My mom and our family friends are going to visit me in a couple of weeks. My family and the family who are coming with my mom have been close more than 20 years. We have been talking over LINE about what to do and where to go. As Japanese people always are, their main interest is shopping and shopping. It must be so stressful to deal with their interest, but yes, please spend more money in the US economy!! Also, whenever I drive around my neighborhood in my sales job, I tend to be like "what about this place for them to visit?", "they might like this restaurant!!". It's always fun to imagine how I can surprise her. Because I have been over sea these years such as America, the Silk Road, and Africa, I don't know how people who have not so much traveled around would feel about where I live and what to see. For example, one my favorite food, Mexican food should be super saggy, and American people are so noisy when they speak...
But anyhow, I am eager to please them while they are in LA. I am going to introduce them not only typical sightseeing spots, but also my close friends, company, and where I used to study. I am already proud of that I am surviving in a different country by myself. I am sure that my mom would be impressed not only by LA's weather, but also how I live out every single day in this community. In the super near future, I have a plan to buy them houses, cars, and golf courses, but for now, what I can do is to show them people around me.
"I am now glad that I let him leave us. He is doing great by himself. I want to visit him again as soon as I can maybe to see my grandchild" That's how she would be feeling on her way back to Japan.
Go for it!! Chuji,
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Sunday, January 27, 2013
How will history see me?
"How will history see me?"... The title of the Economist published a week ago caught my eyes when I was reading several articles in this weekend. This article is writing about how/what President Obama should work on in his second presidential term, but the contents in this article is not my object. Yes, politic is very important, but there are millions of other ways for us to change our society such as business, sharing information in SNSs, and individual volunteer activity for your local community. We are not passive any more to create and run our life. We have power, right, and obligation to engage with our life.
So, I think the title, "How will history see me?", is very good to have as my perspective in my days. I have no complain of my life so far, but I think I have tended to have a short-term perspective in these days because my job makes me keep running everyday. This saying helps me to hold my eyes up so I can have bigger perspective in every moment.
When I have things I have to finish in a minuet, when I faced a problem that I need to work on right way, when I was running late to arrive at my appointment, when I have an opportunity to gain a short-term benefit, this is the moment to ask myself "How will history see me?". I came to this country not only for financial/individual success, but I also will change and impact the world. This contribution will be as worthy as winning a novel prose or becoming on an US bill's face.
Don't fawn for pennies... How you make you day is less important than how I can bring happiness for people in coming generations. I would like to write "How will history see me?" on a piece of paper and attach on my laptop.
Go for it!! Chuji,
So, I think the title, "How will history see me?", is very good to have as my perspective in my days. I have no complain of my life so far, but I think I have tended to have a short-term perspective in these days because my job makes me keep running everyday. This saying helps me to hold my eyes up so I can have bigger perspective in every moment.
When I have things I have to finish in a minuet, when I faced a problem that I need to work on right way, when I was running late to arrive at my appointment, when I have an opportunity to gain a short-term benefit, this is the moment to ask myself "How will history see me?". I came to this country not only for financial/individual success, but I also will change and impact the world. This contribution will be as worthy as winning a novel prose or becoming on an US bill's face.
Don't fawn for pennies... How you make you day is less important than how I can bring happiness for people in coming generations. I would like to write "How will history see me?" on a piece of paper and attach on my laptop.
Go for it!! Chuji,
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Be Chuji,
What part of your job do you like?
I was a bad boy and always a trouble maker in class when I was a kid because it was super tough for me to keep listening to my teacher or keep focusing on one thing during class. Instead, I was always confident that I was speaking in class more than my teacher did. Whenever my teacher started trying teach me, I closed my ears, and there were a lot of BSs in my brain instead of new learning. So, yes I like my sales job because I have to always be around to visit clients in the entire Southern California. Also, I like to meet new people not only for my business, but also I love to know their thoughts, vision, and personality. In my job, I am so lucky because people I meet are pretty diverse. They are sometime new entrepreneur, doctor, manager at a huge company, and experienced chef.
In the last week, I was visiting a sales manager at a mega company. He, wearing a nice suit and Ferragamo, is very smart and creative. We were talking about how my company and I are able to leverage their business in this local area instead of international wide that they have been successful in this 30 years. The meeting went well, and I believe he was satisfied with what I was trying to offer. At the very end of meeting, a little passed 6pm, Friday, I asked him "I would like to be a successful sales guy like you. I just started my career after my master program half year ago. I would appreciate any advice you give to me. What do you think I need to do such as habits to install in my days, people to meet, and book to read maybe?"
And he said, "Chuji, there is no advice I can give to you. You already have it, so keep going. I receive millions of calls from sales people everyday, but I decided to set a time with you because you always try to listen to me instead of introducing how much your product will bring profit to me. Your skill might not be enough yet, but don't listen to other people so much because the most important thing is keep being Chuji. You have to open ears always, but it doesn't mean you have to follow their direction. Don't forget things only you can do. This is reason people buy from you. Also, my Ferragamo shoes are just ornament, so you don't have to follow my outfit either.
"Be Chuji..." This is what I was thinking when I was driving back to home in the night. Yes, I think I agree with him. There are always values that only I can create. I hope there will be more and more values on Chuji in the future. By continuous efforts in my job, I want to create Chuji values in my business to impact the world. So, what is the things only you can make?
