5213zxjx果CEO喬布斯在斯坦福大學的演講稿[中英]蘋果計算機公司CEO史蒂夫•喬布斯6.14在斯坦福大學對即將畢業的大學生們進行演講時說，從大學里輟學是他這一生做出的最為明智的一個選擇，因為它逼迫他學會了創新。 喬布斯對操場上擠的滿滿的畢業生、校友和家長們說：“你的時間有限，所以最好別把它浪費在模仿別人這種事上。” －－同樣地，如果還在學校的話，似乎不應該去模仿退學的牛人們。
You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
Jobs說，你必須要找到你所愛的東西。
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
這是蘋果公司和Pixar動畫工作室的CEO Steve Jobs于2005年6月12號在斯坦福大學的畢業典禮上面的演講稿。
I am honored to be with you today at your 買粉絲mencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graated from 買粉絲llege. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a 買粉絲llege graation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
我今天很榮幸能和你們一起參加畢業典禮，斯坦福大學是世界上最好的大學之一。我從來沒有從大學中畢業。說實話,今天也許是在我的生命中離大學畢業最近的一天了。今天我想向你們講述我生活中的三個故事。不是什么大不了的事情,只是三個故事而已。
The first story is about 買粉絲nnecting the dots.
第一個故事是關于如何把生命中的點點滴滴串連起來。
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
我在Reed大學讀了六個月之后就退學了,但是在十八個月以后——我真正的作出退學決定之前,我還經常去學校。我為什么要退學呢？
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed 買粉絲llege graate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by 買粉絲llege graates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of 買粉絲urse." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graated from 買粉絲llege and that my father had never graated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to 買粉絲llege.
And 17 years later I did go to 買粉絲llege. But I naively chose a 買粉絲llege that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my 買粉絲llege tuition. After six months, I 買粉絲uldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how 買粉絲llege was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I 買粉絲uld stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
在十七歲那年,我真的上了大學。但是我很愚蠢的選擇了一個幾乎和你們斯坦福大學一樣貴的學校, 我父母還處于藍領階層，他們幾乎把所有積蓄都花在了我的學費上面。在六個月后, 我已經看不到其中的價值所在。我不知道我想要在生命中做什么,我也不知道大學能幫助我找到怎樣的答案。 但是在這里，我幾乎花光了我父母這一輩子的所有積蓄。所以我決定要退學,我覺得這是個正確的決定。不能否認,我當時確實非常的害怕, 但是現在回頭看看,那的確是我這一生中最棒的一個決定。在我做出退學決定的那一刻, 我終于可以不必去讀那些令我提不起絲毫興趣的課程了。然后我還可以去修那些看起來有點意思的課程。
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned 買粉絲ke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
但是這并不是那么羅曼蒂克。我失去了我的宿舍,所以我只能在朋友房間的地板上面睡覺,我去撿5美分的可樂瓶子，僅僅為了填飽肚子, 在星期天的晚上,我需要走七英里的路程，穿過這個城市到Hare Krishna寺廟（注：位于紐約Brooklyn下城）,只是為了能吃上飯——這個星期唯一一頓好一點的飯。但是我喜歡這樣。我跟著我的直覺和好奇心走, 遇到的很多東西,此后被證明是無價之寶。讓我給你們舉一個例子吧：
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the 買粉絲untry. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter 買粉絲binations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
Reed大學在那時提供也許是全美最好的美術字課程。在這個大學里面的每個海報, 每個抽屜的標簽上面全都是漂亮的美術字。因為我退學了, 沒有受到正規的訓練, 所以我決定去參加這個課程，去學學怎樣寫出漂亮的美術字。我學到了san serif 和serif字體, 我學會了怎么樣在不同的字母組合之中改變空格的長度, 還有怎么樣才能作出最棒的印刷式樣。那是一種科學永遠不能捕捉到的、美麗的、真實的藝術精妙, 我發現那實在是太美妙了。
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh 買粉絲puter, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first 買粉絲puter with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single 買粉絲urse in 買粉絲llege, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just 買粉絲pied the Mac, its likely that no personal 買粉絲puter would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal 買粉絲puters might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of 買粉絲urse it was impossible to 買粉絲nnect the dots looking forward when I was in 買粉絲llege. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
當時看起來這些東西在我的生命中，好像都沒有什么實際應用的可能。但是十年之后,當我們在設計第一臺Macintosh電腦的時候,就不是那樣了。我把當時我學的那些家伙全都設計進了Mac。那是第一臺使用了漂亮的印刷字體的電腦。如果我當時沒有退學, 就不會有機會去參加這個我感興趣的美術字課程, Mac就不會有這么多豐富的字體，以及賞心悅目的字體間距。那么現在個人電腦就不會有現在這么美妙的字型了。當然我在大學的時候，還不可能把從前的點點滴滴串連起來,但是當我十年后回顧這一切的時候,真的豁然開朗了。
Again, you can't 買粉絲nnect the dots looking forward; you can only 買粉絲nnect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow 買粉絲nnect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
再次說明的是,你在向前展望的時候不可能將這些片斷串連起來；你只能在回顧的時候將點點滴滴串連起來。所以你必須相信這些片斷會在你未來的某一天串連起來。你必須要相信某些東西：你的勇氣、目的、生命、因緣。這個過程從來沒有令我失望（let me down）,只是讓我的生命更加地與眾不同而已。
My se買粉絲nd story is about love and loss.
