10 diaries of a Jiangsu boss: Everyone has a Gu Ailing in their hearts

Liu Jin is a company founder who runs both a cosmetics company and a home furnishing company in Nanjing.

Last year, we met at the Island New Year class. Since then, he has often shared his life records and insights with me on WeChat. It is said that on New Year's Day for 7 consecutive years, he and his wife have left the old and welcomed the new by listening to lectures and learning, and built a romance together.

The operator is also a writing enthusiast. His words and thoughts are not so complete, but they are simple and sincere, and they are "economics in real life": playing golf, participating in private board meetings, colliding and operating family relations, watching the Winter Olympics, watching Spring Festival movies, watching the words of business leaders, feeling life and gaining motivation from them...

He named these experiences and records "Daily Improvement", from which we can see the daily life of an entrepreneur, what we see and think, and we can also see an upward heart, a kind of power to live in the future and live well in the present.

——Chen Wei, Editor-in-Chief of Masawa Island

Author: Liu Jin Chairman of Nanjing Dr. Cosmetics Co., Ltd., Chairman of Nanjing Minrong Home Furnishing Co., Ltd

Source: Zhenghe Island

01, January 12, 2022

As I increase my age and experience, I become more and more aware of a big truth: making myself and my family happy is a lifelong responsibility, and it is also the most important ability.

That day in Guilin, I got to know Mr. Zhang and listened to him: In the second half of life, you must learn to play golf, because: this is a full-body sport, which will form a happy flow of heart, and it is a sport that can achieve 85 years old.

I sat across from him, listening to him in the midst of dinner, looking out the window at the lawn, the evening light flickering in his face, and at that moment I felt that he had been sent by God to convey this advice to me.

On the third day after I came back, Rong Rong and I immediately went to the stadium to register, found a coach, practiced for half a day, and made an appointment to start the second week, and then, there was no more...

I can't help but think of my mother-in-law, a nearly 70-year-old person, who learned vibrato a few years ago, thought it was too difficult, and now has become a variety of video selfie masters, which has become her biggest hobby and interest, and has become an important source of happiness for her.

And getting up early, reading, drinking coffee, writing texts, the background is the morning piano song, which is my happy morning ritual.

So, everyone has to have their own happiness equation, everyone has to have a secret flow track that makes them happy, and at each stage, they must find and develop the habit of leading to a happier ladder.

What is happiness?

It is in the human world, finding the person who loves, doing the things of love, forming the habit of love, and generating the flow of love;

It is to feel the meaning and value of life;

It is to feel the beauty of life's journey;

It is more and more powerful, forward, upward, good...

I think: every parent must become a happy model for the family, and every leader has the responsibility to become the happiness benchmark of the team.

Probably, nothing else, is happiness, is worth it in the world.

02, January 18, 2022

I have been reading Warren Buffett's biography "Snowball" for the past few days, which is brilliantly written, detailed in historical materials, and more than a thousand pages, and is the only official biography of The God of Shares, and it is also recognized as the pinnacle of modern biographical history.

After reading 150 pages, what impressed me the most was that in addition to the Buffett family's long-standing heritage and tutoring, as well as his extremely high talent for numbers, it was his love of reading.

It uses a full 2 pages of text, writing that when he was 8 years old, he read a book from his grandfather, which had an important influence on him, and the book that made him read and read was Dale Carnegie's famous work "The Weakness of Human Nature", one of the principles that he practiced and applied throughout his life:

"Don't criticize, condemn or complain"

"1) Criticism can put people in a defensive position

2) Criticism is dangerous because it hurts people's precious self-esteem

3) What human nature craves most is importance, that is, to be sincerely praised

4) The best way to convince others is to avoid arguments."

Listen to Buffett's description of the book:

"This brought me a whole new way of life"; "Unlike others who read only, he continued to learn and practice this set of principles throughout his life"; "This book polished his innate intelligent mind and strengthened his persuasive ability and sales talent".

Deep understanding again: the road is simple, and the master really only practices the basic skills.

I am in a relationship with the heart of the god Ofe: "His heart was touched, and he felt that he had finally found the truth. ”

03, January 28, 2022

new year

Be a kid again

Fill your heart with anticipation

Waves of gifts

It will always come across mountains and seas

Yesterday, in the Zhenghe Island Group, I happened to see a link article sent by Shima Ding, entitled "Baiguoyuan Yu Huiyong: The World's First Code is "Maypower Is Greater Than Mount Meru", which made me look at it at the time, but I casually turned it over.

Early this morning, I somehow remembered the title of this article and immediately looked through it.

