2013 shift_the gear..

2013 started off as the year of hope  , at least to me. Amidst the work routine in the manufacturing world, something struck me and a friend of mine to visit the next journey of our life. Being involved in business is nothing new to me. My father was also in the business line right after he retired. But I was never got involved in his business. While I was in the university, my father business was at the sunset. I was hoping to continue what he has started, it happened in most TV drama, but then, things didnt work quite well and he chose not to continue with his business anymore.

In the early notes when I first started blogging, I did mentioned about my first ambition of becoming a pilot. How did I got the idea of becoming a pilot? well, it was when I was in standard 1 where my friend alway spoke about his father, a jetfighter pilot. Seriously I didnt validate that fact, but somehow I assumed it was real story, coming from a 7 years old kid, proud of having a jetfighter pilot father.

My ambition shifted when I was in the secondary school, becoming a pilot was no longer the driving factor. I was thinking to do stuffs that suits my interest, which was to becoming a geologist or archeologist. It was Indiana Jones that influenced me. But still now, I like those outdoor stuffs. Besides the unpromising ambition of the fiction characters, deep inside I carried another ambition of being an entrepreneur. My brother used to say that, when you have plenty of money, you can be whoever you wanted to be. So since then, the world of  business was part of my ambition. Having the chance to be in the science social stream, I took out accounting , love it for a while but then it didnt turn out to be my favourite subject. Geography and physic turned out to be much more interesting. Probably because of the wonderful teachers that I had and the subconcious mind of wanting to be in that field.

So, 2013 started off with some quick conversation that I had with one of my family members, whom introduced me to the almost a real business life, where things were not like the multi-national company that I am working at. Things were so unpredictable and beyond our control. That was when I found that SWOT analysis was a tool that was finally practical and meaningful. There were million dollar projects that before this, were only headlines in newspapers. And I was then actually part of the newbies in that line. I had little knowledge in that field, to be exact, property, agricultural tradings and brokerage lines. Luckily, I am a person who acknowledged that I know what I do not know, and with that amount of beliefs, i reserved some actions of not crossing the line. Put a side risk taking, there are much more important factors that taking a risk.

Well , to cut it short , the so call brokerage business didn't give any returns. I only got experience and the chance to deal with those real world characters, ranging from the real businessman, politician and also those brokers whom already long in the business. Somehow, the Law of Attraction had proven its theory to be right, at least to me and my partner. While doing the brokerage stuffs, somehow, we found a quite interesting business to start off with. A simple trading business of an electrical goods. So, that was when we started to shift gear and throttled off to the next step of our journey. And we had our own company and it took quite few days just to come out with the company name :-) . I guess, this is something close to what I like to do, and I have to find ways to divide the time and resources.

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."- Steve Jobs