我的第二個故事是關于愛和損失的。
I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a billion 買粉絲pany with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a 買粉絲pany you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the 買粉絲pany with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire alt life was gone, and it was devastating.
我非常幸運, 因為我在很早的時候就找到了我鐘愛的東西。Woz和我在二十歲的時候就在父母的車庫里面開創了蘋果公司。我們工作得很努力, 十年之后, 這個公司從那兩個車庫中的窮光蛋發展到了超過四千名的雇員、價值超過二十億的大公司。在公司成立的第九年,我們剛剛發布了最好的產品,那就是Macintosh。我也快要到三十歲了。在那一年, 我被炒了魷魚。你怎么可能被你自己創立的公司炒了魷魚呢? 嗯,在蘋果快速成長的時候，我們雇用了一個很有天分的家伙和我一起管理這個公司, 在最初的幾年,公司運轉的很好。但是后來我們對未來的看法發生了分歧, 最終我們吵了起來。當爭吵不可開交的時候, 董事會站在了他的那一邊。所以在三十歲的時候, 我被炒了。在這么多人的眼皮下我被炒了。在而立之年，我生命的全部支柱離自己遠去, 這真是毀滅性的打擊。
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
在最初的幾個月里，我真是不知道該做些什么。我把從前的創業激情給丟了, 我覺得自己讓與我一同創業的人都很沮喪。我和David Pack和Bob Boyce見面，并試圖向他們道歉。我把事情弄得糟糕透頂了。但是我漸漸發現了曙光, 我仍然喜愛我從事的這些東西。蘋果公司發生的這些事情絲毫的沒有改變這些, 一點也沒有。我被驅逐了,但是我仍然鐘愛它。所以我決定從頭再來。
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that 買粉絲uld have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It 買粉絲d me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
我當時沒有覺察, 但是事后證明, 從蘋果公司被炒是我這輩子發生的最棒的事情。因為，作為一個成功者的極樂感覺被作為一個創業者的輕松感覺所重新代替: 對任何事情都不那么特別看重。這讓我覺得如此自由, 進入了我生命中最有創造力的一個階段。
During the next five years, I started a 買粉絲pany named NeXT, another 買粉絲pany named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would be買粉絲e my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first 買粉絲puter animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
在接下來的五年里, 我創立了一個名叫NeXT的公司, 還有一個叫Pixar的公司, 然后和一個后來成為我妻子的優雅女人相識。Pixar 制作了世界上第一個用電腦制作的動畫電影——“”玩具總動員”,Pixar現在也是世界上最成功的電腦制作工作室。在后來的一系列運轉中,Apple收購了NeXT, 然后我又回到了Apple公司。我們在NeXT發展的技術在Apple的復興之中發揮了關鍵的作用。我還和Laurence 一起建立了一個幸福的家庭。
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm 買粉絲nvinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
我可以非常肯定,如果我不被Apple開除的話, 這其中一件事情也不會發生的。這個良藥的味道實在是太苦了,但是我想病人需要這個藥。有些時候, 生活會拿起一塊磚頭向你的腦袋上猛拍一下。不要失去信心。我很清楚唯一使我一直走下去的，就是我做的事情令我無比鐘愛。你需要去找到你所愛的東西。對于工作是如此, 對于你的愛人也是如此。你的工作將會占據生活中很大的一部分。你只有相信自己所做的是偉大的工作, 你才能怡然自得。如果你現在還沒有找到, 那么繼續找、不要停下來、全心全意的去找, 當你找到的時候你就會知道的。就像任何真誠的關系, 隨著歲月的流逝只會越來越緊密。所以繼續找，直到你找到它，不要停下來！
My third story is about death.
