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February-20-10

Fast or Slow

posted by ryan

Fast is a word used to describe anything that is moving, functioning or have a quick; swift; rapid results.

It is also to firmly fix into a place that is not easily moved, to achieve a permanent lasting or unchangeable results.

Look at our daily activities where fast efficiency is strongly emphasis, who are the people who are really encouraging the order to be efficient, and who gains from being efficient? Take a look at any employment, businesses, and ask yourself that question.

What benefit did you yourself get when you are efficient at work? The project is delivered on time, the company makes the profit, which in turn increases the clients’ trust in the company who takes the credit, and get more projects in future. Do you have a instant pay rise for each successful project or assignment which you have completed at work? The answer is straight forward, NO WAY will you ever get fast pay increment for the profits you help the company and your employer makes.

In the employment world, employees are getting paid only less than ten percent of the total value of the profits they help deliver to the company and the business. From CEOs helping close billions worth of projects, their reward at year end, only a few millions around one to five million at most, which is less than one percent of the profit the CEO help the company made.

Such is the world of employment whereby if you want to earn fast money, simplest way is to work in an employment and get paid peanuts, thus job is always said to be in a Just Over Broke living on monthly salary.

Fast is not a good practice to begin with. We all seriously want to have a slow setting, look at the service line in particular the food and beverage industry. Do the high class restaurants and hotels rush the customers to finish the food fast or do small scale low class restaurants and coffee shops encourage this behavior? Providing quality service and comfort is the factor allowing businesses to make profits, not fast efficiency which will have negative impact on the business.

Even in the any food preparation for a dinner, in particular large scale dinner for a company event or wedding, it takes time again to do preparations for it. Weeks of planning, food tasting, budgeting, fine tuning the choice of dishes and ensuring quality so to deliver the final product on the day of the event which takes time and again, it must be done slowly to allow customer satisfaction.

In business, the person who takes the first mover advantage is usually the biggest winner even if other competitors jump into the arena, but the difference is, the former is prepared for the battle whereas the latter is totally unprepared and caught off guard by the sudden increase in demand for the certain business which brings in profits, without understanding anything, they throw in lots of investments, just to be on the bandwagon and the results are fatal.

Look at the Luohan Fish and Bubble Tea business which has died down in Singapore and is no longer as profitable as it once used to be. All these are fast business overnight but as fast as they come, the leave equally as fast too.

In health and medical science, there is again another clear example of being slow works better than fast.

The western preference of instant drugs and medications versus traditional Chinese Medicine via acupuncture practice which requires time to heal the patient with long period of time of session which is slow as compared to fast remedy of western drugs and medication which cannot heal but rather only delay the situation from getting any worse and it comes with side effects as well that caused a lot of problems surfacing with time.

With 5,000 years history of TCM (traditionally Chinese medicine using natural herbs) practice in China, western drugs and medication which is less than hundreds of years, there is absolutely no way that drugs in the form of medication made up of chemicals will do the body any good. In fact herbs and TCM via herbs and herb therapy can really heal a person from the root of the problem, but not drugs which just remove the tip of the ice berg only. Drugs only became popular at WWII when there were heavy casualties which are the only catalyst to fast remedy.

The only reason modern medical science is making way much more money and profits is because they are fast, and helps people who do not mind wasting more money paying for temporary solution which leads to side effects of another symptoms and health complications costing you more money.

If you are looking for permanent remedy to the root of the problem, seek TCM, likewise if you seek to accumulate wealth, be an entrepreneur, that starts from the mind and getting into the right thinking first before anything else.

If you want to make money, you go fast. If you want to make profits and accumulate wealth, you do it slow and that leads to entrepreneurship.

True the TRUE?? You decide.

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