Excitement I had never known exist

You tell me … what kind of job or work can give you sooo much energy and excitement till you can’t sleep at night ? till your eyes are wide open at 1:30am even though the lights are off ? You roll left and right in your bed.

I tell you … the “job” is – being an entrepreneur.

It’s true. Because I am writing this at 1:30am. Because I had just experienced all that I had described above. I am so excited till I can’t sleep, till I had to switch the lights back on, switch my computer back on and write this entry.

Throughout my 4 years as a software engineer in 1 MNC and 1 software firm, I hadn’t had such a wonderful experience. Yes, I remember being happy about doing software engineering stuff – it was glamorous, it sounded glamorous, it was challenging, it was a high-tech job and it was paying me ok, but being happy and a little excitement is all that I had experienced.

The excitement in me now is a kind of excitement I had never known existed. I am so excited about being successful later on, so exited about sleeping in my new house, so excited about the public using my service…I am so excited about everything that is coming my way.

I am so excited because my future is so bright and wonderful and… exciting.

Oh sure, entrepreneurship does bring worry and fear that is, at times, overwhelming – but let’s not talk about those negative feelings for now. I just want to enjoy the excitement that I have now. Besides, it is these positive feelings and excitement that entrepreneurs look forward to every minute and second, not those negative ones.

I have sooo much to tell you – about Napoleon Hill’s visualization techniques, about his “transmute to monetary equivalent” techniques, about his “mastermind group” concepts, about his…oh… so much… so much.

I better climb back to bed now. If not, if any of my family members come out and see me typing frantically at this hour (2am), they will think I have gone crazy. But then, you need to be a little crazy to start and run a business, to be an entrepreneur, right ? Of course ! Serial entrepreneur Barry Moltz give this title for his book – “You need to be a little CRAZY – The truth about starting and growing your business.”

THE Book

The name Napoleon Hill is central to this blog. It will be mentioned many many times. So, if you want to know who the heck this guy is, search “Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill” … and you’ll know.

There are many free e-book version of that book. So, if you are interested, you can just download and read it.

This is a picture of the book I am having now … :)

Oh ya, there is a chapter dedicated to sex … NOW… I see ya Googling that book :P

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My new business for paying bills and food

I had calculated that in order for me to achieve my dream of owning a house with minimum loan, I had to earn RM 11,730.56 every month for 3 years. And for me to achieve it in 4 years, I would need to start earning that from year 2 onwards, that’s from Oct 2006 onwards.

If I can’t start earning that amount starting from Oct 2006, then I would need to earn much more than RM 11,730.56 every month in the later years, that is, year 3 and 4 (2008 and 2009).

As mentioned in my about page of this blog, my plan to achieve that amount is to have a computer system/service deployed for the public to use. It will be some sort of a service… but I shall not reveal here for some reasons. Anyway, the specific service is not important for readers of this blog, which focuses on the journey of getting successful & achieving goals.

But I had a problem. While developing that system, it is better to have some income to support me. Even though I believe my savings are enough to last me throughout development phase, I do run a high risk of having my funds dip to an uncomfortably low level.

So I have a compounded challenge here – to develop the system, I need a means of getting some survival income *first*, no matter how small the amount may be.

For yesterday (Thursday) and today (Fri), I had started a business – to teach people how to earn on the net. Collecting a fee in exchange of such know-how is my current plan to earn my survival income.

I had designed and hosted a webpage detailing my Internet marketing course. Teaching method will be 1-to-1 personal coaching style. Then today, I went around distributing my name cards advertising this business of mine to interested parties.

Tomorrow, I shall finalize the syllabus of the course – detailing every topic and chapter.

Soon, I’ll need to distribute *more* cards and possibly flyers too.

Wish me luck. But then Napoleon Hill tells us very clearly that success is not a fluke shot – it is a result of having burning desire to succeed.

After being educated by Hill, the significance of the wish “good luck” has reduced so much.