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Faizan
Starting A Business was easy, but by the end of 2008 it was gone, all of it, and then some. I had made a tidy profit from the sale of a rental house in late 2006 and within 2 years all of it was lost.
Had I been foolish? Maybe
Had I practiced poor financial management? Yes, I'd say so.
Do I regret it? Not one bit.
I made a complete mess of my business but I wouldn't be where I am now if I had not had the experiences I had during that difficult period. That difficult period lasted about 3 to 4 years. It was a time where everything I touched in my professional life turned to crap.
In contrast other things were going great, like my family. Myself and my wife were having children and making a home, and I can safely say they are the most remarkable thing in my life right now. At that time I was undergoing a valuable lesson about finding happiness and what happiness meant.
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger". - Friedrich Nietzsche
An Opportunity to Grow
Life is a weird and funny thing don't you think?. We live here on this ball of rock hurtling through infinite space, and we have these experiences good and bad. Then we die. It's totally crazy when you consider the big picture.
Inevitably we are brought to the question of; Why bother?
Well, I don't know for sure. Sometimes I think I know but really I don't. I'm like everyone else on this planet trying to find themselves and a greater meaning to life. Happiness though, is the gold, it's what we are all after, it's our natural state.
One thing I do know for sure is that I Am, I exist, and through the difficult times I understand more of what I Am. I become stronger. We are constantly presented throughout our lives with opportunities to become more, to advance, to grow.
Starting A Business
It has been my observation in my time here, that the world functions primarily via the need and want to be happy. Regardless of the apparent manifestations in the world. The primary driving force above all else is for the individual to be happy.
Starting a business is born from the desire to make things better, for ourselves and for others. And when we are genuinely concerned for the quality of work we do and the service we can bring to others then we can simply not go wrong.
Had I been foolish? Maybe
Had I practiced poor financial management? Yes, I'd say so.
Do I regret it? Not one bit.
I made a complete mess of my business but I wouldn't be where I am now if I had not had the experiences I had during that difficult period. That difficult period lasted about 3 to 4 years. It was a time where everything I touched in my professional life turned to crap.
In contrast other things were going great, like my family. Myself and my wife were having children and making a home, and I can safely say they are the most remarkable thing in my life right now. At that time I was undergoing a valuable lesson about finding happiness and what happiness meant.
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger". - Friedrich Nietzsche
An Opportunity to Grow
Life is a weird and funny thing don't you think?. We live here on this ball of rock hurtling through infinite space, and we have these experiences good and bad. Then we die. It's totally crazy when you consider the big picture.
Inevitably we are brought to the question of; Why bother?
Well, I don't know for sure. Sometimes I think I know but really I don't. I'm like everyone else on this planet trying to find themselves and a greater meaning to life. Happiness though, is the gold, it's what we are all after, it's our natural state.
One thing I do know for sure is that I Am, I exist, and through the difficult times I understand more of what I Am. I become stronger. We are constantly presented throughout our lives with opportunities to become more, to advance, to grow.
Starting A Business
It has been my observation in my time here, that the world functions primarily via the need and want to be happy. Regardless of the apparent manifestations in the world. The primary driving force above all else is for the individual to be happy.
Starting a business is born from the desire to make things better, for ourselves and for others. And when we are genuinely concerned for the quality of work we do and the service we can bring to others then we can simply not go wrong.
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