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How many times have you heard the expression that most people spend more time planning their vacation than they do planning their lives. I would expand that expression by adding that most people spend more time "thinking" about their vacation than they do thinking about what's important in their life.

While rest and relaxation are a must in living a balanced life, it's now what we were created to do. After all, the Master Creator took his R&R (Rest and Recreation) on the seventh day, only after six days of "definitely directed thought."

Wallace D. Wattles, wrote "There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and continuous thought; it is the hardest work in the world." And yet it is the first and primary labor of achievement.

What is your life's purpose or your personal mission statement? Is it written down? Do you review it and think about it often? Is your life organized around your purpose and a set of goals that support that purpose?

Without purpose and goals --- definitely directed thought --- you are like the proverbial "shop without a rudder(舵)." There is power in your purpose and in your goals. It is the power that takes you over obstacles, the fuel that pushes you toward the life you expect.

【寫作內(nèi)容】

1. 用約30個單詞寫出上文概要；

2. 用約120詞發(fā)表你的觀點，內(nèi)容包括：

（1） 你如何規(guī)劃中學以后的人生？為什么？

（2） 為了實現(xiàn)你的目標，你將如何行動？

【寫作要求】

1. 寫作過程中不能直接引用原文句子；

2. 作文中不能狐仙真是姓名和學校名稱；

3. 不必寫標題

【評分標準】

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