Some CDs arrived in the last week. I purchased audio books so I can listen to them while I'm driving. One day I was calculating how much time I spend in my car because I have to efficiently use this time especially while I'm working such as making calls. Average time I spend in my car to drive is around an hour a day which mean I am going to spend 365 hours a year. I also broke down this time into different situations. 3 hour MBA class can be 122 classes, an hour business meeting can be 365 meeting, 30 mins of phone call to family and friends can be 730 phone calls, and listening pop music by getting frustrated by traffic jam can be zero.
Seven Habits, Think and Grow Rich, and How to Win Friends and Influence People are the audio CDs I purchased this time. I am going to continuously listen to those books in this year because I think those authors are saying universal facts for success and happy life. Also, I installed a book in my kindle tablet so I can utilize my time for reading like when I'm waiting for my food at restaurant and so on.
Time is money and opportunity to grow another money in the future.
So the first quarter of this year is over. This coming quarter is the time when I became the top sales at my company. There is even no second to waist my time by just driving, complaining things I can't control. I hope these audio books maximize my performance.
And I hope those who read this blog have a nice start in the second quarter!!
Go for it!! Chuji,
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Sunday, March 24, 2013
My Goal
Experience LA marathon a week ago, I would say that now I'm hooked on running... Although I didn't run in this weekend for my legs to get recover from the 26 miles running in the passed weekend, I'm already started planning OC and Longbeach marathon. Many folks know the west coast is a good surfing spot, but I found here has so many running events. I hope my knees won't break before beating all of them.
Biggest reason that I don't quit running now is I couldn't achieve my goal for LA marathon. The time was not only enough to meet my goal, but it also so disappointed me. I can't just quit running now because I always do what I said I would do. Goal is for me to achieve instead of just to set. I set a difficult but achievable goal, break down processes, and implement it day by day. So now because I am disappointed by how I ran, I made new break downs and plans to achieve it at least in Long beach marathon in October.
Set a goal in order to achieve is always not easy although just setting goal takes just one second. Last week, one of my mentors in Manhattan emailed me an interesting presentation slides to me. This slides was spoke by the founder of Linkedin, Reid Hoffman. http://www.businessinsider.com/career-advice-from-linkedins-founder-2013-3#-8 in this presentation, he mainly says that you are an entrepreneur in your own career no matter what field you are in.
So many things are waiting for me on my to-do-list.
I can't wait for Monday to come!!
Go for it!! Chuji,
Biggest reason that I don't quit running now is I couldn't achieve my goal for LA marathon. The time was not only enough to meet my goal, but it also so disappointed me. I can't just quit running now because I always do what I said I would do. Goal is for me to achieve instead of just to set. I set a difficult but achievable goal, break down processes, and implement it day by day. So now because I am disappointed by how I ran, I made new break downs and plans to achieve it at least in Long beach marathon in October.
Set a goal in order to achieve is always not easy although just setting goal takes just one second. Last week, one of my mentors in Manhattan emailed me an interesting presentation slides to me. This slides was spoke by the founder of Linkedin, Reid Hoffman. http://www.businessinsider.com/career-advice-from-linkedins-founder-2013-3#-8 in this presentation, he mainly says that you are an entrepreneur in your own career no matter what field you are in.
- Figure out and improve your competitive advantage and maximize this ability in a niche field
- Your aspiration, your assets (knowledge, skills, and capital if needed), and market movement work at the same time for success
- You never complete your goal. You have to continuously learn and set plans to fill out those gaps
- Network matters. The people you spend time with shape the person you are today and the person you aspire to be tomorrow.
- Risk is many times smaller than you think
So many things are waiting for me on my to-do-list.
I can't wait for Monday to come!!
Go for it!! Chuji,
Saturday, March 16, 2013
In your mind
I have been having busy days to work. Different job things are in an out my brain 24/7, but it's always fun to beat difficult stuff. In my job, it's also fun to see new people. I think in average I meet 2 or 3 new people to get to know each other, and most of them are business owners.
I listed, as one of my goals at the beginning of this year, that I meet one millionaire per month so that I can be like them in my future. Again, this is how I get close to my dream. So this month, I met an Indian food restaurant owner. Addi's Tandoor is the most delicious Indian restaurant in South Bay, and I could hear the owner's story because he is one of my clients.
