Frachise or not

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Hi I've been out again for a long time. It is safe place for me let me spit out.

I've been doing quite well in my life now, though, it is coasting along the rail but still i understand that i'm still going up. *Chuckles

I've come back to talk about my big plan and how's is life to be part of the franchising. Years back, I've been mumbling of having business. Yes, I'm doing my own business in education and it is pretty difficult at the starting point. 

Franchise often centralised all the freedom to make use of their brand under the headquarters. In other word, you ought to be less creative to follow the sets of dogmas. Otherwise, you are going to be frustrated just like me. Restriction of being outlier is one thing you must endure in franchising.

Another thing to watch out, protection plan. The most worrisome thing in business world is to compete. To compete with other brands, to compete in strategy and etc. How about competing with own brand? Ridiculous isn't it? How can one compete with own brand. That's the thing you should rule out. Watch out for their protection plan. If they don't have one, don't sign up even it looks tempting good. 

The next thing to do is to hold your calculator and think of the royalty. How confident you are to survive and prosper after profit cut and give to the mother company. If you are newbie, yet, don't feel gaining experience as your goal. Along the way, as you gain enough experience you will feel harder to continue the business. You know what i meant. *wink

We still left about 2 years of contract and I've made up my mind to kickstart my own brand. Though we are not ready structurally, certification wise and even the team, I believe we will pickup along the trial and error. 

Connecting the Dots to the Past

"Fast money," a sale man told me. The sale man has a younger brother and he is very smart. "He doesn't want to work. He doesn't want money from the proper way," He continued.

Proper way? I think that's quite a subjective perceptive. Something incontestable is that some people in old fashion still perceive money which got from random sources to be not proper. I didn't make a comment. The picture of my friend success had came into my mind. He is doing an "improper business" for years before he established himself a good company. I thought the claim by the sale man is subjective.

"I've seen quite a number of my friend having good trait but turn worst when they mismanage their lives," He said. "Though some of them from very poor family manage to strive into realm of success." While he trying to convey the message, I found this man interesting. He's actually looking back to his past. They are classmate started from the relative same starting point and ended with different point of life after years. He began to compare what he actually missed to become success like his classmate and what he gratitude that he doesn't get involve in certain way to become a bad person. I start to observe and I found this fact is fascinating. We can't actually see thing when we are young. The icon and success stories on paper is quite a fairy tales to us but when someone in our circle start to emerge as a successful person, it kicks into our mind. What've we done differently? One thing I see from my past is I thought of education is an absolute determiner and success is impartial to those loner, but my friend had proven me wrong. I start to build my communication, I speak more, flatter when I need to and I stress to every one around me that getting no good mark doesn't mean you are bad producer. 

One thing I do agree is ambitious people do often looking to do something out of sense. Looking for fast money is one of the trait, but it also mess up their life. I pretty sure i'd somehow mess up too my life by debts and overwhelm by job that I'm not supposedly able to handle at my age. I look at the guy and smiled, feeling like I'm somehow in the position of his brother. Though I might be little hard worker than him. 

It also taught me another important lesson, if the problem is chronic and important, working on the surface does't help to eradicate it. I'd spent most of my time trying to pull off the fire failing to recognise the source is still there. I think if the problem is there, why avoiding and worrying? Work on it.

It is important to have a kid waiting for you

Now i'm back to the blog again. One good thing of my blog is without ad. It isn't because I don't want some income from the advertiser but I don't know how to really put one.

Let's go back to the topic again. Why is important to have a kid waiting for you at home, in school or nursery. Now to some culture, one would seek more on individualism, means they want to have something to achieve before they got married or have child. In the common perception of the group, they perceive children or kids were burden to their progressive live. For example, they want to achieve something, a business startup, a superb athlete or a fame celebrity and etc.

But I'm trying to assure you that "kids", especially your child will make the entire belief the opposite way.

What makes me to say so? I don't have child and I'm yet to married but my job has giving me more opportunity to get in touch with kids with different age than most of the office workers.

The one essence of having kid is "they are the greatest motivation factor".

What was that? You might think that, ya right, it means struggle days by days to bring home pennies to get them fed. That is my life, my motivation.

No. What I'm trying to say is completely different.

What I'm telling you is, even if you get scolded in the office by your boss but when you get home, you are their hero. When you get to teach them, shows them new trick or stuff or maybe get something build, they will giving you the feeling that you are amazing. Indeed, you are amazing. It matters. Why? Thinking you are amazing should be subjective and not universal. You can be amazing in a small circle but not to the other. But who care. Living in that small circle makes you grow faster than the other. One of the good example that of thinking someone is amazing is a subjective perception is Android-ian think that Steve Job wasn't that amazing compare to the Google's humanity achievement.

When you see them growing up everyday from able to walk, holding a pencil, talk something that you don't expected, it gave you some goosebumps. They had really grow under your care! you will hold that on any stormy day will get into your way.

So, have your own baby and take good care!