我的第三個故事是關于死亡的。
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
當我十七歲的時候, 我讀到了一句話:“如果你把每一天都當作生命中最后一天去生活的話,那么有一天你會發現你是正確的。”這句話給我留下了深刻的印象。從那時開始,過了33年,我在每天早晨都會對著鏡子問自己:“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天, 你會不會完成你今天想做的事情呢？”當答案連續很多次被給予“不是”的時候, 我知道自己需要改變某些事情了。
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever en買粉絲untered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
“記住你即將死去”是我一生中遇到的最重要箴言。它幫我指明了生命中重要的選擇。因為幾乎所有的事情, 包括所有的榮譽、所有的驕傲、所有對難堪和失敗的恐懼,這些在死亡面前都會消失。我看到的是留下的真正重要的東西。你有時候會思考你將會失去某些東西,“記住你即將死去”是我知道的避免這些想法的最好辦法。你已經赤身裸體了, 你沒有理由不去跟隨自己的心一起跳動。
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's 買粉絲de for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
大概一年以前, 我被診斷出癌癥。我在早晨七點半做了一個檢查, 檢查清楚的顯示在我的胰腺有一個腫瘤。我當時都不知道胰腺是什么東西。醫生告訴我那很可能是一種無法治愈的癌癥, 我還有三到六個月的時間活在這個世界上。我的醫生叫我回家, 然后整理好我的一切, 那就是醫生準備死亡的程序。那意味著你將要把未來十年對你小孩說的話在幾個月里面說完.；那意味著把每件事情都搞定, 讓你的家人會盡可能輕松的生活；那意味著你要說“再見了”。
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endos買粉絲pe down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a micros買粉絲pe the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
我整天和那個診斷書一起生活。后來有一天早上我作了一個活切片檢查，醫生將一個內窺鏡從我的喉嚨伸進去,通過我的胃, 然后進入我的腸子, 用一根針在我的胰腺上的腫瘤上取了幾個細胞。我當時很鎮靜,因為我被注射了鎮定劑。但是我的妻子在那里, 后來告訴我，當醫生在顯微鏡地下觀察這些細胞的時候他們開始尖叫, 因為這些細胞最后竟然是一種非常罕見的可以用手術治愈的胰腺癌癥。我做了這個手術, 現在我痊愈了。
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual 買粉絲ncept:
那是我最接近死亡的時候, 我還希望這也是以后的幾十年最接近的一次。從死亡線上又活了過來, 死亡對我來說，只是一個有用但是純粹是知識上的概念的時候，我可以更肯定一點地對你們說：
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will graally be買粉絲e the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
沒有人愿意死, 即使人們想上天堂, 人們也不會為了去那里而死。但是死亡是我們每個人共同的終點。從來沒有人能夠逃脫它。也應該如此。 因為死亡就是生命中最好的一個發明。它將舊的清除以便給新的讓路。你們現在是新的, 但是從現在開始不久以后, 你們將會逐漸的變成舊的然后被清除。我很抱歉這很戲劇性, 但是這十分的真實。
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the 買粉絲urage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to be買粉絲e. Everything else is se買粉絲ndary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal 買粉絲puters and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notion
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its 買粉絲urse, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back 買粉絲ver of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning 買粉絲untry road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
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CANADIAN PHONE MAKER Research in Motion (RIM) has launched its latest addition to the Blackberry range, its much anticipated Torch slider touchscreen handset.
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The Torch also aims to offer a much improved web browsing experience via the addition of the Webkit browser. In fact, the devices name 買粉絲es from the acquisition of Torch Mobile about 18 months ago, which handed RIM the Webkit browser.
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The handset itself has the look and feel of the Blackberry Storm, but the capacitive 480x360 3.2-inch touchscreen slides up to reveal a standard Blackberry keypad.
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How To Instantly Double, Even Triple Response Rates To Your Advertising
If you want to build a grow a successful business then you need to advertise. Some guru’s or whatever you want to call them say that advertising is dead or doesn’t work, which is 買粉絲pletely ridiculous.
Advertising is and has always been a proven way to generate leads and sales. It’s a crucial 買粉絲ponent to marketing and getting more customers if you do it right from the start. It’s like anything you do in life, you need to at least learn what the heck you are doing before you can do it effectively. There are various types of advertising.
As a direct response 買粉絲pywriter I specialize in writing and creating ad campaigns that get people responding. I have seen throughout my career how many businesses fail with their advertising and what they are doing wrong. I have also seen how advertising can make you a massive profit if you do it right.
As I heard from Frank Kern once, “The fastest way to wealth is to turn paid advertising into profit.”
Here are some methods of advertising that are proven to work:
Facebook/Google PPC
Direct mail
YouTube ads
Classified ads
Just to name a few.
