■你有夢想嗎
Do You Have a Dream

◎Brian Gosur

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

～Zig Ziglar

Ask any child: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and you will get an array of different answers. There are always the standard answers like, I want to be a fireman, policeman, doctor, or maybe even president. My grand-daughter wants to be a model when she grows up, and I think she will. She loves the camera and is a very beautiful girl. Of course, I’m a little biased in my opinion, but when you look into their eyes, you see this wonder and excitement when they talk of living their dreams. Their eyes are wide as saucers and they talk about them as if there is no doubt in their mind, they are going to happen.

What happens to all those dreams? What happened to your dream? What happened to my dream? Are you living your dreams? Did you have a dream?

美麗語錄

Genius only means hard-working all one’s life.

天才只意味著終身不懈的努力。

你生而為贏，但是你必須為之籌劃、為之準(zhǔn)備、為之期待，方能成為贏家。

——吉格·金克拉

如果你問任何一個孩子：“長大了你想干什么？”你會得到一大堆不同的答案。但總存在一些標(biāo)準(zhǔn)答案，比如，我想成為消防員、警察、醫(yī)生甚至是總統(tǒng)。我的孫女長大后想成為一名模特，而且我認(rèn)為她會夢想成真。她很漂亮，喜歡拍照。當(dāng)然，我的想法有點偏心，但是，當(dāng)她談及實現(xiàn)夢想時，你若注視著她的眼睛，你會從她的眼睛中看到奇跡和興奮。她的眼睛睜得像茶托一樣大，當(dāng)她談?wù)搲粝霑r，感覺就像她心中毫不懷疑夢想會實現(xiàn)一樣。

所有的這些夢想后來怎么樣了呢？你的夢想呢？我的夢想呢？你是否還在追逐你的夢想？你又是否還擁有夢想？

I think as we grow older, our dreams may change.Circumstances[4] and maturity[5] set in and alter or change the way we look at life and our circumstances. The wide eyed child has matured into an adult and his dreams have also matured with him.

I always wanted to be a baseball player. I loved sports and played hockey as well, but life’s circumstances changed all that and living my dream as a professional athlete disappeared. As I talked with people that have known me awhile and I reveal to them what my childhood dream always was, they kind of look at me a little funny, and say ... Really? They have that, “I don’t believe you,” look on their face. Have you ever had that happen to you?

People laugh at your dreams. I don’t have to tell you that. If you are a dreamer, and entrepreneurs are dreamers or visionaries, you will have more than one dream and you will have more than one occasion where you receive the looks and laughter at your dreams and visions.

There are tons of dreamers, visionaries, entrepreneurs that come to mind, but I would like to bring just a couple to your attention.

1.Leonardo da Vinci

This man was born on April 15，1452. He was a true dreamer. His drawings included detailed drawings of flight machines. Can you imagine him trying to talk to his friends about putting together a contraption that would take a person into the air?

2.Thomas Edison

Besides giving us light through the incandescent light bulb, Thomas

我想，隨著我們漸漸成長，我們的夢想也許會改變。不斷變化的環(huán)境、日漸增加的成熟度，改變了我們看待生活和環(huán)境的方式。眼界開闊的孩子已如成人般成熟，他的夢想也會隨之成熟。

我一直想成為一名棒球運動員。我熱愛運動，也打曲棍球，但是生活環(huán)境改變了一切，想成為專業(yè)運動員的夢想也消失了。當(dāng)我和認(rèn)識我有段時間的人交談并向他們表露我童年的夢想的時候，他們用那種有點奇怪的眼神看我，然后說：“真的嗎？”他們的表情表示“我不相信你”。你是否也遇到過這種情況？

人們嘲笑你的夢想，我不必告訴你這一點。如果你是個夢想家（企業(yè)家也是夢想家或理想家），你就不會僅僅只有一個夢想，然而，你也會不止一次地收到別人對你的夢想和憧憬的怪異眼神和嘲笑。

我腦中浮現(xiàn)出很多的夢想家、理想家、企業(yè)家，但我只給你們舉幾個例子。

1.列奧納多·達(dá)·芬奇

他出生于1452年4月15日。他是個真正的夢想家。他的繪畫作品包括飛行器的詳細(xì)圖紙。你能想象他試著跟他的朋友談?wù)摯钤谝黄鸬木裳b置能把人帶上天的場景嗎？

2.托馬斯·愛迪生

托馬斯·愛迪生除了發(fā)明白熾燈，給我們帶來了光明外，他還發(fā)明

Edison also gave us the phonograph and accumulated 1，093 U.S patents. He is credited with numerous inventions that contributed to mass communications and, in particular telecommunications. This guy was always thinking and dreaming of what could be.

