No More Excuses, Let’s Get Moving

I’ve always been giving myself excuses whenever I don’t get something done, or I don’t follow things through. I’m tired of doing this. I’m tired of not finishing things, of not following through. I often wonder how I turned out to be like this, but thinking that over only wastes time. It doesn’t matter anymore. What matters is how I’ll fix it.

No more excuses. Time to get going.

Off Then On Again

Just a month ago, I was one of the few guys that got laid off. I can’t really say that I wasn’t expecting it. I didn’t really love the job, and I hated the processes involved with every project. But I really loved the whole team that I was working with.

This team introduced me to Singapore when I was still new here. A large chunk of my happy days are associated with this team and I made really good friends with a lot of them. I’m missing this team and I think I’ll continue to do so for a long time.

Moving forward, I got hired by another prominent company. My new colleagues are also nice. The office is great, and I’m pretty excited to get my hands dirty with work. Currently undergoing trainings and reading a lot of stuff about things I need to know. Can’t wait to start taking the deep dive.

What’s Next?

I started a website back in 2001 and it turned out to be a good idea back then. Now, the site has a big and active community supporting it and has definitely become well known in our country. I never thought it would reach that kind of mass when I was just sneaking in time in my day job to code up the site back then.

I’m no longer handling things for the site, and I’ve no longer been active in the community behind it as well. I want to move on to new things, work on new ideas. But something significant is missing for me. The something that fueled me back then to keep coding away to see those ideas through. I need that back. I want it back.

I think I need to stop looking back at that one achievement, to let go of it. Start fresh but still make good use of everything I learned from the past. I need to get started quick, but not to rush too much and focus on execution.

This is what’s next for me.