Most people who know me personally would know this fact about me…

I am a highly spiritual person.

I start my day with a prayer for another blissful day.

I begin my meals with an expression of gratitude to God for the abundant food on the table and for the roof over my head.

I start my meetings with a short prayer and ask God for success in all my endeavors, and I encourage willing participants to join me as well.

I go to bed thanking God for all the blessings he has showered on me and my family.

However, it is not very often that I thank the people who have helped me become who I am. So I would like to take this opportunity to do exactly that!

I will be forever grateful to Mark Anderson for encouraging me to hold my high standards and strong work ethics no matter what anyone says.

I also want to thank Laura Sgano, who used to be my senior and once wrote me a 3-page review for a page-long piece of work I had submitted to her. Frankly speaking, I did not appreciate her act of providing constant feedback AT ALL at the time. But, in retrospect, she only made such a big effort because she cared about my performance. So thank you Laura for teaching me to master excellency. You will be happy to know that it has become my core value now.

I am forever grateful to my partner @Mark Anderson who has encouraged me to keep up the good work and stay demanding. 

In the path of my career, I also want to thank @laura Sgano who used to be my senior and spent time to write me 3 pages of review comments for one page of my work. Her guidance and time has helped me to be a demanding supervisor. Frankly I hated her at the time that I had to clear out every little comments that she had. She taught me excellency.