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English to Spanish: The Law of Success General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Printing & Publishing
Source text - English A definite chief aim will teach you how to save the wasted effort which the majority of people expend in trying to find their lifework. This lesson will show you how to do away forever with aimlessness and fix your heart and hand upon some definite, well-conceived purpose as a lifework.
Accurate thinking is one of the important foundation stones of all enduring success. This lesson teaches you how to separate “facts” from mere “information.” It teaches you how to organize known facts into two classes: the “important” and the “unimportant.” It teaches you how to determine what is an “important” fact. It teaches you how to build definite working plans, in the pursuit of any calling, out of facts.
Translation - Spanish Una meta principal definitiva te enseñará cómo ahorrarte el esfuerzo que la mayoría de las personas gastan al intentar hallar su llamado en la vida. Esta lección te mostrará cómo deshacerte de una vez por todas de la falta de propósito y le dará dirección a tus manos y a tu corazón, fijándolos sobre un propósito definitivo y bien concebido para la obra de tu vida.
El pensamiento certero es una de las bases fundamentales de todo éxito duradero. Esta lección te enseñará cómo separar los «hechos» de la mera «información». Te enseñará cómo organizar los hechos conocidos en dos clases: los «importantes» y los «no importantes». También te mostrará cómo determinar si cierto hecho es «importante». Esto te enseñará cómo construir planes de trabajo definitivos, construidos a base de hechos, en cualquier vocación.
Spanish to English: Atrévete a ser Bárbara General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Printing & Publishing
Source text - Spanish Bárbaramente disciplinada
Integralmente bella
Gané varios certámenes de belleza, tres en total. Representé a mi país Venezuela por el mundo y, al ser latina, representé con gran orgullo a todos los latinos. Lo más anecdótico de esto es que nunca quise ser parte de estos concursos, ni nada parecido, como lo revelé en otro capítulo. Esta es la parte más divertida de la historia; siempre estuve en contra de los certámenes de belleza, por considerar que no representan la verdadera belleza de un ser humano, en este caso el de la mujer. Pero Dios tiene un plan con cada ser humano, no solo con algunos en especial; con todos tiene un plan. Después de negarme por más de cinco años a participar en Miss Venezuela, finalmente lo hice motivada por el presidente de la compañía de publicidad con la cual trabajaba en esos años. Ya para aquel entonces, era una profesional de publicidad, en el año 1986, y mi jefe me dijo que sería una experiencia importante para mi profesión y que lo viera como si creara un «producto» en mí misma y así promocionar las cosas en las que yo creía y en las que sigo creyendo hasta el día de hoy: en la belleza integral.
¿Qué es realmente la belleza integral?
Para mí, siempre ha sido el complemento perfecto entre el cuerpo, la mente, el alma y el espíritu, es decir, ser «bella por dentro» más que por fuera. Como puedes ver, menciono la mente, el espíritu y el alma, porque el cuerpo es solo una cuarta parte. Las otras tres partes son más relevantes y, por lo tanto, su importancia es mayor.
Una de mis grandes banderas, en Panamá 1986 para Miss Universo, fue proyectar la fuerza de mi corazón y demostrarle al mundo que lo que realmente vale es la belleza que llevamos dentro, la cual, definitivamente, con la bendición de Dios, será siempre más grande, más intensa y real. Mi corazón fue el que me impulsó a tener la voluntad de lograr una meta, un objetivo. Muchas personas podrían pensar que para mí resulta fácil defender la belleza interna, habiéndome convertido en Miss Universo. Las personas, por lo general, comentan que quienes lucen un físico agraciado pueden sentirse con más ventaja que quienes no lo tienen. No obstante, debo decirles, con experiencia y autoridad, que la belleza física por sí sola no genera los beneficios en los que muchos creen de forma equivocada.
Translation - English Extraordinarily Disciplined
Wholly beautiful
I won several beauty contests, three in total. I represented my country Venezuela to the world and, being Latin, I represented all Latinos with great pride. The curious thing about this is, I never wanted to be part of these contests, or anything like them, as I revealed in another chapter. This is the funniest part of the story; I was always against beauty pageants, thinking that they do not represent the true beauty of a human being, in this case that of women. But God has a plan for every human being, not only for some people in particular; He has a plan for everyone. After refusing for more than five years to participate in Miss Venezuela, I finally did it, motivated by the president of the advertising company I worked with in those years. I was already an advertising professional in 1986, and my boss told me that it would be an important experience for my career and that I should see it as if I was creating a “product” of myself so that I would be able to promote the things I believed in and which I still believe in to this day: holistic beauty.
What really is holistic beauty?
For me, it has always been the perfect complement between body, mind, soul and spirit, that is, being "beautiful on the inside" more than the outside. As you can see, I mention the mind, spirit and soul, because the body is only one quarter. The other three parts are more relevant, and therefore, their importance is greater.
One of my main purposes in Panama 1986 for Miss Universe, was to project the strength of my heart and show the world that what really counts is the beauty that we carry inside, which, definitely, with God's blessing, will always be bigger, more intense and more real. It was my heart that prompted me to have the will to achieve a goal, an objective. Many people might think that it is easy for me to defend inner beauty, having become Miss Universe. People usually say that those who have an attractive physique may feel like they have a greater advantage than those who do not. Nevertheless, I must tell you with experience and authority that physical beauty alone does not bring the benefits that many mistakenly believe it does.
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Born in Venezuela, I grew up speaking English at home and Spanish in public.
I was trained by the Summer Institute of Linguistics to be a Bible translator, and fulfilled that dream on a project for the Pemón language of Venezuela.
Since returning to the U.S., I've been involved in three Spanish publishing environments, two of them bilingual and one Spanish only. My most recent experience was as the main editor at a book-of-the-month bilingual publishing house, where our products were mostly self-help and motivational books.
I have also had another career in database programming. I was able to use those skills to write macros in Microsoft Word that I use to speed up my editing tasks. I also created a database in FileMaker to manage the department's projects at my last workplace.
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