Welcome to My Blog!

It’s always difficult to write the very first post on your new blog. I haven’t been blogging for what some consider a “long time” but I have started nevertheless. As they say “The Journey of 1000 Miles begins with the First Step” and I guess I have just taken it.

I’m not entirely sure what I endeavor to achieve with this blog — I think mainly I started it so that people could get to know me and learn about all the other things I do. This blog is by no means a personal diary, and I do not intend for it to be. It’s rather just a place that I can write about some of the interesting things I find on the internet, and touch on some of my experiences on the long and hard road as an entrepreneur.

While I am definitely not an ‘experienced campaigner’ in comparison to some of the seasoned veterans in the start-up industry, I am at least having a go and desiring this path. I have this great book on all the speeches that changed the world, and one that Theodore Roosevelt said is probably particularly relevant now:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

I guess you could relate it to Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Poem from 1850:

“I hold it true, whate’er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
’Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”

Either way, the point is that you have to take a few risks in your life . I think it’s also because I am the sort of person that needs to be consistently doing something, and I find it difficult to be bored. If I’m not in the books studying, then I’m either working on some new idea — so by the time you add up all these hours into one day, you really get up to the 15 hour plus mark as an average.

It’s funny (as an aside) because I really love surfing and genuine beach life in Australia, and I used to try and get down to the beach most weekends in summer. It’s around 2 hours drive from where I live in Melbourne and I haven’t had any time at all to get even near the beach. Summer is just around the corner for us Aussies, and day-light savings starts next week (28th Oct 2007). Typically, this really doesn’t mean much for me as I tend to work from 6pm till 4am as opposed to vice-versa. I mainly do this because there are fewer distractions when you are working away at night, in comparison to the daytime — notably the phone.

Either way I am going to finish up this first post now. I honestly have no idea how many people will end up reading this blog — and to me it doesn’t really matter — as at least I’ll have something to look back on in the future and laugh.