6月四级第一套.pptx

Section B,36.Readiness to,take advantage of new opportunities,will make it,easier,to create ones,desired future,.,G,Creating the future you want,is a lot easier if you are ready to,exploit,the opportunities that come your way.When Leah made the commitment to change,she primed herself to new opportunities she may otherwise have overlooked.She recalls:,37.By,conventional standards,Leah was a typical,successful woman,before she changed her career.,D,Up until that point,Leah had followed traditional measures of success.After graduating with a degree in business and accounting,she joined a public accounting firm,married,bought a house,put lots of stuff in it,and had a baby.“I did what everybody else thought looked successful,”she says.Leah easily could have fallen into a trap of feeling content;instead,her energy sparked a period of experimentation and renewal.,38.Leah gained,confidence,by,laying out her fears,and,confronting,them directly.,L She connected with her sense of purpose and dug deep,cultivating a tremendous sense of strength.“I was feeling so intentional and strong that I wasnt going to let fear just take over.I was thinking,OK,guys,if you want to try to shut me down,shut me down.And I knew it was a negotiation scheme,so I was able to say to myself,This is not real.”By,naming,her fears and,facing them head-on,Leah gained confidence.For most of us,letting go of the safety and security of the past gives us great fear.Calling out our fears explicitly,as Leah did,can help us act decisively.,39.In search of a,meaningful life,Leah,gave up,what she had and set up her own,yoga studios,.,B We recently caught up with yoga entrepreneur Leah Zaccaria,who put herself through the fire of change to completely reinvent herself.,In her search to live a life of purpose,Leah left her high-paying accounting job,her husband,and her home.,In the process,she built a radically new life and career.,Since then,she has founded two yoga studios,met a new life partner,and formed a new community of people.Even if your personal reinvention is less drastic,we think there are lessons from her experience that apply.,40.Leahs,interest,in,yoga,prompted her to,make a firm decision,to,reshape her life,.,F,However,it was another interest that led Leah to radically reinvent herself.,“I remember sitting on a bench with my aunt at a yoga studio,she said,having a moment of clarity right then and there:,Yoga is saving my life.Yoga is waking me up.,Im not happy and I want to change and Im done with this.”In that moment of clarity,Leah made an important leap,conquering her inner resistance to change and making a firm commitment to take bigger steps.,41.,Small signs,may indicate,great changes,to come and therefore,merit attention,.,C Where do the seeds of change come from?,the Native American Indians have a saying:“Pay attention to the whispers so you wont have to hear the screams.”Often the best ideas for big changes come from unexpected places its just a matter of tuning in.Great leaders recognize the weak signals or slight signs that point to big changes to come.,Leah reflects on a time she listened to the whispers:“About the time my daughter was five years old.I started having a sense that this isnt right.”She then realized that her life no longer matched her vision for it.,42.Leahs,first yoga studio,was by no means an,immediate success,.,H One day a man I worked with,Ryan,who had his office next to mine,said,“Leah,lets go look at this space on Queen Anne.”He knew my love for yoga and had seen a space close to where he lived that he thought might be good to serve as a yoga studio.As soon as I saw the location,I knew this was it.Of course I was scared,yet I had this strong sense of“I have to do this.”,Only a few months later Leah opened her first yoga studio,but success was not instant.,43.Some people regard,professional change,as an,unpleasant experience,that,disturbs their stable careers,.,A,At some point,almost all of us will experience a period of radical professional change.Some of us will seek it out;for others it will feel like an unwelcome intrusion into otherwise stable careers.,Either way,we have choices about how we respond to it when it comes.,44.The,worst fear,Leah ever had was the prospect of,losing her yoga business,.,K Steering through change and facing obstacles brings us face to face with our fears.,Leah reflects on one incident that triggered her fears,when her investors threatened to shut her down:“I was probably up against the most fear Ive ever had,，,”she says.“I had spent two years cultivating this community,and it had become successful very fast,but within six months I was facing the prospect of losing it all.”,45.As she,explored new interests,and,developed new potentials,Leah,felt powerful internally,.,E Feeling the need to change,Leah started playing with future possibilities by exploring her interests and developing new,capabilities,.First trying physical exercise and dieting,she lost some weight and discovered an,inner,strength.“1 felt powerful because 1 broke through my own limitations,”she recalls.,Words and Phrases,radical,capability,inner,exploit,potential,adj.,激进的；根本的；彻底的,n.,基础；激进分子,n.,才能；能力；性能；容量,adj.,内部的；内心的；精神的,n.,内部,vt.,开发；开拓；剥削；开采,n.,勋绩；功绩,n.,潜能；可能性；,电,电势,adj.,潜在的；可能的；势的,