John Singh

Thank God its Monday...

If you do what you love, you really look forward to your Mondays. I don’t mean to say that my weekends are not enjoyable, nothing makes me happier than spending quality time with the family, cooking our Sunday lunch or enjoying a good bottle of red wine and connecting with friends, but come Sunday evening when I sit down at my desk at home to prepare my coming week, I always get butterflies in my stomach. It happens every single time, just like it did the night before my 1^st date or the morning before our first school excursion. I do become a child that I once was and perhaps still am and I am sure that the child that I once was would be proud of the man that I have become today.

People often ask me what my secret is. Why do I love to work so much and how do I maintain the level of passion and enthusiasm for my work. My answer is simple; I really do love what I do. I really love to work hard and see my customers succeed online and I really love to lead all my projects and clients in a direction which only could have been dreamt of, I do believe in living a life where your dreams come to a reality and every week I work passionately to make my dreams and my team’s dreams and my client’s dreams and my organisation’s dreams come to a living and breathing reality.

I always ask myself the question, “Who do I have to be to create the change I need to lead and make my goals and dreams a reality”, and I always work on improving myself first and growing into that person that I have to be to become remarkable. I always work on improving things around me and incrementally, day by day, week by week, month by month work towards those dreams and goals and see them come to reality. Working hard and seeing the results (triumphs or failures) and learning and growing from them gives me the motivation and inspiration that you see in me in my every interaction with you and I feel in my every interaction with the world. Success is not an accident, it’s a choice and so is being remarkable and my belief is that you are either average or you are remarkable and quite frankly, average is for losers. We are all hard wired to play our best game and give it our best in everything that we do and so we should.

Today, I challenge you to have a dream and live a life filled with inspiration and passion. I challenge you to learn from your failures and lead with courage and give it your 100% at everything you do every day and I promise that I and my organisation will do so too.

Thank you for being so beautiful and thank you life for inspiring me to always be my best.

Regards

John Singh.

The R Word is making me angry

The ‘R’ Word is making me angry.

Reading the newspaper this morning and the media is talking about the ‘R’ word again and its worrying every one I talk to these days and it’s making me angry...

Right NOW, TODAY, these are the most opportune times to be an entrepreneur, a LEADER.

Now, I can hear you say this guy must be crazy. Financial institutions melting down, corporations failing, the ‘R’ecession.....  This is because I know who I’m talking to. Now if you are CEO of a major corporation or a major share holder of a hedge fund, yea there have been better days. If you are a factory worker who is just looking for the next secure job, you might be a little nervous today. But if you are a reader of our newsletter, a leader of your industry or a passionate heretic (someone who believes in changing the status quo for the better), then good chances are that you are an ambitions minded entrepreneur. The stars couldn’t be better aligned up then they are today.

Our financial and economical pool is like a pyramid with companies and institutes and people at the TOP are who control most of the wealth. That top piece is what’s broken, thats what’s cracked off and the deck is being reshuffled and its making room for a new regime of leading companies and entrepreneur in which to rise. You can be part of that new regime. Now is the time for great entrepreneurship, the world is begging to be changes and all that’s missing is your ideas and your drive and your passion and your leadership and our partnership.

The history is witnessed the start of some of today’s leading organisation in recession times. Microsoft started in the recession on the 1970’s, CNN and MTV started in the recession in the 80’s. Infact 16 of the 30 companies that make up the DOW Industrial average started in the recession or depression; including Procter and Gamble, Disney, Alcoa, McDonalds, GE, Johnson & Johnson...... These were once a start up and today are giants and leaders of their industries and that is happening all over again.

So when you hear the news of the day with all its doom and gloom of financial institution, recession this and companies failing there, there in infact also the other side of the sword where there is more and more room opening up for new entrepreneurial emerging businesses and YOU can be a part of that too. I love the quote by the world’s greater investor Warren Buffett, “When others are greedy, I am fearful and when others are fearful, I am greedy.” Folks, these are the times for you to be greedy, to be bold and seize the moment...

Sam Walton (one of the greatest business entrepreneur) back in 1991 during the recession of that time was asked what he thought about the recession, he said, “I’ve thought about it but I’ve chosen not to participate.” Back in 1991, Walmart was in a dead heat with their biggest competitors Sears. Whilst Sears decided to pull back on the investments from the market place and turn it down for the next couple of years, Sam Walton on the other hand went aggressive and started investing in Advertising and Marketing and Innovation and in 2 years the Walmart stock tripled that of Sears whilst Sears stocks remained flat. That’s a perfect example of taking advantage of opportune times and YES opportune times can be in recessive markets.

There is a redistribution of wealth taking place right now which is going to be seized by gutsy and bold entrepreneurs like you. Now is not the time to keep a low profile and quiet down, Now is the time to be Bold and move forward and Make Change... The world is waiting for you and I know you want to. The only thing that’s lacking is your courage and your drive and your passion and good partnership.

Macquarie IT is a leading webservices firm situated in Sydney, Australia with a goal to make our customers profitable online. We are on a mission to help and partner up with people and businesses and ideas that will shape our tomorrow. We eagerly look forward to your partnership and your leadership and we hope to be a part of your change.

Yours Truly,

John Singh