2014

My company is closing office since Dec. 22nd for two weeks. Because most of employees are Japanese, this time is for us to go back to Japan to spend time with family and friends although I have been having a lot of fun in the US. New Year has a special meaning in our culture as well as celebrating a new calender. We usually set a new goal, habit, promise in this season by wishing it will be a great one for other people.


In these years, I, too, have been revising my mission and re-setting my goals. This is what I do in my birth month, Jun, so I'm sort of luck because I have an opportunity to objectively see myself once in a half year.  So as I did in 6-month ago, I set some goals and action plans to accomplish them eve though I still need to work on it a little bit more to make it more concrete. Categories are Lighthouse (Current employer), Own future (Focusing on my business in the future), and Private (Including family, study, exercise, and girls;)

Lighthouse

• Become the most profitable sales rep by July: I need more breakdowns to define what the most profitable mean as well as solid action plans.
• Have higher perspectives as a leader/management for more profitable team: "What your action/decision would be if you were a leader?" is going to be a continuous question for myself. Also always try to find how I can contribute/help other reps.

Own future

• Meet a millionaire/month: Meeting new people is how I through myself up to higher level. Be careful if they are real successful guys or just money lovers. I would probably write letters every single weekend to make it happen.
• Attend a green business network event/month: So again, people are the biggest key. I need to think how I can contribute to people there as well as to gain things from them. 

Private

• Family: Talk to them over Skype once a week
• Study: Practice my Chinese at least once a day with my Chinese coworker. 
•           Also, read a book/month. How to books trim and cut your character. I will read more novels, biography, and articles.
• Sub 3.5: I will run LA marathon in this March. Goal for this is sub 3:30 with the best smile in the World. BTW, it would be a first time for me to try 26 miles running.

Let's imagine that Chuji has accomplished all goals above in 2013... Oh it's exciting. I will have more successful career, experiences, money, knowledge, healthier body, more networks... I already can't wait to set my goals for 2014.


What is your goals and action plans for coming year?


I now have to add one more thing in my 2013 here.
"All the best for people around me and very happy new year"


Go for it!! Chuji,

Dream the dream

Meeting people is the most efficient way for me to get close to my ideal future. Although academic/professional careers are very powerful for us to crime up our society, I still believe that networking is the biggest part. Meeting people is not only a functional way, but also chemistry is always between us in both good way and the other. So I think people you meet to get initiated don't have to be in the same field with yours as long as they are outstanding.


The last Friday, I invited a guy to lunch in Orange County, CA. He is the eldest American Mt.Everest climber, Bill Burke. I have visited him twice when I was UC Irvine student, and we finally had a chance to catch up after three years and bit. During the three years, he has tried to reach the summit again every year, and I accomplished the Silk Road journey about which I go different advises from him and I also graduate from my business school.


He started high altitude mountaineering after reaching age 60 and have now climbed the highest mountain on every continent. He summited Mt. Everest on May 23, 2009, becoming the oldest American to reach the summit and return alive. He was 67 at the time. He is the only person to climb the highest mountain on every continent, including the Carstensz Pyramid in West Papua, New Guinea, after reaching age 60.


Speaking with him not only motivates me, but also he initiates me different things. 'I started climbing at 60 years old. There are millions of reason if I want to give it up. Just don't give up' 'Mental strength is more important than physical strength so you can make a right decision at every second.' I also told him how I survived my Silk Road trip, but most of the time my parts was about what I want to do in the future. Although I haven't told many people about the plan yet, I told him a little details of it at the table.


'Dream the dream Chuji. You did what you would accomplish in the Silk Road project. You can do it' This is the words he emailed me today. Dream the dream... I like that.

Life in Transition

I came back from my vacation in Hawaii in the last week. Spending times with my close friends there, relaxing in the tropical island, and surfing at the mecca and origin of surf, I was so refreshed to start moving my dreams ahead!! Also today, I made a monthly goal for December, 2012 by both looking back the past eleven months and looking ahead of coming twelve months in the next yaer.


As I have been having a lot of transitions in my life at this point such as studying over sea, the Silk Road travel, and visiting successful people in the world, I had one of the biggest transitions in my life in this year too. Yes, I finally started working from July in this year, so my career had a first transition. Also, I moved to LA from New Hampshire at the same time for my job. That was a big change for me too. Another transition I have been trying to make is from text book to the real world. I got maybe too much information and knowledge before experiencing the real business world, and it's very challenging for me to implement what I know, so I sometime struggle to offset the gap between the knowledge and my skills. These are the transition I had (am having) in the passed eleven months in this year.


Next year will also have different transitions in my life as long as I would be acting on my plan. In the middle of the year, I will be the top sales rep at my company. I also will have a working visa in the late 2013, this means that I will be able to have a long term plan for my success in the US. I still have so many different kinds of transitions in planning, but I would publish them once I got ready to do so.


Oh yea I have so many plans and dreams for my future, but I think I have been successfully reducing the number of dreams so I can more focus my time and energy on fewer things which maximize my possibility.


Focus, sharpen, and continue...
I think I'm getting close to 'focus' things I do in my life.
I will write more details in the next article!!


Folks, let's shot some tequila so we can start a great week!!


Go for it!! Chuji,