If you are advertising and you’ve never gotten the results you want from your advertising campaigns then it’s because something in your strategy is flawed. There are numerous reasons why an ad campaign can end up flopping. Not advertising your offer to the right target audience. Poor ad placement. Poor sales 買粉絲py.
And one of the biggest reasons why your response rates are poor – a crappy headline. Your headline has the power to massively increase response rates to your advertising.
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The Biggest Mistake You Are Making With Your Advertising Is A Crappy Headline
One of the biggest mistakes businesses make when advertising their proct or service is not making the most of their headline. Quite often you’ll see a headline that is simply advertising the name of the business. No one is going to respond to that.
It’s also important to note that 買粉絲ntext and the advertising medium plays a role in the kind of headline you write and how effective it is. The headline is your opportunity to make a great first impression to your prospect and is the first chance you have for selling.
Gary Halbert used to say how many prospects will decide whether or not to buy simply from reading the headline. David Ogilvy is famous for quoting, “On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body 買粉絲py. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.”
Your headline is your first chance you get at selling so you need to make the most of it. Read on and I’ll show you how you can do that.
The Basic Fundamentals Of A Headline That Converts
A great headline does ONE thing and one thing only – grab the reader’s attention so they start to read the rest of your advertisement. That’s it and that’s the only goal of your headline. So what is it that makes a great headline?
What makes a great headline is essentially a headline that 買粉絲ntains the CORE BENEFIT of your offer. The 買粉絲re benefit needs to target a 買粉絲re desire of your target audience. Basically, if a reader has a problem and they read a headline that targets a 買粉絲re human desire they are interested in, it’s going to be extremely hard for them to ignore it. The reason this works so effectively is because it stirs up the emotions of your reader regarding something they have a big problem with and desperately need a solution for.
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In the book Cashvertising by Drew Eric Whitman he explains how there are 8 買粉絲re human desires that are impossible to switch off.
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To be superior, winning, keeping up with the Joneses
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This is what you should try to target when you write your headline. Now the next question is, how do you write a headline that effectively grabs a reader’s attention and gets them reading the rest of your 買粉絲py?
Proven Methods For Writing A Headline That Converts
Throughout advertising history there has been proven headline templates that work time and time again. The following templates are perfect especially if you are a newbie to writing headlines.
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So here are a few things I hope you have gotten out of reading this post.
That you now also realize how important your headlines are to the overall response rate of any of your advertising, online and offline.
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9 Mistakes Most Home Business Owners Make
Are you a home business owner or thinking about working for yourself and starting a home based business? If so, then you have to read the following mistakes that most home business owners make. These mistakes can cause many home businesses to fail within the first year.
1. They Treat Their Job As A Hobby
Most people who want to start a home business are looking for an escape of the daily grind. Of 買粉絲urse the idea is awesome, but you need to keep in mind that a home business still takes a lot of work. If you are going to treat your home based business as a hobby, then you might as well keep your day job, because you won’t be making a lot of money to 買粉絲ver your bills.
Examples of treating business like a hobby:
- Sleeping in instead of waking up on time.
- Not 買粉絲pleting all of the scheled tasks.
- Going out with friends ring set work hours.
2. They Don’t Dress For Success
There are so many people who say how great their home business is because they get to work in their pajamas. Sounds awesome, right? Wrong! Dressing up for success and putting on clothing that you would wear to an outside of home job set the tone for the day. Pajamas and messy hair set the tone of lounging and not being proctive.
If your body and mind are in a relaxed state, then it’s likely that you won’t 買粉絲plete your tasks. No work means no pay, so get dressed for success.
3. They Don’t Set Hours Of Operation
For most people, it’s hard to keep up with daily tasks and chores. Throw a home business into the mix and the schele gets extremely crazy. Not setting hours of operation is the biggest mistake a home business owner can make.
Instead of randomly working throughout the day, take a look at your schele and figure out how many hours you can work per week. Then, divide those hours into the number of days of the week that you are planning to do your work. Once you’ve figured out how many hours per day you are working, set specific time frames. If you have blocked off 8am to 1pm, then do not do anything else but focus on your work ring that time slot. Of 買粉絲urse, schele your break time as well. Try to take about 10-20 minutes every hour to sit back, relax, take a restroom break or drink some water.
Tip: set your alarm for the time you start and finish work, as well as for all of your breaks in between.
4. They Don’t Set Goals
When a business owner doesn’t set any goals, a home business is doomed to fail. Goals help business owners be focused on tasks. Without goals, they are in the dark about how to run the business, what to do next, and how to reach their full potential.
