The year end is coming, before we move on to the new year, it’s high time for all of us to do a review for the year. To me, doing this annual review is like getting a report card. It’s no different with my annual review – except these results aren’t for my studies – they’re bigger. They’re for my life.時間轉(zhuǎn)瞬到年底，在我們步入新的一年之前，我們所有人都應(yīng)該對這一年做個回顧總結(jié)。對于我來說，年終總結(jié)就像是拿成績單。年終總結(jié)和成績單一樣，只不過收獲的并不是學(xué)習(xí)成績，它們更重要，是關(guān)于我的人生。Importance of Year End Reviews年終總結(jié)的重要性So why is it important to do a year end review? There are 4 simple reasons:年終總結(jié)為什么這么重要？有這樣四個簡單的理由：1. Draw lessons from the year從一年中吸取經(jīng)驗教訓(xùn)What have you experienced this year? What have you learned from them? With every experience we face, there are important things to learn. We can either let these incidences pass us by, or we can stop to understand, internalize them, and draw lessons from them. Life is your school, and the lessons are dressed up as your everyday incidences. You don’t want to be living year after year without learning from your experiences. That’s just sleepwalking your life away.這一年，你經(jīng)歷了些什么？從中你又學(xué)到了些什么？我們面對的每一次經(jīng)歷，都有一些重要的東西值得學(xué)習(xí)，我們可能會讓發(fā)生的這些事情就從我們的生命中匆匆而過，或者我們也可以選擇停下來，理解并消化這些經(jīng)歷，從中學(xué)到經(jīng)驗教訓(xùn)。生活就是你的學(xué)校，這些經(jīng)驗教訓(xùn)會假扮成每天的瑣事。你也不想年復(fù)一年只是過生活，卻從不從經(jīng)歷中學(xué)到些什么吧，那樣的話，你只是在夢游度日。There are a lot of lessons which I learn every year. Looking back at my review for 2007, one of the biggest lessons I learned is that our reactions to life’s situations is a choice, and it’s up to how we make out of situations we encounter. This realization came after a highly intense period at my job. At that time I was already a positive person, but the situation was so out of control that it really made me negative. It was after a short period of feeling miserable that I realized that the reality was such and it was up to me to make the best out of it. I could either sit and bitch about it which would do absolutely nothing to change the situation, or I could take action and make the best out of it. This small shift in my mindset created a big shift in my reality – it made me a lot more proactive and solution-oriented. It made me realize that many of us generate unnecessary baggage with negative situations in life, and it’s all about taking action to create the lives that we want. Happiness is truly a choice.每年我都能學(xué)到很多?，F(xiàn)在回頭看看我2007年的總結(jié)，我學(xué)到的最重要的一課是“我們對生活環(huán)境的反應(yīng)是一種選擇”，取決于我們?nèi)绾谓鉀Q遇到的情況。這種感悟是在我的工作經(jīng)歷了一段高度緊張的階段之后得出的。其實那時候我是個很積極向上的人，但是當時的情況完全不在我的掌控下，讓我也變得消極了。有那么一小段時間，我覺得很痛苦，然后我就意識到，生活就是這樣，如何做到最好取決于我自己，我可以選擇干坐在那里抱怨牢騷，但這根本對改變現(xiàn)狀一點幫助都不起；我也可以選擇采取行動做到最好。這樣簡單的心態(tài)轉(zhuǎn)變使我的生活出現(xiàn)了很大的改變：我變得更加主動，積極選擇解決問題的方法。這也讓我意識到，我們許多人在遇到不利狀況時，總是背負了太多不必要的包袱，只要采取行動，我們就能創(chuàng)造想要的生活。幸?？鞓菲鋵嵵皇莻€選擇。Because I would write down lessons I learned each time (in my life handbook), I could then build upon my learnings. Rather than deja vuing through life situations, every time I would think about how I could apply what I had learned earlier and how I could do something different. As a result, I kept moving forward in my growth.因為我每次都會記下學(xué)到的經(jīng)驗教訓(xùn)（在我的生活手冊里），所以我從所學(xué)中慢慢成長。每次總結(jié)后我都會想，下次遇到我會如何利用之前學(xué)到的改正錯誤，而不是一次次的重復(fù)犯錯栽跟頭。就這樣，我在成長的路上一步步前進。