Putting on reflection caps

After a year from unemployment, I had noticed that I have done quite substantially much. It is worth reflecting what I have achieved since September 2010.
It started with successfully registering F&O Logistics as a legitimate business in September 2010. Then opened a business account. Our first customer was in September 2010. It was the beginning of what would be a life enhancing opportunity. In October 2010, I got a job which proved to be a blush saver to my assets. The same week (I got the job), my wife gave birth to a baby girl. Things seem to be happening in a short space of time,
F&O Logistics was beginning to get lucrative business. It helped achieve family responsibility objectives. I bought household items such as beds, wardrobes, tiling, built a wall, and other small important achievables.
By far, F&O has the ability to change my life for the better. Far better.
In the year ending October 2011, F&O has achieved a profit margin of R310,000.00
Considering it was run part time, this was a considerable sum which deserve an applaud. THEN, late August, things took a turn to what I initially thought would help advance my career and deflect the potential conflict of interest with the company I was working for. I accepted a job as a shipping coordinator. The salary was less but my thinking was that it could help me achieve F&O vision.
But it never happened that way because I ended up with a warning against operating my business. Eish!
Then I got a written warning for time management. I began to realise that things are not working as I had initially thought. I was struggling to make ends meet. Then the day came when I realised, that it's better to change course and try restart my action plan.
In November 30, 2011, I abruptly quit the job I had come to dislike. It was a great risk but I still believe that my decision would prove me right one day, soon.
Currently my focus is on building F&O into a multimillion rand company in five years time. The current plan is to have funds from business funding institute, thus we grow the company into mentioned vision.

Wishing all the luck

I am strongly convinced that I am not entirely convinced of all my convictions.
Quite a stir, isn't it?
Considering a career mistake I have been this year, how could I be convinced of my convictions. I vowed not to repeat the same mistake ever but, hell yeah, 'I know what I was thinking.' I thought moving into another job would give me an opportunity to earn extra more and a new kind of experiential knowledge since I have been into one industry for a while. Then, it made me anxious to move on to learn new things.
I landed a position as an import shipping coordinator at chemical industry company.
Boy! Was it a nice a job?
After a couple of weeks, I realised that the post was nothing more than a document pusher for the department. I was doing filing, preparing documents, capturing. It was really a low end job i had not imagined to be doing in my career. Jeez.
The money!
Oooh boy, the salary I was earning was nothing more than a pack of peanuts when compared to my expenses.
Terrible mistake I had made. Although I made this mistake on a rather different note, it was not entirely different from other career mistakes I had vowed not repeat.
Poor me.
I can't say 'learning from my mistakes' because I have repeated this mistake for a third time.
I am wishing myself all the luck in the next endeavour.

The feeling and results of big good luck

Good day

Am hereby to tell you my opinion about the feeling and results of big good luck.

Ooooh! Sorry, I didn't mean to start like that. Ai, me and my love of humble introduction.
Anyway, let's roll!
Luck has everything to do with it. That will not change anytime soon. As a human kind who has definite wishes, I need luck on all my endeavours. Not just good luck, but big time good luck. Big time good luck in terms of huge financial success, big time luck in terms of industriousness, big time luck in terms of energy to complete my projects.
The results of being lucky in all the above will give me inner peace. Liberate my state of mind! I dully need big time luck. Big time! When I have this luck, I will be in the state of big time happiness.
The results will be big fat bank account, enough time to live my ideal life.
This is the yearning I always have in my thinking days. I just need the luck which would ensure I achieve the defined wishes. I am also not resting on my laurels in the hope that luck will come. The luck I am wishing for is the one following hard work and planning.
Big time luck surely feels good and its results are substantial.

Come on big time good luck! Enter my spirit as you are welcome!

Luck has everything to do with it!

Although I was taught to believe that hard work pays, but now I am prepared to change this belief. I am not saying I will stop working hard but since hard work has become second nature I will shift my focus to the rather elusive, unexplainable quality. It is is a quality I have tried to justify its cause but currently I am going to change this justifiction.

Luck!

You can't buy luck nor anyone knows definitely where luck comes from. It's rare to know, or have it. Very rare! I believe. I want it, everybody wants it, we all want, but I know I want badly.

Luck is the fine line between average AND remarkable success.

We hear stories about people who were born poor, with no food, work their ass off to get to the top. How many people work their arse off to get to their top but do not go beyond average. I personally convinced that I desperately need the luck to make that breakthrough which has been playing itself in my head for long.

I have taken various steps to see through this breakthrough. Now am starting to realise that I have gone too far, thus I need luck to be on my side. I need to be lucky to have made F&O Logistics a multi-million rand company in its first 18 months of operation. I need luck to survive everyday of my life. I need luck to be there whenever I get to work hard.

I have all the plans in place to make a breakthrough of my life. What I need right now is luck to be there to back me up. I really need luck because I plan, work and take decisive actions to ensure I am really pragmatic about my breakthrough.

