What lost have equipped us

Remember the days when we were in school? Tuition, study, discussion and revisions just in order to learn as much as possible and prepare ourselves for the papers. Those who worked hard always aim so high and they loaded themselves with "bullets" so that to hit the target without fail.

WITHOUT FAIL, is our nature. We're brought up with the habit of not losing.

The truth is: we can't win all the time. It is a cycle, like the analog clock - it moves in a smooth motion from top to bottom and rise again. We sometimes stand up tall, and go low occasionally.

Talking about LOW - it somehow coincide with our current economic situation. Many got their money burnt and suffer a lot of pain of losing. Some even fall under the strength and gone kookoo or kill themselves. We all know how bad it feels, it's just vary in degrees between millions and thousands.

The "possessing/demanding" has finally backfire.

But come to think of it: is it all? All the money that grown over time shrunk within this very short period of time and we have nothing left behind?

We recently lost a deal too. In fact, just 2 days ago.

Joie worked so hard to bring the best idea together and also tried every way he could to save money for the customer so that they can have a good and reasonable package. He's done everything but the customer finally turned their back on him and taken somebody else's offer. The competitor grabbed every single projects that Joie could do.

Exhaust flooded Joie's head and he went on to find out the picture behind the scene of why and how he'd lost the deal. He found out that the competitor actually being price cut for so many times pressured by the customer (bosses) which is too much for Joie to bear.

Everyone knows it is a bad economic period and all strives to get smaller return's sales than nothing at all. With that kind of bargain and demand, it seem pretty fair for Joie to lose the deal.

Joie studied the lost and realized more that he could do in the future projects.

Well, we cannot always comfort ourselves by "what we've learned from this lost" because we all need to eat (since we're self employed) but every single slip that we had actually make us better along the way and we are sure we are becoming more and more ready to face the big shark. We are now practicing our surviving skills in a smaller sea and we are moving step by step approaching the big ocean that has loads of fishes. Thanks to these hurdles, we'd have more to win.

Anyway, we still feel pain as the deal that we lost just cost us a few hundred thousands of sales.

Ouch!!!!