Real or Unreal - Both!

One month ago just one week before I go to Japan, I went to Lampung for business trip and also for holiday... I went there with my wife and kids...
So, the morning day before we back to Jakarta, we went to a kind of semi private beach owned by my friend. It is a lovely shallow beach with few kerapu (grouper) breeders scattered near the seaside.



At that time, I was so damned fall in love with that place and try to forget my trip to Japan - as I know it is gonna be totally different kind of life scenes from I enjoyed here. We really had a good time, swimming, having barbeque and playing at the sea shore. I felt that there was a distinctive split, with only easy living on one side and "must do" on the other.

My "must do" is just nearby a place what people called an unreal market, where people buy and sell a PAPER and to some extent they just buy and sell few bytes of data telling a value of one thing.

Tonite just several minutes to midnight, listening to some gospel songs from Joe Pace, I am feeling so empty with my flashy Ph.D. program in bond market, stock daytrading and all those finance structuring models - gee,.. I feel like I am being trapped into something unreal.

So it's difficult for me to tell if my disappointment in it is justified or not. Somehow, I got to go this way first before I could enjoy those "real life" and somehow, we got to choose both or nothing at all. That's life!! Who said we only have one choice at one time?!! At least, it is not me!

God bless you

To do what I love to do

If there is any difference between you and me it may simply be that I get up every day and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day. If you learn anything from me, this is the best advice I can give you. Warren Buffett

I guess this long holiday has given me a small chance and time to do what I love to do and being allowed to read or reread several books that I really wanted to enjoy it. The last two books that I read were China CEO and The Millionaire Code. China CEO is full of insight and practical advice about doing business in China. Though, I got no interest to do business in China, still this book offers some thoughts to start and finish a business war. In short, I think it is about networking, getting it, maintaining the network and get benefit from it.

The Millionaire Code is about personality theory and investing styles in order to create meaningful wealth. For me, it is about finding or selecting the right (and perhaps the best) role in taking part of business war, business development and investment.

I don’t see something really special inside the books but somehow I feel that there is something I need to fix my style and vision up to make my job gives me a double impact, best result and the joy of living my life.

I think, some of us get into the trap of just doing our jobs because of money, comfort and security that we don’t get to do what we really love to do. Well, I do feel that to some extent this sort of thing happened to me.

Feel the same?