Because I still have the slight belief of the school of thoughts that one need to make his own luck. I will detail below how will I make my own luck because I do need luck.

How I will make my own luck:

• Succesfully apply for business funding from NEF


• Constantly approach 5 clearing agents per week regarding transportation of containers for by F&O Logistics


• Approach forwarding agents and cold call importers/exporters to inform them about F&O's customs clearing function


• Ensure I convert business opportunities to sales by offering good service and competitive rates.


• Manage my business and personal finances shrewdly and rather prudently.

The above are not necessarily the only actions I will take to further make my own luck but I believe they are the benchmark in which highlight and entrench my current actions which I will see as luck creaters.

Wish me luck cause I need luck.

Hard work and luck needs to go hand-in-hand with me!

It's really demotivating my cause

Sometimes when you learn the truth that you never thought you could learn you get that information stuck in your consciousness all the time. If the information that you learned shows how behind you are it becomes a bit destructive. At times, it propels you to move faster in order to cover up the hole that you have uncovered. It's pretty sad to me really.
I am getting worried that my plans, dreams, wishes, ambitions are not happening as much as I would love to. In one of my previous writing, I mentioned how I hate it when I dream, plan and take action to make happen my ambitions and they never materialise. My disclosure of this distaste did not seem to have done me any justice, as yet. So far it has produced the opposite. I have seen something totally unbelievable. The taxman is claiming I owe him 22,092.92. But how? I filed my returns manually to capture information on my retirement lump sum tax certificate.
Hawu! How can I owe the taxman for monies which was said to be non-taxable? Enough with that, but I hope (and it's only a hope) their assessment will turn around to my favour. Just imagine, I get R22,092.92 towards Christmas. Yummie!
Secondly, when I did my online pay scale survey I found that I am way underpaid in my current job. How demoralising that can be? I earn R150,000,00 per annum instead of
R261,064,64 per annum. What an underpayment that is! Personally, I have given up in the attempt of negotiating a salary because I don't like going through the emotional pain of negotiating this salary thing. I will just hope I keep looking out for something better or that my company could become so profitable in the long run that I will not need to work or look for work.
Although these can be rather motivating or giving one a sense of direction, they are at times a demoralising factor when I am worrying about not affording most things I deem necessary for my fulfillment.

Zero dreams

Anyone could agree with me that at times it is frustrating when a dream crosses your mind and get stuck in your current thinking state but never materialise. I am unashamedly one of those people! I hate it when my dreams do not materialise even when I have not only dreamt but tried as much as I could to realise those dreams.
I am honestly tired of dreaming only to see my dream never materialise. I sure know that most of the dreams I had were not based on my imagination but on a rather sound experience and opportunities available out in the world.
During the course of this year, my company was to get confirmation whether we shall be serving a client whom we would have made at least R3,500,000.00 between myself, the company and my business partner. Wow, you will say! However, this dream never materialised nor any sort of confirmation was given to us.
I have had a couple of disappointment which it will take me the whole day to mention.
The reason I wrote about it is because I am tired of being disappointed. I am tired of my dreams being raised, only to see them not materialising. I hate it!
When I have a dream which shows a specific timeline based on all information presented, previous or current it should happen within that period. Not to say there shouldn't be any problems in seeing those dreams come to fruition but they should happen at least within the timeline.
I hope the stars are hearing me to manifest at my current dream and luck. I desperately need luck, cause without luck there's no much hope.

State of F&O affairs

It has not really helped me to be my own best fan, only. I have learned that to create a balance, some form of self criticism could go a long way in shaping my attitude and perspective to realism.
The lack within F&O lies in not being able to generate an income enough to ensure we weather the storm. This underlying problem seem to come from two position, 1)Using F&O to cover personal expenses, 2)The company not moving fast enough into clearing and not getting consistent support from transportation customers as they mostly complained that the fee is expensive.
I am aware of these issues, and am still at brains as to addressing it progressively. However, as stated on the previous report in this blog, a monthly profit need to be reached in order to answer most of the issues affecting F&O Logistics, including the above two.
I have strong hope, belief and imagination that F&O will be the train to achieving my total financial freedom and get me to my imagination of life. This because I am committed to work hard, and persevere until I see the dream come true.

Celebrating myself and F&O

I am not the one who is going to feel sorry for my past or the path I have chosen in life. When looking back, I think I have come far.
I have become an ambitious character who not only wish but attaempt to make those ambitions come true.
Over the past year, I have managed to run a company which has been bringing in income almost every month. My wish has been to bring in profit everyday in order to fully realise both my career and personal ideals. In context, F&O Logistics should be generating a net profit of R12500 per day. This will put it in the nice position to pay its two owners, run itself, and grow and expand to other investment avenues.
I will think, work hard to implement my marketing vision in order to see through this success.