From 35 to 40 years old, you should enjoy giving hope and doing good deeds endlessly. At this time, you should be enterprise-oriented, and work is just a kind of leisure that can be transformed into responsibility for others. If you are dedicated to research, you shouldn't only focus on hard labor around the clock but should have the ambition to establish a research institute and lead a team to do more R&D. If you are a corporate manager, you should not stay in the hustle and bustle of trivial matters but should have the ability to lead employees and family members around you to enjoy a better life. The size of your vision will affect the extent of your achievements; be an influential person rather than one who is influenced.
From 25 to 30 years old, you're like a sponge, absorbing everything and willing to be squeezed, all for personal growth. During this period, you should be work-oriented, focusing on salary, benefits, promotions, and transfers. You should meticulously compare these factors because only by paying enough effort can you actively strive for what you deserve. The energy of young professionals should allow you to carve out your own sky. Due to lack of experience, you don't understand setbacks. With limited capital, you must do everything possible within human power and leave the rest to fate. Now, you: pay others' salaries, learn from others' experiences, spend your youth, and build your future.
[Learn interpersonal relationships, make more positive friends. In ten years, these friends will be the backbone of the industry.]
From 30 to 35 years old, you need to learn how to identify and seize opportunities without the mindset of trial and error anymore. At this point, you should be career-oriented and family-oriented. Work should shift from physical to mental labor. You should look at prospects rather than current situations, facing a broad life rather than being limited to self-centeredness. Marriage is a significant decision for many people in their lives. Many believe that getting married ends a responsibility, not realizing it's the beginning of learning. Like some newly listed companies, they think they've reached their goal, forgetting their corporate responsibilities and neglecting their main business, which instead marks the start of a nightmare.
[No matter how successful you are now, can you draw a picture of yourself in ten years?]
Isn't the essence of our main business managing our families, earning money with the aim of providing a better life for our families? But this cannot be an excuse for neglecting them. A person who poorly manages their family may earn the whole world, but they only receive superficial applause and will always have a gap in their life circle. Home should be your greatest spiritual pillar, source of energy, and strong support!
[Time management, transforming mood; transform working with your brain rather than your body.]
[Learn to accumulate experience, seek opportunities, and the guidance from mentors and beneficial friends will greatly enhance your growth.]
I see so many excellent friends around me, much better than I am, unfortunately spending their days in endless hustle and bustle, investing more time, energy, and resources yet not receiving the deserved value. The reason is simple: wrong efforts, wrong opportunities, and rejecting chances.
Before 40, most people are similar, studying and building foundations under the influence of parents, relatives, and societal values, completing basic education through trial and error. Choosing to study should be done with determination before entering the industry; go as far as you can because no matter when you enter the industry, you are still a newcomer. However, once you have work experience and want to further your studies, there are certainly more options, but also more struggles. Since you might question whether investing in learning at your current age, conditions, and qualifications is worth it.
If you decide to be an employee for life, education is likely very important to you. Otherwise, time is precious and doesn't allow you to take the wrong path. From 20 to 25 years old, you need to understand controlling and planning your future. Once decided, it's an unwavering path of no return. Having just gained various rights granted by law, you must fulfill your duties and learn to shoulder responsibilities. This is a period of joy, conflict, and pain: joy comes from gaining some autonomy, conflict arises from the continuous umbilical relationship with parents, and pain stems from starting to try and fail. You need to start planning your future, such as further education, employment, emotions... regaining control over your life rather than being swayed by external influences.
Jordan played basketball all his life and would find it hard to find his stage on a baseball field. Don't let busyness blind your eyes until you look back and ask: Am I too old to still perform?
UMC General Manager Hongren Wu talks about "Where is your time?"
[Rather be busy because of dreams than lose dreams because of busyness.]
The first letter: Where is your time?
Quietly reflect! Isn't the purpose of all our current efforts for our parents, partners, children...? Work should not equal life, nor should it be something that needs to be managed for a lifetime. Ask yourself: health, wealth, self-growth, interpersonal relationships, and time freedom - what drives your efforts at work? I believe no one would willingly give up any of these. These are precisely what motivate us young people to advance. Ten years later, will you achieve them early or abandon them prematurely?