Hi my friends,
Brought up in a middle class family (really thankful for my parents) in the 80s but paid and studied my own way from third world country to first world. Financially broke once after my first business collapsed. I've been surfing the forum and learnt tremendously from many of you. Ten years ago I was a braggy software corporate ladder guy, ten years later now I am a low profile entrepreneur.
Today, I run a company that made me 10M USD in personal liquid assets, likely more if I sit down and count. I still go to the same cheap but tasty breakfast joint, takes public bus, and spend less than I did ten years ago. Whether I can achieve my goal comes down to discipline and consciousness rather than talent or luck.
I've faced three challenges in the journey. The first challenge thrown upon me was that many or my perception about entrepreneur was wrong. I was a want-trepreneur because it looked cool and I couldn't stand 9 - 5 in the office. I was not for it for the passion but for the glamor. The second challenge was, as an entrepreneur you don't have to fire yourself cos you are always the boss, and that gave tons of excuses because no one dare confront you. Funnily it was become an entrepreneur that took away my self-discipline, until I met FLF. The third challenge was, my own devil. I realised many times we are all doing the same thing hoping to get different results because it's easy that way. I always wanted to meet clients and social and avoided really managing company finances. I used hustling to run away from other responsibilities as the CEO of the company. I also see other CEOs have different traits, some might be like totally opposite of me and choose to avoid see client due to some stigma when clearly it will help grow the company. It's like we all have our issues to deal with.
Feel free to ask me anything.
Brought up in a middle class family (really thankful for my parents) in the 80s but paid and studied my own way from third world country to first world. Financially broke once after my first business collapsed. I've been surfing the forum and learnt tremendously from many of you. Ten years ago I was a braggy software corporate ladder guy, ten years later now I am a low profile entrepreneur.
Today, I run a company that made me 10M USD in personal liquid assets, likely more if I sit down and count. I still go to the same cheap but tasty breakfast joint, takes public bus, and spend less than I did ten years ago. Whether I can achieve my goal comes down to discipline and consciousness rather than talent or luck.
I've faced three challenges in the journey. The first challenge thrown upon me was that many or my perception about entrepreneur was wrong. I was a want-trepreneur because it looked cool and I couldn't stand 9 - 5 in the office. I was not for it for the passion but for the glamor. The second challenge was, as an entrepreneur you don't have to fire yourself cos you are always the boss, and that gave tons of excuses because no one dare confront you. Funnily it was become an entrepreneur that took away my self-discipline, until I met FLF. The third challenge was, my own devil. I realised many times we are all doing the same thing hoping to get different results because it's easy that way. I always wanted to meet clients and social and avoided really managing company finances. I used hustling to run away from other responsibilities as the CEO of the company. I also see other CEOs have different traits, some might be like totally opposite of me and choose to avoid see client due to some stigma when clearly it will help grow the company. It's like we all have our issues to deal with.
Feel free to ask me anything.
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