Or, how come I can't get the motivation to go to the gym or to eat healthy or simply to work hard at school or at my job?

為什麼你沒有動力去健身房，或吃得健康，或僅僅是要認真讀書、上班？

What is it that all these other motivated people know that I don't know?

有什麼是那些積極向上的人知道而我不知道的？

Well, you're about to learn their secret.

你即將揭曉這個秘密。

I want you to imagine that you are an old man who's on his deathbed.

我要你想像自己是一位臨終老人。

There are nurses around you, doctors around you, your family is around you, and everyone is looking right at you.

你身邊圍繞著護士、醫生以及你的家人，每個人都直勾勾地看著你。

Your son walks up to you with tears in his face and says: "Dad do you have any regrets in your life?"

你的兒子帶著淚水走上前說道：「爸，你有什麼遺憾嗎？」

You turn your head away from him, look up at the ceiling, and then you start to feel this weird, visceral feeling in your stomach.

你別過頭，看向天花板，而後你發自內心感覺到一股怪異的感受從腹中竄出。

It starts to swirl around and it quickly spreads to your entire body.

它開始打轉，很快就散佈到你整個身體。

Then suddenly the entire room turns black and your life begins to flash before your eyes.

突然間，整個房間都暗了下來，你看見了自己的人生跑馬燈。

You see your childhood bully, your first kiss, the day you got married, you even see your son walking off to college for the first time.

你看見童年的霸凌者、你的初吻對象、你結婚的那天，你甚至看見你兒子初上大學的那一天。

But then, you start to remember all the things that you wished you had done more of in your life, and all the places that you wished you had gone to see, and all the time you wasted doing pointless things.

而後，你開始想起那些你想做卻沒做的事，你想去卻沒去的地方，和花費在那些毫無意義的事情的時間。

You start hearing questions like: "What if I had traveled around Europe like I always wanted to?"

你開始聽到一些問題，像是「如果我有到我一直嚮往的歐洲旅行會怎麼樣？」

"How different would I have felt if I had worked out and got that body that I always wanted?"

「如果我有認真在健身，得到我理想中的身材會怎麼樣？」

"What if I had asked out that really cute girl back in college?"

「如果我在大學時有約那個可愛的女生出去會怎麼樣？」

"What if I had quit my job and started my own business?"

「如果我有辭去我的工作，自己創業會怎麼樣？」

What if.

如果。

Those two words are the seeds that grow into the poisonous plant called "regret."

這兩個字就是深植在你心中，會生長出名為「後悔」這種討人厭植物的種子。

And having regret inside you when you are on your deathbed is a very scary thought to me.

臨終前抱有遺憾對我來說是一個很可怕的想法。

The only way to make sure this doesn't happen is to live your life like a boat floating at sea.

唯一能確保這件事不會發生的方法，就是想像你生活在一艘漂浮在海上的船。

Most people will tell you that stuff like work ethic, self-discipline, goal-setting are the keys to getting what you want in life.

大多數的人會說職業道德、自律、設立目標是使你獲得人生中所想之物的關鍵。

But this is only partly true.

但這只有部分是真的。

Stuff like that are the things that make the boat move, like having a strong sail or having a good steering wheel.

那些東西僅能讓船得以前行，就像擁有強健的帆或是出色的方向盤。

But having a fully functional boat that can go over any wave, overcome any obstacle that can withstand any storm is totally pointless if you do not have a clear destination of where you want to go.

但若你沒有明確的目的地，那麼擁有一艘能抵抗任何大浪、克服任何難關和承受暴風雨功能完善的船是毫無意義的。

Now some people think they know where they want to go.

有些人認為他們知道自己的目的地為何。

And they might tell you that they wanna end up somewhere with a high-paying job, with a family and a big house, and they wanna drive around in nice cars.

他們可能會說他們想要一個高薪的工作、一個家庭、一棟豪宅和一輛能到處開的好車。

But a lot of the time that life that they're describing is not their own life.

但大多數他們所想的人生並不是他們期望的。

It's the life that their parents want for them.

而是他們父母想要他們擁有的。

It's a life that their friends want for them.

是他們的朋友想要他們擁有的。

It's a life that the movies and social media tells us that we should want to have.

是電影和社群網站告訴我們應該要有的。

But what is even worse than choosing a life that is not your own, is settling on a life.

但更糟的不是選擇過一個不屬於你的人生，而是安於現狀的人生。

Because living that "okay" life is a lot easier than really going after what you want.

因為生活在那個「還行」的人生比起真的去追逐你所想要的事物要簡單許多。

If you don't want to die with that horrible feeling of regret, you need to figure out exactly what you want to do, and the only way to do this is to become incredibly self-aware.

如果你不想要死有遺憾，那麼你必須找到你所想做的事，而唯一的辦法就是變得極為自知。

If you want to go live up in the mountains and make wooden birdhouses forever, then do it.

如果你想永遠在山中定居，自製木鳥屋，那就去做。

If you want to drive around in that Maserati and have that big house, then do it.

如果你想要一輛 Maserati 和一棟豪宅，那就去實現。

There really is no right and wrong answer here, but you have to figure this out for yourself.

這沒有對錯之分，但你必須自己找出你所想要的是什麼。

But the really hard part about doing all of this is that you have to stop caring what other people and what society thinks of you.

但最困難的部分是你要停止去在意其他人或是這個社會是怎麼看待你的。

If you were raised in a very quote-unquote "regular" household where your parents worked a normal nine to five job, it's really, really hard to tell them that you want to do something that's totally different, that goes against what they want for you and what everyone else expects for you.

如果你是在一個父母朝九晚五工作的「正常」環境下被扶養長大，那麼要告訴他們，你想去做與他們或其他人所期望的截然不同的事是非常困難的。

But you cannot let this fear stop you, because life is too short not to stay true to yourself.

但你不能讓這個恐懼阻礙你，因為人生苦短，你必須活得問心無愧。

But, if you find yourself having trouble staying motivated, just remember this one, poisonous word: regret.

如果你發現你無法保持動力，你只要記住「後悔」這個令人不快的詞就行了。

Imagine that you're on your deathbed, and then thinking to yourself, there's so much more I wished I would have done with my life.

想像你臨終前正在回想，你的人生中還有很多希望去做、去完成的事情。

There's so much that I would do over again, but now I, I have no energy, and there's just nothing I can do.

有好多我希望能重頭來過的事，但現在我沒有力氣可以去完成，現在的我什麼都做不了。

There's so much that I regret.

有好多我後悔的事。

It doesn't matter what your gender is, how tall you are, what you look like, how smart you are, none of that matters.

這與你的性別、身高、聰明與否都無關。

The only thing that matters is having a desire within you to get what you want, and it's never too late to start on this journey.

唯一有關的是你有沒有想要去獲得所想之物的慾望，這永遠不嫌晚。