Refill your creativity.
創造力を補充しよう。
From time to time, we feel like we have no idea. Especially after we work hard and create many things.
That’s quite natural. It happens because of what you’ve just accomplished—your dedicated work took lots of your energy, which has to be replenished.
Take some time to refill your creativity. You deserve it, and your future work requires it. It’s not just taking a rest; it’s an investment for your future.
Be you.
自分でいよう。
The cost of betraying ourselves is ridiculously high.
It makes us uncomfortable, depressed, and upset. It loses our health—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. It takes many things—like friends, money, job, or customers—away from us. We can no longer trust ourselves, and that affects everything in our life.
To be ourselves is the only way to stop paying the price. The world around you wouldn’t change immediately, but if you keep being yourself, things will begin to change—slowly and surely.
Choose to be a creator.
創り出す人になろう。
Choose to be a creator whenever possible.
The opposite is to be an operator; the person who only follows (or is forced to follow) someone’s instructions, no matter what his/her title is. Even Director or Manager can be an operator if they only follows instructions of their boss.
In a real life, we are sometimes an operator. At some point in our life, that would be the only option to make a living. But that doesn’t mean that we have to be an operator all the time. Or for the rest of our life.
We are not created to be an operator. We all have something only we can create, like our own selves. Ignore naysayers, stand up, and create for your own sake.
Difference creates value.
相違が価値を創る。
Never express your opinion about religion and politics.
This is one of the rules to work globally, and its point is simple: If we want to build relations with others, we should not talk about things that reveal irreconcilable differences.
We are all different. If you believe that your way of thinking is the same as someone else—even very close people—that’s not true. Being similar is quite different from being the same, and often can be the reason to cause an argument.
When it comes to religious and political view, we all are QUITE different. It’s easier to create an uncompromising situation than being similar. We can’t even talk about the difference among us because we don’t know enough about other’s view on those matters. We might be able to find and understand the difference if we asked thousands of questions, but doing so just breaks a relationship before building it.
I don’t know your religious and political view. You don’t know mine either. We will never talk about those views. But it won’t prevent us from creating something meaningful—like businesses, arts, products or services—together.
Endure all things.
すべてを寛大に受け入れよう。
Endure all things happening in our life.
Because that makes us stronger.
Because that allows us to let go of regret, resentment and bitterness.
Because that makes our life full of compassion for others.
That’s the only way to live with love, the source of our being.
