If You Want to Change Your Life, Change Your Impression!

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UP & UP

The summer event

 

 

It was

a magic moment.

 

Just under 40% were in the Takumi Yamazaki camp! (laughs)

What a laugh!

*This is not a popularity vote.

 

 

Leading off was Katsunari Tanaka —

known to everyone as Tanakacchan!

 

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Tanakatsu talk!

 

That journey ten years ago, when I pulled a handcart across the whole of Japan.

It’s almost ten years since then.

 

Next year Tanakatsu-san finally turns 50!

His talks sink right into your heart!

 

Looking back on those days, I never imagined I’d be walking the life I’m walking now. Why did I take on such a reckless challenge in the first place? At the root of it were one book and one encounter with the owner of an izakaya.

 

As a publishing producer, I interviewed more than a thousand people, and in the process I realized that every single person lives with something like an innate mission at their core. But in the world of commercial publishing, “books that sell” come first, and it isn’t easy to give shape to what someone truly wants to say, exactly as they want to say it.

 

That’s when I came across the story of the Bible saving people who sat in despair in hotel suites during the Great Depression. Saved by a single line, given the strength to stand up and live again — I wanted to leave behind a book that could save someone’s life or heart like that. With nothing but that one thought, and neither capital nor experience, I started a publishing company in order to turn one izakaya owner’s burning message into a book.

 

“If you have no money and no experience, then pull a handcart with nothing but your will and your stamina, and deliver it to the people who need it.”

 

Driven by those words, I set out — but at first I was the worst salesman alive. I pushed too hard and spun my wheels; in the month and a half it took me to reach Nagoya, I sold just nine copies. I nearly gave up over and over, and kept hunting for reasons to quit.

 

What woke me up was meeting Terao-san in Nagoya, and the way Arthur Hollande — known as the delinquent pastor — lives his life. “Don’t try to sell the book. Just talk about why you’re spending the hours of your own life walking for the sake of others.” Those words are still carved deep in my chest.

 

Ten years on, seeing friends and family all over the country looking forward to my next challenge, and seeing my mother feel that “taking on a challenge is fun at any age” — it makes me think from the bottom of my heart that pulling that handcart was absolutely worth it.

 

Where do you turn the steering wheel of your life? Especially when you’re lost, I want to hold on to the burning feeling at my origin, and take one more step forward.

 

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Takuya Fujimoto’s talk

*This is via ChatGPT, so I didn’t have time to fix the places where it’s wrong~

　Everyone, please help me out in the comments!

 

1. The premise for noticing your own value: accepting your existence unconditionally

 

• Let go of the comparison habit: notice the brain’s comparison system — “that person is fine but I’m no good,” “I failed before so it won’t work this time either,” all of it built from past experience — and be grateful for everything up to now, regardless of whether it went well or badly.

• The importance of your own existence: when Shenron in Dragon Ball says, “hand over all five of your senses and I’ll grant your wish,” nobody can hand them over. In the same way, the existence you already take for granted — yourself — is far more important than any single dream.

• Subjective happiness: stop comparing yourself to others and stop looking outside for a reason to try hard. Being able to feel that simply living here, simply having a life, is happiness enough — raising your subjective happiness — is the foundation for loving yourself and loving other people.

2. The “four values” and habits that turn your life around

 

• The value of being in a good mood:

   

  • Just as nobody wants to work hard under a bad-tempered boss, there is no downside to being in a good mood.

  • When you do fall into a bad mood, write down on paper what annoyed you and what stung, then ask yourself: “So what now?” “What do I want to do differently next time?”

  • Life runs on a loop of judgment, choice, and responsibility, and you make better judgments in a good mood. At the base of it are love and gratitude.

• Accepting where you are (confidence is only an interpretation):

   

  • Having confidence or not isn’t a fact — it’s an “interpretation” with a front and a back. There are plenty of people succeeding without confidence. Set aside good and bad and first accept where you are.

• Clarifying purpose and goals:

   

  • Alongside the goal (what you want to achieve by when), hold a firm purpose — the “reason you’re working hard”: for what, for whom, and why you want to reach that goal.

