Mouth and Ears

Mouth and ears, all 3 are important organs in the body.

Without mouth, you can not eat- no nutrition no digest and no life. With mouth, you can talk, talk and talk.
Without ears, you can not hear birds singing, noisy neighbors. In contrast, you can hear others ideas-- some inspire you and some you hate.

If we have to choose one, better to stand your ears and shut your month. It often happens when we talk, we never listen--don't listen to yourself and to others. Try one time to listen to your own presentation, your own speech, you will find mostly what you talk will be forgotten at once; the valuable part always can be summarized in few sentences, instead of few paragraphs.

So except we have to talk-- give a training or a speech (but still try to make it shorter and shorter), we shall spend more time to listen to others. Ears and brain are working  more closely together than mouth and brain.

To be a good listener and it is benefit to your whole life.

Work with friends

For most people, they spent 8-9 hours per day working in the office. If calculating a person will work from 20 to 60-- 40 years in total, and in average we can live till 80,  we will spend about 1/6 of total life in the office. This is something quite long.

If you cannot enjoy the time in the office, this can make you miserable--no happiness and no quality work. So it is really important to make yourself, your colleagues and your business partners enjoy working together. One easy way is to have a feeling and really to feel so-- working with everyone as working with friends. A business conference with partners--can feel as have a chat with friends over sea; a department meeting for setting up target-- can feel as playing the game goal with friends (we did play it when we were young.); a debating with colleagues-- can feel as similar as the training in the Mock court we did in school.

Thinking that you are working with friends and spending your time with friends, can make yourself and people around you enjoy the work; and you are really making more friends. 

Is it difficult to practice? You try and you know.

Attitude

By living and working in different countries, the biggest difference I can notice, apart from weather, is the attitude of people.

With negative attitude, people have less smile and less confidence in themselves; and turning everything in passive. With positive attitude, people feel nothing is frighten, and have endless courage and patience.

For individual, the attitude makes whom you are today and whom you will be tomorrow. For a country/a nation, the attitude in dominance becomes the symbol of the nation and more or less decides how the country is growing (or decaying). For a company... can we say the attitude that staffs share together finally forms the culture of company?

If yes, then every one in the company is an important element as we can have influence on others either with our bad attitude or good attitude. Thinking positive and acting active is the fundamental of a good attitude.