It’s My Life
If you want to be an entrepreneur
… Don’t be afraid of the unknown. Most times things don’t go according to plan anyway. Tenacity and hard work will pay off one way or another.
When the going gets slow
When things start to slow down for your startup, what would you do? Panic, complain, despair or…? I choose to use lull time to meet and talk to people, think about new opportunities and gaps in the market where I can add value and build my business. Sitting around complaining and despairing at how unfair [...]
Bootstrapping my startup
So I learnt a new meaning for the word bootstrap today. In the context of starting a business, it means to self sustain a startup without turning to raising external capital. Bootstrap startup founders fund their businesses entirely by themselves through building a business while being employed, or like myself, providing consulting services and pumping [...]
On my own
How time flies. It’s been 7 years since I started this blog, and 6 months since I started out on my own. Leaving full-time employment has been the best decision I ever made in my life, even though I do worry about where my paycheck for next month will come from. Starting up hasn’t been [...]
Achieving formlessness – 1 week on
I’m doing OK so far. I remind myself everyday of my mission – to train myself not to take anything personally. I keep myself busy to refrain from thinking too much. Today I want to talk about something that has been bothering me for a while. Have you ever had the experience of not being [...]
Day 4 of Achieving Formlessness – Perception is Reality
Today adjusted salaries and bonuses were revealed. I realised that many people in the department seem unhappy with what they are getting. Myself, going by benchmarks I should be getting paid 50% more than what I am getting now. And based on performance appraisal I ought to be getting a promotion. But I got a [...]
Day 3 of Achieving Formlessness – Resolve
It’s the morning of Day 3 of my mission towards achieving formlessness. Yesterday night was an interesting night for me. It was full of 3 emotions – anger, disgust and happiness. Anger because the organisation’s performance appraisal system is shit – it does not form the basis for promotions. The promotions list was announced yesterday [...]
Days 1 & 2 of Achieving Formlessness – Struggling to stay afloat
So I started working on my 2012 goal of achieving formlessness by not taking anything personally. Day 1 has been quite a struggle to constantly remind myself at every step not to take anything from anyone personally at all. I find that making myself as busy as possible helps a lot, as it takes away [...]
Mastering the art of not taking anything personally
Hello world! It’s 2012 and I’m still alive! That’s a good enough thing to be thankful about – don’t take anything for granted. The very fact that you are still breathing and healthy means you are better off than the sick, the dying and the dead. These days, I’ve been trying to train myself in [...]
Two years in a corporate environment
This is my first corporate job and I really don’t know if every place is the same… same shit, different place… but I feel that the place I am in now is the most screwed up corporate environment ever. Dysfunctional HR. Dysfunctional IT. No open communications. Lots of backstabbing and politics at all levels of [...]
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