Special Economic Zone of Russia - Titanium Valley

I attended a seminar at Nagoya Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The title was:
 Russia Business Seminar - Attractiveness of Russian industrial zone for Japanese Companies

In the seminar, the "Titanium Valley" was introduced.

 "Titanium Valley" is a special economic zone of Verhniaia-Salda
in Sverdrobsk Oblast of Russia.

At the seminar,
Mr. Orlov - vice governor of Sverdlovsk province,
Mr. Kuzlasov - CEO of Titanium Valley
made presentations.

They appealed:
Attractivenesses of the Sverdlovsk province, such as Yekaterinburg
Abundance of resource base
Labor force in the area
Advantage of tax benefits

They called for investment to the special economic zone.



http://www.titanium-valley.com/
Titanimum Valley Official Site ( Russian)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_Valley
Wikipedia about Titanium Valley (English)

Ethos Pathos and Logos: Elements to Persuade People

Ethos: Ethics. Authorized person who is widely recognized.


Pathos: Emotion, or passion. Most of TV commercials are made to stimulate your emotion.

Logos: Logic. Objective analysis. Statistics. Data

Small Company's Strategy

Memo to survive in a battle of business for a small company.

- Niche
- Special and Unique
- Be Top in the Niche Market
- Concentrate
- Short Distance
- Direct Business
- Goodwill
- Enjoy Working with Full Force

Do not judge people by appearance, but...

You should not judge people by appearance.

It is hard to tell what people can provide you only by looking their appearance.
You may make a big mistake if you judge people only by their appearance.

At the same time, most people will judge you by appearance in many situations.
That is the world.

Understand that people judge you by appearance, and learn how to make your life better.

Something to Impede Success

- Psychological resistance to changes 
- Improper ethical thinking
(For example. I'd better not to stand out. Working hard to make money is ugly. etc.) 
- Hatred and inferiority complex
- Habits to blame others
- Thinking to justify my own past
- Obsession that will not allow me to throw away what I have now

To become a Popular Person

- Make yourself attractive
- Observe your surroundings and take care
- Create fun topics
- Give hope and dreams
- Provide the good stuff
- Make effort to improve customer satisfaction
- Talk something helpful for people
- Make people be impressed
- Cherish the heart-to-heart contact

Change Your Words, Lift Your Life

Every language has a power.

If you would like to change your life, first of all change your words.

Try to say much more positive, better words.

Better words, make your life better.

Tips to become better salesperson

Most of high-performing salespeople do following things when they meet potential customers.

1. Concentrate to make a good first impression
2. Don't talk much. Listen to the customer actively
3. Propose to meet customer needs and resolve customer concerns, regardless profitable or not.
4. Do a kind act to the customer

Let's do practice.

Know Yourself

For better human relationships, for business success,
it is important to know yourself.

According to psychology, human beings know only around 10% of  themselves.


If you let yourself unknown, you will suffer in various situations by taking actions unconsciously.

-What actions you take?
-How you speak?
-What you know?
-What you don't know?
-What you can do for who?

Asking yourself will provide various hints to improve relationships with surroundings, and make business success.

Make yourself free from stereopyped thinking

Unwittingly, you're bound to stereotyped thinking more or less.

Stereotyped thinking is to take your potential away.

When you feel you were in stuck, re-think if you were bound to stereotyped thinking.

Make yourself free from stereopyped thinking.
Only believe the absolute truth that does not change anytime.

 Then. Just move forward.

How do you choose your business?

Once you were born in this world, you as a human being should be of use of others.

In order to "eat stably" in this society, you have to be a specialist, be some professional and train yourself,so as to be able to work as trusted by others.

There are various businesses in the world.
When you choose your business, think what the people in society want as well as what you want to do.
The businesses with much demand which will last long, will be favorable.

If something that you want to work have fewer demand, the business would not go better.

 Do business that people want, be a person of use.
That's will increase your income, and fulfill your life.

God always gives us hints

There are a variety of suffering things in life.

When we are in trouble, in hard times, we sometimes do not know what to do.


What should I do you to succeed?

How can I escape from the tough situation?

How can we become happy?

In fact, around us, God is placing the tips of the answers.

It is up to us if we notice or we don't.

Market and future by participating in TPP

Participation in TPP is likely to alter the market in the future significantly.

