要真正弄清楚自己的人生是否成功，你必須回答 3 個問題。
To truly figure out whether or not your life has been a success, there are three questions you have to answer.
儘管有許多人備妥權宜之計和現成的解答想賣給你，事實上你將花上一輩子，面對這些重要且棘手的問題，找出屬於自己的答案。
Despite all the people who are ready and willing to sell you quick fixes and ready-made answers, the reality is you’ll spend your entire career figuring out your own answers to these important and hard questions.
重點不在於你得到的結論──反正它很可能隨時會改變──而是你用來達成這些結論的方法。確定你運用的是可得的最穩當的方法，這樣才能導引你朝向自己真正渴望的人生。這一點是讓這段旅程變得有意義的真正關鍵。
What matters most are not the conclusions you draw – which will likely change from time to time anyway – but the tools you use to reach those conclusions. Make sure you’re using the most robust tools that are available so you end up leading the type of life to which you truly aspire. That’s the real key to making the journey worthwhile.
【關鍵思惟】
「一項策略──不管是在公司或我們的人生──是透過我們每天對於自己的時間、精力及金錢如何運用，所做的數百個決策形成的。對於你的時間的每一刻，如何使用精力和金錢所做的每一個決定，都在表明哪些事物對你來說是重要的。對於你的人生想要擁有的清楚目標和策略，你想怎麼說都可以；但是如果你沒有以某種方式配合你的策略，把資源投入，那麼這一切最終還是一場空。畢竟一項策略除非被有效執行，否則就只是一個立意良好的企圖罷了。你如何確定自己正在執行真正想執行的策略？請留意資源的流向──即資源分配的過程。如果它們並不支援你已經決定採用的策略，你就有產生嚴重問題的風險。如果你的家人對你來說是最重要的，那麼想想你在一個星期中對於時間所做的一切決定，你的家人看起來是否有擺在最重要的地位呢？因為一旦你決定投資自己的血汗和淚水的地方，和你渴望變成的那個人不一致的時候，你就永遠不可能成為那個人。」
──克雷頓．克里斯汀生、詹姆斯．歐沃斯、凱倫．廸隆
【Key Thoughts】
“A strategy—whether in companies or in life—is created through hundreds of everyday decisions about how you spend your time, energy, and money. With every moment of your time, every decision about how you spend your energy and your money, you are making a statement about what really matters to you. You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it’s effectively implemented. How do you make sure that you’re implementing the strategy you truly want to implement? Watch where your resources flow— the resource allocation process. If it is not supporting the strategy you’ve decided upon, you run the risk of a serious problem. If your family matters most to you, when you think about all the choices you’ve made with your time in a week, does your family seem to come out on top? Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.”
– Clayton Christensen, James Allworth and Karen Dillon
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