• The entry-point habit (five minutes morning and night):

   

  • Morning (5 min): get up early, check your purpose and goals, and use the 80/20 rule to build and execute an action plan starting from the highest priority.

  • Night (5 min): look back on the gaps and failures against that day’s action plan, write out “so what now?” and make the next thing to do clear.

3. The structure of goal achievement, and small practices

 

• 85% of success and failure is mindset: both success and failure in life are the result of a person’s own mindset, decided by the correlation between the quality and quantity of the relationships that mindset produces.

• The equation of success (sowing seeds): sow the “seed of thought” (good mood, accepting where you are, purpose and goals) and reap action. Sow the seed of action and reap habit; sow the seed of habit and reap success.

• Learning from Shohei Ohtani’s mandala chart:

   

  • Like the goal sheet he made in his first year of high school, with the draft pick at the center as the purpose, he broke it down and put into practice not only physical training and mental strength but also “luck” and “character” — greetings, reading books, becoming someone others root for, taking care of his equipment, positive thinking, his attitude toward umpires, picking up litter, cleaning his room.

 

1. The premise for noticing your own value (accepting your existence)

 

• Human beings have a habit of never letting go of what they believe has value, and carrying it with them always.

• Before moving toward self-actualization, it’s important to unconditionally accept “your existence itself,” including all the successes and failures up to now.

• Rather than being bound by comparisons with others or by society’s standards, raising your “subjective happiness” — feeling value in the simple facts of being alive and having a life — is the foundation of self-love and love for others.

2. The “four values” and habits that turn each day around

 

• The value of being in a good mood: a bad mood damages relationships and results. When a bad feeling comes up, write out “why did that annoy me” and “what do I want to do next,” and keep the loop of judgment, choice, and responsibility turning on a base of love and gratitude.

• Accepting where you are: confidence, or the lack of it, is not a fact but an interpretation, so look at your situation objectively without getting caught in good and bad.

• Setting purpose and goals: alongside the goal (what by when), make the purpose clear (for what, for whom — the reason you’re working hard).

• Small practice and review: in five minutes each morning, check your purpose and goals and build an action plan from the highest priority. At night, review the gaps and failures against your actions and ask “so what now?” to connect it to your next move.

3. The essence of goal achievement and daily action

 

• 85% of success and failure in life is determined by your own mindset and the quality and quantity of the relationships born from it.

• Thought (good mood, accepting where you are, setting purpose and goals) produces action; that action forms habit; and habit ultimately produces results.

• As with the “mandala chart” Shohei Ohtani made in his first year of high school, breaking things down to concrete elements — even luck and character — and folding them into daily practice is the path to reaching your goals.

 

Mizue-san

 

1. Opening: the fragility of daily life, and a question about the finiteness of life

* Using the false missile alert in Hawaii and natural disasters as examples, she showed how the everyday we assume will simply continue can be lost in an instant.

* She asked, “If you had only a little life left, who would you think of, and what would you do?” — raising the need for a sense of urgency and for using our lives without regret.

2. Historical background: the baton of life entrusted to us, of peace and freedom

* Through the history of the Yokaren (naval flight preparatory trainees) in Ibaraki Prefecture and the kamikaze units, she spoke of the resolve of young people who fell while wishing for the future and for peace.

* She questioned the state of us who live in the “free and peaceful country” those young people once staked their lives on, and yet spend our days complaining and putting a lid on our own possibilities.

3. Her argument and resolve: living honestly, believing in possibility

* She argued that we have a responsibility to show the next generation of children not just words, but the back of an adult living straight and true.

* Using her own challenge as an example — appearing in a stage production about the kamikaze units — she explained the importance of not letting it end in mere emotion, but resolving to “believe in your own possibility and carve out the future.”

4. Closing and practice: sharing the felt experience and turning it into action

* She urged the audience not to let it end with listening, but to turn what they received into action through output with the people around them (sharing, declaring their resolve) and through the felt experience of the whole room.

* She closed by urging everyone, with the preciousness of life and a heart of gratitude, to take a new step forward from here, today.

 

Hiroyuki Irie-san

 

 

1. The origin of his entrepreneurship and his business thinking (formative experiences in high school)

* The trigger and the motive: out of admiration for business owners and the honest desire to “make money and be popular,” he started in business at 17 or 18.

