kristal unggu

THE 'X' FACTOR

On Saturday afternoon, me and Abg G went to meet an owner of a company who was going to launch their presence in about 2 weeks time. Spent the entire afternoon in his office, leaving only around 7.00 pm, to meet another guy to see what he has to really show us at our 'bistro' near Vistana Hotel in KL. And we looked and asked and listened to this guy. As I mentioned to my partner in business, "Let's have a good look. We never know."

True enough, as we spent the hours together we got to see not only the business opportunity but as far as I was concerned, a nice peek into what makes the mesenger the man he was. And just around 11.00 pm, Abg G my partner got a call from an old friend and we immediately rushed to her house in Pandan Perdana to show her the business opportunity.

And on Sunday morning I called a few close personal and business friends. Had a good chat with all the personal friends including Datuk A. But no such luck with the 3 business friends. Not a response to both my calls and mesages.

Now that led me into some quiet thinking. Abg G made more than a million within the past 12 months or so. This messenger that presented us the business opportunity made quite a sizeable amount of money albeit he lost most of it. The lady that we saw in Pandan Perdana should have made at least around RM400,000 (according to Abg G's estimate). And that reminds me of this couple presently in Bangkok whom have also amassed in excess of a million ringgit in past 2 years or so.

What is the common factor shared by all of them? They kept on looking at opportunities and were so open about meeting any one that had something to show them. They did not jump on every band wagon that passed by them, but the fact is they kept on looking. And once decided, all of them without any exception just flew with the opportunity working frantically.

And I have come to the same conclusion again that it is always the same small group of people who are the visionaries. The maker of things. The leaders. And these are the people who have developed the finesse and culture of treating every opportunity that comes their way with respect. At the end of the day, it requires only the right vehicle at the right time to make big things happen.

To my mind, these are the people who chose to be different to live a different life than the rest of the crowd. The people with the 'X' factor.

Yours truly,

m.a.

m'kab. But leaving for KL again an a couple of hours.