Looking for a language exchange partner Hi bros, I'm looking for a native English speaker who's willing to learn Chinese. We can motivate each other and practice together. Learning is never a chore, it can be fun. Life is difficult. Learning makes it less difficult. What are we waiting for? Let's get started! My skype: winsonwcp

Grow with the company even if you are not as good as your colleagues How would you feel if you work in a place where everybody else is better than you? It could be awful, but there might be many opportunities you can take to grow in this environment. Before thinking about how to make progress, you might need to keep a "mind like water". As for me, this is exactly the issue I faced. At the beginning of my journey in this company, I always felt stressed as you could imagine. After a while, I became more ambitious because my horizons were broadened. What came after that was, my eyes were bigger than my stomachs. I wanted to achieve much more than what I actually could do. Having been through these struggles, I wanted to say, it's really important to have a mind like water. Clearing your mind and being positive and realistic are key. Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and it ofen does. Responding to the environment inappropriately can lead to less successful result than you'd like. Accept your self and try to be a better person.

My confusion As you may have the same desire, I want to get a lot more accomplished with much less effort. I was told that it's possible for people to have overwhelmingly huge amount of things to deal with and still function proactively and productively. I don't know how they make it, but I have been hungry for the methodologies to be able to accomplish the same as they do. At the beginning of my career life, I dealt with, well, everything assigned to me. As I have personally matured, from year to year, I've found deeper and more meaningful things to focus on and be aware of and do. Besides, I want to get as much return as I can on my investment of time and energy through my workdays. For those things assigned to me which are not value-added, I want to get on to other things as fast as I can. The issue here is, I'm still a junior guy in my industry. I don't have that many "high level" and "value-added" things assigned to me as I expect. I have to continue investing most of my time in daily routine which involves no new skills. It seems I'm not getting as much results as I want to get. And there's no way I can change my situation in the near future. If it were you, how would you tackle this issue? Thanks.

Diary Mar 7 2014 I didn't realized that time was slipping away. It is only when it's too late for me to study easily that I realize the importance of self-improvement. It's been more than 10 months since I took my last TOEFL exam, which turned out to be a fiasco. I still remember that I was planing to take a second time in 2 months right after I walked out of the school gate-- exam venue. Ironically, it's been 10 months already. During this long period of time, honestly I haven't made a big headway and I have been just moving forward at a very slow pace. I kept wasting time and didn't focus on my desired goal. What is my desired goal?

Personality Every human being is, in one way or another, unique and distinct. Different personalities result from the way cultrue, family background, growth, personal experience interact with heredity. It's hard to tell that one personality type is over the other but we tend to be in favor of some kind of personalities. Altruists, as how it indicates, concern themselves with the walfare of others. In a world that dog eat dog, you can never expect some one who places others' interest over his own until you meet an altruist. They are not selfish, self-oriented, or money driven as opposed to egoists. I, myself, am an ambivert. I'm quite normal, in the sense that my personality is like that of most people. That means, I have introverted and extroverted tendencies both, at different times or on different occasions. I think the first important step to understand myself is to be aware of my very own personality. It helps me know about my merits and shortcomings.

My English Those of you close to me know that I've had a rich and personally rewarding time on italki studying with quite a lot teachers. The techers have been key in my learning. It's with strikingly mixed emotions to think about my progress in learning the English language. Sometimes it's exciting while sometimes it's frustrating. Having studied with a lot of teachers on italki, today I'm no longer the person I was before. I have a passion for learning the Engish language. It's never a dull moment when I'm here improving myself. Studying English remains a priority for me to continue to focus on. Lately I've just sort of launched an audit of myself about what I have done. There might have been instances where you find yourself not that hard-working, not that aggressive. Now I've come to know that the key to success is hard-work plus luck, none of which can be dispensed with. Wish you all good luck going forward. You must be able to find an occasion to do the same audit of yourself as what I'm doing. My conclusion is I'm doing great! Thanks to each of you for your part in the experience. That's amazing!

Protect online identity Social networking sites are all over the place around the globe lately. However, while you are enjoying having interactions with your friends online, personal information is always the target that a lot of people are gathering for differen purposes, good or bad. Once leaked on the web, personal information is tough to erase. It's not like you write something down on a piece of paper, then you can tear it up and throw it away. Everytime you are online, marketers, web designers, search engines are trying to suck up as much information about you as they can, because they want to make lots of money off you someday. Protecting your personal information can be tough as well. There are a lot of organizations along with the individuals who are tracing others' information. It's a very complicated issue that different people have different oppinions on it. Some people would think, for instantce, what's the matter if I have a dog and they want to tell me about the kind of dog food, that's good. That could be, but there is a lot of bad as well as good. Maybe they are just trying to sell you something which is not so bad, but you won't know what they will use it for possibly in the future which could harm you. That is opening a door to lots of potential problems. What is really scary to me is that sometimes I got emails from people that could even be some of my friends. I know they didn't send me the email, so I just deleted them. But they got my friends' name on there. That's really scary. You can see how much power they have.

Miss some one I woke up very early this morning. The light in the bedroom was dim, but enough for me to see everything around. I stretched out my right hand trying to get my coffee mug which was out of my reach. I tried several times before I surrendered. Then I proped myself up on an elbow curling up, lost in thought. All that I was thinking about was a girl that touching on the most secret wishes of my heart. I must have dreamt for over a century to meet such a girl like her. For the first time I saw her, she was such a young and beautiful girl, with thick black long hair, leaning with her back against the corner of a subway carriage, looking outside with an air in which blandness and yearning were mingled. For the first time I walked towards her, everything I had kept burried inside, was about to come rushing to the surface. God, tell me for the hundredth time that I didn't deserve such a perfect girl, which had your mouth's sanction. All that I desire was a good wife and careful housekeeper, where could I find these better than in her? Time was slipping away. As no attempt was made to prevent that, I had sit on the bed for more than an hour.. That was a daydream that did not appear to make me happy.

Resolutions for the new year We always talk about making plans and resolutions at the beginning of a new year and oftentimes that involves exercises and financial plans. Sometimes, talking about resolutions is depressing because we might be wondering how this year would be any different if we hadn't reached the same goal before. We seem to be standing on the bottom of a big mountain looking up to the summit while being a little hopeless. Several months into the new year, the resolutions tend to fade away. The clouds of confusion and self depreciation block the once-clear summit. Making resolutions is prevalent but people are not always doing it right. Most people tend to make a big promise on themselves, who are trying to hang out a big cloud above their heads. The feeling or illusion of "I'm capable of multitasking several big projects" by setting complicated and difficult goals makes people feel good. With time, when the reality set in, people get frustrated and disillusioned. While other people make small resolutions or don't make any resolutions, who still keep going forward. Therefore, it's all about how people consider their bucket list and have it come true.