你的极限在哪？开发你无限潜力的9个问题

5. Am I in control of my eating decisions, or am I at the mercy of them?
我能控制自己的饮食决定吗？还是经不起饮食的诱惑？

Just like your thoughts influence your perception of reality, your eating decisions influence your mood and energy levels. Happy, healthy people consciously choose to eat foods that make them feel alert, focus, and energetic. Unhappy, unhealthy people unconsciously allow their mood and social surroundings to dictate their eating decisions.
正如你的思想影响着你对现实的感知一样，你的饮食决定也会影响你的心情和能量。开心、健康的人们有意识地选择能让他们警觉、专心和有能量的食物。不开心、不健康的人们无意识地允许他们的心情和社交环境来影响他们的饮食决定。

6. What strengths did I use to achieve three major goals in my life?
要想实现生活中的三大目标，我该利用哪些优点？

Think about three of the biggest achievements of your life. That could be graduating college, getting a raise or promotion, landing your first “real job,” getting published for the first time, or (insert your thing here). Now, think about what personal strengths you used to achieve those things. See any trends? If so, the road that leads to success is right in front of you.
想一想你生活中的三个最大的成就。可以是从大学毕业、得到晋升、找到第一份“真正的工作”、文字第一次出版、或……现在，想一想你有哪些优点可以帮你完成这些事情。找到趋势了？如果这样的话，通往成功的路正摆在你的面前。

7. How can I use those strengths more often?
我该如何更频繁地发挥这些长处？

While it is sometimes important to correct a weakness if it causes a significantly negative effect to your performance, it is often much easier and less time-consuming to simply play to your strengths in a way that make your weaknesses completely irrelevant.
虽然有时有的缺点对你的表现会产生相当大的负面影响，改正这个缺点对你来说至关重要，但是扬长避短这种方式通常会更加容易、更节省时间。

Write down the strengths you came up with in the question above, put them somewhere you will see them daily, and keep asking yourself, “How can I use those strengths today?”
写下当你回答上面问题时你所想到的长处，把它们放到每天都能看到的地方，多问问自己，“今天我该如何发挥这些长处？”

8. Why should I care what other people think about me?
我为什么介意别人是怎么看我的？

If you spend all of your days consumed in concerns about what other people think about you, then you’re going to be too stressed out and depressed to take the action necessary for improving your life.
如果你把大量的时间用来思考别人是怎么看你的，那你准会有很大压力、很郁闷，以至于无法采取必要的行动来改善自己的生活。

It is better to have a small number of true friends you trust, than a large number of phony friends who don’t love and accept you as you are.
有一小群信任的朋友比有一大帮不爱你、不接受真正的你的朋友要好得多。

9. Why do I exist?
我因何而存在？

I know that question is a lot to wrap your head around (that just so happens to be why I saved it for the end), but nonetheless, it is something you need to think about. Look at it this way: if a person was giving a speech about you at your funeral, what would you want them to say? Or, if someone was to write a biography about you after your death, what would you hope it would say?
我知道这个问题得想好长时间（这也是为什么我把它放在最后），然而，你该想想这个问题。可以这样想：如果一个人在你的葬礼上发表一篇关于你的演讲，你想让他们说什么呢？或者，如果有人在死后为你写了一篇传记，你希望上面写什么内容？