3.Charles Babbage

Where would we be without computers today? I remember when I was in high school, computers were in their infancy, and the dream that someday a machine would have such abilities as the computer does today was a very laughable idea. Well, thanks to Charles Babbage, the dream is alive today.

He was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer. Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer that eventually led to more complex designs.

What do all these men have in common? They dared to dream. They took the looks, the laughs and the finger pointing, and it didn’t deter them from the visions they had. They weren’t thrown off track by them.

Zig Ziglar says that he has been laughed at and made fun of and been told that he will never make it all of his life. To continue and persevere[6] under those circumstances is definitely a man on a mission. He did not let that deter him from fulfilling his dreams, and it shouldn’t with you or me either.

Every one of these dreamers and visionaries had failures, bumps in the road, and people in the way yelling their sarcasm and negative slurs. That should only make them the more determined to win. Success has to go through some failure doors first.

了留聲機(jī)，擁有1093項美國專利。他的許多發(fā)明對大眾通訊具有巨大貢獻(xiàn)，尤其是在無線電通信方面。他總是在思考和夢想著一切的可能性。

3.查爾斯·巴貝奇

如果沒有計算機(jī)，我們今天將會怎樣？我記得在我高中時，計算機(jī)的發(fā)展還處于初級階段。在當(dāng)時，夢想著計算機(jī)某天會像現(xiàn)在一樣擁有如此強(qiáng)大功能的想法一定會很可笑。是的，多虧了查爾斯·巴貝奇，在今天，這個夢想實現(xiàn)了。

他是英國數(shù)學(xué)家、哲學(xué)家、發(fā)明家兼機(jī)械工程師。他是可編程計算機(jī)的發(fā)明者。他被認(rèn)為發(fā)明了第一臺機(jī)械計算機(jī)，也由此最終帶動了更多復(fù)雜的設(shè)計。

所有這些人的共同點是什么？他們敢于夢想。他們受過別人異樣的目光、嘲笑和指指點點，但這些都不足以使他們放棄夢想，偏離追逐夢想的軌道。

吉格·金克拉表示他被取笑過、被嘲弄過，也被告知過他一生都不會成功。在這種情況下還能繼續(xù)堅持的人，他定是個身負(fù)使命的人。他不會因為這些而停止實現(xiàn)夢想，同樣，你和我也都不應(yīng)該這樣。

每個夢想家和理想家在追逐夢想的路上都有過失敗和挫折，也都遭受過路人的諷刺和詆毀。但這只會使他們更加決心要獲得成功。成功必須首先經(jīng)歷一些失敗。

When I played sports and certain people from the opposing team would do their intimidating talking on the field, or I would hear the jeers and yelling from the people in the stands, that just made me all the more determined to do my best and gain the victory. Failure is not final.

What are your dreams? Want to open and run a successful business? Want to open a school for inner city kids? What is the vision you have? I know you can see it as if it is already alive and happening. If this is you, I would like to tell you to never, ever stop dreaming, and don’t listen to people come up to you and say, “That will never happen,” “You can’t do that.” You can’t stop them from talking at you, but you don’t have to listen to them.

You are different. Only 3% of the world’s population are dreamers and visionaries. The other 97% live in the box. Don’t let the boxers yell their negative talk at you. Don’t let them knock you off the road you are traveling. Stay the course, hold the line, and always continue moving forward toward the goals you have and live now the future that you envision. Never stop living your dreams.

當(dāng)我在運動時，對方的某些隊員會在賽場上進(jìn)行恐嚇，或者我會聽到看臺上的人發(fā)出嘲笑聲和噓聲，但這只會讓我更加下定決心全力以赴取得勝利。失敗并不是終點。

你的夢想是什么？想要生意經(jīng)營成功？想要為市區(qū)的孩子開個學(xué)校？你有什么愿望？我知道你能看見它，就好像它已經(jīng)實現(xiàn)了一樣。如果你是這樣的，我想告訴你，永遠(yuǎn)不要停止夢想，不要聽信別人對你所說的“這永遠(yuǎn)不會實現(xiàn)”“你做不到”之類的話。你不能阻止別人對你進(jìn)行評論，但是你也不必聽信他們。

你是與眾不同的。這世上只有3%的人是夢想家和理想家，其余的97%都住在盒子里。不要讓這些住在盒子里的人對你惡語相加。不要讓他們使你偏離追逐夢想的軌道。堅持到底，保持不變，繼續(xù)朝著你的目標(biāo)和你所憧憬的未來前進(jìn)。永遠(yuǎn)不要停止追逐的腳步。