Chen's growth process

A budding basketball master for ten years.

Chen was born in a happy military family in Keelung, Taiwan Province. In order to provide a better study and living environment for him and his siblings, the loving parents resolutely gave up the family room allocated by the army, avoided the possible adverse effects of the family village problem children, and moved to other places to rent a house. Although at that time, I only depended on my father's meager salary and my mother's handicrafts to supplement my family, but I still managed to make a living for a family of five.

When he was a teenager, Chen showed his musical talent outside painting, and served as trumpeter, captain and conductor of the school military band. However, in the third year, his height was1.78m, and he was caught by the school basketball team. From then on, he began a ten-year journey to pursue his dream of basketball.

After entering high school, he devoted all his energy to basketball. Under the strict leadership of his captain, both teams inside and outside the school won numerous honors such as champion, runner-up and third runner-up in various basketball competitions in Taipei, which also opened a brand-new page for his brilliant basketball career in the future.

After graduating from high school, he began to think about his future. Between the pale and boring exam-oriented education and basketball, he finally chose the latter and returned to his alma mater, Taipei Qiangshu High School, as an assistant coach of the basketball team. During his service, he joined the Xianguang basketball team and was promoted to be a member of the "social first-class champion" Zhongtai Hotel basketball team. Perhaps, he has long been fascinated by the feeling of forgetting me on the basketball court, and his fighting spirit and ultimate glory with his teammates on the court.

Coincidence returns to zero and starts again.

When we asked, since basketball has a good future, what opportunity made him change his direction and be willing to give up basketball that he liked for ten years and embark on the road of beauty salon management? This should be a mentality that many people can't imagine or even dare to face. Chen said: "It actually started with a coincidence."

When he retired from the army, the Taipei SME Bank basketball team, which happened to be the champion of the social group B at that time, needed excellent players from the group A to supplement its combat power, so I hope he can join and be arranged to work in the bank. This is really something to celebrate for a man who has just retired from the army, has been out of society for three and a half years, and has no higher education and skills, because he can not only continue to complete his basketball dream, but also have an enviable job and income like a public institution.

However, while waiting for the unified examination in the industry, Phil Chen suddenly remembered what a senior repeatedly said before retiring: "Many of our seniors feel that they have served for too long, so once they leave the army, they just want to relax and have a good time, but because of this play, they have been playing and don't want to work hard!" The words of the senior still leave a deep impression on Chen Qianzhi, and keep them in mind. So, while waiting for the bank exam, he decided to accept the introduction of a retired teammate and work in the business department of Xiaolin Hair Salon Chain Company. At this time, the god of fate also began to turn Chen's gear, deviating from his original expected track and making him move towards another new starting point.

Ten-year hairdressing golden boy has a sharp edge

Chen, who is in contact with the so-called salesman for the first time, is very uncomfortable with this mode of operation that does not emphasize teamwork but must often go it alone, because selling hairdressing products requires not only eloquent and meticulous observation, but also careful research on products and even the whole industry. At the same time, the most important thing is to put aside self-esteem and face and work hard in various hairdressing salons, large and small, to create the best performance effect.

Sure enough, a week later, Phil Chen not only didn't sell any products, but suffered all the cold eyes and saw through many indifferent faces. However, the hairdressing industry in Taiwan Province Province is different from that in Chinese mainland, and most of its customers are women. Therefore, for a "big man" with a height of 1.83 meters and a strong sense of self-esteem and honor, it is a serious stimulus and blow to face and bear countless rejections and prevarications from these women every day! Once the overhead lights were completely extinguished, a strong sense of loss swept through Chen's whole heart. Comparing the present and previous scenery is really unbearable and incredible!

Create a new business myth in seven days

Just as Chen was about to give up, the department manager of the company hoped that he could meet the general manager first. In this way, a person who influenced him for the next ten years appeared. "Mr. Huang Can can be said to be the first person who grew up with me, and the only one who convinced and admired me. At the age of 28, he gave up his position as a civil servant known as the iron rice bowl. He started as a small salesman, but only a few years later, he became a well-known management authority in the hairdressing industry in Taiwan Province Province at that time. This not only gave me great confidence and hope, but also gave me new directions and goals, hoping to become an excellent management like him. " Phil Chen told us the story of "Bole meets a swift horse".

