1、精品文檔Money Is Not Everything 金錢不是萬能的Imagine you are Mr. Bill Gates. Life is great; you re one of the richestmen on the earth. You can buy anything in life, right? Wrong. Before you ride on the jet of euphoria and focus your entire life on earning money, know there are simply things that a roll of hun

2、dred dollar bills cannot get for you, not even if you are Mr. Gates.想象一下假如你是世界富豪比爾 ?蓋茨先生。生活真是美妙極了，你是世界上最富有的人之一。 你可以買到人生中的一切， 對(duì)嗎？大錯(cuò)特錯(cuò)了。 在你興奮得飄飄欲仙之前，在你傾注一生所掙的財(cái)富之前， 你要知道有些簡單的東西是大把的鈔票所買不來的，即便你是蓋茨短也買不到。If you are perplexed, let me explain my theory. It may sound like an oxymoron but money has its Achille

3、s heel. All of our false perceptions about money have one common flawthey identify money as something external to us, they identify money as the tool to accumulate abundance to please others by accumulating possessions.如果我的理論讓你疑惑了， 那么請(qǐng)聽我來解釋一下。 雖然聽起來有點(diǎn)矛盾， 但錢有它 “致命的弱點(diǎn) ”。我們關(guān)于錢的錯(cuò)誤理解都有一個(gè)共通點(diǎn) 錢被定義為外在的東西，代表

4、累積財(cái)富的工具，而累積的財(cái)產(chǎn)可以討人喜歡。What money can t buy mostly lies within?Us. Nonetheless, trading our life energy for money can deprive us from inner nourishment that can eventually lead our lives into a downward spiral.錢買不到的是我們內(nèi)心中的東西。 盡管如此，將畢生的精力放在賺錢上會(huì)失去內(nèi)在的養(yǎng)份，最終導(dǎo)致生活質(zhì)量螺旋式下降。Time: Money is a tool for trade. With

5、 that said we spend a good chunk of our allotted time on this earth getting, spending, worrying and fantasizing about money. You can t buy the time and save it in your storeroom even if you areMr. Gates. On thecontrary, money takes away your time that could have been spent playing with your children

6、 or having a long walk with your alter ego. When the sun sets, a day goes away from our life forever. No money has power to bring that back to life.時(shí)間。錢是一種交易工具。也就是說，我們的時(shí)間是有限的，但我們卻花大部分時(shí)間在賺錢，花錢，擔(dān)心沒錢，幻想有錢。你不能買下時(shí)間存在儲(chǔ)藏室里，就算你是蓋茨也不行。相反，為了賺錢，你無暇陪孩子嬉戲，和摯友散步也難抽出時(shí)間。夕陽西下， 這一天就從我們生命中永遠(yuǎn)消失了。 錢也沒有能力把它買回來。Self Aware

7、ness: Ignorance is bliss, right? It ascurse. Not having self -awarenessand self-consciousness lead to decisions that can cost you dearly. Well, the cost may be life Itself. As a result, many people live a mediocre life without living for a true purpose. Their ignorance canbet transmuted into awarene

8、ss with money. They believe that their ignorance is their awareness.自我意識(shí)。無知是福，對(duì)嗎？這就像是詛咒。不知不覺地會(huì)讓你付出昂貴的代價(jià)。嗯，這代價(jià)也許就是生活本身。結(jié)果很多人一生碌碌無為，沒有真正的目標(biāo)。錢不能將他們的無知變?yōu)橛兄?。而他們卻自認(rèn)為他們無知是因?yàn)樗麄冇兄?精品文檔Self Esteem: I have a plethora of examples to prove that no money can purchase self-esteem. Self-esteem is earned from withi

9、n. If you are your worst enemy, gods of money can t rescue you from the self-destruction you inflict on yourself. King of rock Elvis Presley had theBest life one can imagine with no dearth of cash. He took his own life with the deprivation of self-esteem.自尊。我有很多例子可以證明錢買不到自尊。自尊是通過內(nèi)在獲得的。如果你是自己最大的敵人，財(cái)神

10、不能將你從你自己釀造的自我毀滅的痛苦中解救出來。搖滾之王艾維斯 ?普雷斯利擁有你想象的最好的生活，擁有花不完的錢，但他最后卻因?yàn)槭プ宰鸲詺⒘?。Health: As I write this, I found out that Senator Kennedy has brain cancer, and it is terminal. Of course money can get him the best health care possible but no money can buy insurance for a life. We buy insurance for just abou

11、t everything including our life but money can never bring life back.健康。我在寫這一條的時(shí)候得知肯尼迪議員患了腦癌，并且已經(jīng)到了晚期。當(dāng)然錢可以給他最好的醫(yī)療看護(hù)但卻不能保證活命。 我們買保險(xiǎn)是為了保護(hù)我們的所有財(cái)產(chǎn)當(dāng)然也包括我們的生命，但錢卻不能讓人起死回生。Respect: Try this. Slap someone on his face and then hand him $100 to get his respect. Will you get it? I doubt it. We all live our lif

12、e in pursuit of self-respect from peers, from family members, from our alter ego and even from strangers. No money can buy respect from others if our actions speak volumes about our negativityinsult, rudeness and lack of respect for others.尊敬。嘗試一下這個(gè)，打別人一巴掌再給他 100 塊讓他尊敬你。你能得到尊敬嗎？我覺得不太可能。 我們一生都在追求同齡人的

13、尊敬， 家人的尊敬， 摯友的尊敬，甚至陌生人的尊敬。 如果我們的行為表現(xiàn)出了我們的消極面 傲慢、粗俗、對(duì)別人不尊重，那么這時(shí)候錢是買不到他人的尊敬的。Happiness: This is controversial. Money can buy happiness if it is spent on to bring grater financial security for the family. However, money canbuyt happiness if the purpose is to make money to make other people happy. The c

14、hase of possession of possessionscan never find its destination with incessant desire to accumulate more possessions. Happiness comes from within. When we trade so much time and energy to get money, we deprive our inner self from the food of happiness.幸福。這是個(gè)有爭議的話題。錢如果花在給家庭帶來更大的財(cái)政保障方面，是可以買到幸福的。但是，如果用錢來讓人快樂，錢就不能買到幸福?？释粩嗬鄯e更多的財(cái)富而追求財(cái)富永遠(yuǎn)到達(dá)不了目的地。 幸福是源于內(nèi)心的。 當(dāng)我們花費(fèi)了這么多時(shí)間和精力去賺錢時(shí)，就失去了內(nèi)在幸福的養(yǎng)料。I m sure thatyou either are nodding your head in disbelief by now, o