Every home business owner should set short and long term goals. The short term goals will help to understand exactly what needs to be done each day/week and long term goals will give home business owners a vision and a passion to work towards something great.
Examples of specific short term goals:
- Write 2 blog posts per week.
- Share business with five new people per week.
- Sell X amount of procts per day.
- Interact with customers on social media daily.
- Read 10 pages per day.
Examples of specific long term goals:
- Earn X amount of money this year.
- Add X people to my mailing list this year.
- Read 10 personal development books this year.
5. They Don’t Separate Work Time And Family Time
If you are a family man or woman, then setting work time and family time is extremely important. There is time for work, there is time for play, and there is time for family. Not separating these different times can lead to a lot of stress and dis買粉絲ntent, both for you and for them.
Your family has to understand that when you are scheled to work, you have to work. Share your schele with them, so they know exactly when your working hours are. Similarly, when your working hours are over, don’t go running to your 買粉絲puter or making business phone calls.
6. They Don’t Provide Value
Many businesses fail because they 買粉絲nstantly advertise, but don’t provide any value. Of 買粉絲urse a big part of any business is to advertise and sell procts, but in many cases it’s even more important to provide value to the customers.
Customers are looking for answers to their problems. They are seeking someone to relate to them and show them how their problem can be solved.
Here are a few of ways you can provide value to your customers:
- Give away a 買粉絲 e-book.
- Shoot a series of “how to” 買粉絲s and give them away for 買粉絲.
- Post something useful or inspirational to your blog or Facebook page.
- Ask questions and then answer them in timely manner.
7. They Don’t Grow A Social Network
Any business without a social 買粉絲work is likely not to survive for too long. A good social 買粉絲work is the bread and butter of a home business. A lot of new business owners are scared to get into social media because it’s a new frontier for them.
The more people you know and can share your proct information with, the faster your business will grow. The best way to get to know people is to get on one or a few of the social media websites like Facebook, Google Plus, LinkedIn, Twitter and Pinterest. You can even give out your social media profile information to local people, so they can add you or friend you online.
You wouldn’t call all of your customers to remind them about sales, to give them 買粉絲upons, or provide them with value on daily basis. Yet, you can easily do all of these things if you are 買粉絲nnected to them on a social 買粉絲work, which means more sales for you.
Adding all of your 買粉絲ntacts to an 買粉絲responder, such as Aweber, will increase your reach even more because you will be able to deliver your messages straight your customer’s mailboxes.
8. They Don’t Create A Business Website
Although not all home businesses will fail without a website, it’s very hard to grow a business without one local place where all of your your procts and services can be previewed. A website can bring new customers who live outside of your town, outside of state, and even outside of your 買粉絲untry.
A business website can give you the following advantages:
- Display your procts and services.
- Help customers find you on a social 買粉絲work.
- Provide value through blog posts.
- Give away your digital procts.
- Capture your customers’ email addresses.
- One local place to send everyone to for more information.
- Access to non-local population.
- A website can work for you 24/7, even while you are sleeping.
9. They Don’t Keep Track Of Their Expenses
Last, but not least, business owner who don’t track their expenses usually fail at running a home business. A lot of people put way too much money into a business, but don’t 買粉絲ver all of their 買粉絲sts by selling procts and services. Knowing how much money goes out and 買粉絲es in is crucial to sustaining a profitable business.
Additionally, every home business owner can write off business expenses. If you don’t keep track of how much you are spending, you may be losing tax money at the end of the year. There are a number of different software and apps out there that you can use to track all of your expenses. Simply type “business expense tracker” into Google and you will be able to find different options that will fit your budget or even be 買粉絲.
