为什么有这么多人在成功以后失败？ Why do so many people reach success and then fail?
最主要的原因之一是，我们把成功当作一条单行道 One of the big reasons is, we think success is a one-way street.
我们尽其所能地达到成功 So we do everything that leads up to success,
当我们到达那一步以后，我们觉得我们已经做到了 but then we get there. We figure we've made it,
我们便闲散下来 we sit back in our comfort zone,
不再继续那些当初让我们成功的努力 and we actually stop doing everything that made us successful.
用不了太久，事情就开始走下坡 And it doesn't take long to go downhill.
我可以告诉你这是怎么回事 And I can tell you this happens,
因为这是我的亲身体验。 because it happened to me.
为了成功，我努力工作，我鞭策自己 Reaching success, I worked hard, I pushed myself.
但我停了下来，因为我想"我已经做到了 But then I stopped, because I figured, "Oh, you know, I made it.
现在我可以坐着休息了。" I can just sit back and relax."
为了成功，我总是试着做到最好，超越自己 Reaching success, I always tried to improve and do good work.
我不再这么做是因为我想，"我已经够好了， But then I stopped because I figured, "Hey, I'm good enough.
我不再需要改进了。" I don't need to improve any more."
为了成功，我总是有很多好的创意。 Reaching success, I was pretty good at coming up with good ideas.
因为我做了这些让我达到成功的事。 Because I did all these simple things that led to ideas.
但我停下来了。因为我想我是个大腕了 But then I stopped, because I figured I was this hot-shot guy
我不用再想这些点子。它们会自动出现的。 and I shouldn't have to work at ideas, they should just come like magic.
但唯一出现的是灵感障碍 And the only thing that came was creative block.
我没办法再想出任何点子。 I couldn't come up with any ideas.
为了成功，我用心地关注我的客户和计划 Reaching success, I always focused on clients and projects,
而不是金钱。但一旦公司开始赚钱 and ignored the money. Then all this money started pouring in.
我就开始分心了 And I got distracted by it.
我发现自己总是在与股票经纪人、地产经纪人讲电话 And suddenly I was on the phone to my stockbroker and my real estate agent,
在我应该花时间关心客户的时候 when I should have been talking to my clients.
为了成功，我总是做我最喜欢的事 And reaching success, I always did what I loved.
但不喜欢的事慢慢接踵而来 But then I got into stuff that I didn't love,
像管理 － 我是世界上最糟糕的管理者 like management. I am the world's worst manager,
但当时我觉得这就是我该做的 but I figured I should be doing it, because I was, after all,
因为我毕竟是公司的老板 the president of the company.
很快地，乌云罩顶 Well, soon a black cloud formed over my head
我外表看上去成功 and here I was, outwardly very successful,
但内心非常消沉 but inwardly very depressed.
但身为一个男人，我知道该怎么解决 But I'm a guy; I knew how to fix it.
我买了台跑车 I bought a fast car.
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但那没有解决问题 It didn't help.
我拥有了速度但仍然消沉 I was faster but just as depressed.
于是我去看医生，我说"医生， So I went to my doctor. I said, "Doc,
这世界上没有什么是我要而买不到的，但我很不快乐 I can buy anything I want. But I'm not happy. I'm depressed.
人们说的都是真的，我以前不相信，直到亲身经历 It's true what they say, and I didn't believe it until it happened to me.
金钱是买不到快乐的。" But money can't buy happiness."
他回答。”但可以买到百忧解。“ He said, "No. But it can buy Prozac."
于是他让我吃抗忧郁药 And he put me on anti-depressants.
乌云似乎有点消散了，但工作也是 And yeah, the black cloud faded a little bit, but so did all the work,
因为我如坠云中，我根本不在乎客户有没有与我联系 because I was just floating along. I couldn't care less if clients ever called.
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事实上也没有。 And clients didn't call.
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因为他们知道我已经不再在乎他们 Because they could see I was no longer serving them,
我只在乎我自己。 I was only serving myself.
于是他们带着钱和计划到真正能服务他们的人那里去 So they took their money and their projects to others who would serve them better.
很快的，我的事业如坠深渊 Well, it didn't take long for business to drop like a rock.
我的合伙人和我只有让我们的员工走路 My partner and I, Thom, we had to let all our employees go.
只剩下我们两个，也差不多要完蛋了 It was down to just the two of us, and we were about to go under.
但突然一切又好了 And that was great.
因为没有员工，就不用管理 Because with no employees, there was nobody for me to manage.
我可以回去做我喜欢的计划 So I went back to doing the projects I loved.
工作又开始有趣了，我也更努力工作。长话短说 I had fun again, I worked harder and, to cut a long story short,
我又开始走回成功的道路 did all the things that took me back up to success.
但那不是条高速公路 But it wasn't a quick trip.
它总共花了我七年 It took seven years.
但现在，我们的公司比之前更强大 But in the end, business grew bigger than ever.
我也继续履行我的八条原则 And when I went back to following these eight principles,
在我头上的乌云消失了 the black cloud over my head disappeared altogether.
某天早上我醒来，对自己说 And I woke up one day and I said,
”我不需要百忧解了。“ "I don't need Prozac anymore."
我把它扔了出去，再也没有碰过 And I threw it away and haven't needed it since.
我学到成功不是一条单行道 I learned that success isn't a one-way street.
它看起来不像这样，它看起来更像这样 It doesn't look like this; it really looks more like this.
是一条持续的长路 It's a continuous journey.
如果我们不想染上”从成功到失败"症 And if we want to avoid "success-to-failure-syndrome,"
只要持续地谨守这八条原则 we just keep following these eight principles,
因为你要的不只是成功 because that is not only how we achieve success,
更是保持成功。 it's how we sustain it.
愿我们都继续成功。 So here is to your continued success.
非常谢谢各位。 Thank you very much.
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