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Hard Things Always Easy - Business Life

Little moment when girlfriend was out. It was quiet and peaceful though it doesn't mean that she is noisy. It do give me a little moment of being my very own. My television was down and it was a quiet night. Listening to the new song bought from Apple iTunes had gave me many thoughts. Looking on the words and advices I had pasted on my closet. It said, "Hard thing always easy." Very often, I was too busy and tired to even look at that but once I have the time, it always hits me deep into my heart. It makes me believe that I have to stretch more and more to get better and better. We are human and rely much on companionship. It is inevitable to be imperfect and sometime situation around can be like salt on wound or perhaps one little word from other's mouth can cut deep into your heart. It is unavoidable, absolutely. However, if you had been expose more and more to such situation, challenge and maybe criticism, your won't be that glassy anymore. I had regret that I'm a businessman once a while when hitting rocks. I will ask how good if i'm still well protected under a company welfare. This feeling is weary day by day and it is maybe that I've grown stronger.  I'm not glassy compares to a freshie now. I brush off my shyness to deal with unknown. It is hardly now to feel in trauma or disappointed on little words by people. I have to live on and continue to survive and to grow big. If you are a businessman or a start-up. You never alone because there are thousands of people feel the same as, i'm inefficient. I think it is a growth process. Cheer! Lad!

Walk two miles

Do a little bit more than you will be different along way. How much did you embrace this sentence? Some of the people will holding the concept of giving 20 percent of effort and getting 80 percent of result. If you have bunch of friends, look at the success one. Every done and undone things matters what he is now. I saw that one friend tried a little bit different when we are at high school and he is huge different successful figure now. Why not do a little bit more? Jesus says, "walk two miles when someone had asked you to walk a mile." Amen.

Ladder of Education

Being inspired by an art satirise the very true situation of our society. "The ladder of education" It was illustrated in the way of staircase was built by notes of money. Being a teacher, I notice the education received from wealthy family is richer than the poor one. More than often, poor kids are just rely on the government school system they had. They are very depending on whatever they received from school, unlike richer kids, they receive better, detailed, rich content as long as their parents are capable to pay for it. It is always sad that they are much in love but they do not feel the situation. One can said, "Plant in the greenhouse can't withstand adversity." It is true but they have better surviving rate than the poor one. It means, "Plant in forest is stronger but they exist at one in thousand ratio." You saw someone from a despairing family doing great and very success, but wonder too how much of those had actually died off.

I hope every teacher in this nation will devote more love to everyone and pay more attention to build the kids. Who know you are the only one they can rely with, second to their parents.

"Lord, please give strength to all the teachers, parents and students. Open their heart to receive your words. Make them wise, mature and persevere. Grant them best of their luck. Amen."

Difficulties, Take It Down Pieces By Pieces

I have learned to appreciate every drop of inspiration on starting an article. It is often situational and difficult to repeat.

Have you ever been mediocre on your way to success or even feeling difficult to continue? Be it on your career, as a parent or even as school student. Many of us encounter difficulty or difficulties, but not many of us try to embrace it. As large group of the people might turn away from it, look at it or panic with it. It will be much simple to imagine by putting your younger self side by side to your current image. If you have child, try to compare your way of living, method to deal with external stimulus with theirs. You will probably found that there are not much different in term on the nature of problem and dealing mechanism. How? You would say, we are at different stage of life. True enough. But had you seen yourself saying "I don't know.", "They are different, they are better.", "It is somehow destinated". Have all these thoughts come across your mind before? If you are conscious enough you probably heard these, and if you deepen your thought, you will notice that you can solve the problem what had caused your kids scratching their head (your head) with the wisdom you currently have.

So what you are going to do to solve their problem is the same same mechanism to solve your problem right now. Put it in career, parenting or business world. Yes, but I ain't say the magnitude is the same. The magnitude gains in size when you grow older but the mechanism to solve problem is always the same, the way of thinking, processing is the same. Throughout history, people "walk" with their feet, "ride" a horse to travel and "drive" a car to work. All of these shared the same mechanism but different in magnitude. This is why we need "company" to "create" certain value which can't be done by individual. The magnitude is different. But what had been done in the past, will still be doing now.  What was needed, will still be needed now.

So ask yourself, how are you going to solve your younger self problem. Coaching? Step by step? starting with least difficult task? Make a lighter commitment to train up responsibility? It is the same mechanism like learning ABC before Spell "Cat" and "Dog". So take it down one piece at a time.

Then who are suppose to be the teacher role? You aren't getting a teacher when you are already an adult. No guiding, no postulation, no, nothing, ambiguous is the only thing left when you peer into the future. However, this inefficiency makes whole thing perfect. Don't feel afraid on making choice or waiting other to pick for you. If they do, prepare to be deep in regret when someone achieve than you do. In fact, I doubt the richest man will certain their every action, they don't, they gain confidence and instinct along the way. It took a small piece at time. That is also an harsh truth that trained us to be more responsible to our choice in adulthood. In fact, I don't have a good teacher right now and I would cry for having one. Teacher will coach you, give you insight and motivate you when you run out of fuel. In business world, you must realised that you need one. If you don't have any, keep looking, expand your social circle. That is the only way.

Taking down the difficulty small piece at a time is the only universal rule to get it done. Recognise when you are running away. Conscious or not, life is getting better and mind is getting wiser. That happens to everyone of us.  =)