Wilson Ng started helping the family business since 9 years old. Since then, he had dreamt to be a successful entrepreneur, one who starts great businesses  ( he has started 7) from scratch with insight, guts and initiative. He keeps his focus on growing the business by creating value-- not on politics, or wasteful distractions. He brings the same focus to community service, teaching, life and family.

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	Saturday, October 01, 2005

The Here and Now (On Life )   (selected articles in bizdrivenlife compiled) My 3 Think Days was over a couple of days ago.  Having some time for yourself to think , and just do certain things was certainly a good way to just step back, and reflect.  Let me share to you one aspect of my discoveries. One of the things I found out that I think is MY problem  ( I wrote about it, because I think, it is also an issue for many people) , is that I may have the habit of too much focus on the future.  Not having much time, I may focus too much in super organizing and in making sure of efficiency too much of things to come.   This is fine except that it prevents me from enjoying or being more aware of the present, the here and now. To create an analogy, it is good to save money.  There are some people though, that save too much money.  Instead of enjoying a reasonable part of their income, and saving a prudent part of it, they starve the present, and save too much for the future.  Then saving money becomes a habit, and maybe the person will found out that they cared too much of the future that they enjoyed the present much less.  Then they get old, and found out that the things they were saving for never came to be, and they had too much savings, but no great experiences, and it was too late to enjoy what you were saving for. Other than money, another analogy is my experiences when in school.  The teacher is lecturing, and you have 2 choices -- you either put your attention to listen, and try to remember what is being taught, or you can put all your energies to taking notes.  I have had frequent experiences of taking too many notes ( just in case I may need to refer back to it), and never again reading the notes.  So in retrospect, I would gain much more if I have concentrated on listening than writing something. What is your experience when you are in vacation?  This habit, again manifests itself.  When we go to a site, we may either focus on enjoying the experience, and the sites, or just like many of us, focus too much not on the experience, but in preserving the experience -- taking too much time to buy souvenirs, take pictures, and record videos, or just plain think about something else.  In my case, both.  When I am in vacation, I take too much pictures, and i worry too much about the business back home. In retrospect,  I have had many vacations which I can barely remember the experience, but which I have tons of pictures, videos and souvenirs that I never took a look again, and memories of the worries that never happened. How about you?  Do you prepare too much for what is to come, instead of just heightening your awareness to enjoy the here and now? I read a story once.  This was about a tennis champion.  She has just won the championship, and she should have been celebrating.  Instead, she choose to practice -  there were more mountains to scale, and it was important that she did not spend too much celebrating, and the author feels that she will be a winner because of such attitude. I have that attitude too, and I felt I did not enjoy some of the victories as much, because by then, I was planning again how to sustain it, or better it.  It might have been a factor that I have been more successful than average, but there is a price.  It might also hamper your enjoying the here and now. I guess that is fine when you are 25, but as I am nearing 40, i should think about it differently before life passes me by.  What do you think?   4:28:16 AM     comment []   trackback []

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