Set a minimum, specific amount for daily, weekly, monthly saving and investment, discipline yourself to put away those amounts.
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