* Early moves: using the spaces in the parking lot his father ran to try discount resale, he experimented with “how do I make this profitable?” like solving a puzzle game, using the assets already at hand.

* Thorough imitation of successful people (TTP): just as you get better at a band by playing covers, he honed his skills by thoroughly copying the way people he respected spoke and paced themselves.

2. Basic principles for building influence and a career

* Become someone people want to meet: it isn’t only the strength of your words — the people chosen are those with heat, and with the energy to make others want to act.

* In your twenties, “declare yourself” (define who you are):

* Put clearly into words “what I’m good at, and what value I can offer.”

* Having track record and expertise as your weapon leads to results from your thirties onward, and to trust and to being hired by others.

* The importance of introducing others well (the tee-up): people who can accurately introduce someone else’s strengths — rather than only pushing themselves forward — are appreciated and become the center that others gather around.

3. The evolution of purpose and true fulfillment (Q&A: on losing sight of your purpose)

* Purpose changes (from money to contributing to society and to others):

* After building substantial personal wealth came a sense of emptiness, and through it the realization that “money” is only a means, and what matters is “what you want to realize beyond it.”

* Today he finds his greatest fulfillment in creating “the moment a person’s life changes” through entertainment and business, and in having a good influence on society.

* Challenges accumulate into purpose: the purpose of a challenge isn’t fixed — seeing through the challenge in front of you is what generates the next set of options and a new purpose.

4. The laws of success and of hits (Q&A: how to start from zero, and how things sell)

* The first step from zero is to specialize on social media: with no connections and no resources, narrowing your theme and gaining recognition and influence on social media is the most reliable foothold.

* Overwhelming “volume of action” produces hits:

* Whether something becomes a hit involves timing and luck, but the chance only comes around to people who take an overwhelming number of at-bats (releases, posts).

* “The day it reaches the world and gets evaluated” is the true starting line, and as a precondition for pursuing quality you have to put in overwhelming quantity.

5. Closing: the overwhelming effort behind results

* Erase anxiety with ten times other people’s volume of action: not talent, but volume of action and effort — overwhelm those around you and build a base nobody catches up to a few years later.

* Accept the time lag on effort: today’s effort bears fruit three to five years from now, and the stance of seeing it through without giving up is what carves out a life.

 

 

Keisuke Oshima-san

 

1. Opening: a turning point in life, and waking up to “possibility”

• Looking back on his own past — unable to feel confident until he was 24 — he described how coming to believe in “his own possibility” through a seminar became the great turning point of his life.
• Mixing in discussion between participants and high-fives, he raised the heat and energy of the whole room.

2. Practicing yoshuku: rejoicing first, and drawing in the best result

• All-out rock-paper-scissors and yoshuku exercises: exercises where you express joy with everything you have regardless of winning or losing, letting people feel the power of “yoshuku” — celebrating a future success in advance.
• The report-meeting exercise: on the premise that “this past year was the best year ever,” you report your results to the person next to you, making the image of your ideal future clear.
• The final yoshuku interview of your life: to live without regret, he offered a method of painting “the last day of your life” as the best possible day, and living the present backward from there.

3. Origin and purpose: the “comrades” and the people-development he truly wanted

• Questioning the subconscious: pressing on “what do I really want?” in a training program in his twenties, he realized it wasn’t money or status, but “comrades to take on challenges with.”
• Founding the izakaya “Teppen,” and the challenge of it: he founded the izakaya not as a mere restaurant but as “a school that raises people.” He shared the record of more than 200 graduates over 20 years who went on to become business owners and people who realized their dreams.
• Admiration for the patriots of the Bakumatsu era: inspired by the history of young people in their twenties and thirties who moved a nation, he aims for “a society where adults shine, so children can hold hope for the future.”

4. Closing: his late father’s way of living, and his resolve to deliver “the best life”

• His father’s death and the way he lived: through the sight of the crowds who gathered at the funeral of his father, a police officer who died in the line of duty at 36, he revealed the origin of his resolve: “I want to show that I too was loved by people and lived my life all the way through.”
• His message: he closed by conveying his resolve to give this one life everything, so he can report back to his father with his head held high, and to deliver the hope that “life is the best” to as many people and as many children as he can.

