On the next day I will repeat this procedure, and I will continue in like manner for thirty days. Then, I will turn to the next scroll and repeat this procedure for another thirty days. I will continue in this manner until I have lived with each scroll for thirty days and my reading has become habit.
And what will be accomplished with this habit? Herein lies the hidden secret of all man's accomplishments. As I repeat the words daily they will soon become a part of my active mind, but more important, they will also seep into my other mind, that mysterious source which never sleeps, which creates my dreams, and often makes me act in ways I do not comprehend.
As the words of these scrolls are consumed by my mysterious mind I will begin to awake, each morning, with a vitality I have never known before. My vigor will increase, my enthusiasm will rise, my desire to meet the world will overcome every fear I once knew at sunrise, and I will be happier than I ever believed it possible to be in this world of strife and sorrow.
Eventually I will find myself reacting to all situations which confront me as I was commanded in the scrolls to react, and soon these actions and reactions will become easy to perform, for any act with practice becomes easy.
Thus a new and good habit is born, for when an act becomes easy through constant repetiton it becomes a pleasure to perform and if it is a pleasure to perform it is man's nature to perform it often. When I perform it often it becomes a habit and I become its slave and since it is a good habit this is my will.
Today I begin a new life.
And I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard my new life's growth. I will lose not a day from these readings for that day cannot be retrieved nor can I substitute another for it. I must not , I will not, break this habit of daily reading from these scrolls and, in truth, the few moments spent each day on this new habit are but a small price to pay for the happiness and success that will be mine.
As I read and re-read the words in the scrolls to follow, never will I allow the brevity of each scroll nor the simplicity of its words to cause me to treat the scroll's message lightly. Thousands of grapes are pressed to fill one jar with wine, and the grapeskin and pulp are tossed to the birds. So it is with these grapes of wisdom from the ages. Much has been filtered and tossed to the wind.Only the pure truth lies distilled in the words to come. I will drink as instructed and spill not a drop. And the seed of success I will swallow.
Today my old skin has become as dust. I will walk tall among men and they will know me not , for today I am a new man, with a new life.
《今天，我天始新的生活》
今天，我爬出滿是失敗創傷的老繭。
今天，我重新來到這個世上，我出生在葡萄園中，國内的葡萄任人享用。
今天，我要從最高最密的藤上摘下智慧的果實，這葡萄藤是好幾代前的智者種下的。
今天，我要品嘗葡萄的美味，還要吞下每一位成功的種子，讓新生命在我心裏萌牙。
我選擇的道路充滿機遇，也有辛酸與絕望．失敗的同伴數不勝數，疊在一起，比金字塔還高。
然而，我不會像他們一樣失敗，因爲我手中持有航海圖，可以領我越過洶湧的大海，抵達夢中的彼岸．
失敗不再是我奮鬥的代價．它和痛苦都将從我的生命中消失。失敗和我，就像水火一樣，互不相容。我不再像過去一樣接受它們。我要在智慧的指引下，走出失敗的陰影，步入富足、健康、快樂的樂園，這些都超出了我以往的夢想． 我要是能長生不老，就可以學到一切，但我不能永生，所以，在有限的人生裏，我必須學會忍耐的藝術，因爲大自然的行爲一向是從容不迫的．造物主創造樹中之王橄攤樹需要一百年的時間，而洋蔥經過短短的九個星期就會枯老．我不留戀從前那種洋蔥式的生活，我要成爲萬樹之王——橄榄樹，成爲現實生活中最偉大的推銷員．
怎麽可能？我既沒有淵博的知識，又沒有豐富的經驗，況且，我曾一度跌入愚昧與自憐的深淵．答案很簡單。我不會讓所謂的知識或者經驗妨礙我的行程．造物生已經賜予我足夠的知識和本能，這份天賦是其它生物望塵莫及的。經驗的價值往往被高估了，人老的時候開口講的多是糊塗話．說實在的，經驗确實能教給我們很多東西，隻是這需要花費太長的時間．等到人們獲得智慧的時候，其價值已随着時間的消逝而減少了．結果往往是這樣，經驗豐富了，人也餘生無多．經驗和時尚有關，适合某一時代的行爲,并不尋味着在今天仍然行得通。
隻有原則是持久的，而我現在正擁有了這些原則．這些可以指引我走向成功的原則全寫在這幾張羊皮卷裏．它教我如何避免失敗，而不隻是獲得成功，因爲成功更是一種精神狀态．人們對于成功的定義，見仁見智，而失敗卻往往隻有一種解釋:失敗就是一個人沒能達到他的人生目标，不論這些目标是什麽。
事實上，成功與失敗的最大分野，來自不同的習慣。好習慣是開啓成員的鑰匙，壞習慣則是一扇向失敗敞開的門。因此，我首先要做的便是養成良好的習慣，全心全意去實行。
小時候．我常會感情用事，長大成人了，我要用良好的習慣代替一時的沖動。我的自由意志屈服于多年養成的惡習，它們威脅着我的前途。我的行爲受到品味、情感、偏見、欲望、愛、恐懼、環境和習慣的影響，其中最厲害的就是習慣。因此．如果我必須受習慣支配的話，那就讓我受好習慣的支配。那些壞習慣必須戒除，我要在新的田地裏播種好的種子。 我要養成良好的習慣，全心全意去實行。
這不是輕而易舉的事情，要怎樣才能做到呢，靠這些羊皮卷就能做到。因爲每～卷裏都寫着一個原則，可以摒除—項壞習慣，換取一個好習慣，使人進步，走向成功。這也是自然法則之一，隻有一種習慣才能抑制另一種習慣。所以，爲了走好我選擇的道路，我必須養成的第一個習慣
每張羊皮卷用三十天的時間閱讀，然後再進人下一卷。 清晨即起，默默誦讀；午飯之後，再次默讀；夜晚睡前，高聲朗讀。
第二天的情形完全一樣。這樣重複三十天後，就可以打開下一卷了。每一卷都依照同樣的方法讀上三十天，久而久之，它們就成爲一種習慣了。
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