I write this in March to bring home the fact that the Year gone by is actually the financial year which everybody would like to see it end asap.
I, like you & everybody have a lot of experience. This experience has made us what we are.. Good, Bad, Evil, Generous so on & so forth.
Some small & trivial experiences seem very small at that moment, but acquire a significance & a larger meaning when seen later.
Looking back at the experiences that I had over the last couple of years; I find that the journey of forming a business & running the same is at times challenging, Stressful, Consuming ..... I doubt if I could be able to express the emotions I had over the last couple of years. Yet I would safely say that the time spent was definitly enjoying & satisfying. Apart from all that I learnt about Business, I also learnt the Politics of Marketing, I learnt human psyche & above all, I came to know myself better. At times, I found myself experiencing a Spiritual satisfaction whereas at times there was a constant struggle between deep attachments & detachments from the results of the work well done. Sometimes I found myself weak in the knees but at times I found myself surprisingly stronger than I had ever been.
Though business has been & will be stressful, the experience it has given me, has definitely changed / matured me enough to meet & deal with a range of people & situations; some good - some bad. I do feel that at the end of my career, if ever I write a book, it would read something like "A Book on Impossibilities".
The challenges faced have been so big & huge that now a days before commencing on a new project or an idea, I tend to procrastinate. The new project of starting something in India is one of this.
But this time around I have decided that I will not repeat the mistakes that I did in the past. Maybe, I will do some new ones. Even in mistakes you have to be creative. I will do this new journey into India more enjoyable & less stressful.
As I write this, memories of the past flood me once again & frighten me to avoid the step about to be taken. Yet the good ones are reason enough to go on.
I feel it is important to have more experiences so that I can have some more stories to tell.
Yet all said & done, In life there is a time for everything.. Call it Luck, Destiny, Karma.... And I feel that the time for our company Geomanage to go Global has come!
Yes we will be in India in the next financial year.
Posted by Atul 03-Mar-2010
