Hello and thank you for visiting. My name is Vu, I enjoy writing and sharing personal development with my friends, family and those I engage in conversation with. I got the idea of starting this blog by wanting to have a platform to share my thoughts and beliefs, so vuvan.com was created to reach a broader audience. All of the posts are original with my personal views and opinions, and not copied works from other sources or an RSS feed of numerous sites, you will find fresh ideas and unique posts that will hopefully inspire you.
My goal for this site is to ignite personal innovation and development into your life. I define personal innovation as, taking innovation to the personal level with the never ending pursuit of self improvement. Personal innovation to me is a desire to improve, refine and maximize our full potential to improve our quality of life, career, relationships and self.
In life as well as business, it is innovate or die. If you are not constantly improving, then you are being left behind as life passes you by without capturing the beauty that life has to offer. We have one chance to live our life and with each passing day, we can harness the potential and continually improve, or we can be stagnant and hope for the best or worse, not living life to the fullest.
Fostering personal innovation and personal development into your life can become your great competitive advantage. The outcome of our life is a product of what we put into it. We all have the potential to grow, learn and be the best we can possibly be, but it does take work and dedication to continually improve. I feel that most people live life below their potential (including myself) but we can seek improvement with each passing day. While we all achieve things in life, we can always seek to do better for ourselves, family, friends and others.
My writing consists of various topics on personal development, but my main focus is on personal innovation. The 5 p's of personal innovation I have chosen to focus on include:
- Personal Productivity: Innovating the process of how we accomplish things.
- Personal Excellence: Innovative approaches to reach your full potential
- Personal Branding: Innovate the way the world views you.
- Personal Finance: Innovate the way you spend and save
- Psychology: Innovating the way we think
My personal goal is to achieve balance in life, continually learn and grow each day, week, month and year. I also want to share my thoughts and lessons I have learned to others in hope that it will help or motivate others to improve as well. I look forward to sharing with you and please join me as we embark on a journey called life and to make the best of it.
-Vu Van
A little bit more about me:
I am a guy who loves life and continually striving to be the best I can be and to be a better person with each passing day. I currently live in Northern California but my heart is in Hawaii where I went to high school and did my undergraduate. For my professional background, I am a professional sales consultant for a global company and I love what I do. **** Update 4/2011: Got promoted to Regional Business Manager, and still love what I do. I was in the United States Air Force for four years, proudly serving our country and have learned quite a bit during that time.
I love learning and I am currently finishing my final year of achieving my goal of obtaining my MBA degree at the University of Colorado. ****Update June 2011: Graduated! With my new degree and new promotion, I have not been keeping my blog as updated as I want it to be, but will try... priorities, priorities. It is challenging working full time as well as doing a full time graduate program, but it teaches me how to be more productive with my time and to prioritize what I do with each 24 hours I am given. I am doing well at balancing my life and doing well both at work and at school.
I enjoy the outdoors, hiking, biking, addicted to snowboarding, surfing, traveling and I love to eat. I enjoy sharing ideas with people and to give and take advice. I have a love for photography and focus my photography on old subjects such as an old barn, old car etc., beach scenes, water and I really enjoy taking pictures of trees. I also do a lot of Macro photography because beauty is all around us if we take the time to look closer and to pay attention to the beauty surrounding us. I also enjoy taking black and white shots because of the power it displays. One of my favorite photographers is Ken Duncan from Australia and I stumbled upon his gallery while I did a trip to Australia and fell in love with his work. He has an eye to capture beauty and the shots are very inspiring. I will be sharing some of my photos on this blog shortly as I am working on my online portfolio.
Thank you again for visiting and I look forward to sharing my thoughts with you.
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