How are you dealing with FOMO? It is often an internet meme - but it is real! FOMO, for those not up on the internet slang, stands for “Fear of Missing Out” and I would say has been in existence since the stone ages. Check out this video blog and more http://mikesblog.com

Happy New Year! What is your new year resolution? For me back in the year end of 2015 one was to start this video blog in the new year. Well, technically started just before 2016. Don’t wait until Jan 1 to start your new year’s resolution! Check out this video blog and more http://mikesblog.com

Which is better for the future of here and there? check out this video blog and more https://mikesblog.com

As a father, it is a new set of questions and decisions. Miles has been coming back from school talking about Christmas and Santa Claus (Lao Ren in Chinese - which literally means old man!) I’ve had some discussions about this with other fathers over the years and wanted to chat about it a bit today. How far do I go along with the Santa Claus is real thing? I understand it is a good creative experience for me kids to go through the process of sleeping at night thinking about an old man in a red suit with a sled and reindeers flying around dropping off gifts around the world - but we are in a world of technology now. Check out this video blog and more http://mikesblog.com

Year end is approaching. We are all probably thinking about what we are doing with our lives. This comes up naturally during holidays, birthdays, and of course year end / year renewal. Check out this video blog and more http://mikesblog.com

Are you excited? New Year is always an exciting time for us as it is a clean slate. Start fresh, put behind us all the things that didn’t go well for us in the previous year. Here at Global From Asia, we have accomplished quite a bit so it hasn’t been such a bad year - it has been a year of growing the foundation and leaving a solid path for years to come. Check out this video blog and more http://mikesblog.com

For those who have followed the blog over the years - they will know what I need to do in the last month of December. It’s a special time, that all foreigners in China who are here for long term need to do. Renewing my work permit and residence visa. It doesn’t have to fall on the month of December, it depends on when you applied, but for me it falls on the last month of each year. They have been upgrading the systems and instead of getting a brown covered passport-like booklet, I now have been issued a Chinese ID looking card. This will let the Chinese officials be able to scan a QR code on the card and pull up my file. Well not just a Chinese official, I scanned it with my Wechat QR code reader and was able to pull up the data as well (seems public now). Check out this video blog and more http://mikesblog.com

Bit of a random video blog today - on the border between Hong Kong and China as per usual - and there is this USA holiday called thanksgiving that just passed. I think it isn’t just the holiday, but also the fact that another year is coming to an end and a new year is coming. Combined with the colder weather - think that always gets us to spend more time indoors and reflecting and thinking. Check out this video blog and more http://mikesblog.com

For us at Global From Asia - community has been a huge focus lately. We had an amazing Cross Border Matchmaker end of October - and really doing amazing things bridging the Chinese and International e-commerce communities together. Check out this video blog and more http://mikesblog.com

Sometimes just letting things go wide you can discover some great things. At a bit of a writer’s block on what kind of v-log to do next, I bumped into Rob Barry at a Dcx Hong Kong event. Putting the camera on him with no preparation and no topic, he came up with an awesome response. Check out this video blog and more http://mikesblog.com