;当我早晨刷牙或者作其它事情的时候.
And I'm not just thinking about
that I'm doing some road routine
;我并不是只把它当作一种"例行公事"来做
but I'm putting it out there
and I'm feeling the feelings of gratitude.
;而是把它"拿出来",真正地感到"感恩"的心情.
As soon as you start to feel differently
about what you already have,
;只要你开始对你已经拥有的东西有不一样感觉,
you will start to attract more of the good things,
;你就会开始吸引更多好的东西,
more of the things you can be grateful for.
;吸引更多值得你感谢的东西.
Because, if you look around and say,
;因为,如果你看看周围,说,
"well look, I don't have the car I want,
I don't have the house I want,
;"你看,我没有我想要得车, 我没有我想要的房子,
I don't have the health I want,
I don't have the spouse I want..."
;我没有我想要的健康,
我没有我想要的配偶..."
Back up. Back up.
停!停!
Those are all the things that you don't want.
这些都是你不喜欢的东西.
Focus on what you already have
that you're grateful for.
应该将注意力集中到你已经拥有的并值得你感恩的事情上.
And it might be, you have the eyes to watch this.
它可以是 - 你的眼睛可以看到的 -
It might be the clothes that you have.
;它可以是你的衣服.
Yes, you might prefer something else
and you might get something else pretty soon
;是的,你可能更喜欢其他的东西,你会很快得到那些东西的
if you start feeling grateful for what you have.
;只要你开始为你已经拥有的东西感到感激.
I think everybody goes through times when they say,
;我想,每个人都有这样的时候,他们说,
"oh man, things aren't working right"
or "things are going bad".
;"哎,事情发展不顺利",
或者"事情越来越糟糕了".
And there were some things going on in my family...
我的家里发生了一些事情...
and I found a rock.
我找到一块石头.
And I'm just sitting here holding this rock,
you might see me carrying around.
;我就坐在那里,手里拿着这块石头,
你可能看见过我到处都带着这块石头.
I found a rock. I stuck it in my pocket.
我找到一块石头. 我将它放到我的口袋里.
And I said, "you know what, every time I touch this rock
;我说,"你知道吗,每次我摸到这块石头的时候
I'm gonna think of something that I'm grateful for.
;我都要想起一些我要感恩的事情.
And so every morning, when I get up
in the morning, I pick it up off the dresser
;因此,每天早晨,当我起床的时候,我把它从衣柜中取出,
and put it in my pocket,
;把它放到我的口袋里,
and I go through the things that I am grateful for.
;心里想着我要感恩的事情.
At night, what do you do? You empty your pocket
;夜里,你会干什么? 你会掏空口袋
and there it is again.
;又会摸到这块石头.
And I've had some different
experiences with that.
关于这块石头, 我有些与众不同的经历.
I've had some amazing experiences.
我有一个奇妙的经历.
I had a guy from South Africa. He saw me dropping it.
我有一个朋友从南非来, 他看见我偶尔将这块石头弄掉地上.
He said "what is that"?
;他问:"这是什么?"
What's that?
"这是什么?"
I explained it to him, so we started
calling it the gratitude rock.
我给他解释了一番,从此我们就将这块石头叫做"感恩石".
Gratitude rock.
;感恩石
Two weeks later I got an e-mail
from him from South Africa.
;两个星期后,我收到他寄自南非的电子邮件,
He said, "my son is dying from a rare disease,
;他说,"我的儿子得了一种罕见的疾病,快死了,
it's a type of hepatitis".
;是一种肝炎".
He said, "would you send me three gratitude rocks?"
;他说,"你给我寄来三颗感恩石好吗?"