Go for it!! Chuji,
I was a bad boy and always a trouble maker in class when I was a kid because it was super tough for me to keep listening to my teacher or keep focusing on one thing during class. Instead, I was always confident that I was speaking in class more than my teacher did. Whenever my teacher started trying teach me, I closed my ears, and there were a lot of BSs in my brain instead of new learning. So, yes I like my sales job because I have to always be around to visit clients in the entire Southern California. Also, I like to meet new people not only for my business, but also I love to know their thoughts, vision, and personality. In my job, I am so lucky because people I meet are pretty diverse. They are sometime new entrepreneur, doctor, manager at a huge company, and experienced chef.
In the last week, I was visiting a sales manager at a mega company. He, wearing a nice suit and Ferragamo, is very smart and creative. We were talking about how my company and I are able to leverage their business in this local area instead of international wide that they have been successful in this 30 years. The meeting went well, and I believe he was satisfied with what I was trying to offer. At the very end of meeting, a little passed 6pm, Friday, I asked him "I would like to be a successful sales guy like you. I just started my career after my master program half year ago. I would appreciate any advice you give to me. What do you think I need to do such as habits to install in my days, people to meet, and book to read maybe?"
And he said, "Chuji, there is no advice I can give to you. You already have it, so keep going. I receive millions of calls from sales people everyday, but I decided to set a time with you because you always try to listen to me instead of introducing how much your product will bring profit to me. Your skill might not be enough yet, but don't listen to other people so much because the most important thing is keep being Chuji. You have to open ears always, but it doesn't mean you have to follow their direction. Don't forget things only you can do. This is reason people buy from you. Also, my Ferragamo shoes are just ornament, so you don't have to follow my outfit either.
"Be Chuji..." This is what I was thinking when I was driving back to home in the night. Yes, I think I agree with him. There are always values that only I can create. I hope there will be more and more values on Chuji in the future. By continuous efforts in my job, I want to create Chuji values in my business to impact the world. So, what is the things only you can make?
Go for it!! Chuji,
Saturday, December 29, 2012
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
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,
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.
- 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.
- 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,
Monday, December 10, 2012
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.
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.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
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,
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,
Monday, November 12, 2012
Continue
I haven't uploaded my blog for a while... No big changes, but I was busy to work on my stuff in the past weekends. Oh but I attended a couple of seminars spoken by millionaires, and I got some big learning that seems like changing my life!!
"Take a millionaire to lunch" is the phrase he taught me. What it implies is that lunch is the easiest way to have a table with everyone because everyone takes time to eat, and people are not so conservative to schedule their lunch compared to the other meals. People who you are with strongly influence on yourself in both good and bad way, and so you can expect a lot of strong & positive influence by picking different aspects, such as knowledge, experiences, philosophy, and so on, of successful people called millionaires. "That's what I have been doing." I was kinda disappointed to hear the secret because I'm already doing this since my college life, but I re-thought there are still much more successful people I haven't met yet, and the speaker, a millionaire, is one too. Right after the seminar, I got out of the room as he did so I can catch him. "You said we have to take a millionaire to lunch, and now I would like to have lunch with you tomorrow. Please spare even 15 mins of yours so I can through myself up to your level. Please!!"
"Sure Chuji." So I went to a cafe in the next morning because he already had an appointment for his lunch. There were not only him, but also 8 millionaires were at the same table with him and me. Yes I got 8 millionaires at one stop, and who becomes quiet in such a gifted opportunity? I gave up eating break fast, sweet waffles, and instead I opened my note book to take as much initiations I could acquire from them as I could on it.
"Chuji, things are so complicating, so you have to break them down so that you can only focus on things you can control. Results can not be made only by you because 50% of deal is in your client's hands, but you can focus on your actions rather than result. So make a tough but achievable action plan that overcomes the amount of others and just continue this. Only 5% of people can take an action and continue."
This is a summary of what I got from one millionaire.
Oh what a wonderful world I live in. People always initiate me toward a better way. So it looks like my new action plan is working well, and now I'm waiting for any results come out.
And what do I do next?
Continue!!!
Go for it!! Chuji,
"Take a millionaire to lunch" is the phrase he taught me. What it implies is that lunch is the easiest way to have a table with everyone because everyone takes time to eat, and people are not so conservative to schedule their lunch compared to the other meals. People who you are with strongly influence on yourself in both good and bad way, and so you can expect a lot of strong & positive influence by picking different aspects, such as knowledge, experiences, philosophy, and so on, of successful people called millionaires. "That's what I have been doing." I was kinda disappointed to hear the secret because I'm already doing this since my college life, but I re-thought there are still much more successful people I haven't met yet, and the speaker, a millionaire, is one too. Right after the seminar, I got out of the room as he did so I can catch him. "You said we have to take a millionaire to lunch, and now I would like to have lunch with you tomorrow. Please spare even 15 mins of yours so I can through myself up to your level. Please!!"
"Sure Chuji." So I went to a cafe in the next morning because he already had an appointment for his lunch. There were not only him, but also 8 millionaires were at the same table with him and me. Yes I got 8 millionaires at one stop, and who becomes quiet in such a gifted opportunity? I gave up eating break fast, sweet waffles, and instead I opened my note book to take as much initiations I could acquire from them as I could on it.
"Chuji, things are so complicating, so you have to break them down so that you can only focus on things you can control. Results can not be made only by you because 50% of deal is in your client's hands, but you can focus on your actions rather than result. So make a tough but achievable action plan that overcomes the amount of others and just continue this. Only 5% of people can take an action and continue."
This is a summary of what I got from one millionaire.
Oh what a wonderful world I live in. People always initiate me toward a better way. So it looks like my new action plan is working well, and now I'm waiting for any results come out.
And what do I do next?
Continue!!!
Go for it!! Chuji,
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