时间:2018-11-29 作者:英语课 分类:四级晨读英语美文


英语课

Think more about what you have


One of the more pervasive 1 and destructive 2 mental tendencies I've seen is that of focusing on what we want instead of what we have. It doesn't seem to make my difference how much we have, we just keep expanding our list of desires, which guarantees we will remain dissatisfied. The mind-set that says "I'll be happy" when this desire is fulfilled is the same mind-set that will repeat itself once that desire is met.


We want this or that. If we don't get what we want, we keep thinking about all that we don't have and we remain dissatisfied. If we do get what we want, we simply recreate the same thinking in our new circumstances. So, despite getting what we want, we still remain unhappy. Happiness can't be found when we are yearning 3 for new desires.


Luckily, there is a way to be happy. It involves changing the emphasis of our thinking from what we want to what we have. Rather than wishing you were able to take a vacation to Hawaii, think of how much fun you have had close to home. The list of possibilities is endless! Each time you notice yourself falling into the "I wish life were different" trap, back off and start over. Take a breath and remember all that you have to be grateful. When you focus not on what you want, but on what you have, you end up getting more of what you want anyway. If you focus on the good qualities of your spouse 4, she'll be more loving. If you are grateful for your job rather than complaining about it, you'll do a better job, be more productive 5, and probably end up getting a raise any-way. If you focus on ways to enjoy yourself around home rather than waiting to enjoy yourself in Hawaii, you'll end up having more fun. If you ever do get to Hawaii, you'll be in the habit of enjoying yourself. And, if by some chance you don't, you have a great life anyway.


Make a note of yourself to start thinking more about what you have than what you want. If you do, your life will start appearing much better than before. For perhaps the first time in your life, you'll know what it means to feel satisfied.



1 pervasive
adj.普遍的;遍布的,(到处)弥漫的;渗透性的
  • It is the most pervasive compound on earth.它是地球上最普遍的化合物。
  • The adverse health effects of car exhaust are pervasive and difficult to measure.汽车尾气对人类健康所构成的有害影响是普遍的,并且难以估算。
2 destructive
adj.破坏(性)的,毁灭(性)的
  • In the end,it will be destructive of our whole society.它最终会毁灭我们整个社会。
  • It is the most destructive storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的一次风暴。
3 yearning
a.渴望的;向往的;怀念的
  • a yearning for a quiet life 对宁静生活的向往
  • He felt a great yearning after his old job. 他对过去的工作有一种强烈的渴想。
4 spouse
n.配偶(指夫或妻)
  • Her spouse will come to see her on Sunday.她的丈夫星期天要来看她。
  • What is the best way to keep your spouse happy in the marriage?在婚姻中保持配偶幸福的最好方法是什么?
5 productive
adj.能生产的,有生产价值的,多产的
  • We had a productive meeting that solved some problems.我们开了一个富有成效的会议,解决了一些问题。
  • Science and technology are part of the productive forces.科学技术是生产力。
学英语单词
a peep
allings
allosyndisis
Amphalius
armature-reaction mmf
average income
be dead against
become one with the masses
bertran
bluffs
briguing
bunder-boat
carriage way
chakravarty
chopped meat medium
Christianocentric
coal-fired vessel
conciser
conjoun
continuous drier
data origination
double action
driven-pulley
eccc
elongated anticline
energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence spectrometer
Eurya ciliata
Exempt Items of Radioactive Substances
extended-length
face miller
fibre optic butting connector
fluidization drier
fluorobenzoic acid
fuzhou
gain the ascendancy over
Hall multiplier
hayslip
heat responsive element
high-pressure engine
hold-down cylinder
hoseless
humanise
huminxiang
incident path
infrared temperature resolution
ivimeys
jump hammer
kurortology
laser Doppler velocimetry
lennilite
line of no declination
lines-at-a-time printer
liquid ammonia
loss head
love lyrics
lxxivvest
Markala
mechanically platemaking
monophyletic evolution
monosodic alkaliine
naper
notched sill
oil film rigidity
omelet with minced ham
one-and-a-half-hour
parametric preamplifier
phase segregation
pieces of land
pre-authorization
preventive dose
primordial covering
profits by
radius vector
reaerate
real number space
redistill
research and development personnel
resonance amplification
reverend mothers
scale removal system
selfie stick
settlement of transactions
sheet-metal smoothing roll
signal-to-noise characteristic
standard frequency system
states-by-states
station-keeping
Subcuneiform
systems constraints
Tho Vuc
tyfon signal apparatus
u.s.e
ultrasonic level ga(u)ge
umbellicle
unabatable
unjust acquittal
Uol'chanskiy Khrebet
value on exchange
warm sctting adhesive
whisman
wonderings
zero drift coefficient of gravimeter