I read it carefully and carefully three times in a row, and I did not feel that I was facing the dawn, and I shed tears of emotion and deep understanding.

Sighing, touched, grateful...

Mr. Yu's speech is really full of wisdom, hope and strength, especially three stories:

The story of the grandmother holding the pig,

The story of Mrs. Yu's entry,

Go to Hong Kong to ask for the story of the experts.

These stories, this article, the path to success in Baiguoyuan, reveal a major secret:

It is that the will is greater than the ability,

It is that the will is greater than the karma,

It is that the will power is greater than Mount Meru...

Isn't this the wisdom of the ages in the Book of Shang: "The Tao is small in heart, but the essence is the only one"?

Isn't this the pinnacle of the Book of Rites: "Sincerity is like God"?

Isn't this Mr. Yang Ming's "to the conscience"?

Isn't this Mr. Inamori's "pure heart"?

Really, the stars are as bright as the stars, and my way has always been consistent.

The most classic part of the text is Yu Zong's comparison of Musk with Baiguoyuan:

Look up at the stars vs fear the earth;

Aerospace program VS another day VS fertile land plan a change of land;

Electric car VS three zero vegetables;

Colonizing Mars VS Guardian Earth;

Chewing glass across hell VS perfect happiness three good lives;

Conquer the universe vs conquer yourself;

Western culture vs Eastern wisdom.

It seems that Eastern wisdom is in some ways superior to Western culture...

04, January 30, 2022

The Spring Festival is a total burst of energy in a year's time, so there are natural opportunities everywhere.

Yesterday afternoon to go shopping, this year's New Year is very special, between heaven and earth, the new year is not thick snow, the street market, snow and cold wind filtered the sound of the city, sketched the street scene, before a snow, the street appears far and silent.

Rong Rong went to buy flowers, while looking at the flowers, while looking at the sky, people in the flower shop, there is a kind of slowness in the past.

I sat in the car, reading a book, snoozing at the same time, and there was an ancient freedom and trance in the festival.

After a long time, she returned to the car and said something that woke me up at once:

"I found that there are many women in the flower shop, the image management is not bad, and it seems that they are all over 40 years old."

After a while, he said: "After the age of 40, people grow wisdom and know how to slow down their lives before they can be happy." ”

This morning, in the silence, I suddenly remembered this phrase and gained a lot of enlightenment:

1. The external image is the embodiment of the willpower, and it is necessary to walk in front of the ability

2. The image is a reflection of the social class, and in turn, if you have any class image, you will slowly become a person of that class

3. The inner image determines the external image, and the internal and external image affect each other

4. Image lies in management, only lazy people, no ugly people

5. Image and environment are the foreshadowing of life, with strong suggestiveness and traction

6. Incorporate the events of your life into the timeline, and look at it over a long period of time, and the perspective will be completely different

7. Happiness is the general algorithm of life

Yes, I have always loved Mu Xin's poem "Once Upon a Time Slowly":

"I remember when I was a teenager

Everybody is sincere

Say a sentence is a sentence

The old days became slower

Cars, horses, mail are all slow

There is only enough to love one person in a lifetime

The former lock also looks good

The keys are beautifully presented

You lock it, people will understand."

Yes, slow down, only then can there be a taste of the year, can be happy, and the soul can keep up with the pace.

05, February 5, 2022

Yesterday I watched the movie "Miracle Stupid Child", which tells the story of an ordinary little person who creates extraordinary career miracles in a big city.

The film has a clear structure, a condensed rhythm, a first-class director, and an ordinary life and business story, which perfectly presents the spirit of the city and the characteristics of the times, so that the whole drama reflects a kind of unity and struggle, and the brilliance of life is upward.

It is really the cry of the economic downturn, the horn of the New Year's charge, and the artifact of the start of construction.

1. Vigorous miracles (all miracles are the product of struggle)

2. The city energy level determines the fate of the individual (choosing which city is equivalent to taking a stake in the city)

3. Opportunity is attracted by faith, and if you never forget it, there will be an echo

4. The power of life is not normally distributed, but the power law distribution, so in the strategic opportunity period of life, we must go all out

5. Difficulty is a wrapped gift of life

6. The successful person is almost failing, failure is almost successful, success is only one more action than failure, there is no failure, only abandonment

7. Leadership is leadership style, leadership belief, and leadership oneself

8. The most important task of a leader is to share the beliefs of all members

9. Love is the source of all strength

Why does this film have such a good reputation and arouse such a big response?

Because everyone saw their dream self in Jing Hao, who played the four-character brother.