 

Takumi Yamazaki spoke too!

 

1. Opening: the essence of connection and of learning

• The essence of chance (connection): good connections gather around people who can give opportunity to others, not around people out searching for opportunity.
• The cycle of learning: hitting a wall, getting a hint, acting on it, and establishing your own laws and philosophy — that is what “learning” means.
• Going back and forth between action and learning: growth comes from repeating both wheels — acting and producing results, hitting a wall and learning deeply, then moving forward again on what you’ve accumulated.

2. Teens and twenties: formative experiences and learning from those who came before

• Adversity and mindset: through his family’s financial hardship and meeting his coach in track (the 400m hurdles), he built the mental strength of “I refuse to lose” and the drive to go and ask to be taught.
• Time management from a mentor: he absorbed and practiced world-class thinking, such as Kaoru Nakajima’s teaching to “start with the newest thing” (if you process the oldest first, you stay permanently behind).

3. Thirties to fifties: removing the frame and widening what’s possible

• Resetting his self-assessment and taking on challenges: even though his writing and painting were never praised in school, by taking them on without caring what others thought, he opened up paths as an author (over two million copies sold) and as a painter.
• Putting dreams into words and making them real: starting from the “dream list” he wrote out in his twenties, he made large-scale goals concrete — living abroad (Paris), running restaurants (New York, Kyoto).
• True self-acceptance: real self-esteem is being able to honestly accept the parts of yourself you’re bad at, not just what you’re good at, and to complement one another with the people around you.

4. Sixty onward, and closing: the “resolve” that carves out a life

• Taking on unfamiliar territory (film directing): in a new challenge, the only thing that closes the gap in track record and experience is being serious, breaking a sweat, and staking your life on it.
• The key that opens a life is “resolve”: what opens the road isn’t ability or motivation but the resolve to stake your own life on it — and that stance draws in new connections and a new future.

 

 

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[Sunday, October 4 — Tokyo]

An “Impression Revolution” created by 400 people!

A special life-changing event is confirmed!

Out of nowhere — what if “90% of your life is decided by the impression you give”?

Are you confident in the impression you make?

 

To celebrate Nana-san’s

new book Impression Revolution — her tenth book, and her first in ten years —a special event will be held,

on Sunday, October 4, in Nagatacho, Tokyo,for 400 people!

💡 A message from me!

Nana-san, congratulations. Impression revolution… impressions matter so much!! Maybe 90% of life really is decided by the impression you give?! And this is an impression revolution. A revolution!!! If you want to change your life, change your impression! (Takumi Yamazaki)

This is not just a “book-launch lecture”!

This event isn’t a place where you listen to the author speak and then go home.

• You’ll laugh, you’ll be surprised, you’ll move your body

• And by the end you’ll like yourself a little more

• And the switch will flip: “let’s start something tomorrow!”

We’re delivering two hours where every participant is the main character!

The theme is “the day your own impression revolution begins.” By the time you walk out of the venue, you should be thinking “I’m so glad I came!” and “I can still do plenty of interesting things!” — ready to turn the next page of your life.

✨ An almost absurdly star-studded guest lineup!

On the day, wonderful guests who lead their fields with overwhelming track records will be joining us at the venue!

• Bestselling author, mentor, entrepreneur Takumi Yamazaki

• Active-senior producer Ikuko Fuchi

• Good-fortune advisor Youka Nakai

• Influencer Pesheko

• Representative of the general insurance agency “Gift Your Life” Kohei Toyofuku

• Representative of the model agency “CANDEL” Aya Hanano

• Operator of 50 restaurants in the Tokai region Fumiya Nakamura

• Seminar-attendance professional Yu Tsukada

• Frequent TV guest, muse of beauty Chizuru Okuda

• Publisher “Power-sha” President Gobi

• Radio personality Tomoko Shizuki

• “The god of importing” Yu Osuga (and many other wonderful people are scheduled to join!)

All of these people will gather in one venue on October 4.

＼ More than just watching! Special features only available here ／

• An “impression revolution” live improv show (?) with Takumi Yamazaki

• An “impression revolution” exercise experienced by all 400 people

• Special talks by the star guests, and more

What kind of chemical reaction will happen? I can’t stop looking forward to it already!

