HOW TO STAY YOUNG

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay 'them'

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love , whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER :
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.




Worry about nothing, pray about everything!!!

Below is the letter written by our global head of BAU solution, very formal and useful to study how to use professional written English.

Dear colleagues,

Q1 Performance

We are pleased to report that the BAU Solutions business continued delivering above budget profitability in Q1, with New Orders and Revenue slightly behind budget. Both need increased attention in Q2. At this point we would like to thank you and your teams for your contribution during the first quarter which led to a positive result despite the global economy trend.

The above budget profitability is contributing to the BAU and BT business performance. In Q1 our Revenue Margin developed above the comparable period in the Previous Year, which shows a significant improvement and a more consistent quarterly performance of the Solutions business. So the strong performance of the last quarter of BY2008 carried through into the first quarter of BY2009.

The run for the second quarter is at full speed and it is important that we work closely with our customers to win high potential New Orders and to continue a high level of execution quality to show we are a leading and long term reliable solution partner.

In todays tough economic climate it is more important than ever that the field organisation is using the tools and resources at your disposal to be efficient and effective in your market activities. Levers for competitiveness include the use of the Graphic and Engineering Centres for low cost engineering, Sales and Offering tools, Marketing materials, knowledge banks (references@BT, Step, Beacon), the D.A.S and PM networks, BEQ for PM@BT trainings, Customized Solutions, BAU Development, the vertical market managers and the BAU International Branch.

Despite the market condition we are very strong in the more stable market segments and we still see many significant project opportunities.
Please keep your sales teams focused closing New Orders and delivering a sustainable backlog, but also further initiate actions to reduce Receivables and Inventories on project level, to improve the overall Cash situation.   

That’s the key to success for BT and BAU!

Best regards,

XXXXX                                            XXXXXX
Global Head BAU Solutions         Global Head BA BAU Solutions

美国牧师诺曼·····文森·皮耶尔在六十多年当中，凭借着过人的智慧给很多人带去了希望。一天，一个中年男人找到皮耶尔牧师。“牧师先生，我这辈子没日没夜地、辛辛苦苦地工作，可这期间做成的事业接二连三地全都倒闭了。现在我失去了人生的一切，该怎么办呢？”

皮耶尔牧师拿出了一张纸，平静地问道：“您说失去了人生的一切？那么请您告诉我您还剩下的东西吧。您有夫人吗？” “是的，我有一个毫无怨言、一直默默支持我的妻子，她很出色。”

皮耶尔牧师在纸上写下了“出色的妻子”字样，接着又问：“您有子女吗？” “是的，我有3个孩子，他们很善良，也很可爱。”

“朋友呢？” “我有让别人羡慕的，忘我精神的朋友们。”

皮耶尔牧师在纸上写下“有忘我精神的朋友们”字样。

“您的身体健康吗？”

“现在，我只对自己的健康有自信，还算不错。”

男人仔细端详着皮耶尔牧师写的那张纸，突然大声说：“牧师先生，真是谢谢您！我明白了，我以为自己失去了一切，原来还有这么多珍贵的东西！我一定能够重新站起来。”

现在，如果认为自己一无所有，那么就请拿出一张纸，在上面写下所拥有的东西吧，我们往往拥有比想象中多得多的贵重之物。想毕，我们用一生来追随的并非只有事业而已吧！

Belongings

An American priest named Pierre has been giving a lot of hope to people during more than 60 years, with his outstanding wisdom. One day, a middle-aged man asked help from Mr. Pierre to make sure how to do next when all of his enterprises had been broken gradually after he was always hardworking and made all his efforts ,and meanwhile he felt loss everything in his life.

Then Mr. Pierre took a piece of paper and turned to ask him “As you said, nothing exists in your life so please tell me what has been left, do you have your wife?” The man replied certainly “I have the wife who supports me at any time and never says a word. She is quite excellent.”

Mr. Pierre wrote down the short phrase excellent wife in the paper and yet asked “Have you some children?” The man also replied for certain “I have 3 children who are very kind and lovely.”

“How about your friends”? The priest asked. “My friends are not only selfless but also admiring”. The man replied with no hesitation.

Mr. Pierre also wrote down the words selfless and admiring friends in the paper.

“Do you have a good health” Mr. Pierre asked as earlier.

“Currently what is confident for me is only my good health, it seems very well”. The man gave his feedback quickly.

Had been questioned completely, the man was asked to look the paper carefully in which Mr. Pierre wrote down the words then he suddenly shouted “Mr. Pierre, thank you very much! I realize that there are still so many priceless belongings around me though I deem I have missed everything, which will encourage me to stand up again”.

Nowadays, in case we feel have nothing left in our life, we should take a piece of paper to wrote down all the left belongings, which is always much more than we expect. After all, what we really devote our life to is not merely a job.

