Today , me and some of the ex-colleague met again for lunch . Those days in the factory I remembered Tom Peters said in his writings, lunch is all about contact, make great social contact and its suppose to make money , not just eat and go thing .
Well ...after being not in the factory and not to worry about yield and technical stuffs , everything of that matter start making sense!
Now when I go out and meet friends , there is a target in my mind....yes..adding value to people. This is free service that is available in everyone of us , yet we always fail to maxiise it.
Adding value means anybody you are in contact with will feel they are grateful to know you as a person or a friend .
Another lesson I learn since the retrenchment is to adapt your self to entrepeneurship. It is true that the feeling of continuing career in manufacturing or to change course to another venture is always in every retrenchee. Especially when you are in this age (like me) approaching 40 and already in the management ladder. Well if you have great connections, you are out of this dilemma I guess....
It motives to share my feelings after reading stuffs like this ....from Jim Rohn in his ezine
"Now that may sound like a full menu of activities, but let me assure you that the process of going from average to fortune isn't really all that difficult. Thinking about it is the difficult part. Anticipating all the effort and the changes and the disciplines is far worse in the mind than in reality. I can promise you that the challenges you'll meet on the road to success are far less difficult to deal with than the struggles and the disappointments that come from being average. Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.
The one in red makes sense and that is what I have been doing anyway ...being an average.
I refuse to be an average now. Period.
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