Day 6 Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind

Words：

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Envision 

设想;想象;预想 If you envision something, you envisage it.

e.g. In the future we envision a federation of companies...

我们设想将来会成立一个公司联盟。

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Sharpen

 (感觉、理解)加强;(使)加深;(技巧)提高;(使)改善 If your senses, understanding, or skills sharpen or are sharpened, you become better at noticing things, thinking, or doing something.

e.g. You can sharpen your skills with rehearsal.

排练可以让技巧更加纯熟。

想起之前在经济学人里看到的一句话：

They are urging fathers to roll their sleeves up not so much to ease their wive’ burden but to sharpen the child’s competitive edge.

Sharpen可以和edge搭配，表示提高优势

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Skyrocket 

剧增;猛涨;猛升 If prices or amountsskyrocket, they suddenlyincrease by a very large amount.

E.g. Production has dropped while prices and unemployment have skyrocketed.

物价和失业率猛涨的同时，生产却下降了。

觉得这个词真的很形象生动，向火箭一样飞速上升，在写作中可以用来代替 increase 之类的词语

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个人感悟：

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

看到这句话特别有感触，很多人不是整日缅怀过去就是畅想未来，而丝毫不注意当下。大家也都明白活在当下这个简单实在的道理，但做到这一点很难。现实生活中虽然有很多纷繁杂事和身不由己，但认认真真过好当下的生活，解决存在的问题，才是重中之重。

It’s incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it’s leaning against the wrong wall.

这种现象也十分普遍，许多人忙碌是因为忙碌，举个例子，现在互联网授课盛行，五花八门的课程充斥着互联网。大家出于各种原因报了各种课，有些人甚至学习到深夜，然后在朋友圈打个卡晒个图，就觉得自己学到了许多。事实上并没有，学习是将知识先进行内化，继而产出，最重要的是明白你要学什么，找对方向，不要被花里胡哨的宣传而盲目跟风。就像文中提及的，有时候忙碌并不代表效率。作者建议可以试着先设立一个personal mission statement,文中举了一位女士想要在家庭和工作中找到一个平衡点，然后设立了自己的personal mission statement。其实这也跟 Habit 1有一点关系，要好好履行这个statement，还需要proactivity，self-awareness等等。

今天是第六天，我还在继续。