Making Dream Happen

Michael: Jeff, how much sales skill do you have?

Jeff: Well, I am not a sales person, but we are selling everyday. What I know is to understand the target audience, bring value to him/her, create win-win situation.

Michael: Make it specific, plz…

Jeff: um….

Michael: OK, let me put it this way. Your presentation didn’t convince me until you said some words that create the magic?

Jeff: What is that?

Michael: You said: We make sure that emails of our client will be routed to target audience’s inbox.

Jeff: Yes, that’s our expertise.

Michael: Say it again, Jeff.

Jeff: That’s our expertise.

Michael: Say it louder.

Jeff: I mean that’s our expertise (volume up)

Michael: yeah. Pinky, do you notice that? When he is saying so, his face is shining, with Pride. That’s what makes the difference.

(Pinky was having dinner with us)

Yes, I sense that. The pride, when I was speaking that, I am really proud of myself coz I am really an expert in that field. It’s not about the sales skills, it’s about the Pride. That’s where the magic lies in.

At that very moment, my fear, my limitation, and my self-doubt on myself, don’t matter any more. The only thing in my mind is the Pride. Yeah, I found it, the magic Key. As long as I am proud of what I am doing, and I am an expert in the field I am in, I can do whatever I want to achieve!

Yeah, the pride, the pride, the pride.

When we are doing something we are really proud of, anything is possible! That’s amazing.

Jeff Wang

3 Mar, 2010

What We Can Imagine, What We Can Achieve!

Project YoungPros, 青年部落, finally we got our name here. It’s a milestone for me, 2 Mar, a day when Project YoungPros comes into being.

My dream is to make China a better place. And this is my way making it happen. We will focus on the accelerate the process of the transformation from a university student to a young professional.

Someone asks me how we are going to make it happen, while some others asks what our business model is going to be. Well, I don’t have a perfect one in my mind, not even a clear and organized idea. But I gonna figure it out along the way.

We don’t know what we’ll find when we get there, but we’ll be sure to let you know when we get back.

The real thing that matters is that we get it going, not just thinking about it all the time.

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The best way to make things happen is by start doing it.

Talking won’t cook rice! I don’t think reading all the time will help us achieve something. Instead, it will give us a false sense that we are growing up. Yeah. We are knowing more and more by reading more and more, but all the reading means little when nothing has been created or achieved.

Let’s start doing it, with our heart, our passion, our energy and enthusiasm and gratitude. Nothing could not be achieved.

Jeff Wang

26 Feb 2010

What We Can Imagine, What We Can Achieve!

When I failed to do something, I often think positively that I am still young and mistake is part of the success. I told myself that I am learning and growing up.

Yet I suddenly realize that I am now a man with three years working experience, not a student ANY MORE. Making mistake is OK, but the abuse of it is certainly NOT good!

My conclusion is that I am too nice to myself, and not yet professional. But I am NOT a student ANY MORE.

Jeff Wang

24 Feb, 2010

What We Can Imagine, What We Can Achieve!

Today I have learned a very good lesson, which is never never never give up. During the past half year, I was not able to do one thing for a couple of attempts, but my gut told me that I have chance to make it, therefore, i didn’t give up.

I tried it from time to time, and in different approach, always trusted my instinct that that’s the right way to go if I wanna make it eventually, and then I did it today.

You don’t make it today doesn’t mean that you won’t make it tomorrow. Sometimes, success is just a matter of timing, and persistence.

Jeff Wang

15 Feb 2010

What We Can Imagine, What We Can Achieve!

Tonight, after the 2nd NewStage regular meeting, i have done a couple of things:

1. changed my blog title from “A Passion to Win” to “Making Dream Happen“;
2. changed the tagline from “Be My Best Jeff” to “The Dream Journal of Jeff Wang“;
3. sent email to my university teacher to discuss how we can make our school better and help university student.

NewStage has a good start, and I hope together we will make great things happen, and realize both of our personal goal and collective goal.

Me myself will be leading the project that is aimed to find a good cooperation model for SMEs and Young Professionals to create a win-win situation, by which our country will be made a better place.

The project sounds interesting, yet challenging and complicated enough, if aiming at a professional outcome and make sense in terms of feasibility.