成功的秘诀

巴斯威尔先生是一家五金用品店的老板,他正准备招募一个新的伙计。几十位年轻人看到广告后应征而来，但是最终进入候选名单的只有三个：泰德 、约翰和鲍勃。巴斯威尔先生精心设计了一道决赛考题，他交给他们每人一把新款骡丝起子，要求他们把它送到住在枫树大街314号的亨德森先生那里。

没过多久，泰德打回一个电话，询问是不是店里把门牌号记错了，那儿只有413号而没有什么314号。又过了一会儿，他回到店里，说那个地址根本没有那户人家。第二位候选人约翰回来时，报告说枫树大街314号是一家殡仪馆，亨德先生从前居住的是314-1/2号，但现在已经不知道搬到哪里去了。

鲍勃花费的时间比前两个人要长一些。与约翰一样，鲍勃也发现亨德森先生已经搬走了，但是他设法打听了他的新住址并赶到了那里。亨德森先生不记得自己订购过这些起子，但是鲍勃向他介绍完这种新产品独特的功能和低廉的价格后，亨德森先生动心了，当场付钱收货。

    最后是谁被录用了呢？当然是鲍勃。他没有让任何借口妨碍自己完成工作，没有让任何障碍阻挡他前进的脚步。

成功的秘诀，就是用最不平常的努力做好平常的事。

Secret of Success

Mr. Basiwer is the boss of a hardware shop and is ready to recruit a new sales person. Many youngster come to the interview. Only three candidates reached the final round, Tyler, John and Bob. Mr.Basiwer designed a question in the final. He gave each of them a new kind of screwdriver and asked them deliver to Mr Handson living in the No.314 Maple Street.

For a short moment, Tyler called to ask if the number was wrong because the No.413 existed instead of No.314.For another moment, he came back and said there was no house according to the given address. The second candidate John returned and reported the No.314 was a funeral home and the Mr. Handson had already made a move to an unknown address, who once lived in No.314-1/2.

Bob spent much more time than others. What Bob found was equal to John but he tried to inquire about his new address. While he arrived, Mr.Handson could’t remember that he ordered this screwdriver. After Bob introduced the special functions and low price of the new product, Mr.Handson was convinced to buy. He paid money for it on the spot.

Who was accepted in the final? Of course is Bob. He finished work without any excuses and his moving pace wasn’t stopped by any obstacles

Effort is the secret of success!

Subject: BTA 2007 Sharepoint-Access

Dear colleague,

with this mail you will get your personal access to the BTA-teamroom on
Sharepoint, the platform of the SBT BTA process 2007. Sharepoint is an
Internet platform which is normally easy to handle and to understand.
For helping you to enter this tool you can find several documents in the
infopool-box on the main page with instructions and some important
additional information regarding to the case of a technical problem.
Here you will also find the BTA-process description and other important
information which will follow step by step. Additionally we have
attached for you a copy of that.

You will find all the countries you have access to, where you will find
the BTA templates of every division of the particular country. The SBT
template which shows the whole business will be found there as well.
Every template is already configured with your own targets (similar to
the target letter) on division level. When you'll begin to enter the
subdivisional figures, it will be overwritten.

We wish you a successful BTA process 2007 !

Kindly regards

xxxxxxxxx

You are near with me,

but seems far away.

I need your love,

I need your encouragement,

But     you keep quiet.

You are shouting at me,

Only because I made a small mistake.

I am tired, I am suffered,

Could I rely on your shoulder?

Could you hold me closely?

I am weak, I am hungry,

Please donot go ahead me,

Please donot go behind me,

Please go in line with me.....

Terribly busy today!!!!

6:15am                    Get up

7:30am                    Get on the bus

8:30am                    Arrived in office

8:40am~10:00am      Reading nearly 30 mails and test EDI billing doc with colleage

10:00am~11:10am     Meeting with Div manager discuss BY07 Forecast

11:20am~2:30pm      Meeting with CEO, CFO, Div manager and Marketing manager, CEO challeng about BAU’s net sales. 

2:40pm                    HAVING LUNCH!!!

3:00pm~5:30pm       Solving EDI doc problem with IT colleague.  It is difficult and messy and we are succesfull to go through the sales order&billing documnents in the end

6:00pm~7:00pm       Having an interview with Rich company

7:00pm~8:00pm       on the way home

8:30pm                   Having supper

9:00pm~11:00pm     Overtime working at home to prepare for forecast work tomorrow

不一定名人才有名言,周围的人中,能者为师。下面两段文字是我的同事说的，我觉得很有道理——

1.As I understand, bigger company usually has a higher cost in running the complex organization, with more rigid procedures, and with much more difficulty to make the best of the individuals’ minds. Smaller companies, on the contrary, usually are more flexible, efficient, and subject to individuals’ wills. One contribution, as I think now at least, is to leverage the flexibility and efficiency of small organization in a complex environment. It is not easy, but very interesting. I am now reading the book ‘Jack Welch: guts from straights’, where proposes an interesting idea, getting rid of the boundary between different departments, and functions and freeing the mind of each employee, etc. The most important two things are passions and imaginations!

我刚到这家跨国公司时曾经有过这样的体会，为何在小公司做什么事情既迅速又实效，而在大公司里却跨越层层道坎儿，要花很长时间才能最终办妥。现在我已经明白了：公司越大，机构越复杂，规章制度越细化。当然也就不会如此“拍脑袋”了。

2.Management without leadership is a recipe for mediocrity. Leadership without management is a recipe for disaster.

 Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for life.

给别人一条鱼可能维持一天,教会别人如何钓鱼,他才会受用一生。在我们的管理工作中就是要教会别人如何做，而不是单枪匹马的蛮干。一个真正的管理人员可以达到这样的境界：在夏威夷海滩上享受日光浴，而公司的事情照样运筹帷幄。