I attended a training in Singapore, and the facilitator asked us to visualize the dreams that we want to achieve and it should be as specific as possible. I didn’t have any problem, because I know clearly what I want!
And these are some of my dreams that time:
1. living in 1000 square meter penthouse w/ nice view
2. Nissan 360Z
3. Having my own mall
4. having a monthly salary of $25K per month…
I was very proud of my answers, but to my surprised, the facilitator said that my dream is not big enough! What!!! Not big enough? The value of my dream is worth billions, and it’s not big enough?
then the facilitator explained… it’s big but not big enough, because it didn’t involve other people
She said, a big dream involves others, it involves helping people, helping the society, helping the world
From that on wards, my perspective was changed, instead of living selfishly, I dedicated my life to teaching, sharing, and helping people
Mark 12:30-31
30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
Barter existed long time ago, there is no money system, barbarians bartered things or services for food or other stuffs. Now, in the modern days barter still existed, but with a little twist. You maybe thinking that barter is hard in the modern days, coz there are too many things in this earth that it is hard for us to match what we need, unlike the olden days they only barter necessities like food or shelter. We now have entertainments, gadgets, sophisticated things and services. So how does modern barter works? Check the diagram below
If you are going to search “Jeffrey Yu” in google, yahoo, bing, you will see my site on the first page, either 1st row or 2nd row!
Google
Yahoo
Bing
So am I the most famous Jeffrey Yu in the world? Nah… I’m not, it’s because the keyword (jeffrey yu) being searched is the same word as my Domain Name – jeffreyyu.com and its title/ description is Jeffrey Yu, again, the same as the searched keyword. So the probability of being on the first page is very high.
But I’m glad I bought the domain name jeffreyyu.com first, imagine if someone bought the site name, and his business is something that is contrary from my principle (like piracy, or even pornography) that might impact my name. Or imagine if someone who has an intention to use my name or to destroy my image can just buy my name on the internet and use it against me. I’ve seen this happen on emails, it’s quite scary, people using other peoples’ names asking for money.
So better secure your name, you may check if your name is still available by visiting
http://www.namecheap.com/?aff=48159
go to Domain > Register a Domain
then type in your name, without space and choose (.com)
if it’s still available, I strongly suggest you buy it!
once you bought the .com, you may opt to have it designed by a web development company like http://www.netpostit.com.
Once you have a website, you can appear as the top page, 1st row, when people search you. Like me! 🙂
try search jeffrey yu in your search engine and visit my site https://jeffreyyu.com
In Japan, I’ve encountered a restaurant that leverages on vending machine to take orders and payment! pretty cool!
There are 2 vending machines in the restaurant
once paid, the machine will output a thermal paper indicating your order number and it will send an electronic message automatically to the kitchen telling the cook your order number and what you’ve ordered.
after a few minutes, someone will bring the food and match the customer and the food by order number
Very creative and efficient, the restaurant doesn’t need to hire a lot of staff, since the vending machine takes care of the front end.
The con side of this restaurant, are first customer won’t be able to change orders. Once he/ she pressed the wrong button, that’s it!
Second, the order number that they produced is just a piece of thermal paper, it is hard for the waiter to see and match the food and customer by order number, specially if there are a lot of customers.
what they can do is announce the order number and ask the customer to get the food instead
or there is a holder where you can place the thermal paper that can easily be seen by the waiter
Overall, this is a brilliant idea
Vending machine business model has been around in Japan for more than 100 years already, now they’ve different types of vending machines, some of the machines are selling beverages, ice cream, noodles, snacks, non food items and other products
recently I saw a book titled The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century and in the book it says that “Imagine a world where every city has its own local food source grown in the safest way possible, where no drop of water or particle of light is wasted”
This book gave me an idea of planting something that is edible in an unused penthouse, so that the space, the sun, and the rain will not be wasted!
It inspires me to learn how to plant using hydroponics method!
I know of a penthouse for lease, if you know how to plant and know how to make money out of an unused penthouse, just let me know.
I’m open to collaboration. Below is a picture of the penthouse.