Let’s see what will happen. Too much talking means nothing, i am looking to the real action stage.

Life is amazing if we are committed to make it amazing. Making my dream happen will be where amazing happens.

Jeff Wang
3 Feb, 2010
What We Can Imagine, What We Can Achieve!

“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives,” said Abraham Lincoln. “I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.”

I deeply share this in my heart!

Jeff Wang

Yeah, when you heart is right, everything is right.

High working pressure, unfriendly people around, uncomfortable environment, you name it. When your heart is right, everything is right.

To make it, it SIMPLY needs you not to get too involved, and spend sometime looking at the big picture. Then everything is right.

It’s simple, but few people make it.

Jeff Wang
26 Jan, 2010
What We Can Imagine, What We Can Achieve!

well, it’s been a long time again…guess it is time for me to re-frame myself and get back to the right track from the current chaos.

Pressure
Thanks to Anthony Robbins, I used to manage pressure well. But the pressure these days is overwhelming as I am working closely with a tough CEO who once mentioned to me that I should grow myself in a tough way. Yes, I felt that, he is now helping me that way.

Nearly all people comments themselves under high pressure, but have you been working so often in your dream, fulfilling one task in a dream, switching to another one in another dream, and they are just happening in a single night…Well, that’s my status two weeks before a couple of days ago. Ever since I was born, this is the second time I have been in such situation, the first one happened in the early days when I was working with Leo two years ago.

But I always remind myself: Jeff, you must go through it. Once you have been through, you will feel comfortable with everything. And only in this way you will become a real achiever – the one who trully makes things happen!

So frequently, I used Kobe Bryant’s “If You Really Want It” to motivate myself, I used “狠狠狠” to push myself to do those things I am not much willing to do, I kept reading one page of “The Secret Daily Teachings” to inspire myself so that I kept focusing on the positive, I used…well, way too many methods and things, as long as they help.

Big pressure, huh…I guess it was.

Healthiness
Such situation won’t bring me health, I felt pain at my shoulders when I went to play basketball last Saturday. God, I need some changes, and changes for the better.

Still, there was one crazy thing I have done and I especially want to mention here, which is, I went jogging the other day in the early morning at 6:10, when it was all dark outside; when I was back, the sky just started to get a bit clear, and it was at 6:30. The feeling of jogging was really great.

A lot of people around were found unhealthy these days, I think I need to pay more attention as well. Speaking of this, wishing everything goes fine with my dear friend Schiller’s father.

Take care of yourselves, my friends, wherever you are, and whoever you are, as long as you are reading here.

Time Management and Psychology
Things changed for the better in the last few days. First, I read a blog post about “lessen work time to do more important things, do more important things to less work time”. And then I got further inspiration from the book “The Road Less Traveled” when I was reading it on the bus to office. There are two kinds of people, one is taking on too much responsibilities on themselves (I am one of this type and it is called 神经官能症), while the other type is everything is other people’s responsibilities (called 人格失调症). Luckily, I am just the former one and it is far easier to cure.

By these specific and random inspiration, I got somewhere and started to relax a bit, and am getting better this week.

Sweet Moments
Last Friday was my birthday. Apart from my girlfriend’s cool gifts, well, I really love them, I have also received special blessings from my dear friends, Schiller and Cindy, with Olivia and later Jessie and Abby. Both Seeds and NewStage are cool. I love you guys! Thanks!

Yesterday suddenly received a phone call from Karen, who told me that she felt what I shared with her before very useful at work, and also gave me a kind offer that I could stay at their family if I drop by SZ next time, as their new house has a spare room. Sweet, isn’t it. Thanks.

Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking is the best things I have learned from the Young Manager Workshop, which was remarked by the trainer the must-have gear to top management. When thinking a thing, don’t just think about ourselves, but also consider the other people/factors in our systems.

Well, so much for this, piece by piece, but I think I can conclude in following: I am a not-very-smart man who is working hard with faith and determination to go through the hard times with purpose of gearing up myself a person who is able to make things happen. Always think positive and solutions will come!

Jeff Wang
What We Can Imagine, What We Can Achieve!
13 Jan 2010