This morning, I put on the ending song of the movie, "Sea and Sky", and gave you the chapter of my fifteen years of treasure: dreams will be realized, and there is love and a future.

06, February 9, 2022

Yesterday, the talented girl Gu Ailing won the gold medal in the women's ski jump at the Beijing Winter Olympics, which is not only her first Olympic gold medal, but also China's first medal in the project.

I was also deeply infected, and I was so excited that I spent the middle of the night reading through the information about her recent years.

The reading was in exclamation and intense.

The growth process of this star of the times who combines talent, beauty, literacy and achievement is truly a perfect textbook:

1. Genes are too important (Grandpa, my mother graduated from Stanford, my father graduated from Harvard, and my grandmother still runs a mile a day at age 86).

2. Parents' words and deeds are the most important environment for growing up (mother loves skiing).

3. Talents and hobbies should be discovered and cultivated from an early age (skiing at the age of 3).

4. Do what you love, and God will happily open the door to success for you—Grandma Moses.

5. The combination of Chinese and Western culture, Chinese-style integration of tutoring is the key to her great achievements.

6. The key choices in life are very important, life seems to have countless steps, but in fact, the key is a few big steps (choosing to join the Chinese nationality).

7. Goal navigation can be the best version of yourself (five years ago, ready for the Olympics, three years ago set the championship goal).

8. Outstanding psychological qualities stem from all-round cultivation and development (she rode horses from elementary school, participated in singing competitions, long-distance running competitions, basketball competitions, cross-country competitions, piano from elementary school, and annually carved to make up for the Olympiad).

9. Behind the world champion is the "10,000 hours rule", which is the condensation of countless sweat, tears and blood.

10. Sportsmanship is the pinnacle of human consciousness in peacetime, and having a love of sports is the foundation of a good life.

11. A good woman is a big school (three women in the Gu family perform a brilliant life drama).

Read it again this morning, I really love Gu Ailing's words, and the secret is really in the first place:

"I like to ski, when a bird, flying, and then landing on the ground, this feeling is very strong, it is usually walking, it is difficult to feel." 」

"The feeling of skiing flying, and the feeling of being happy, are probably the two most addictive."

"The soft, grainy snow that flows under my snowboard makes me feel omnipotent."

"Winning has always been important to me."

"I got this medal because I have a love for this sport, I hope to shape my life through this sport, to make me a better person, I hope that everyone can experience the magic of sports, this is really a life-changing thing." 」

Mama Gu said:

"To talk about ideas, I remember two sentences:

First, when Gu Ailing entered school, her teacher said: 'Don't correct children's typos, don't discourage their creativity';

The second sentence is: praise their intelligence less, praise their efforts more. ”

Everyone has a Gu Ailing in their hearts, and China needs and will have more Gu Ailing.

07, 2022-2022

Yesterday, I participated in the "Shanghai Zhen'ao Science and Technology Private Council" activity of Zhenghe Island Yun Lingshu, visited the Zhen'ao Product Exhibition Hall, listened to Feng Chain share the development process of Zhen'ao for 22 years, and sixteen people in the afternoon under the leadership of Yang Yun (senior vice president of Zhenghe Island), conducted in-depth exchanges and discussions on the new product cases of Zhen'ao, and gained a lot:

1. Young is a state of mind (Feng Zong is 60 years old, still full of passion and then starts).

2. The image of the person is too important (this is a very important feeling yesterday in the scene).

3. Private board meetings are a very important way to integrate wisdom and get results.

4. To complete a new project, we must focus on two doors (vision values + strategy + organization).

5. New retail has entered the era of customer value, and product value is only the specific performance of customer value.

6. Concentration can understand the spirit, focus on focus can break through, whether it is to govern things or to cure the heart.

7. To organize an event, to boil the water, three points are very important: 1) must be results-oriented; 2) must be well prepared for data and information; 3) time must be enough.

8. Cross-border learning can only touch the bypass.

9. Underlying logic and thinking models are greater than methodologies.

10. Regardless of the era, city, industry or position selection, people must step out of the comfort zone, actively choose and upgrade the environment, so as to enter a passive success platform.

Remembering the words of Chari Munger: The first rule of fishing is to fish where there is fish, and the second rule is to remember the first.

08, February 12, 2022

Mr. Cao Dewang has 40 years of industrial service to the country, innovation to rejuvenate the country, charity for the country, and recently donated tens of billions of yuan to establish Fuyao University of Science and Technology, which can be called a meritorious, moral, and perfect person, really an outstanding representative of China's business community, and really the embodiment of contemporary entrepreneurship.