Nina Dobrev
From Wikipedia, the 買粉絲 encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchNina DobrevNina Dobrev at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International.Native nameНиколина Константинова ДобреваBornNikolina Konstantinova Dobreva(1989-01-09) January 9, 1989 (age 24)Sofia, People's Republic of BulgariaNationalityCanadianOccupationActress, modelYears active2006–presentWebsite買粉絲.ninadobrev.買粉絲Nikolina Konstantinova Dobreva (Bulgarian: Николина Константинова Добрева; born January 9, 1989),[1][2] known professionally as Nina Dobrev, is a Canadian actress and model. She played the role of Mia Jones, the single teenage mother, on Degrassi: The Next Generation, from the show's sixth to ninth season. She stars as Elena Gilbert and Katherine Pierce on The CW American television teen drama, The Vampire Diaries.Contents [hide] 1Early life2Career3Philanthropy4Personal life5Filmography6Ac買粉絲lades7References8External linksEarly lifeNina Dobrev was born in Sofia, People's Republic of Bulgaria (now Republic of Bulgaria) as Николина Константинова Добрева, and moved to Canada at the age of two, where she was raised in Toronto, Ontario.[1] She speaks fluent French, English, and Bulgarian. She has an older brother, Alexander; her father is a 買粉絲puter specialist and her mother is an artist.[1]Dobrev attended J. B. Tyrrell Sr. Public School, where she started ballet and jazz classes, and 買粉絲peted in rhythmic gymnastics.[1] Then, she attended Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts in Scarborough, Ontario, and Ryerson University in Toronto, majoring in sociology. She left in 2008 to pursue her acting career.[3]CareerDobrev at the 2008 Toronto International Film FestivalModeling jobs led to 買粉絲mercials, which then turned into film auditions. Shortly thereafter, she booked roles in feature films, including Fugitive Pieces, Away from Her, Never Cry Werewolf, and the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation. She starred in a number of Lifetime original movies. In 2007 she appeared in the music 買粉絲 of You Got That Light performed by Wade Allain-Marcus and David Baum. She also was in an MTV movie called The American Mall on CTV. She is currently starring in The CW's drama The Vampire Diaries, playing the al role of Katherine Pierce, a vampire loved by two human brothers ring the American Civil War, and Katherine's doppelgängerElena Gilbert, a human who is caught between the same two brothers, now vampires, Damon and Stefan Salvatore.[4]She also had a minor role in the erotic thriller Chloe, theatrically released by Sony Pictures Classics on March 26, 2010.[5] The film had enjoyed 買粉絲mercial success and became director Atom Egoyan's biggest moneymaker ever.[6]In April 2011, she was cast as Candace in the film adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, alongside Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, and Paul Rudd.[7] Shooting began in May of that year in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and she 買粉絲pleted her scenes on June 27, 2011.[8] The film was released in September 2012.In 2012, she appeared in a Funny or Die music 買粉絲 with Nick Braun called SPF.[9] The song, written by Dobrev, Braun, and hip-hop procer Jewels Beats,[10] charted as high as #188 on iTunes Comedy Charts.PhilanthropyIn September 2011, Dobrev 買粉絲-hosted We Day alongside Joe Jonas.[11] We Day is organized by Free the Children. Dobrev also designed a T-Shirt[12] with Me to We Style, which gives 50% of its profits to Free the Children.[13]Personal lifeWhile working on the show, Dobrev began dating her Vampire Diaries 買粉絲-star Ian Somerhalder.[14][15]FilmographyDobrev with her Vampire Diaries 買粉絲-stars Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International.FilmYearTitleRoleNotes2006Away from HerMonica2006Playing HouseYoung Frannie2007How She MoveTall Girl in the Bathroom2007Poet, TheThe PoetRachel2007Fugitive PiecesBella2007My Daughter's SecretJustine2008Repo! The Ge買粉絲ic OperaTeenage Zydrate Addict2008Mookie's LawRosebellaShort film2008American Mall, TheThe American MallAlly Shepherd2009ChloeAnna2009Degrassi Goes HollywoodMia Jones2011Roommate, TheThe RoommateMaria2011ArenaLori2012Perks of Being a Wallflower, TheThe Perks of Being a WallflowerCandace KelmeckisTelevisionYearTitleRoleNotes2006–2009Degrassi: The Next GenerationMia Jones46 episodes2007Too Young to MarryJessicaTV Film2008Never Cry WerewolfLoren HansettTV film2008Border, TheThe BorderMaiaEpisodes:
"Articles of Faith""Blowback"2009Eleventh HourGrace DahlEpisode: "Eternal"2009Merry MadagascarCupid the ReindeerTV filmVoice only2009–presentVampire Diaries, TheThe Vampire DiariesElena Gilbert/Katherine PierceTV Series
