Every New Year many of us resolve to make changes in our lives, to set new and important goals. We’re inspired by that annual turn of the calendar to wipe the slate clean and to write new scenarios for our lives. It’s a logical time for new beginnings, new hopes, and new directions in our lives.

But if you’ve ever made New Year’s resolutions — and I suspect you have — you know how difficult it is to keep them. We begin the month of January with our best intentions supported by genuine enthusiasm and optimism. Read the rest of this entry »

Some years ago I took on an assignment in a southern county to work with people on public welfare. What I wanted to do was show that everybody has the capacity to be self-sufficient, and all we have to do is to activate them. I asked the county to pick a group of people who were on public welfare, people from different racial groups and different family constellations. I would then see them as a group for three hours every Friday. I also asked for a little petty cash to work with as I needed it.

The first thing I said after I shook hands with everybody was, “I would like to know what your dreams are.” Everyone looked at me as if I were kind of wacky.

“Dreams? We don’t have dreams.” I said, “Well, when you were a kid what happened? Wasn’t there something you wanted to do?” Read the rest of this entry »

Once upon a time, there is a young man with his father who lost in the jungle. They were so Tired. That young man almost giving up.

His father is a Zen’s student. He put out five coins. Then, he plant one coin under the grass and give the four other coins to his son. His father said, “My son, our life is the same with own this five coins, which symbolizing Child time, adolescent, adult, old and older time. Read the rest of this entry »

Once upon a time there was a girl in China named Li-Li. She had just married and lived with her father and mother-in-law. Son Li-Li realized she was not clicked with her mother-in-law. Their characters were contradictory and Li-Li could not stand her mother-in-laws habit.

Days and months passed by. Li-Li and her mother-in-law kept on fighting and arguing. What upset Li-Li most is the ancient Chinese tradition which required her to bow her head in order to respect her mother-in-law and obey all her requests and commands. All those anger and unhappiness within the house had rose Li-Li husband’s concern, a modest man.

Li-Li could not stand her mother-in-law’s habits and behavior any longer. She wanted to do something about it. Li-Li went to her father’s friend, Sinshe Wang who owned a traditional drug store. She told him about her problem and asked him to make some strong poison to be given to her mother-in-law. Read the rest of this entry »

Profit will move in line with our business risk taking. If we choose to take minimum risk, our profit will be minimum, too. Otherwise, if we dare to take big risk we will get a big profit, too. There’s no way those who work harder and smarter will get the same income as those who only want to play save and receive a stable profit every month.

Like an airport, if its runway is short, which big plane would ever land there? An international airport definetely require a long time to build and sophisticated manegement but it make it suitable to support various-size planes to land in more frequent duration. Your business is an airport of profit traffic waiting to land.

Profit “needs an opportunity”. Read the rest of this entry »