A number of tariff and non-tariff barriers that had until now will be removed.
The trade and commerce between TPP participating nations would be very active than ever TPP.

Companies in many countries will be aiming to come in Japan.
At the same time, Japanese companies will have chances to penetrate into many countries.

This means,  joining TPP can be a big risk, and can also be a great opportunity at the same time.

In the near future, it would be possible to significantly change the market in any case.

We need to get ready until then.

must eliminate the obsession

If you stick to something, you will not see the surroundings.

When your heart is in vanity, your actions will be biased.

The stronger you are obsessed, the more your heart become cloudy. And connection with people will be lost.

To make your mind radiant,

in order to increase the number of good connections with people,

and, in order to broaden your options to take,

it is important to eliminate the obsession.

Try to reflect every day,

if you are too stick to something and become blind for obsession.

All things in the world is good

The God have created thr world.

Because all things were created by God,

There is not an evil thing.

People sometimes say they are good things, or those are evil things.

Values ​​of those are just what people's way of thinking.

The world, there is no good thing nor evil thing.

You can think

and say all things in the world are the "good" things.
 
No matter what kind of things happen,

those are the "good things".

Human being is neither good nor evil

A human being is a human being.

There is no human being who is instinctively good or evil.

There are several personalities in one person, it is not uncommon.

Even to the people who are hobnob, you just only see one aspect of their characters, and know only some parts of their mind.

Therefore, it is not necessarily a good thing to decide prematurely. Such as "that guy is good" or "that person is not good".


People are originally neither good nor evil.

Trade with Russia

I have experience to help trade with a company in Russia two years ago.

I thought at that time business with Russia, have some difficulties.


It is particular at the time, that the documents are slow to arrive.

I sent documents to Vladivostok in Russia several times. It took more than 10 days.
The envelope of documents seems to be opened before arrival.

The distance between Nagoya and Vladivostok is almost samw with between Nagoya and Sapporo.
But, I felt it is a lot farther.

When I did business for USA, I remember documents did not take more than two days.

Japan and Russia still does not have a peace treaty, there is a limit on the flow of people and trade.

To make trade with Russia easier, we may need to wait until there is progress in the political.

It arrived!

Here I received the sign board of the company.



A little smaller than I thought.

But this is maybe just in size.

I will attach it at the front fence tomorrow.

Judgment of good and evil

Something good, or something evil are the value judgments on things that people think.

They are relative, depending on the person, on the society and on the age.

Even though some people think something is a good thing, that does not necessarily mean that it is a good thing also for others.
  .

You will make big mistakes if you make decisions based only on your value judgement.
Living in a narrow society for a long time, people tend to think that the value judgements in the society are the absolutely right thing.

However, once you go to the world outside of the society, you will be reminded how tiny the society's value judgments and attitudes are.

Limits of ideologies

Today's world is said to be the world of the law of the jungle.

And the law of the jungle is beasts' world.

Human beings should no be same as beasts.

Since we make human society,

we should help each other, and support each other.

And for that reason people master skills, become experts,

 and serve for the human society.

However,

if egoists to think care only about themselves,

negligent people who think only to get money without working,

scammers who just want to scrape off the money of others,

increase in the society, the society become devastated

and will become same with beasts' world.

This is same what ideology the society take.

In order to become a good society,

for people to live in happiness,

beyond the ideology

 the human society needs something to cleanse the minds of the people.

The first time that the "something" has

people can sincerely try to serve the community,

to help each other, support each other in the society.

The important thing is the heart of the people, not the ideology.

Move forward at full speed optimistically

A story wrote that

"In the world, no matter men or women, the successfull people are the optimists"

That's it really true.

I think most of them considered as successful people are positive and optimistic.

Many books for success published widely emphasize importance of positive thinking.

However,

it seems not a few people could not succeed even they try to think positively.



How do you become like successful people?

What differences are there between successful people and others?

Absolutely, successful people have continued to strive until they succeed.

Every day, they move forward with all their strength.

They're happy-go-lucky for themselves to move forward.

Move forward.

DO NOT afraid of moving forward.
Be optimistic to change yourself.


It, perhaps is a key to success.

Will not be guilty

Do not do anything that you feel guilty in mind even a little.

