How are you? Are you enjoying your new week?

It is Tuesday on my side already. Last week and the early time in the new week, I did a lot of things in the company, on my art learning and health management... :-)

Base on the business model study and investigation outside and inside, a group of my colleagues and I visited some companies with 50,000 and 6000 employees, to learn their corporate culture and human resource management experience.

Another group of colleagues and I met some experts who are working on a government programming of Shenzhen City from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences. We had a good communication and we have invited their chief scientist to have a lecture on some topic we are interested in and then to see whether there is a possibility to making some cooperation.

On the weekend, I read, thought and mentioned out of my ideas on the company’s strategy for the coming 3 years that a group of colleagues had drafted already. Also, I created some new paintings, re-wrote and played a piece of music for a Chinese classical poem.

During the process, I have met some troubles from my health -- my eyesight was suddenly unclear much more at the time when I found the draft had a big distance as I wished; I felt frustration for I could not perform my duty to correct it on the computer as usual, but a few months ago I could work for about 15 hours each day as long as I needed; my confidence was a little bit shake so that I wanted to retire tomorrow... However, right now, I have gone over the hard time and re-come back to my office with smiles...

I cannot speak very clear about my own Heart Road process. Maybe it was the sense of responsibility supporting me to complete my duty and the enjoyment of the work was pushing me to work? Anyway, I took my recorder and camera with me, to record the communications and to help me to work...

No matter what has heppened, I have been keeping doing exercise, recording my eating, sleep, rest style and emotion change, then to recall and analyze what has made me feel good and what has made me feel bad, often summarize, regulate my own behaviors and control my emotion.

Even though I have to spend for about 1 hour on my exercise in the morning -- running outdoor, doing exercise and touching some acupuncture points indoor; even though some of my skin over bones has broken for I had touched it too much; even though I often feel a little bit “Pity” for I can not paint with the cherish time... I am smiling right now -- I have completed my writing via trying 3 times with controlling my emotion on the weekend. After I sent it to my colleagues and bosses before 8:00am Monday morning, I suddenly felt that my eyes seemed like getting better, the ache of joints seemed like reduce a lot. With a good heart, I attended meetings, discussions, worked here or there, left for home at 7:00 pm...

Maybe someone would think that Shirley is a workaholic. That is right and that is wrong. For what? For I do not work for making more money -- If I did, I would not need to leave from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 1993 and to join the 3 times’ establish new businesses for founding a new newspaper office, a new network company and a new information company with the salary much lower than I had in the Stock Exchange; I do not work for the result -- many times, after completing a big project, when the others were in a working dinner or took photos with the leaders from Beijing or our shareholders or bosses, I went back home to sleep; I work for the beautiful feelings that the work itself brings to me, just like a special and interesting art has brought me -- When we find that our dream years ago has been true, a real company, a series of products, a unique business model, an alive team, a huge technology system, a kind of corporate culture and an interesting business thought has been found from nothing by our hands and hard work, the wonderful feeling is just like some artists have created some special and visual art works.

The joyful feeling cannot be expressed by language; it is similar as what I have felt from the art learning and creating of painting, music and language indeed.

Besides, these days, when I felt better in the days there was sunshine, when I re-came back to the stadium, to have a morning running in the sunshine, I really thought of a lot. The biggest feeling is that Sunshine is something most beautiful in the world. It does not only bring a bright life environment of human being, but also, it has brought people a warm, delight and happy feeling, helps people to live and work with a more healthy heart. Opposite, when the sunshine has gone, many bad feelings and bad behaviors will happen in the dusky or dark. Sunshine is really something necessary in the process of human being's origin, existing and development.

With the same reason, if a company can create a Sunshine culture -- put all of our management methods, rules and regulations in the Sunshine, create an open, fair, equity, work environment for its employees, help them to work with a Sunshine Heart in the Sunshine atmosphere, maybe the company will certainly grow up more healthily?

Do you agree with me? Do you have any feeling or experience on Sunshine, Sunshine heart and Sunshine culture?


I am just a learner on art of painting, music and English, to work on the web site in my free time. I would really like to do a few things with what I have learned to make this little web site to be an Electronic Bridge of Culture Exchange, Chinese Language Learning & Friendship making. To help the others while to improve myself.

I would like to appreciate your understanding, directions, supports and hope to get your friendly direction and help.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, you are welcome to write to shirley@ebridge.cn or shirley004@yahoo.com, or to publish your opinions in the forum.

Shirley Yiping Zhang
Tue., July 6, 2010