前言
Dan Sullivan has spent the better part of his life observing how people grow, identifying what gets in their way, and coming up with tools, structures, and processes that help them to overcome these obstacles to reach the next level of personal or professional growth. It started at the kitchen table of a neighbor, Mrs. Wetzel, when he was six years old, and has grown into the basis for The Strategic Coach®, a $25 million coaching company that has helped more than 10,000 entrepreneurs from around the world.
丹·沙利文（Dan Sullivan）一生中大部分时间都在观察人们如何成长，识别阻碍他们前进的因素，并开发出有助于克服这些障碍、实现个人或职业下一阶段成长的工具、结构和流程。这一切始于他六岁时在邻居温泽夫人（Mrs. Wetzel）家的餐桌上，后来逐渐发展成为“策略教练”（The Strategic Coach®）的基础。这是一家价值2500万美元的教练公司，已经帮助了全球超过10000名企业家。
Mrs. Wetzel used to say, “Danny’s been here, and I feel much better now,” after Dan’s questions helped her to think through what was weighing on her mind and gain new perspectives. More than 50 years later, it’s people like best-selling authors David Bach and Jack Canfield, along with thousands of other successful entrepreneurs in more than 60 different industries, who credit Dan with having helped them to see things in new ways that have contributed to their growth and success.
温泽夫人曾说：“丹尼来过这里后，我现在感觉好多了。”这是因为丹通过提问帮助她梳理了困扰自己心头的问题，并获得了新的视角。50多年后的今天，像畅销书作家大卫·巴赫（David Bach）和杰克·坎菲尔德（Jack Canfield）等人士，以及成千上万来自超过60个不同行业的成功企业家们，都称赞丹以全新的方式帮助他们看待事物，从而为他们的成长和成功做出了贡献。
One of Dan’s unique talents is to be able to take broad swaths of universal wisdom and reduce them to simple, practical tools that allow people to apply these principles in their everyday lives. The laws of lifetime growth are the result of Dan’s taking his observations about the growth experiences of thousands of entrepreneurs and others, seeing what worked and didn’t work in all those situations, and distilling them into a set of ten simple laws that can be followed by anyone.
丹的一项独特才能在于，他能够将广泛存在的普遍智慧提炼成简洁实用的工具，让人们在日常生活中运用这些原则。终身成长法则便是丹基于对数千名企业家和其他人的成长经历观察而得出的结果，他审视了所有情况下的有效与无效做法，并将它们精炼成一套任何人都可以遵循的十个简单法则。
When I met Dan and his business and life partner, Babs Smith, seven years ago, it was our combined passion for growth and the desire to free people to make their best contributions in the world that brought us together. I had spent many years focused on how the poorest of the poor could take more control over the forces and direction of their own growth and had arrived at the belief that entrepreneurial thinking and activity offered the best opportunities. Dan’s ideas stunned me with their simplicity and effectiveness.
七年前，当我遇见丹和他的商业及生活伙伴芭布·史密斯（Babs Smith）时，正是我们共同对成长的热情，以及渴望释放人们的潜能，让他们在这个世界上做出最佳贡献的愿望，使我们走到了一起。在此之前，我已经花费了很多年的时间专注于研究如何让最贫困的人群更好地掌控自身成长的力量和方向，并坚信创业思维和行动提供了最佳的机会。丹的理念以其简洁性和有效性令我深感震撼。
As I’ve worked with Babs and Dan to capture and shape growth opportunities for The Strategic Coach, they have always allowed me to conduct my own “rogue experiments,” testing certain tools and concepts Dan has created to see if they prove to be as powerful and applicable for audiences outside our program. In writing this book with him, I found it a pleasure to be able to extend his ideas beyond the realm of successful entrepreneurs and to show how they apply equally well to people from many different backgrounds and circumstances.
在我与芭布和丹合作，为“策略教练”捕捉并塑造成长机会的过程中，他们始终允许我进行自己的“独立实验”，测试丹创造的某些工具和概念，以验证它们是否同样强大且适用于我们项目之外的受众群体。在与他合著这本书时，我感到非常愉快，因为我能够将他的理念扩展到成功企业家领域之外，展示它们如何同样适用于来自各种不同背景和境况的人们。
In fact, anyone can use the wisdom in this book at any stage in life. Look anywhere, in any culture, in any situation, at people of any age, and you’ll see that where there is growth, these laws are in action.
事实上，任何人在生活的任何阶段都可以运用本书中的智慧。无论你在哪里观察，无论是何种文化背景，何种情境下，不论年龄大小，你会发现只要有成长发生，这些法则就在发挥作用。
We’re very happy to be able to present them to you in this brief, accessible format. And we wish you continued courage and imagination as you pursue your own lifetime growth adventure.
我们非常高兴能以这种简明易懂的形式将它们呈现给您。同时，祝愿您在追求自己终身成长的旅程中始终保持勇气和想象力。
凯瑟琳·诺穆拉（Catherine Nomura）