Once you lied, you will have to continue lying.

Once you compromised, you will have to compromise again and again.

Once you go on wrong way, you will spend life full of mistakes.

Do not lie, do not compromise, do not go on wrong way.


In order to live with peace in mind,

it is important that you shouldn't leave anything that you feel guilty in mind even a little.

"What have Japanese thought about" - E-tele of NHK

Last night, I watched NHK E tele TV program for the first time in a long time.

"What have Japanese thought about"

From Meiji to early Showa era ( around from 1850 to 1950 ) the program featured Ohmoto religion's thoughts, two founders of Nao Deguchi and Onisaburo Deguchi, and two times governments' crackdowns as changing times.

The word "Restoration" impressed me a little.
In a world of darkness filled with a sense of stagnation where power rules and evils are rampant,

to revive the era, and to remake the world.

In the word "Restoration", wishes "to rebuild the world properly" are included.

 It seems the wishes of people have not changed of the Meiji era, Taisho, and Showa also.

Even I felt the TV program did not investigate interpretation of "Kojiki" or "Kamigakari" deeply, I watched that very interestingly.

All of your value is only 'yourself' now

How can you measure the value of human?

Does it depend on how much money you have?

Deposit balance?

Higher title, or positon?

Graduate from a prestigious university with high educational attainment?

 Those things may evaluate people how they are successfull in society, or be in advantageous positions.

But, they have nothing to do with the value of human.

All that decide your value is only yourself at the moment.

People tend to think human's value is decided by how he/she looks, what title he/she has, or what position he/she is in.

And, many people try to decorate themselves to raise the ratings from around.

But, they do not improve their true values by doing that.

So as to improve your true value,

just polish yourself single-mindedly.

Train your body.

Cleanse your spirit.
 
And be careful with your actions and your words.

Exercise Little by Little

Today is 5th January.
Now we will have to escape from new year holidays' flaccid mood.

Change your mind.

Work your body little by little.

You may feel tough if you work with 100% power suddenly.

You may brake your body, you may capture cold, or you may have back pain or shoulder pain.

Keep in mind you do a lean start.

Within a range that does not try too hard

Do not pamper yourself

Little by little

Slowly



Keep on moving your body.

And make that habit.

fight to win

The objective to fight

is to win.

It is to win, to reap the benefits of a winner.

Now that fight to win

It is important to get a result.

Careful preparation

Committed attitude

and

Obsession to win

have a significant impact on the outcome.
 
It is not good just to fight blindly without knowing the movements of the enemy without any preparation. Or, back off since fight begins and not fight with full force.

You can not just avoid fighting.



Wasteful fight should be avoided, but some fightings are necessary for you to survive.

It will be better to fight with full force and all the efforts you have rather than escaping around.

Do everything you can to win so as to leave no regrets in your life.

First dream of the year

I had a dream.


Perhaps it is the first dream of the year.

That is,

Dream to repeat a year of student.


I can not go to upper grade since something like a math did not qualified.

Because of this disqualification

I have to stay in the same place

I was stepping.


"Oh, I already graduated that school didn't  I?"

I think so

"Once again, I've just re-entered"

The voice came to me in the dream.

I do not know why, but in his dream, I had been convinced by his words.


"I can not go out of this situation. Because I am missing something."

I heard a voice like that, then I awoke from a dream.

...

Am I missing something ...?

Should I compensate anything missing so as to escape the status?

Hmmm

From the year's first dream, I was taught something.

New Year's card

More than I thought,

Received from a variety of people.
 
It is thankful.

I have different impression to those 

who give us greeting cards, and those wo do not.

We can meet, call, send e-mail anytime.

But that is not everything.

Sending greeting cards will be

very efficient for 

 deeper relationship building.
 

Way back in the shrine

I went to Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya city as a new year greeting.

Atsuta Jingu

It was crowded.

Have come out a lot of stalls,

There were quite a lot of people.

Well,
 
What came to my mind was at the returning road.

Way back from the road per stall,

when I look on the road
 
plastics and food waste,
 
and cigarette butts
 
were scattered around.

Where people gather, garbages come out.

That is the way, but

I feel uncomfortable by seeing them.

People go to shrine as a new-year greeting to the god,

then they leave rubbish on the road just after praying.

I think that is less preferred.