Please come! I’m looking forward to it~~~ Come say hi on the day~~~ (from Takumi Yamazaki)

Event details

• Date and time: Sunday, October 4, 13:00–15:00

• Venue: Seiryo Kaikan, Nagatacho, Tokyo (2-16-2 Nagatacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)

• Fee: 5,500 yen (includes one copy of the new book Impression Revolution!)

• Details and applications: you can apply through the Impression Revolution crowdfunding page, open now! 👉 The crowdfunding page is here (*The regular application window is here: https://utage-system.com/p/tCjlOYNnUD3Q)

If you want to change your life, first change your own “impression.” And why not take a new step forward together with 400 friends running at the highest energy?

 

On October 4, please be among those 400 people of the “impression revolution.” Let’s create the most enjoyable day together at the venue! I’m looking forward to meeting you there!

 

Impression Revolution

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Thank you for a fun time!

 

 

 

 

Agan, thank you!

 

 

The Hamamatsu event!

 

 

Osaka was so much fun

again~~~

 

 

 

Hiroichi-kun,

thank you for inviting me!

 

 

Delicious!

 

 

Thank you for coming all the way to Osaka!

 

 

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A film shot by riraku-san

An Attempt at Healing — How to Come to Like Yourself

 

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[Radio appearance]

61 years old, and a 20-year-old dream starts moving!

I talked about my challenge of becoming a film director

Hello!

The other day I appeared as a guest on the program LiFE: The Fourth Place on Yume no Tane Broadcasting’s Yellow Channel.

Together with DJs Daisuke Sato and Naoki Okada, I talked at length about the big challenge I’d been holding in my chest!

🎙️ Broadcast details

• Program: Yume no Tane Broadcasting, Yellow Channel, LiFE: The Fourth Place

• Guest: Takumi Yamazaki

• Personalities (DJs): Daisuke Sato & Naoki Okada

61 years old, and a 20-year-old dream starts moving

“Someday I want to be a film director!”

It’s been about 20 years since I first started thinking that. I’ve gone on writing as a bestselling author, held a solo exhibition in New York, and realized all sorts of dreams — and now, at last, the dream of “film director” that lived in my chest all those years is becoming real ✨

The film is titled The Motivation Switch.

Thanks to everyone, the crowdfunding campaign received support from roughly 2,000 people and passed 80 million yen 🔥

“I was absolutely terrified..”

I’ve taken on many challenges over the years, but that first step onto a new stage was still frightening.

Even so — why was I able to step forward? In this broadcast I talk openly about what went on behind the scenes.

💡 Highlights of this talk

In this broadcast we went deep on themes like these:

• Why I was able to hold on to the dream of directing a film for 20 years

• What it means to take on a new dream at 61

• The talent sleeping inside “the things that irritate you”

• The adult “common sense” that whittles dreams away

• Behind the scenes of a crowdfunding campaign that passed 80 million yen

• The burning feelings I’ve put into the film The Motivation Switch

There’s one line of mine that has stayed with me in particular:

“What opens the door isn’t talent. It’s heart 🥺”

Age has nothing to do with it. This moment, right now, is the youngest you’ll ever be!

🎧 How to listen

LiFE is a radio program that cheers people’s dreams on. As long as you have an internet connection, you can listen from anywhere in the world on a PC or smartphone!

1. Go to the Yume no Tane Broadcasting homepage below: http://www.yumenotane.jp/

2. the “Yellow Channel”, and press the “Listen to the radio” button, and the program plays!

*For details on how to listen or if anything is unclear, please see the FAQ page.

🎬 The latest on the film The Motivation Switch

• Scheduled release: autumn 2027!

I’m going to keep running at full speed toward completing the film and getting it into theaters. Please look forward to the radio broadcast too!

To anyone with a forgotten dream, anyone about to give up, and anyone letting time pass while thinking “someday I’ll do it” — I’d be happy if this blog or this radio program gives you a push 😊

 

 

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Translated from the original post by Takumi Yamazaki: https://ameblo.jp/takumi-yamazaki/entry-12977168395.html