In this way, with the experience and encouragement of General Manager Huang, Chen clearly understood the direction of his efforts. Because he had a strong interest in administration when he was engaged in basketball, he decided to stay in the company and still face more customers with the heart of a salesman to understand and deepen various things related to this industry. With a goal, there is motivation. After Chen adjusted his attitude of refusing business work, he let go of the so-called "face" problem (according to him, it is to tear off his face, step on it with his feet first, and then it doesn't matter how others step on it). He got rid of the previous shadow and began to think about how to work hard professionally to make up for the technical deficiencies.

By the end of the second month (in fact, he only entered the beauty salon industry for more than 40 days at this time), the company routinely worked out the sales and collection performance for next month. Under the encouragement and encouragement of General Manager Huang, he boldly promised that the sales performance next month could reach 65,438+000% and the repayment performance could reach 65,438+020%, which was almost an "impossible task". However, at that time, Mr. Huang was really shocked by his amazing move. After all, it is impossible for a newcomer who has only more than 40 days of business experience or is still in the process of learning to challenge this "unprecedented" goal and record, because even a senior business backbone who has entered the industry for many years may not be able to complete it.

However, on the 23rd day, that is, in the previous 22 days, the sales and collection performance were all zero. When everyone, including Mr. Huang, naturally didn't believe that he could achieve his goal, with his tenacious perseverance and extraordinary ability, he began to hand in beautiful report cards, which increased exponentially every day, and finally completed this unprecedented so-called "impossible task" on the last day!

Chen recalled what Mr. Huang said at that time: "I have been in the hairdressing industry for more than ten years, and there are at least one hundred salesmen I have taken and met, but I have never seen anyone like you." Later, Chen heard from Mr. Huang's secretary that the report of the "last seven days" was put in Mr. Huang's briefcase every day, because Mr. Huang would show off every time he met people and told them that there was a "wizard" in the company. Phil Chen proud expression, as if returned to the original time. After this incident, he was promoted from a business specialist to a business director, which is an improvement of his personal ability and the company's affirmation of his work.

Innovation Breakthrough, Creating New Miracles in the Industry

In later years, Phil Chen also began to develop into "enterprise management" as he wished. Whether it is "released" by the company as a planning manager in the comprehensive management office of Mingfa Beauty Chain, or as an administrative assistant manager in Tianmuyi and Shilin Store, which are directly operated by the company. Chen still shows his natural innovation and leadership skills for a planning and management job he has never been exposed to.

Not only did he flexibly use the promotion methods originally aimed at consumers in the enrollment planning, so that the famous hairstyle became "famous" in the first formal enrollment of higher vocational beauty graduates, but also influenced and spread the number of hairdressing assistants that Xiaolin Hair Salon should have recruited. However, after 199 1 returns to the company's Kobayashi Hair Salon, he will play the role of the ugly duckling's Tianmu store for a long time with his three management schemes of "data management, demand management and charisma leadership", and become a swan that attracts the public's attention three months later, winning the three categories of "perfect service competition, technical competition and performance competition".

Then in 1993, it was proposed that the hairdressing industry in Taiwan Province Province should enter the "holistic modeling era", which means that hairdressing designers should not only learn more professional hairdressing theories and technologies, but also learn makeup theories and technologies, facial maintenance theories and clothing modeling theories, so as to develop into "modeling nursing consultants" in a forward-looking way. In 1994, he also pointed out that the beauty and hairdressing industry in Taiwan Province Province should be integrated from internal personnel (cohesion of centripetal force and improvement of work efficiency), at the same time, the professional image and quality of employees should be improved, and a business form with market professional characteristics should be established. Starting from 1995, we will train more outstanding talents in Taiwan Province's beauty and hairdressing industry who are moving towards "management" and "double effects".

Phil Chen has been in the beauty and hairdressing industry in Taiwan Province for ten years, and his achievements are by no means accidental or lucky. When we asked him why he was recognized by the industry authority in a short time and stepped onto the road of management step by step, Chen replied with a smile: "The military police reserve sergeant needs to serve for three and a half years. After retiring, he will definitely enter social work, which will definitely be much later than the average person. Since we can't stand on the same starting line, we should make a plan for ourselves.

