[精力聚焦]
萬事起頭難！
想實現理想，達到目標，還需要付出心血，
而心血的多少視乎理想的大小和有多少人同心協力而定。
有時甚至需要問一問自己：
「是否願意暫時放棄其他的東西？」
太過貪心有時是執行理想的大忌，
因為可能最後沒有一樣做得好，甚至功虧一簣。
學習放棄其他東西，集中精力做好一件事，
這一個步驟叫做「精力聚焦」focusing。
At what expense any valuable work is performed！
At the expense of a life！
If you do one thing well,
what else are you good for in the meanwhile？
( Thoreau, Journal, 1852 )
人的生命有限，人的精力有限，
對於所有自己喜愛的工作必須有所取捨，要捨得放棄部份。
Discipline means choices.
Every time you say yes to a goal or objective,
you say no to many more.
( Sybil Stanton )
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing
to exchange for it, establish your priorities,
and go to work！
( H. Lamar Hunt )
The best prize life offers is the chance to
work hard at work worth doing.
( Theodore Roosevelt )
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with
his whole strength and soul can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
( Albert Einstein )
如果是業餘的理想，當然可以慢慢來，
不必顧慮精力分散在其他事情之上。
Dream big dreams.
Define them and ponder long enough.
Let wisdom flourish in your mind
and let love blossom in your heart,
so that you will not doubt, overthink,
and hesitate when action is required.
Create infrastructure to bring them through.
[草擬計劃]
When your dream is bigger than you are,
you only have two choices: give up or get help.
( John C. Maxwell )
這個世界胸懷大志的人不少，但胸有成竹的人有多少？
胸有成竹的人之中，又有多少人能夠成功？
執行理想，需要有承受打擊和代價的勇氣，需要知己知彼。
為了增加勝算，減少損耗，最好能夠草擬一個計劃。
☆ 理想可以只有一個，但路絕對不只得一條。
☆ 按部就班，分階段進行，有短期目標，有中期目標。
實行理想的時候，
不妨把大的目標分成許多一小段、一小段的短期目標，
分階段地去進行，因為從來都沒有星星是一蹴即就的；
草擬一個計劃，按部就班，
這樣才是「腳踏實地」在行動方面所採取的方法。
Work on one thing at a time until finished.
( Henry Miller )
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
There is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
( Henry David Thoreau )
不要害怕選擇或接受超過自己能力的挑戰，
因為「唔試過又點知自己得唔得？」
但由於有勇氣的人或者志大才疏的人都容易高估自己，
所以最好的方法就是按部就班，循序漸進，一步一步執行。
在實踐的過程之中，需要不斷反思，
思與做互相纏結，認識自己和認清理想一同進行！
所謂「自古成功在嘗試」其實就是運用這個方法。
日本馬拉松選手山田本一亦是用這個方法奪得兩屆冠軍。
Don’t talk about giftedness, inborn talents！
One can name all kinds of great men
who were not very gifted.
They acquired greatness, became ‘geniuses’
(as we put it) through qualities about whose lack
no man aware of them likes to speak:
all of them had that diligent seriousness
of a craftsman,
learning first to construct the parts properly
before daring to make a great whole.
They allowed themselves time for it,
because they took more pleasure in
making the little, secondary things well
than in the effect of a dazzling whole .
( Friedrich Nietzsche )
所有大的想法都是從大的思維開始，
但實踐的時候，都是一小步一小步地去進行。
所以大的思維、大的想法，對速度慢的人有利，
他們可以從大處著眼，擬定計劃，然後從小處著手。
然而因應個別的情況，有時會需要或甚至必須大躍進！
Don’t be afraid to take a big step
if one is indicated;
you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
( David Lloyd George )
人生最痛苦的事情之一，是在未有充裕準備之下，
卻被客觀環境迫使我們必須作出大躍進！