长安公证处地址:做你所爱的一件事，做到最好

——Leo Babauta

I’m often asked how you can start doing work you love — how you can make a living doing something you’re passionate about.

经常有人问我: 做自己喜欢的事情，你是怎么开始的？你的职业正是你所爱的，你是怎么做到的？

I don’t profess to have all the answers, but the answer for me has been fairly simple:

我并没有这些问题的答案，但是对我来说，答案一直很简单：

Do one thing really well.

做好一件事。

People want a more comprehensive answer than that, but in my experience, if you learn to do this, the rest will follow.

人们希望得到更全面的答案，但是我的经历告诉我：如果你学会做好一件事，其他也一通百通。

I write about simplicity. That’s all I do. Over the last 4 1/2 years of writing Zen Habits I’ve found success by focusing on that alone, and stripping away everything else that gets in the way. I’ve removed comments, I don’t do much social media (except for fun), I don’t do much email, I don’t sell ads, I don’t do consulting. I write about simplicity.

我只写简单朴素。写了4年半的Zen Habits，剔除一切杂念，专注于简单让我看到了成功。我删除了评论，不参与社交媒体（除了觉得好玩），很少收发邮件，不登广告，不做咨询。我只专注于简单。

By doing this one thing over and over, I’ve gotten much better at it. Good enough, anyway, for people to want to read my work, and as the audience for my work has grown, so have the opportunities to make a living in a non-spammy way. The ways I monetize (print books, ebooks, online courses) are less important than how I’ve grown the audience.

反复做这一件事，我越来越娴熟。文笔也越来越好，人们愿意读我的文章。读者越来越多，我有机会以此为生。比起套现（出版图书，电子书，网上课程），读者的增加更重要。

Do one thing well.

做好这一件事。

It’s really that simple. Narrow down what you do, and do it repeatedly. Learn, grow, improve, read, watch, do it some more. When you’re really good at that one thing, people will want to pay you for it, or to learn how you do it.

就是这么简单。限定你要做的事，反复的做。学习，成长，改进，读，看，多做。当你在某一行成为专家时，人们就愿意解囊了，来学习你是怎样做到的。

It takes a lot of focus and practice to get good at doing one thing, but I’ve found that if you truly love it, it’s not really work. It’s play. And I never complain about playing at something I love.

做好一件事，需要专注和反复练习。不过我发现如果你真的爱那一行，那就是小菜一碟。为所爱的事情费心，我从来不会抱怨。