I quit from my hotel job in March 2002. I don't say that it was a bad decision, but it once brought me to one of the worst finance situations in my life. The story is like this :
From the year 2001, I was promoted to be the Front Office Manager of The Chedi Ubud (now Alila Ubud). I felt the manager position was not suitable for me. As I told in my tagline above, I always like to be independent, anytime, anywhere. So then I started to think of leaving my job, and tried to find an independent job. Property Business then was my choice. Why? Besides I could work independently, I also thought that it could produce much money for me to save for my financial freedom. (I already started reading the book of Robert Kiyosaki : "Rich Dad Poor Dad" on that time).
The business was at first running well, but as the time passed, it was getting worse, and at the end brought me a debt of Rp 200.000.000. It was a big amount of money in 2004, where a piece of a good land of one are (100 sqm) was only Rp 25.000.000 to Rp 35.000.000 in Dalung or Kepaon. I was stressed, and almost sold the house I lived.
I did a contemplation, and following an invitation from one of my friends, I joined a boot camp called Life Changing Boot Camp conducted by Mr Onggy Hianata in Enjung Beji Resort, Bedugul. The essence of the boot camp was : Visualize your dream very clearly, and nature will make it happen.
I tried to follow their advice, and started to make my dream very clear in my mind. My dream was simply "to be debt free." Then suddenly in doing a renovation of Villa Pisang Mas in Legian, I was asked to throw away many second hand books by the villa owner, because the tenant had left the villa. Since I like books, I tried to sort the books and kept with me the ones I might like to read. One of them was "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra." It was difficult for me to understand at first, but after trying hard, I finally could understand it.
One of the laws tells that we should find our unique talent first, help the community with it, and we will be able to create abundance in our life. I went back to my choice of the property business. I realized that it was none of my talents there. I chose it only because I could be independent, and it could produce much money. I did it not because I liked it, but to earn much money. So then I knew why it was not successful.
Do what you love, and love what you do.
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