You will never know if it is what you want in life unless you actually work on it.

The only regret you will have is not to pursue your dream while you are young. Yes, too many choices sometime will paralyze you with the opportunity cost.

However, I always believe that mew door will open when you are engaging with good intention and higher purpose.

Life is short and there is no dress rehearsal in the real world.

If you check my blog and follow me for a while, you will know that I advocate a No Lose philosophy. Anything you do, you’ll never lose.

The real lose is the inaction and stay status quo.

If you don’t like what you see, go ahead, make something happen.

Life favors those who see things differently and do things differently.

Love,

Ping

Your blog is wonderful. The conversations here clarifies my life goals and focuses me on important things. I am fortunate to read your blog today.

I especially like what you shared with Jason.
“Assume that you want to change your life no matter what. You should drastically reduce your living expense and move to a small house in the countryside so you can handle your finance better.”
It reminds me money is important but it shouldn’t limit our dream. We should have a vision first. Then think about how to realize it practically.

One question. When you have a dream or a career goal, how do you know it is what you want and you won’t feel regret once you start to pursue it? It feels life has so many possibilities and we can dream about so many different things but we only have one life. How do you make your life choices?

Thanks
Christine

I have not read this issue of Elle yet. I admire them to do a special issue on reading and traveling though. Elle is indeed a fine magazine.

You are my daymaker today. I am happy that you finally realize that you are your own architect of life. You can create the reality you want.

If you build it, they will come.

Thank you for taking time to embrace me. I need it.

Love,

Ping

I want to share a “story” with you …

The very first time i tried to mail one of my favorite is around one year ago.
By the timing , i felt totally confused about my future.(Although it obviously looks great by others.)
I just cant make choose about what i really want to do after graduating from university.

Thanks for all your advices about “love what i do” and “do what i love” from the mail you reply for me

As time goes by , i believe that i finally got the point that you tried to tell me from the mail
or at least i finally “move on” to the next stop of my life ~

I already started my first full-time job since this Aug (i choose the job related to my major from university, cuz it looks like a little “professional”), i met lots of nice people and experienced lots of my “first time” , such as practice the knowledge from textbook into the really case ….
I have to say , i really learned lots from the past few months

Right now , about my next step , i start to collect some ideas from my daily life and gain more confident about what i really want to learn
I believe i will get my obviously goal after i experiencing more from my work , my case and so on.

by the way , besides ppaper business and monocle , the “ELLE” is one of my favorite and so happy to see your article in ELLE this month
thanks for all you help

take care ,
Kimmy

I am not a good disciplined blogger. i prefer to answer questions from readers. I never want to create a blog based on my writing. I want more interaction and user generated contents blog.

My monthly updated writing is just a bait to fish out more questions from readers.

Be inspired, get involved, take action.

Without action, you really did not lean anything.

Thank you for taking action to write to me.

bye for now.

Ping

You are still young. Learning Engineering will help you see things differently. It could be an asset in anything you decide to do when you are more confident of being a true you.

In Canmeng Institute, we have students like you working at CitiBank or accounting, they decided to change their career and enrolled in Canmeng Institute. They are doing superb now. They told me they finally can control their own destiny by working with their hands and be a daymaker to their clients. They all love fashion and beauty. Now, they also realize that they can integrate their work and life with environment friendly lifestyle.

You don’t see this kind of change in normal beauty school or any apprenticeship program. Canmeng Institute is not a school to teach skill only. It is a place you can find your calling and live a creative life with like minded people.

Please finish your engineer degree and work a few years related to engineering. If you still like fashion, beauty, craftsmanship and making people happy, you know where to find us. Canmeng is a changemaker to re-invent beauty industry. We want to transform beauty salon/spa to a lifestyle center that will provide guilt free and environmental friendly shopping so we can repair our earth.

You are still young and you have plenty of time to find what you really want. In the mean time, you should get to know us better.

Be the change,

Ping

I am so sorry not be able to answer your question earlier. I must miss out your comment before.

I want to thank you for asking this great question. If your survival were on the line, how you can welcome the discontinuity in your life.

1. How strong you really want to change your work and your life? Only you can answer this question.
2. Assume that you want to change your life no matter what. You should drastically reduce your living expense and move to a small house in the countryside so you can handle your finance better.
3. In my case, i am lucky to save enough money before I decided to quit dental school and find myself after my father passed away. I decided to explore the world more after my father’s death. This is where I got the courage finally. I just know if I don’t do it now, I will not forgive myself. I was in the disillusion for being a dentist for the rest of my life. I know there must be something waiting for me to explore.

Yes, money is important. This is why I encourage you to save money now so you can have enough savings to finance you one year of exile.

I decided to hit the wave of PC business in early 1980. From there, I got to know Paul Mitchell, the professional hair product company. Paul asked me to distribute his products in Taiwan. Here you are. I become a businessmaker first.

When student is ready, teacher will show up.

You just have to be ready and be there.

Be the change,

Ping

I am really glad to find out your blog. I cannot agree you more that people should pursue what they are interested in, passionate about, dreaming of. I would love become to a hair dresser when I were young, however, our culture does hold me back when you have to make the choice as you mentioned in one of your replies.

Instead of the possibility working with in beauty industry, I am now still a student in Engineering. It’s hard to see there is any chance for me also with my age… I am just hoping that this nightmare is going to end soon and I can also start what I really love.

Best wishes
Chi