You might have heard Work & Travel or Work & Study programs. These are pre-packages that are very helpful for first-timers. You know what you can and can’t. Easy to ask and learn :

• What are my options?

• Who else has done it?

• What will be outcome look like?

For Live & Learn, we are all in this package since we were born. Some of us really aware of what is going on around us, some of us take 50-60 years to understand.

This is the package you can do anything you want. Even if your parents or family set something for you, still you will make the decision at the end of the day. You gotta Live & Learn on your time.

What have you accomplished last week?

Was it a big or small one?

Wins are fundamental success factors in our life. It helps you grow exponentially. Start with small. You can get used to winning. Small wins drive you to big ones.

Think like this way, one small success from here, another from there. You will end up with multiple small wins to take you next level. Let’s visualize this.

Give a score anything you did makes you feel good. Between 1-5

• Walking the stairs instead of taking the elevator: 2

• Drinking water instead of diet coke : 3

• Coffee without sugar or milk 4

• Taking care of dishes 5 (I know this is a big win for every family)

If you add them one by one in a couple of weeks you will end up such a huge winning score. (Pretty much I multiple them: 2X3X4X5X…… ) You will addicted to scoring. And never go to back to losing game.

Note: Do one small feel-good thing every day. This is your game. You will win anyway small or big.

I like classical music since high school English prep class. Our English teacher was a quiet character. He had a different way to explain and teach the lesson.

I remember one of his explanations. He was trying to teach us the difference between “jump over” to “jump into”. He literally opened the window and jump into the grass which was around 2-3 feet far to the classroom window.

He liked Vivaldi a lot. Whenever we were doing a reading assignment, he was playing Vivaldi’s four seasons. I asked him to give me his cassette tape for a copy. He did it. I believe I “forgot” to return him:)

Anyway since that time, I am always amazed by classical music. I can not say I’m an expert but I enjoy listening especially driving a car myself. Yesterday, I discovered Itzhak Perlman by chance. He is an exceptional violinist. (he contracted polio age of four and couldn’t walk since that time). Please listen to his masterpiece whenever you have time this weekend.

I am reading these days the writers who were really misunderstood or invisible by their peers or society during their time. A couple of decades later, their ideas have grown from seed to big trees. Now, some of them called “the best poet in the 20th century” or “ the man who changed modern economic theory” etc.

Most of them had little or no audience while they were living. What makes them keep doing what they were doing? I honestly don’t know very well. Probably their passion and dedication to bigger causes.

Audience, fans, subscribers, or followers are not only indicators of success. Having them around you is not something you can really control. If you have, good for you. If not you don’t need them. When you first started to create, they were not there anyway. Don’t forget your mission.

I saw today the real estate office on San Mateo Downtown converted themselves as a coffee shop. The location they are in next to a popular bakery most of the time huge line up to in front of them.

So, these hards days, they had to adapt and find them new alternatives. I think the idea is while you are waiting at a huge line, get a coffee from them. Smart

Our lives are full of surprises. Small or big ones.

We like positive ones and scared of negative ones.

You are doing all calculations based on what do you know. Any estimation for future forecasting is going to be unknown until you know.

Rather than spending full estimation/projection, focus on execution.

Execute then iterate it. Then execute again. Don’t satisfy the first results

Why are we spending our most valuable item (time) without really thinking?

Like something we will never run out of it.

Why? Because we don’t even have a chance to think about it. We are all busy.

Screens are our new part of our bodies. I wish they can automatically lock itself and can not open till next time. (It should automatically calculate how much I need a phone, computer, or TV for work or social life)

I am sure you guys heard Carnegie Mellon University or Carnegie Hall. Those are started or initiated by Andrew Carnegie who was a businessman, philanthropist in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.

He also started libraries all over the U.S, Europe, Australia, and many other places. Total libraries around 2509 between 1883 and 1929.

I didn’t know anything about Carnegie Libraries till today morning. We are visiting a small town (Healdsburg) in northern California. I checked what’s nearby places to visit then found Healdsburg Museum which was a Carnegie Library before.

All I did a couple of google map/ browser search. You will surprise when you are curious about what’s the background story of everyday items.

I shot this picture 7am today

You are going through many places in your life. Some of them you have been a lot of times some of them only once. Do you know which place is calling you ? What is your go to places? Who is your soulmate to join your journey?

If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. —YOGI BERRA