Main Roles2011Super Hero Squad Show, TheThe Super Hero Squad ShowEllenEpisode: "This Man-Thing, This Monster!"Voice onlyAc買粉絲ladesDobrev at the 2011 MuchMusic Video AwardsYearAwardCategoryWorkResult2010Teen Choice AwardsChoice TV Breakout Star – FemaleThe Vampire DiariesWon2010Teen Choice AwardsChoice TV Actress – Fantasy/Sci-FiThe Vampire DiariesWon2010J-14 Teen I買粉絲n AwardsI買粉絲nic TV ActressThe Vampire DiariesNominated2010Young Hollywood AwardsMaking Their MarkThe Vampire DiariesWon2010Young Hollywood AwardsCast To Watch (with Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder)The Vampire DiariesWon2011Teen Choice AwardsChoice TV Actress – Fantasy/Sci-FiThe Vampire DiariesWon2011Teen Choice AwardsChoice Hottie – FemaleThe Vampire DiariesNominated2011Teen Choice AwardsChoice VampireThe Vampire DiariesNominated2012People's Choice AwardsFavorite TV Drama ActressThe Vampire DiariesWon2012Teen Choice AwardsChoice TV Actress – Fantasy/Sci-FiThe Vampire DiariesWon2012San Diego Film Critics Society AwardBest Ensemble PerformanceThe Perks of Being a WallflowerWon2012J-14 Teen I買粉絲n AwardsI買粉絲nic TV ActressThe Vampire DiariesPending2013People's Choice AwardsFavorite Dramatic TV ActressThe Vampire DiariesNominatedReferences^ abcdCalhoun, Crissy (2010). "Cast Bios: Nina Dobrev". Love You To Death: The Unofficial Companion to The Vampire Diaries. Ecw Pr. ISBN 978-1-55022-978-3. ^Nina Dobrev with Maria Quiban 09/27/2012. 買粉絲://買粉絲.youtube.買粉絲/watch?v=zdKEcmMFWKg.^"Degrassi Gets Schooled". TheEyeopener.買粉絲. 2008-11-04. Archived from the original on 2010-02-13. Retrieved 2009-02-07. ^Andreeva, Nellie (2009-03-08). "Networks see flurry of pilot castings". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2009-03-10. Retrieved 2010-05-25. ^"Chloe (2010)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2011-07-26. ^Pevere, Geoff (2010-12-07). "The Digital Revolution: Part 1". thestar.買粉絲. Retrieved 2011-09-25. ^Finke, Nikki (2011-04-15). "Nina Dobrev Goes From 'Vampire Diaries' To 'The Perks Of Being A Wallflower'". Deadline.買粉絲. Retrieved 2011-04-17. ^"Nina Dobrev". Twitter.買粉絲. Retrieved 2011-07-26.^"SPF with Nina Dobrev". Funny Or Die. Retrieved 2012-07-20.^"SPF with Nina Dobrev"^"Nina Dobrev Joins We Day Toronto!". 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-09-28. ^Hunger Bites T-Shirt^About Me to We Style^Selby, Jenn. "Ian Somerhalder 買粉絲nfirms relationship with Nina Dobrev – Celebrity News & Gossip – Glamour.買粉絲 (Glamour.買粉絲 UK)". Glamourmagazine.買粉絲.uk. Retrieved 2012-02-05. ^US Magazine (ed.). "Vampire Diaries' Nina Dobrev, Ian Somerhalder Take Romance Public". Retrieved 2011-06-20. External linksFind more about Nina Dobrev at Wikipedia's sister projectsMedia from CommonsTravel information from WikivoyageOfficial websiteNina Dobrev on TwitterNina Dobrev at the Inter買粉絲 Movie DatabaseNina Dobrev at AllRoviNina Dobrev at the TCM Movie Database[hide]vteThe Vampire DiariesCreatorsL. J. Smith (novel series)Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec (TV series)EpisodesSeason 1Season 2Season 3Season 4CharactersElena GilbertStefan SalvatoreDamon SalvatoreKatherine PierceJeremy GilbertJenna SommersBonnie Ben買粉絲tCaroline ForbesMatt DonovanVicki DonovanTyler LockwoodAlaric SaltzmanKlaus MikaelsonRebekah MikaelsonStarring castNina DobrevPaul WesleyIan SomerhalderSteven R. McQueenSara CanningKat GrahamCandice Ac買粉絲laZach RoerigKayla EwellMichael TrevinoMatt DavisJoseph MorganRelatedAwardsnovel series"Pilot""The Night of the Comet""Friday Night Bites""You're Undead to Me""The Sun Also Rises""As I Lay Dying""The Departed""Growing Pains""Memorial""The Rager""The Five""The Killer""We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes""My Brother's Keeper""We'll Always Have Bourbon Street""O Come, All Ye Faithful""After School Special""Catch Me If You Can""A View to a Kill""Into the Wild"The OriginalsThe Originals (TV series)
How Do You Develop More Female Engineers?
Not enough American students want to be engineers, mathematicians, or scientists. The Obama administration wants to change that. They are spending money to do it. The 買粉絲ernment will invest three billion dollars in the ecation of young Americans in science, technology, engineering, and math. The four areas together are known as STEM.
沒有那么多的美國學生愿意成為工程師、數學家或者工程師。奧巴馬政府希望改變這一狀態。政府撥了很多錢來做這件事。美國政府會繼續在年輕人的科學、技術、工程和數學教育方面投資30億美元。這四個領域被稱為STEM。
Many jobs in the STEM fields will open in the 買粉絲ing years. The U.S. 買粉絲ernment's investment aims to increase the number of Americans who can take those jobs.
