——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.

經(jīng)常有人問我: 做自己喜歡的事情，你是怎么開始的？你的職業(yè)正是你所愛的，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:

我并沒有這些問題的答案，但是對我來說，答案一直很簡單：

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.

人們希望得到更全面的答案，但是我的經(jīng)歷告訴我：如果你學會做好一件事，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.

我只寫簡單樸素。寫了4年半的Zen Habits，剔除一切雜念，專注于簡單讓我看到了成功。我刪除了評論，不參與社交媒體（除了覺得好玩），很少收發(fā)郵件，不登廣告，不做咨詢。我只專注于簡單。

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.

反復做這一件事，我越來越嫻熟。文筆也越來越好，人們愿意讀我的文章。讀者越來越多，我有機會以此為生。比起套現(xiàn)（出版圖書，電子書，網(wǎng)上課程），讀者的增加更重要。

Do one thing well.

做好這一件事。

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.

就是這么簡單。限定你要做的事，反復的做。學習，成長，改進，讀，看，多做。當你在某一行成為專家時，人們就愿意解囊了，來學習你是怎樣做到的。

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，需要專注和反復練習。不過我發(fā)現(xiàn)如果你真的愛那一行，那就是小菜一碟。為所愛的事情費心，我從來不會抱怨。