Paramendra Bhagat's Blog
Saturday, May 15, 2004
Sonia and Amitabh. Kudos to the Indian voters, they gave the Congress an unexpected victory and proved the polls and the pundits so wrong. Message: globalization needs a human face, the single most important investment is to be in human capital. An Italian-born Sonia will now be prime minister. Imagine a foreign-born woman in the White House! The largest democracy beats the oldest.
Amitabh Bachchan has more film releases slated for 2004 than Shah Rukh Khan. The Big B is not about to slow down. And he relaunched his company. I grew up watching the guy. Used to imitate his hairstyle.
I don't see a town or a city that I don't like; I'd like to expand my business into all of them. Any other job would have been a distraction - I'd have been spending the better parts of my waking hours thinking about stuff nothing to do with my business - but on the road I get to think about my business all the time. The motion aids the thought process; the gas prices hit sky-high, so I could not drive around in my car for too long. I can pop in a CD or a tape anytime and learn a few more tips, get a few more success stories. I am making Platinum income as is. The money is not bad: in the top 20% income bracket in the country. And when off the road, and at stops, I get to read. Books that help me with the business. A big chunk of my time goes into enhancing the education and support system I have designed for my business team.
And there is contacting people. Because the business is online, everyone you meet is potential clientele. But it's a numbers game. You contact a whole bunch ang "get" a few. And that first step is a great experience: you meet all kinds of people. Of course, every two weeks I am in Terre Haute, Indiana, for the weekend, trying to grow my local teams in Terre Haute and Bloomington.
Once in a while you get that barely-above-the-factory-floor-job-in-the-scheme-of-things-look from people, and it draws your attention to the socio-economic schisms when you have been more used to thinking of the ethnic-cultural-racial schisms. But then what better preparation for a coast to coast business than a greater familiarity with the 51st state! Chances are this fourth stint will not exceed six months either. Besides, Michael Jordan retired from basketball, but then came back for a second dip, did he not?
