Donald Trump better watch his back

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big. - Donald Trump

Looking back at the last four months of 2011 in retrospect, I realized just how much I've grown. Personally, I have made decisions that back in 2010, I would never have dreamed of making such as: keeping my post as a Staff Writer, hitting the gym at least five times a week and paying for it, and lastly, starting my own business.

For those who know me, business is most definitely not my strong point...hell, why do you think I took up Communications in the first place? Nonetheless, I took a risk. To my dismay, not even a month in and I'm feeling the repercussions of getting into the business, starting off with the fact that I constantly feel IMPOVERISHED thanks to the capital I had to put out. Second, I constantly feel like I've made a mistake what with my business moving as slow as hell. Third, I feel like I won't ever succeed because I seem to not have time to concentrate and really work on the business because of my regular job, which isn't even the usual nine to six, which makes scheduling meetings and training even more difficult. Basically, it would suck to be in my thinking shoes right now.

But today I decided to try something new. I decided to attend a success seminar (believe it or not), mostly because I wanted to make pakisama with the other people on the team, and so they can see that I still really want to be a part of the business. 

I am admittedly an elitist, and being in a room with 300 or so people in crazy themed outfits with party horns made me feel totally uncomfortable. Like I was better than all of them there. Stories of people becoming successful after a month or two, didn't interest me. Despite the fact that they can now build their mothers a multi-million peso home in Makati, I didn't seem to care much. Until the last speaker got up on stage.

He was honest, and I respected him for that. He shared that it had taken him two years before he became an executive and four or six years to reach his position right now. It could've been his charisma, but I felt for him. Like his story was actually more realistic, and made me feel that I could actually make it in this business.

At the end of the day, while pondering on the day's events over my bowl of tuna ceasar salad, it FINALLY hit me. In order for me to get to where I want to be with my business, I've got to want it more than any designer bag on my 'Must Purchase' list. I guess my mentor really wasn't kidding when he said that the business is 99% attitude and 1% aptitude.

With that realization buried deep in my subconscious now, I'm even more excited to see where exactly my business will go, and if I will finally find happiness in the decisions that I have made or will make.

xx,

Ri.