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My 14 year old son attends classes at a martial arts center. The martial arts center is run by a 30 year old man. He is by all means a successful business man for his young age. He stood in front of his class and asked them if they knew what the most powerful muscle is in their body was. There was not an answer. My thought was he would say your brain. When the 10 year old in front of me popped up and said “My brain!.” We all chuckled. He went on to explain that the tongue is the most powerful muscle in your body. This instructor is a man who works out in martial arts 6 days a week and he is a tower of power and flexibility. So it was strange to hear this response. So this grabbed the audience’s attention. He went on to explain what he meant to the young adults. “By your own tongue you can tell yourself that you will fail or succeed. It is totally up to you.” He continued on to tell the kids that he believes much of life is what you tell your brain. He added “You can choose to tell yourself that you can and you will or you can’t and you won’t.” He went on to say “Believe in yourself. Set goals for yourself and you will achieve them. You can achieve anything you set your mind to. It is totally up to you. So set your goals high and work toward them.”

I have not seen it yet, but since this blog is about the Pursuit of happiness, I will endeavor to look for this film.  Meantime, the movie tops the Box Office, and it stars Will Smith, and based on the summary of the film, it does seem like a film that many people will identify with.

Low-cost laptop could transform learning - Yahoo! News

Forget windows, folders and boxes that pop up with text. When students in Thailand, Libya and other developing countries get their $150 computers from the One Laptop Per Child project in 2007, their experience will be unlike anything on standard PCs.
The design partly reflects a clever attempt to get the most from the machine’s limited horsepower. To keep costs and power demands low, XO uses a slim version of the The design partly reflects a clever attempt to get the most from the machine’s limited horsepower. To keep costs and power demands low, XO uses a slim version of the Linux operating system, a 366-megahertz processor from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and no hard disk drive. Instead it has 512 megabytes of flash memory, plus USB 2.0 ports where more storage could be attached.

It is year of the Boar, or the Pig.  Good tidings!  For those that believes in Chinese Horoscopes and carefully following up the year of where you were born, here is your fortune and outlook for 2007 based on your astrological sign ( where you are snake, rat etc)

The year of the Boar willl officially actually start on Feb 18, which starts the new year according to the Chinese Lunar Calendar.  Here is another prediction of what Year of the Boar will be.

I remember one of my first confusion on the debate between being a manager and a doer.  That was when I was about 18 and on the start of business school.

I was brought up in an entrepreneurial family where managing WAS doing things. Indeed that will be the case if the business is started until it has about 10 or more employees.  Typically a business is founded not because the entrepreneur knows management - it is founded because the entrepreneur knows the technical side of the business ( as a programmer in a software company, as a cook, as a marketing consultant).

But if you want to grow more than a certain side, then knowledge in managing have to be emphasized - you have to know now how to read financial statements, hire people, develop teams, nurture talent, and delegate / control tasks.

More and more, you have to let go of the things in which you are an expert in, and slowly help other people learn such tasks so that more and more tasks can get done without you having to do it yourself - that will free you now on new things to learn, and creating the vision that will put the company together as it grows.

This growth path - from techie to manager is also a transition not only for entrepreneurs but for most people in their career paths — even if they are working in big corporations.  You will probably start off being a programmer, then asked to lead a programming team.  Or you will start off in sales, and then if you’re good, you will be asked to manage a sales force.  Or you can be starting as a clerk, and ultimately ask to handle a department as you show your capabilities.

This will be the time when you will have to slowly leave the things you are comfortable with, and learn to accept new responsibilities.  Here is another excellent post on how to transition between a programmer and a manager.