More than 40 years ago, John Williams gave away all of his belongings and went off to the mountains to live the way people lived 100 years ago.For 1 he traps wild animals and fishes in the rivers- 2 he can.John lives in a cabin he made 3 , out of trees he chopped down with an axe. 4 he has no relatives that he knows of, he does have a deer he 5 from a fawn(幼鹿).The deer lives in the house in winter and goes with John when he goes into the 6 for food.Nobody lives 7 fifty miles of his cabin in the mountains and John has not been out of the mountains during the entire forty years.One day last year I hiked in to see 8 John lives in.It was like going 9 .There were no stores, no post offices, no noise, no pollution, not 10 a road.
11 notable(值得注意的)of all, there were no people and that's the 12 John Williams wants to keep his part of the world.But there seems to be something impossible in his story.He is an 13 man.He has books and nobody knows how he got them.Mostly he reads about his 14 -the mountains, the animals, the plants, and the 15 .He has seen airplanes flying overhead but does not want to 16 about them.For him, electricity is no more than lightning, not light bulbs, refrigerators, televisions, or washing machines.John is 90 years old and has not has a 17 day in his life.He owes his 18 life to the fact that he has nothing to do with people and in order to let him 19 many more years of health, happiness and solitude(孤独), I will not tell you 20 his kingdom lies.There is no room there for you or me.
You've probably heard the expression“What you see is what you get”.My grandfather used to say.“If you 1 a tree long enough, it will move.”We see 2 we want to see.Psychologists tell us that 3 controls our life more than our self-image.We live like the person we see in the 4 .We are what we think we are.If you don't think you'll be successful, you 5 .You can't be it if you can't see it.Your life is 6 to your vision.If you want to change your 7 , you must change your vision of life.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was not that famous when he 8 a newspaper reporter.The reporter asked Schwarzenegger.“ 9 you've retired from body building, what do you plan to do next?”Schwarzenegger answered very calmly and 10 ,“I'm going to become the No.1 movie star in Hollywood.”The reporter was 11 and amused at Schwarzenegger's plan.At that time, it was very hard to 12 how this muscle-bound bodybuilder, who was not a 13 actor and who spoke poor English with a strong Australian accent, could ever 14 to be Hollywood's No.1 movie star!
So the reporter asked Schwarzenegger 15 he planned to make his dream come true, Schwarzenegger said,“I'll do it the same 16 I became the No.1 bodybuilder in the world.What I do is create a vision of who I want to be, then I start living like that person in my 17 as if it were already true.”Sounds almost childishly 18 , doesn't it?But it 19 !Schwarzenegger did become the No.1 highest paid movie star in Hollywood!Remember:“If you can see it, you can 20 it.”
One day, an expert in time management was speaking to a group of students.To drive his 1 home, he used an illustration(演示)those students will never 2 .
“Okay, now watch carefully”, and then he pulled out a wide-mouth jar and set it on the 3 in front of him.He also 4 about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully 5 them, one at a time, into the jar.
When the jar was filled to the 6 and no more rocks would 7 inside, he asked,“Is this jar full?”Everyone in the class answered,“Yes.”
The expert replied,“Really?”He 8 under the table and pulled out a bucket of small stones.He dropped some 9 and then asked the group once more,“Is the jar full?”
By this time the class was on to him.“ 10 ”one of them answered carefully.
“Good!”he replied, and then brought out a bucket of sand.He started dumping(dropping)the sand in the jar and it 11 into all of the 12 left between the rocks and the small stones. 13 he asked the question,“Is this jar full?”“No!”the class shouted.
“Good.”Then he looked at the class and asked,“What is the point of this illustration?”
One 14 student raised his hand and said,“The point is, no matter how 15 your schedule(时间表)is, if you 16 really hard you can always fit some more things in it!”
“ 17 .”the speaker replied.“That’s not the point.The 18 this illustration teaches us is:If you don’t put the big rocks in first, you’ll never get them in 19 .”
What are the ‘big rocks’ in your 20 ?Then, put those in your jar first.