雙語閱讀美文：辭工前問問自己這些問題
辭職需要你自己的深思熟慮，你是否真的不想做這份工作？你在辭工前記得問自己以下這些問題。
1. Are you willing to do whatever it takes?
你願意不惜一切代價?
To start your own business you have to be willing to do whatever it takes. Sometimes that’s not fun: it’s inconvenient and you can’t do what you really want to. The willingness to do whatever it takes comes from a deep commitment to your business that all successful entrepreneurs must have.
開始自己的生意,你必須願意不惜一切代價。有時這並不有趣:這很麻煩,你不能做你真正想做的事。願意不惜一切代價爲自己的生意恪守諾言,這是所有成功的企業家必須有。
2. Are you willing to adapt your approach often?
你願意經常調整你的方法嗎?
The only way for a business to fail is to stop adapting. If a product doesn’t sell, keep adapting, modifying, changing and improving it until it does. You might change its color, change its price, change who you sell it to or change its stated purpose. You may need to change the product, change the service or change the product into a service. Keep changing until you get it right. Failure only comes when you stop doing this.
生意失敗的唯一方法是停止調整。如果一個產品賣不出去,不斷調整,修改,改變和改善它,直到它可以賣出去。你可能會改變它的顏色,改變它的價格,改變你賣給誰或改變其目的。您可能需要更改產品,改變服務或改變產品爲服務。不斷改變,直到你改對爲止。只有當你停止這樣做纔會失敗。
3. Are you focused enough to start your own business?
你足夠專注的開始你自己的生意嗎?
Focus worked for Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, so it will probably work pretty well for you. There are only two resources you put into creating a business: time and money. Even Warren and Bill have a limited amount of both. So do you. To successfully start your own business, you have to pour all you have into it. Your business needs as much of your resources as you can possibly give it, so pour it all in. Don’t spread your resources among several small things; none of them will get enough of what they need to succeed.
比爾•蓋茨和沃倫•巴菲特專注工作,所以你也可能會工作的很好。只有兩個資源投入你的生意:時間和金錢。甚至它們對於沃倫和比爾都是有限的。所以對於你也是。成功地開始自己的生意,你必須把你的所有投入。你的業務需要你儘可能給你所擁有的資源,所以投入所有吧。不要把你的資源分在一些小事上;沒有人能成功如果沒有足夠的所需要的東西。
4. Are you willing to give up some things in the short term?
在短期內你願意放棄一些東西嗎?
The only time you should give up things that are important to you is when giving them up will allow you to have more of them in the future. This is one of those times. There may be no vacations for a year, or two, or three. There will be way less TV. There will be less time with your kids, friends and family. If you want the increased time and the increased quality of time (which comes from money) in the future, you must give up some of it now. Do it for your future.
你唯一應該放棄的東西是對你來說很重要的但是放棄它們會讓你在未來有更多的。這是其中的一次。可能一年沒有假期,或兩年或三年。將會有更少時間看電視。將會有更少的時間陪你的孩子,朋友和家人。如果你想增加時間和增加有質量的時間(來自金錢)在不久的將來,你必須放棄現在的一些東西。爲了你的未來。
5. Are you ready for the most intense psychotherapy you’ve ever undergone?
你準備好了你曾經經歷過的最強烈的心理治療嗎?
Aspiring entrepreneurs often believe they will learn about business plans, marketing, accounting and business models. You will, but that will be small compared to the self-discovery process you will go through. You’ll learn about your strengths, weaknesses and everything in between. Starting a business is a very personal process and one that will test your limits and make you realize you had capabilities you never even thought possible. You’ll also probably cry a few times.
有抱負的企業家往往相信他們將會學習商業計劃,市場營銷,會計和商業模式。你會,但這跟你經歷的自我發現過程比起來是微不足道的。你將瞭解你的長處,弱點和一切。創業是一個非常個性的過程,將測試自己的極限,讓你意識到你有你從未想象過的能力。你可能也會哭幾次。
6. Are you able to listen without judging or evaluating?
你能沒有帶有評判和評估聆聽嗎?
When you start your own business, you must develop your listening skills to a level beyond what you ever thought was possible. You have to listen to your customers and prospects so closely you can even hear what they don’t say. You need a level of understanding of your customers that you can’t get unless you listen to every word they say and understand their needs and aspirations better than they do.
當你開始自己的生意,你必須培養聽力技能水平超出你曾經認爲可能的。你必須仔細聆聽你的客戶和潛在顧客你甚至可以聽到他們沒說。你需要某種程度的瞭解你的客戶 ,除非你聽到他們說的每一句話才能瞭解他們,比他們更好地理解他們的需求和願望。