The concept of catching up is that most people work eight hours a day, but the time to really go all out may only be four to six hours. If I study hard and work 18 hours every day, then I am at least three or four times as good as them. A year later, I will tie up people who entered social work two years earlier than me. So, in those ten years, I worked hard almost every day 18 hours or so. Of course, I have formed a habit now. Although my physical strength is not as good as before, I still keep working 15 hours every day. "After listening to the answer, we are amazed that Phil Chen has such a strong spirit and perseverance, so behind any outstanding achievements, it is the result of his careful study, careful observation and thinking.

Ten-year-old prince's mission constellation in my heart

In June1999+1October1September, Taiwan Province Dacheng TV drama newspaper wrote a prediction analysis article "Maggie Incident will happen again in Ekin Cheng and Liang Yongqi sooner or later" ... Then, Chen put these contents on his official blog for people to read, which was seen by two netizens after breaking up.

One said at the Netease Entertainment Forum: "Many people think that we didn't realize it until one and a half years after the parties parted ways! However, eight years ago, when the whole story was still in its infancy, a demon wrote such an article, which was terrible! " Another netizen said on his blog: "Women and turtles have just begun, and it is the time to be inseparable. Ah ah! The next process and results were all thought out by this man of god. My woman's six years of youth! If I know that this man of God is such a god, why should I go through these six years of twists and turns? Too accurate is terrible! " Perhaps, this is another magical place in Phil Chen after he did it with his heart!

After ten years of basketball career and chain operation, Phil Chen accidentally became a professional astrologer. He said, "One of my subordinates, born on the same day of the same month, saw some common astrology books I read a long time ago on the bookshelf in the office and immediately said that she also liked astrology, but she bought a foreign astrology translation book before, which was too professional to understand, so she hoped to exchange it with me because she thought I should be able to understand it." In the following days, he spent three months doing only two things every day: one was to bury himself in astrology books and draw life tables by hand (at that time, astrology software was not easy to get, only DOS version was available), and the other was to watch a TV series made in Hong Kong that he wanted to watch before, but never had time to watch.

But the process that really promoted Phil Chen's rapid transformation into a professional astrologer actually came from two other things. One is the career trough of 3 1 year, and the other is that many professional astrology books have just appeared in Taiwan Province Province at that time. Perhaps this is his mission, and his subordinates born in the same month and on the same day are angels to help him lead the way. Chen recalled: "My three months of astrology in Taiwan Middle School can be said to be the happiest, happiest and most flowering day in my life. I still miss and appreciate that time. " Astrology not only freed him from the previous bondage, but also purified his body and mind while gaining supreme "spiritual freedom". He began to ask himself, "Where am I from?" In the end, he looked for answers from the astrolabe and got inspiration from the bottom of his heart.

After Phil Chen gradually realized that he was a preacher, teacher and puzzle solver of astrology, he began to write columns in 27 newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Taiwan Strait from 65438 to 0999. It can be said that he is the only Chinese with 27 media columnists in the world and the only 18 radio presenter in Taiwan Province province. Of course, during these ten years, he was invited by 97 enterprises on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to host and give speeches at 160 events (including a large Christmas party with more than 50,000 people in Chongqing People's Square), and he also published four books in Taiwan Province Province, of which two books he published in one breath in 2008, Sitting with the Stars and Happiness Don't Be Unhappy, are still in Hong Kong.

No wonder someone once said that reading his column is sharp and thorough and can only be described as "modest and unassuming". Some people even say that it is not only interesting, wonderful, but also full of passion to appreciate his activities of hosting and lecturing. If you add his unique appeal and incitement, it will be like a charming singer concert, which will be unforgettable for a long time. Finally, I can only appreciate the magical charm of "modesty and invincibility".

Postscript: Many people ask Phil Chen why he chose to be a professional astrologer after playing basketball for ten years and being a hairdressing chain manager for ten years. He usually asks the other person such a question: Do you want to hear it? Still fake? In other words, I have contacted many units by telephone, but whenever the other party asks him who he is, he quickly says his name, and usually the other party repeats his name in a tone of surprise or doubt: Prophet Chen! ? Later, Phil Chen thought that since everyone thought he was a "prophet", he should be a real so-called prophet, so as to meet the arrangement of heaven and everyone's expectations of him! However, he later heard that the prophet was lonely, so if you really want to hear his correct answer, then don't let Enqian be lonely, don't let Enqian be lonely!