He was a business owner in India until he was 25 years old. Because of a lot of business troubles, he went to bankrupt although his business was quit profitable. His friend in the US prepared a visa for him so he can move out of his country. He rent $100 from his sister in India. He transferred his plane at Narita, Tokyo, but he had to stay one night there because of bad weather in Tokyo. Because he had to spend some money in Tokyo, he had only $12 when he arrived Los Angeles.
Since then, he worked 24/7 at different restaurants for three years by saving pennies day by day. After that he finally started his own restaurant again. Because he already knew how to run and manage restaurant business, it's understandable that now many people open doors at his restaurant to enjoy authentic Indian foods. Now he drives 2013 Mercedes, and often travels the World.
"Chuji, you have to focus on one thing. Because you can not control most of things, so many things come into your road as obstacles. But you always shouldn't forget what you want to do. What you want to do is always in your mind instead of other people or economy"
Focus on one thing, and keep making efforts.
It's easy, but tough to continue. I want to do that. I want to achieve it. Yes I can do it!!
Go for it!! Chuji,
I listed, as one of my goals at the beginning of this year, that I meet one millionaire per month so that I can be like them in my future. Again, this is how I get close to my dream. So this month, I met an Indian food restaurant owner. Addi's Tandoor is the most delicious Indian restaurant in South Bay, and I could hear the owner's story because he is one of my clients.
He was a business owner in India until he was 25 years old. Because of a lot of business troubles, he went to bankrupt although his business was quit profitable. His friend in the US prepared a visa for him so he can move out of his country. He rent $100 from his sister in India. He transferred his plane at Narita, Tokyo, but he had to stay one night there because of bad weather in Tokyo. Because he had to spend some money in Tokyo, he had only $12 when he arrived Los Angeles.
Since then, he worked 24/7 at different restaurants for three years by saving pennies day by day. After that he finally started his own restaurant again. Because he already knew how to run and manage restaurant business, it's understandable that now many people open doors at his restaurant to enjoy authentic Indian foods. Now he drives 2013 Mercedes, and often travels the World.
"Chuji, you have to focus on one thing. Because you can not control most of things, so many things come into your road as obstacles. But you always shouldn't forget what you want to do. What you want to do is always in your mind instead of other people or economy"
Focus on one thing, and keep making efforts.
It's easy, but tough to continue. I want to do that. I want to achieve it. Yes I can do it!!
Go for it!! Chuji,
Sunday, March 3, 2013
It would be wonderful.
I had busy weeks these days. My mom, my old friend, and his family were visiting me from Japan for a week. I took them as many fantastic places in LA as I could while they were here, and I also showed them the places like where I work and where I used to study. Because they have never been in LA, it was interesting to see things which got their interest such as people, car, and weather. Also, it's impossible for me to satisfy the shopping monsters from Japan...
Anyway, it's always hard for people, who live far from their families like me, to spend time together with family. I usually don't get home-sick at all even though I am the only one in the US from my family members, but I saw that my mom was like on the top of the World to be with her son. She was always with me especially when I was playing baseball. That was a huge part of her life. Whenever I go ground, she follows me. Whenever I go run, she follows me. After playing baseball, she laundries my stuff and massages me. I didn't feel anything special for her who gives me such attentions, but now I started realizing that I am still the huge part of her life and I left her.
I am sure that she was expecting me to live close to her at least in Japan, but I have even left my country, and we only meet once a year compared to 365 days a year. When I saw her tears when we said Good bye, I was feeling a little sorry for her to be selfish...Now she has to wait for me a half more year...
In Japanese tradition, kids, especially son, tend to live with its parents. Although we have been modernizing our living style, many of my friends are trying to live close to their parents. But I believe the place to live is not only way to repay for parents. I have been taking so much risks to live over sea only by myself compared to others in Japan, and I have been living out every single day. I will get American dreams and contribute to societies through business. By maximizing this contribution, I will be also financially successful so I can have places for my parents and families to live. Also I will have my own family in this country and show them to my family once in a while. Also I will get public honors in the near future, and my family get to know how I'm shaking the world through TV and news paper. That's how I would like to repay for them.
Again, I left my family, but there are still millions of opportunities for me to devote to my parents.
I will do it. I also hope my kids in the future will find this writing, and they know how I started living in this country. What wonderful it would be!!
Go for it, Chuji
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