2006 Retrospect
4 years back, I attended a conference. On that conference, Lou Holtz was the keynote speaker. At that time, I didn’t know him at all. Later, I figured that as a former NCSA football head coach, he had a very successful career. I forgot most of things that he said. But, I remembered two points that he mentioned. One is that in the Nature, things either grow or die. Another is that we need to do the right things to win people’s trust.
Whenever I look back, I realize that how these two things helped me move forward during the past several years. It is important to keep growing oneself whenever there is a chance. It is equally important to do the right things and to work hard to do the right things. It is like climbing mountains. Before reaching the top, there seem to be endless small mountains ahead of us. Further, we need to choose the right path.
At the beginning of the year, I was like at the bottom of mountains and I haven’t climbed mountains before. There was a lot of uncertainty and there were plenty of situations that I was sure that I didn’t know how to handle. Along the way, I struggled, I fell, and I made tons of mistakes. (See my previous posts about food, crunch time, and fighting stress.) Now, I am like at the middle of mountains, and I start to be used to mountain climbing.
There are always issues in the life. Donald Trump suggests the following in the December issue of Business 2.0: Obsess about solutions, not problems. The image of success is important, but even more important is the ability to focus on solutions instead of on problems.
