A Junk Ride Around Hong Kong

So the reason that I have not been able to update this blog for several weeks is because I have been so busy with travel, networking and just being busy in general! You can probably read more about me on www.meguiars.com.cn than this blog site. One thing I am trying to do is to not make this blog into strictly an update about my work progress. I also want to update what has been going on with my free time and what is new.

Today is rainy day in Hong Kong and that is OK with me since I slept in today, the first day to sleep in for 4 weeks and I am just taking it easy today and relaxing, while doing a bit of small work and getting my plans ready for what I will be up to next week in Macau. Yesterday I was able to go on a junk ride (old hong kong boat) and we cruised around Hong Kong island, Kowloon, and a bit of the inner territories. There was a boat load (no pun intended) of new people and it was fun to network and meet people from all over. It was pretty humorous for everyone to tell me that my accent was so strange and weird, when I thought they all had weird accents! haha Hong Kong is really an interesting city with people coming and going all the time and everyone is really trying to pursue the "american dream" here and do anything and everything to succeed! I have made close friends (mate) with another guy who is my age and he is from Australia. We have become friends and we are travel buddies and free time friends when we both are not working! The picture is after lunch when the sun was setting in Hong Kong behind the mountains. It was an incredible day with great friends, good food, and overall, even though I got a bit sunburned....it was worth it!

Making a Difference for Someone

Many people think that they cannot really make a huge difference in someones life, but most times, its not really the case. Even though I am doing a lot of grunt work, most people I work with are from all over the world and also have differing backgrounds. It is extremely rewarding to go out and meet with a new person, ask questions, listen a lot!, and then work with them. There is even a new level of teaching when in a new country with different views. As I work with them about how to do sales and how to rethink how they think about work and life, you can see internal and physical change. Pictured is an unnamed man I worked with in Asia and when I first came to him, he had been selling Meguiar's for about a year. Unfortunately he was dissatisfied with his job, not making the amount of money he wanted, could not sell and was just in a bad place overall. I worked with him over a 5 day period and did everything from how to dress and look to how to use the products and tools to even how to talk to people. After some working, I could see a HUGE improvement and the nice thing is that he will learn, change and this could possibly change his life for him and his family! I hope that next time I go and work in his area.....he has learned more and has really made a huge improvement. So far, I am extremely happy with helping him out, check out his picture...who would you rather work with?!?

I am on youtube!

My day to day work is very random and usually extremely busy. Even though I have been extremely busy with work, I have really enjoyed what I have been up to. Last week we were able to purchase a camera, video camera, and new apple laptop so we have been able to upload new videos. I have been able to upload a lot of new videos at www.youtube.com and user name called meguiarsasia. Anyone can go here and see what new things I have been up to! I am going to be an Internet movie star.......well maybe not!