I like how Andy Frisella put it. He said, have you done what you said you were gonna do on January 1st last year? Did you stick to your new year's resolutions? Or did you just talk about doing them? Did you just tell yourself that you were going to do it?

 

我喜欢Andy Frisella说的，他说，去年新年第一天你说要做的事情，你现在已经做到了吗？你的新年决心，你坚持去做了吗？或者，你只是说说而已？你只是跟你自己说，我会去做的？

 

Doing anything successful, doing anything important, is going to take discipline. There's always gonna be a reason to wait. There's always gonna be a busy schedule. There's always gonna be something unexpected that happens. It's always going to be that way.

要想取得任何成功，做成任何重要的事，都需要自律。你没有等待的理由，太忙了不是借口，总有意料之外的事情发生，这就是生活。

 

You have to work through it. You have to prioritize your studying, and make it more important than everything else going on in your life. But a lot of you don't want it enough. It's easy to fall into loving the idea of something. And it's hard to fall into the habits of action, to actually achieve the grades you're aiming for.

你必须解决好这些事情。你必须把学习放在首位，让它成为你生活中最重要的事情。但是，你们很多人，对学习的渴望并不够强烈。我们做事情容易形成习惯，但是我们很难养成行动的习惯，我们很难获得自己的目标成绩。

 

It's not about after the vacation, or after the film, or after the YouTube video. It's about right now. People who succeed stick to the plan regardless. When you tell yourself you're going to study 4 hours tonight for your exam next week, you need to do it.

不要说，假期后再努力，看完这部电影再努力，看了这个YouTube视频再努力。你，现在，就要开始努力。那些成功的人，无论发生了什么事，他们都能坚持执行自己的计划。当你跟自己说，今晚你要为下周的考试学习4个小时，你就要去做这件事。

 

You are all curious about what the secret is. Why certain people succeed when you don't succeed? Well, I'm gonna tell you why. Successful people, while you're whining and crying about how things are hard and why things aren't fair, guess what they're doing? They're doing the studying.

你们都很好奇，成功人士的秘诀是什么？为什么有些人能成功，而你却不行？我来告诉你为什么。在你抱怨和哭诉事情太难、太不公平的时候，你猜猜成功人士在做什么？他们在努力学习。

 

You have to commit to becoming better. You have to commit to being a person of action. You have to commit to being someone who doesn't just talk, but follows through. Become someone who does, instead of someone who just talks. If you really want it, it's yours to take.

你必须努力把自己变得更优秀，你必须努力把自己变成一个行动派，你必须让自己说到做到，而不是纸上谈兵。成为一个说做就做的人，而不是整天高谈阔论的人。如果你很想要一个东西，那么你就能努力获取它。

 

No one gives it to you or takes it away. It's yours, if you want it. It's a marathon, not a sprint. There's no fast fix to achieving extraordinary grades. There'll be days you'll be tired, even exhausted, but you continue regardless, because you don't judge it on the daily. You judge it in the long frame.

没有人会把它送到你手里，没有人会把它从你这里抢走。如果你想要它，它就是你的。这是一场马拉松，而不是短跑。想要获得出色的成绩，没有任何捷径。有时候，你会感到劳累，甚至筋疲力尽，但是你依然坚持下去，因为你不是紧盯着一天两天的努力，而是有长远的目光。

 

You keep your eyes on graduation. You know there's going to be ups and downs, but you know that it's all going to be worth it. You know that when you start getting results, it's going to be worth it. You look in the mirror, and you'll say, yeah I did this.

你的目标，就是顺利毕业。你知道，你会经历起起落落，但是你也知道，这一切都是值得的。你知道，等到你开始有收获时，就会发现一切都是值得的。你看着镜子里的自己，说，没错，我做到了！

 

You feel this overwhelming feeling, that you’re overworking the crowd. You're overworking everybody around you. You're studying more than them. You became something. You became somebody. And once you get there, that's when you know you've done enough.

你有一种很强烈的感觉，你比别人更努力，你比周围的所有人更努力，你比他们学得更多。你有所成就，你成为了优秀的人。一旦你做到了，你就会知道，你付出的努力已经足够了。

 

But don't talk about it. Practice what you preach. And just do it. It won't happen overnight. It's gonna take months and months of work. Just don't quit. You keep fighting. You keep fighting no matter what. Because, trust me, on graduation day, you'll look back over the last few years and you'll realize it was worth it.

但是，不要说说而已，要为你的信仰付诸行动。行动吧！这不会一夜之间就实现，而是需要长时间的努力。不要放弃，保持奋斗。无论发生了什么，你都要坚持奋斗。相信我，这是因为，到你毕业那天，回忆起过去的这几年，你会发现，这一切都是值得的。