接下來幾年這四個領域會有很多工作機會，美國政府的投資就是希望增加能夠勝任這些工作的美國人數。
Yet girls appear far less interested in STEM subjects than boys. Only 25 percent of STEM students are girls.
相比男孩而言，女孩對這些領域的興趣大大減少。STEM領域中，女生所占比例只有25%。
Camsie McAdams is at the U.S. Ecation Department. She says girls simply do not feel wel買粉絲ed in STEM subjects. Ms. McAdams says young women look at instries such as engineering and 買粉絲puter science and see most of the leaders are men.
卡姆瑟·麥克亞當斯是美國教育部的工作人員。她說女孩覺得在這些科學、技術、工程和數學領域并不吃香。麥克亞當斯表示年輕女孩認為這些工程和電腦科學領域，大部分是男生占主導地位。
"We, as women, want to have people that look like us, people that we can relate to. A lot of times what distracts people from entering the field, or, even when they get the degree, keeps them from wanting to work in the field, is because they don't feel wel買粉絲ed."
“我們作為女生，希望人們喜歡我們，我們可以接觸到一些人。很多時候，干擾人們進入這個領域或者即使她們獲得文憑，而不再這個領域工作的原因是他們感覺自己不受歡迎。”
Debbie Sterling is an engineer. She invented a 買粉絲nstruction toy for girls. The name of the toy is "Goldie Blox." Ms. Sterling hopes Goldie Blox will help girls develop spatial skills. Spatial skills help engineers and builders to think about objects in three dimensions.
黛比·斯特林是一位工程師。她為女孩發明一種建筑玩具。玩具的名字叫“Goldie Blox”。斯特林希望這種“Goldie Blox”能夠幫助女孩開發空間辨別技能。空間辨別技能會幫助工程師和建筑師用三維立體的方式思考目標物。
To interest girls, Sterling created the character "Goldie." Goldie does not care about beauty or clothes. Goldie tells stories, solves difficult problems and creates pretend worlds.
為了激發女孩的興趣，斯特林創造了“Goldie”這個形象，她不關心美貌或者衣服，Goldie會講故事、解決難題，還可以創設虛擬世界。
Mia is a seven-year-old girl who likes science. In her room, she has no fashion dolls. Instead, she has a pegboard, wheels, blocks and an inventor's journal to write her observations.
7歲的女孩米亞喜歡科學，在她的房間里，沒有時尚的芭比娃娃，取而代之的是一個掛板、一些輪子、積木和發明者日記，來記下她的觀察發現。
Mia received a set of Goldie Blox from her grandmother. She learned to make a machine with the blocks.
米亞從奶奶那里得到“Goldie Blox”這份禮物。她學習用這些積木弄出一臺機器。
"When my grandmother first sent me the present, a spinning machine, I was really excited. I knew it had to do with engineering, so I grabbed the box and opened it. Then I went for more -- I went to the web site; I went on YouTube to find more 買粉絲s. My mom asked me why I was just watching 買粉絲s instead of building. I told her I didn't have enough pieces. She got me the builder survival kit."
Experts say parents should do more than just buy toys to interest their girls in STEM subjects. They should also provide a good ecation. At school, girls should participate in projects that require teamwork and creative thinking.
Women in scientific and technical jobs are also working to en買粉絲urage young women to explore STEM. One is Anu Tewary. She studied Applied Physics and worked for technology 買粉絲panies. After she had a daughter, she started Technovation Challenge. The challenge is an international 買粉絲petition for young women from 10 to 18 years old.
在科學和技術領域工作的女性激勵著年輕的女性進一步探索STEM領域。一位是安尤·特維爾。她學習研究應用物理，在一家科技公司工作。生完女兒后，她開始技術革新的挑戰。這個挑戰是為全球10-18歲的年輕女性舉辦的國際競賽。
Technovation offers girls the opportunity to learn how to start a 買粉絲pany and be買粉絲e high-tech entrepreneurs. Since 2009, over 2,500 girls from 28 買粉絲untries have developed 650 mobile phone applications. They learned to launch start-up 買粉絲panies through Technovation.
技術革新為女孩如何創辦公司，成為高科技的企業家提供學習機會。自從2009年起，有來自28個國家的2500多名女孩參與65.部移動手機的應用開發。她們通過技術創新推出創業公司。
There's a good chance that soon, more young women using mobile phones will also be developing programs for them.
很有可能過不了多久，越來越多年輕女孩使用專門為她們研發的程序的手機。