Sunday, February 24, 2008

What You Focus on EXPANDS!! True Enough

Just a quick review of what I've learned two years ago. After going through a few major seminars, trainings and talks for entreprenuer in the past 2 years, I admitted that I have great burning desire to venture into almost any new businesses, I will have a better chance of being retired in 35 with financial indepandent and personal freedom. In the past two years, I have so many opportunities and connections to JV in business. I involved in other than my core logistics business, and also joint-venture with my wife and other partner in construction (M&E and C&S), electronic product distribution, real estate, renovation, and natural product distribution.

No doubts, those years are pretty 'challenging' for me. Too many things happen in one time with too little time, I just couldn't handle them all. As a result, my new JV businesses didn't go well at all, to be more specifically, they almost lost my time and money.

I took my lesson from "Stucked?! Just Get Unplugged", and quickly reviewed the progress of all my businesses. By doing what I was doing not only stopped me from having personal freedom, but also consume more of my time. Therefore, we have to carefully choose the businesses that are worth doing. Several criteria we need to concern were the profit margins, potentials, flexibility, and most importantly, our passion towards the business. Eventually, we decided to drop all the JV businesses except my logistics business and natural product distribution business. Me and my wife will truely positively focus on each business, respectively.

All we did was just putting more time and effort on our own business and visualized the results we want almost everyday. When focus, our visualization is much more vivid and it is so real until felt the resonance in our heart and we know the result that we look for will be coming very very soon.

Soon enough we started meeting the right person in expanding our business, we even received the unexpected sales. Less than a year, each of our businesses has a tremendous growth. My logistics business has a total net growth of 10% (after I successfully achieved "giving away control is gaining power") and my wife's distribution company at first a sole distributor has turned to become the manufacturer for the product itself. Cool eh?

FOCUS - Oxford Dictionary defines to give full attention into something - how much simplier can it mean?

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