Rant & Raves

For those who know, and for those who don’t, I have just turned 32 not long ago.

For the 32nd birthday, it was a mixed feeling. A lot of people remembered to send me wishes on SMS, and some even called me, and I was surprised that so many people knew, and I was also surprised that I didn’t expect some of them to remember. And then there are some close friends who forgot.

No, I am not complaining. Birthday, at least mine, is insignificant to me. It is just another day of the year, and the only difference is that I am getting older. But heck, don’t we all get older by the day? It is just a way to mark where you have been and where you are at the different stage of your life. So for me, it was just a way to mark that I had just turned 32, that’s it. No big deal.

Anyway, for those who had sent me the wishes, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you sincerely.

Did I celebrate it? Throw a bash or something? No. It was just a simple dinner, a day spent with my beloved Fluffy, and that’s about it. Nothing fancy, nothing luxurious, nothing special.

Am I one day wiser? (Or some would ask if I am one year wiser)

I have no idea. I would love to be one day wiser, or one year wiser. But I can’t say for sure since there is no gauge to measure how wise a person is, and I certainly don’t wish to be measured. If I am not one day wiser, I will be okay. But if I am one day less wiser, I will be very depressed.

But looking back at the last 32 years of my life, I would say there are certain achievement, but there are more failure. Yes, people might think that I am a failure, but look at it this way; those people who think that more failure than achievement, by quantity count, is a loser is a loser themselves. No one can achieve more than failure.

Sometimes, one achievement is all it takes to make a huge difference, and that one achievement can out-weight all the failure combined in his/her lifetime.

Colonel Sanders has created a fried chicken recipe at the old age after he closed down his fried chicken business since there was a major highway being built that would bypass his small town, and he foresaw that the amount of customers would drop drastically. So he folded his restaurant and he approached hundreds and hundreds of potential investors to support his business, to open his restaurant across America. All but the last one turned him down. Now, look at it this way; how many people who has read this blog can swear to God that he/she has never tried the 11 secret herb fried chicken recipe by Colonel Sanders?

By the way, Colonel Sanders is the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, or more commonly known as KFC.

Did he give up after being turned down more than a hundred times? Nope, and he continued working on it, getting things done, and approach new potential investors. So now, please look at KFC. It has operation in more than 80 countries, and making billions each year, and served more than millions upon millions of people in this world.

How about Robert T. Kiyosaki? He has created many businesses, and all of them failed. Did he give up? The answer is NO. He worked on new business models, tried to create more opportunities for himself, and look at him now, he is worth hundreds of millions, US Dollar (some would say the range of 100 to 200 million USD, some said more) and even partner with Donald Trump, one of the richest man in the world, to co-write a book. By the way, Robert T. Kiyosaki is the author of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” and also the founder of CASHFLOW Technologies Inc, the company behind Rich Dad’s Corporation.

And for those who think that having more failure in life than achievement (by quantity) is a loser, do you think you would give up after being turned down by 100 potential investors? Or how about giving up after your 3rd business attempts failed miserably and lost millions? If you do so, then you are not getting anywhere.

Failure is not a measurement on how successful a person is. Failure should be used for learning; learning why a person failed, learning how to approach the task differently, and most importantly, learning to be successful.

Failure is just a blocking stone to slow you down to achieve what you want in life. If you are faced with a failure, all you have to do is conjure up the courage, sharpen your mind, and face the failure to learn from it so that you can advance forward.

Now, before I go overboard with this blog, let’s just say this is my observation and it doesn’t mean that my business has gone belly up. This is only a reference in life, be it business, carrier, relationship, friendship, or anything.