I am a 42 year old white South African male, married for many years and we have 2 daughters.
I was fortunate to get retrenched twice before the age of 25.
I say fortunate because I always had the thought to own a business and be in charge of my own destiny. Most of us wonât take that step when we are sitting in a secure comfort zone.
In the last job I was working for a factory that designed and built equipment for factories. In the business,there was a chemical engineer, a mechanical engineer, and myself serving as the electrical and automation part of the design team.
The boss started spending more money than we could bring in and the business crashed. It turned out to be the best thing that happened to me.
I started to look for new employment when I got a call from a person I had met a few weeks ago. His company had just build a small factory in Durban and they had completed the project and moved back to JHB about 600 Kmâs away.
Like with and new project, the factory needed a little tweaking and modifications.
He called me up to asked if I could please help with a little bit of pipe work and electrical modifications that was required.
I explained that as I was between jobs and attending new job interviews, seeking new employment and I am sure I could fit it in.
He said they need just a day or two of my time, a week at the most.
Well, A day quickly turned into a week, which turned into a month and when I had been working for myself for 6 months I registered a business.
Life has a way of giving us what we want, bad things donât happen to us, if you want to bake a cake you need to break a few eggs.
Things may look a little messy in your life from time to time, just know that greater things are planed for you and be aware that the thoughts you have are small photographic projections of what your life has to bring. Expect the best.
Make sure you day dream a lot and picture the best life possible, it will surprise you how it will all fall into place.
Owning a small farm also just started as a day dream.. And here we are today on a 20 acre property with about 2000 free range chickens, 4 bull calves, 6 sheep, about 40 pigs, 15 horses and a few other animals
It just developed from the day dream.
Be so careful about what it is that you think about or worry about, it has a way of working its way into your life.
Where we realize it or not, we are very powerful creatures when we take control of our lives.