So he has been collecting his articles, following his thoughts, and is a loyal iron fan.

Reading his latest article this morning, it was really deafening, like a mirror grinding, and I felt that his spirit had reached a new realm:

1. Entrepreneurs need to adhere to the business path of both righteousness and profit.

2. Entrepreneurs need to adhere to three entrepreneurial rules: 1) respect God and love people, treat all sentient beings kindly, 2) strengthen the main business and continue to innovate; 3) stop at the best and strive for perfection.

3. Entrepreneurs should have the ambition that the country is strong because of you, the society is progressing because of you, and the people are rich because of you.

4. There are two reasons for the establishment of universities: 1) to strengthen the route of common prosperity; and 2) to explore the path of cultivating talents in China's manufacturing industry.

Read The Strike Dawn, ask with indignation.

Compared to him, by his standards, I can only be considered a businessman.

Fortunately, great hearts can be learned.

At the end of the chapter, Mr. Cao's message to the young people is really a light on the country:

"I hope that everyone will devote all their energy to cultivating their own self-confidence, and a person's self-confidence ability will determine his results.

To be confident, we must first learn to believe,

I believe in faith,

I also believe in nature, I believe that mountains, rivers and seas, flowers and trees are alive,

I believe that the party's reform and opening up policy is correct.

I believe that party discipline and state law are dignified and effective for anyone. ”

And the whole article mentions "respecting heaven and loving people" many times, and I deeply feel that he is the same as Mr. Inamori, who is a person who masters the secrets of life.

09, 16 February 2022

I am a super fan of Ren Zhengfei, especially like to read his speeches and articles, his words are imposing, circumstantial evidence, exquisite metaphors, sentences are broken, and there is a vigorous vitality, talent, and heroism between the lines.

In particular, the story he told 10 years ago, I don't know how many times I read it:

"Before 2000, I was a depressed person who wanted to commit suicide many times...

Until 2006, I was eating in Xibei Noodle Village, we were sitting in the hall, there were many peasant girls from Inner Mongolia village singing, I invited them to sing, a song for 3 yuan.

I see that they are so excited, optimistic, love life, poor farmers want to survive, why don't I want to survive?

On that day, I shed a lot of tears, and I never thought about committing suicide again. ”

Every time I look at it, I feel empathy, I feel affectionate, and I don't feel tears.

Because from the text, I feel his heart of "hanging his life" for the cause, and I feel his inexhaustible optimism, which is really the most important spiritual code to create a beautiful life.

Yesterday, I was in a very bad mood, from Nanjing to take the high-speed rail all the way to Shanghai, missed a bus, the second bus almost missed, at the station Starbucks, ordered a cup of coffee, almost to Shanghai has not finished drinking, has been sitting.

Suddenly seeing this passage again, it was really enlightening, and when I saw the sun in the clouds, I suddenly felt cheerful and happy.

How many optimists with vigorous lives around me: Shuang Qi, Tian Kai, Chang'an, Zu Qun, Loud, Zeng Tao, Xiao Pan, Rong Rong, mother-in-law...

They are like stars, like torches, like flags, like spring water, spring forest, spring wind ten miles.

Optimists are valueists, meaningists, futurists, and only those who truly understand the beauty of God...

"Pessimists are often right, but the world is created by optimists."

John Lennon's words are wonderful:

"When I was five years old, my mother told me that the key to life is to be happy.

After school, people asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up, and I wrote 'Happy'.

They said I misunderstood the subject, and I told them that they understood life wrong. ”

10, February 18, 2022

Yesterday, I read again the chapter on how Mr. Inamori explained how his high school Chinese teacher influenced his outlook on life:

"The teacher said to us: I am 'in love' every day.

He explained: "I ride my bicycle to and from work every day, I see the Sakurajima Volcano on the way, I fall in love with her every day, and her majestic island shadow, billowing smoke clouds, and fire-like enthusiasm make me look forward to it.

In the post-war years, people's food and clothing were in question, but the teacher painted romantic and beautiful dreams, which greatly affected my outlook on life. ”

I really read this passage a lot, and I am very touched every time, and I feel that it is full of hope and strength in life.

Last night's walk, Rong Rong said to me: "I especially enjoy the journey to Shanghai, 2 hours, not far away, can read a book or nap, there are Starbucks on both sides of the station, a cup of coffee to the end, the high-speed rail is really good, comfortable and clean and fast." ”

In the nightlight, I could clearly feel the look in her eyes, bright, looking at the stars in the sky.

Yes, the happiness of life is probably: to fall in love with work, to fall in love with the body, to fall in love with the environment, to fall in love with the journey...