I’m not a good writer. I’ve never been good at converting my thoughts into words. As far my first post goes, I wasn’t really sure what point I wanted to get across. Making a personal blog has always been an interest of mine but I’ve I’ve been procrastinating on it. I finally decided to go ahead with one after reading Adam McFarland’s post today. By the way, here are the only four blogs that I ever read:
Adam McFarlend - Young entrepreneur and great blogger
Nev Blog - Neville is another young entrepreneur with unique ideas
Timothy Ferris - Best selling author of The Four Hour Workweek
Ramit - Provides good financial tips and strategies
Back to the subject at hand. My short term career related goals:
- Finish my MBA within two years and apply what I’ve learned to my businesses
- Make a steady income from my website www.perfectcomplements.com
- Spend more time volunteering
- Meet all four of the bloggers I wrote about above
My long term goals:
- Achieve a net worth over 1 million dollars by age 35 (Age 26 now)
- Have at least 3 companies pulling in 200k a year by age 35
- Build schools in China
These goals seem a little ambitious since I have less than 10 years to accomplish them. Without setting high goals, you’ll only limit yourself by believing that you can’t achieve them. Also, my long term goals mostly deal with building wealth. Many believe that money will not bring happiness and that rich people are selfish. I tend to believe the opposite is true. Rich people donate more money and they are generally happier because they don’t have to worry about where their next plate of food will come from. Becoming rich will only emphasis the kind of person you already are.
Hopefully, someday someone will read my blog and realize that I’ve taught them something and want to start their own blog and the process will continue to repeat itself. Till that day, I’m willing to share with you what I’ve learned, am currently learning, and will learn.
Posted under Entrepreneur
This post was written by Jay on September 8, 2008
Thanks for the kind words Jay, I think you’ll realize that writing out your thoughts and actions in blog form will help improve them.
Best of luck!
-Neville
Jay - thanks for the kind words as well. You have some very ambitious goals, which is awesome! No fun in trying to be average You’re off to a great start with Perfect Complements.
If you’re ever in the NY area just drop me an email in advance and we can meet up for coffee or drinks. It’s always a pleasure to meet other young business owners.
Adam