入世第一課 THE FIRST LESSON OF ENTERING THE SECULAR WORLD

　　楊钊

　　Author: Charles Yeung

　　Translated by Soula Lo

　　年青人走入社會，開始創業時，首先要注意些什麼？我認爲企業和個人要想取得成功，第一個門檻，稱之爲「入世第一課」，就是「目標與責任」。

　　When young people step into society and start their career, what do they need to pay attention to first

　　 In my opinion, if an enterprise or a person desires success, the first threshold is to have goals and responsibility. This is called “The first lesson of entering the secular world”.

　　小時候讀書，認爲長大後要做出成績，最重要是「立志」，也就是要有志向和理想。現在企業的經營者，要想取得成功，沒有目標，很難到達目的地。事業的成功有賴把長遠的目標訂立出來，然後分階段去追求、去落實。又或者先有小目標，然後到達了小目標之後，再尋找下一個目標，一個個目標去達到，從而走上一個較高或較大的目標，積少成多，集石成塔。要想達到目標，重要在于行動，故古有「千裏之行，始于足下」的名訓。其次，目標不宜訂得太多，不宜訂得太高，太多則亂，不知往那方向努力，太高則力所不逮，打擊「信心」，所以俗語說「實事求是、腳踏實地」是成功要訣。

　　When we were children and studied at school, we thought in order to have good achievement, the most important thing was to make a resolution, which means we needed to have ambition and ideals. Nowadays, if businessmen in enterprises desire success, they cannot get to their destination without a goal. The success of a career depends on setting long-term goals, piding them into different phases, then pursuing and executing those goals step by step. Or we can start with small goals; after we achieve the small goal, then look for the next goal, and achieve each one by one. Thus move on to higher or bigger goals, and accumulate them from a few to many, as if collecting rocks to build a tower. If we want to achieve our goals, the most important thing is to have a plan of action. We have an ancient famous saying which said “A thousand mile walk starts from beneath the feet.” Secondarily, we should not set too many goals, and should not set goals too high either. Too many goals would cause confusion; we may not know which direction we should put our efforts toward. If the goals are too high, we would not be able to achieve them, which would strike down our confidence. Therefore, this idiom: “Follow the facts, and stand on solid ground” is the key to success.

　　邁向成功的另一個重要因素是「責任」。它是動力的泉源，它可以推動人們努力工作、勤奮工作、拼命工作，有了「責任」，就會自動自覺地尋找工作做、拼命地工作。「責任」有個人責任、家庭責任、家族責任、企業責任、社會責任和對國家的責任。

　　Another important element toward success is responsibility. It is the source of power, which can motivate people to work hard, work diligently, and do our very best. If we have responsibility, we would voluntarily look for more work to do, and work as hard we can. Responsibility includes: inpidual responsibility, family responsibility, clan responsibility, enterprise responsibility, social responsibility and responsibility to our nations.

　　首先，人們要肩負起對自己的責任和家庭的責任，如果沒有責任，人們就會沒勁，沒勁就容易放棄，容易逃避，這是最令人瞧不起的人，也就是沒有出息的人，所以現在管理學選出人生最失敗的東西是「放棄」。

　　First, people need to carry their own responsibility and family responsibility. If people have no responsibility, they would lose enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, they would give up or run away easily. These kinds of people are despised by others the most, and they have no future at all. Therefore, management science studies chose “giving up” as the worse failure.

　　要肩負責任，自己要有「責任的感覺」，稱之爲「責任感」。有了「責任感」，自己就會對自己說，要擔起自己的責任；自己能站立起來，又或者說，自己能擔起家庭的責任。進一步是擔負起家族，以及企業的責任。在意識中樹立起挑擔子的「觀念」。由于這一個「觀念」，是自己對自己說的，也是心甘情願的，所以稱之爲「意誠」。要成大事的人，要成爲有用的人，儒家總結了許多案例，歸納人生要想成功，第一步必須由「心」開始，由自己開始，這一步稱爲「意誠」，也是最重要的一步。但是，社會上理論研究者往往把這一步忘記了，又或者有意無意地把它忽略，致使世人不重視。

　　To carry responsibility, one needs to have the feeling of being responsible; this is called “the sense of responsibility”. If one has the sense of responsibility, he or she would tell himself to take up his own responsibility, and stand up by himself, or we could say, one could carry his family”s responsibility. The next step is to carry the responsibility for the whole clan and the enterprise. Consciously setting up a concept of carrying responsibility. Because this concept is what one tells himself, and one is d…

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