又到年底，该是对自己一年的职业生涯做总结的时候了。你知道自己吗？知道我们的职业吗？知道我们的欲求吗？期望下面这篇文章能帮你找到答案。
As the end of 2007 approaches, you may find it timely to think about where you are in your career and your life. To stimulate1 this thought process, I invite you to consider the following seven questions and answer them as honestly as you can:
伴随2007年末临近，或许你觉得是考虑在职业生涯及在生命中所处于什么地方地方的时候了。为了来模拟这个思维过程，我来邀请你考虑考虑以下七个问题，并尽量地做到诚实回答：
1. Where are you are in your career? 你处于职业生涯的什么位置?
First quarter 1/4处
Second quarter 2/4处
Third quarter 3/4处
Fourth quarter 4/4处
Retired2 退休
2. How do you assess yourself in your profession? 在职业中，你怎么样来评估自己
Just getting started 才开始
Intermediate 中等
High-performer 高表现者
Expert 专家
World class 世界级
3. What percent of your focus is on the following ? 对以下你的关注百分比是多少
To excel and achieve personal success: ____ % 在个人成功方面出类拔萃，并获得个人成功
To make others around me successful: ____ % 让我周围的人成功
4. What three things have the greatest meaning in your life? 哪三件事情在你生命中有最大的意义?
5. Have you found your life's calling? 你找到了我们的天职吗?
Not looking 没在探寻
Still searching 依旧在探寻
I think so 我自觉得找到了
Definitely 肯定是找到了
6. How great an impact do you believe your life's calling can ultimately have? 你觉得你的天职会产生多大影响?
Meaningful at an inpidual level 在个人级别上有意义
important at the local level 在某个范围内有意义
Significant for the community at large 对整个社会有意义
World-changing 能带来世界性的改变
7. How close are you to realizing this potential? 你离达成这个潜能有多么远?
Just starting to make a dent3 才开始出一点成绩
about a quarter of the way there 完成了1/4了
about halfway4 there 完成了1/2了
Almost there 几乎达成了
Keep your answers in mind as you continue reading. 在继续阅读的时候，请记住你对以上问题给出的答案。
Beyond Success 超越成功
Over the past two decades I've had the opportunity to advise and recruit many extraordinary inpiduals. Often, these are people who have reached the pinnacle5 of success. Yet what's become clear to me is that reaching even the highest-profile, highest-paid, or highest-prestige positions isn't what's most important. 在过去的二十年里，我有机会聘请很多杰出的人物并给他们建议。这类人大多都获得了辉煌的成功。然而我认识到（在他们的职业生涯中），获得最高评价、最高收入或最高声望誉的职位都不是非常重要的。
Sure, it's great to achieve all these things, and very few who do complain about it. But whether they've already reached the TOP, are just starting out, or are somewhere along the way, almost everyone yearns6 -- especially when they take the time to reflect -- for something more fundamentally gratifying in their lives. 当然，要达成所有这类是非常不错，而且不会有多少人会去抱怨这类东西。但，不论是不是他们已经到达了巅峰，还是刚刚起步，还是正在路上，几乎每人都在渴求日常更基本的让人认可的事情，这种欲望在他们深思的时候尤为强烈。
So what is it that everyone is searching for? A legacy7. 那样，每一个人都在寻求的东西是什么呢?答案是一份遗产。
