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I was watching biography & the success story of Howard Schultz who is the chairman of Starbucks coffee , on TV the other day and I was inspired by his amazing passion for coffee which he offers in Starbucks and his heartfelt communication with customers and people, besides his success story. I love to read biographies, and success stories about any kind of topics, business, health, wealth, beauty, happiness, etc.. and always love to learn “ How “. and finding the common between all the successful people. He is famous and I suppose everyone knows about his biography and his success story. I just wanted to include his story in my blog Miho’s Favorites . Howard Schultz described his business and his selling of delicious coffee this way, “ This is not a transaction, not a calculation , no, it’s a passion ! and it’s about communication with people, with heart ! “ Especially this his quote above was very impressive and is spinning around in my head. Also,

I came across this article “ Anti-Aging Advice from a 96-year-old Hottie “ and found there are some important points to live healthy, live longer and look younger. Here is the article below, ______________________________________________________________________ "Don't spend a lot of time with old people, they just make you feel older," my 96-year old grandmother told me at our latest luncheon. After finishing off a large Caesar Salad and her second glass of Ice Tea, she stood and pointed to her new three inch caramel-colored Ferragamo heels she bought on sale. "Aren't they just darling?" she asked. "They match my sweater set just perfectly," she said as she skimmed her body like a Miss USA contestant. This continual zest for life and fun is just one trait that makes my paternal grandma the most youthful and hip person that I know. Still driving around town in her shiny red Lexus, she continues to maintain her sassy, coiffed hairdo

OMG.. It’s already almost time for US Nationals figure skating events. Every season, ( since 2007) It’s hard to focus anything else and my mind is full about men’s event with nerves and I’m anxious, besides excitement. Especially this is Olympics season, and the result of the Nationals influences to get the spot for the USA Olympics team. However , it’s always “ mindset ” comes to my mind first before the competitions. I’ve heard that Japanese skater Miki Ando was thinking about the Olympics while she was competing at Japanese Nationals, and lost podium. She was already locked as an Olympics Japanese team member since she won Gold at two GPS events and won Silver at GPF this season. And now she sounds very nervous from pressure, and her memory of the last Olympics made her even more nervous. And I started thinking, this kind of feeling may be happening to all the other athletes, especially, Johnny Weir from USA, Brian Joubert from France, Carolina Kostner from Italy,

Many successful people often say these quotes, " Nothing is impossible. Never give up !" While I was checking Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomorv ’s official site, I found Navka’s favorite quotes are those words. First, I thought it’s very simple quotes , not so unique, so I was wondering why ? I also saw Jeremy Wariner said those quote in interview. Also many other successful Olympic athletes, Successful Hollywood actresses, musicians and business owners. But when I was re- thinking those quotes deeply, suddenly I realized that it’s very powerful words and gave me fire and high energy. They all believed they can do it with burning desire and well balanced focus , thinking only one thing. And that got successful result. But once successful people achieved their goal , often the burning fire is gone. Keep winning is not easy. Once they won it, or got huge hit, no starving mind left anymore , easy to become lazy. Also high pressure appears from public expectatio

It’s always inspiring people who achieved their dream. In this Beijing Olympics, I have no doubt Michael Phelps is the most successful athlete who challenged 5 individual swimming competitions and won all of them and made world records, plus 3 team competitions relay, and received total of 8 gold medals. In the beginning , I was more thinking about my favorite subjects , gymnastics and track & field, and had no interest for swimming competitions. US broadcast showed mainly swimming most of the time and I wasn’t watching Phelps interviews at that time. But later, by chance I watched one of his interviews and found good impression about him seeing his talking. He is a very nice guy, nothing arrogant, snob against anyone, humble and humility. Later, I started checking his records and biography and was shocked to see his amazing success. Analyzing the key of successful people is one of my favorite things to do. There are always common things for successful people. Here ar

It’s so interesting to see how people see things differently in the world. Right now, I’m very into watching figure skating and when watching one particular skater, people’s impressions are so different. I found that the more people try to convince their opinion, the more other people who disagree are coming. Maybe it’s better not to try to convince their opinion to others except in situations where it’s something that is a known fact and truth.  Other wise, people will get more thick head for their opinions. Actually, I think it’s good to have different opinion from others. Just maybe how we all tell our opinion may be more important when it comes to influencing other people’s feeling. When we have disagreement, many people start to talk aggressive ways , correcting which is right or wrong .  So argument starts. I also found that when someone compliment and who gush for their favorite skaters, and putting them up too much , always others come to bash the skaters. Somehow,

People can't be successful if they don't have luck, even though they have enormous talent and abilities and they work hard and have determination. We all need luck to be successful for our life . Love, wealth, fame, health ,career whatever. From my experience, I believe luck doesn't just happen. We make it happen. Sounds weird ?  I've been researching difference between lucky people and unlucky people since a long time ago. I'm not a religious person but I always care about happiness. I always thought everyone has to experience tough time in our life. There are good time and bad time in life.  However, I noticed there are people who don't have much difficult experience in their life.  And there are people who have everything they want in their life Love, wealth, health etc.. And I found out the difference. Here is the list. * Lucky people often gratitude about things and people, unlucky people often complain about things and people. * Lucky people are opt

Magical Words that will attract alot of luck into your life ! Words have power. "Words have the power to change things for good or ill." Recently, I found really great info about life improvement at Japanese sites. And seems like so many people has already received great result. Some people could cure their illness using these magical words. Some are experiencing great relationship. Some got promotion for their work and increase their income. and I read much more testimonials. It's very simple. The point of how we can change our life to be going well are the words you are often speaking ( writing ) and thinking. 1. " Thank you ( so much. )" 2. " I appreciate ... " or  " I am grateful for ...  "  3. " I'm a lucky guy ( person ) ! "  When you feel down, depressed, nervous, frustrated or angry,  say " Thank you so much ! " as often as possible ( at least 1,000).  This

Before I fell asleep, I always read a book.  That's one of my habit ! Last night, I was reading one of my favorite book called " Atractor factor " by Joe Vitale . It's a self help book , very spiritual and also very practical.  This is not just a new age book and it's kind of like a famous classic book " Napoleon Hill " . But it has more clear information to be successful. I read this book over and over and I'm still getting a lot of help from it.  Every time I read it , I always discovered the key of our life success from it. " The Energy You Give Out is the Result You Get " . " Emotion has Power " " Your Inner Becomes Outer " . The author Joe Vitale says " The energy you give out is the result you get " That's the attractor factor. It's really true !  Everything in the world is made up of energy including human , plants , even furniture and decor

I love books, and I love to spend my time at a book store sometimes .  American book store is very convenient because I can read whatever I want , sitting at a sofa, drinking coffee at the star bucks there before I buy any books.  I don't have to buy it if I didn't like it. It's like a library beside the books are all brand new. Since I came in the U.S.A., I hadn't been reading Japanese books , but I had ton of books in my book case in Japan, and I brought only my favorites ones and gave the rest to library and sold them to used book stores.  I wanted to bring everything, but I had too many another staffs to bring and send for moving, so I couldn't. Anyway, yesterday , I found one of my old Japanese book called " " 10 Rules to Boost Your Luck " written by Two Japanese authors , while I was cleaning my book case. I remember, when my feeling was down, I purchased this book and really loved it at that time . Soo