Well, virtually
everything that happens around us is unexpected. One wakes in the
morning and no one know what is to happen in the next minute ahead. A
friend was coming to my house on the 25th.December.2011 in the evening.
He was coming from University of Ghana, Bani hostel though the Legon
Presec route. They were two, Timms and Badon. According to their
narration, they were conversing along the road and walking toward the
main gate of the University. Just at the junction shared by Presec and
Bani, Timms was robbed off his cell phone and some cash, GH¢ 15. Badon
just walked along...
They say it is Christmas and it signifies the birth of Christ and that
is suppose to mean salvation but someone was getting robbed. Probably
somewhere around the world, someone was being killed, murdered or dying
of a terminal illness. Who knows tomorrow?
Now to the subject, "how far so far "...
I
have been operating Doss Empire for about a year now and my net profit
is in negative. I have not made any profit from my business so far.
There is something people call hope and that is all i have to hold on to
for now. That am hoping i make it out of the negatives and start
getting positive profit figures. The stress and frustration that comes
with running a business for a year and yet not yielding profit is
unbearable. Sometimes you don't want to even say you own a business,
because when asked how well your business is doing, a perfect harmless
question about your business could seem like the most insulting question
ever. Still all i got is that thing people call hope, that abstract
noun...
If the world could see what you see, there may not be conflict of
misunderstanding because only then will they be able to understand why
you do certain things some way and expect them to understand the reason
for your decision.....
Operating a business without an office in the first place is like not
operating at all. You may have all the necessary documents showing how
legitimate your business is but without an office, the word trust may
not be your friend. In my business life, i have been operating for 1 and
a half year without an office. Sometimes, we think too much. Too much
of what we think others might be thinking about us whiles the truth is
that, they are not even thinking close to that. This condition of
personal fable is a restriction to many success story. Sometimes the
client is not interested in the fact that you don't have an office, he
may be interested in the quality of work instead and you don't approach
them with your business because you think you need everything to be
complete before you start.
This way of thinking has stalled my progress for about a year now. My
advice is that, probably what you have is enough for some level of
success and you could start from there. Your brains definition of
perfection is not same as another man's brain definition of perfection.
About 70% of the solutions to our problems lies with us and not from any
external source. Blowing situation out of proportion and over
elaboration is the stumbling block to business development.
The other 30% is easily tackled once the internal portion is resolved or is being resolved.
My advice is that, you start problem solving by trying to solve your end
of the problem. The external solution is built on the internal
solution. If the internal solution is not found, the external solution
may fail to bring success.
