Ryan Ho's Entrepreneurship Blog

There are many opportunities all over the world in different forms and disguise, we just have to find the right one and capitalize on it.

From business, investment  to even relationship, volunteering work and learning, there are so many opportunities, we all just need to analyze which one is suitable for ourselves and grab hold of it before anybody takes it away from us.

In investment, there are opportunities happening daily in the stocks, forex trading, options, electronic trading funds (ETFs), bonds and many other financial products to invest in, but to find the right opportunity best suited for ourselves requires more than just a basic understanding of how it works.

There are a couple of points in helping to determine if it is right for us based on our resources and information.

First: How much investment capital do we have? The amount of capital determines the amount of returns we’ll be getting.

Second: If we understand what product the investment is all about, the implications, highest and lowest point of value based on historical data and the trading patten, with who are the investors and speculators. Knowing how big the market is, as well as how many competitors there are, if there is high demand, low supply or vice versa, all of which makes a lot of difference in determine the right time to cash in on the investment and when to exit to maximize returns without even incurring any loss in best case scenario.

Third: Knowing, understanding of the market, the related products tied up if not may pose as a contributing factor in supporting the value of the opportunity that reflects the buy-in price of the investment. When the returns on investments meets up to expectations, having knowledge helps in determine the next higher level of playing field that investors must upgrade to, so as to make with less competitors, but those with deeper pockets, ensuring each investor gets a slightly bigger slice of the pie. Capitalize on the news, predicting the potential changes and reactions to the market and adjust the investment portfolio accordingly.

Fourth: Self-reflection is important to determine is we have the expert knowledge to invest or do we outsource it to a professional investor and not a professional employee that are parked in the stationed in property and insurance companies.

The successful investors always buy and earn their way into getting the right connections to maximize their profits by buying the same investments that the experts are eying on.

The poor investors and speculators only listen and trust their funds to professional employees without professional investment strategies nor experience, nor is it their interest in helping clients get rich, rather they are paid for servicing companies’ clients, so they don’t really care if clients profit or loss as they get something like a small percentage service charge on the funds invested with the company.

Fifth: Timing – There is a saying “It is better to be early than to be late. Better to be late than never” which can be applied to literally almost anything and everything. Knowing when to go in and out, at times even to pause and wait for the next cycle of identical pattern the next week.

Once you have a basic understanding of how to access the opportunity that is/are coming in your direction either directly in your face, beside you, or behind you, than come up with your own check list to check if all the conditions are met before you jump into the opportunity and ride with the wave.

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Losing is part of winning. It is part of a strategy. Most people would not want to lose, but in business, and in relationship, we have at times are to lose willingly by making compromise on some things in order to move forward.

Such as to use modern medications, drugs prescribed by medical hospitals and clinic doctors, as we want that drug to help us regain better health, we have to lose a bit of consciousness, getting sleepy at part of the most common side effect that may cause a temporary drop in job performance.

But as long as the temporary drop in performance isn’t a permanent fixture in employment, it is not taken seriously nor will it affect the overall result.

Just moments ago, i wrote about failure, it is part of losing, in fact it is the end result. Losing on the other hand is the process, where the result is yet to be determined.

It depends on what you do and how you react and response accordingly to make things better for you in future.

There’s a saying: “No Pain, No Gain”

We must not be afraid of losing, for it is only after that we lost something, than will we gain something else. Most probably we gain wisdom, intelligence, maturity and experience that would come in handy in solving future problems that comes again.

Even in health, we also need to lose to win. Lose the unhealthy trans-fat, low-density lipo-proteins (LDL) cholesterol for healthy body.

In relationship, we need to lose bad friends with bad company associated with gangs, drugs, and find good friends and company who will lend you a listening ear, help you get up when you fall down. Although it is not physically helping you stand up, but emotionally and mentally be there for you when you need one, it is such that we first need to learn how to lose (correctly) to actually win and move forward.

In business, no organization nor boss can be stingy nor cheapskate to control every single cent that flows in and out of the company or risk zero loyalty possibility if they are stingy with giving employees the right attire, food, accommodation in some industry. All of which falls under business expenses, if everybody is stingy, cheapskate, they cannot and will never gain something back in return. That being said..it is time for us to all learn how to lose to win.

In employment, we lose freedom, time, but we gain money, knowledge, experience that are beneficial in the long term as long as we know how to use it to our advantage.

Losing is not something that must be feared, but being a loser and never able to pick up and stand on their own feet is something that must be learn and avoid at all cost. As such, start figuring out, how can you lose positively to win more in life.

A loss is not a loss until you completely give up and stop trying to recoup your losses.

If you want to be a winner, start losing something.

You can lose but you cannot be a loser.

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Foundation is the basis or groundwork of anything.

To learn to walk and run, we first have to learn to crawl and balance by standing on our own two feet.

To speak a variety of language and dialects, we first have to understand how to talk and communicate.

To do business, we have to learn accountancy which is a advanced mathematics derived from basic mathematics of add, subtract, multiply and divide so as to calculate profit and loss.

For good health, we first have to ensure our body constitution is in good health with the help of traditional Chinese medicine via herbs therapy.

Building a building requires a strong solid foundation, the portion of building’s structure that transfer the weight if the building into the ground strata so as to remain strong.

Healthy relationship between family, relatives and friends requires a strong foundation of trust and bonding too, which is cultivated and built since young by celebration events and gatherings.

Like wise, marriage and boy-girl relationship is all about emotions handling which is needed in everything which we do, in presentation of business, family communication, health, and the passion for language learning. The love for learning and doing anything keeps us moving forward and always improving for more.

Driving a car requires the basic understanding of both theory and practical knowledge and experience too.

Like a tree in nature, it starts small, grows deeper as it grows taller from a small tree to a strong tree sufficient to stand and withhold itself against strong winds with its deep roots spread all over thus it is not easy to uproot a tree.

Whatever we do, we need to stick to the basic foundation, so never ever belittle the minor details which is a necessity to start the learning curve. It is the catalyst to success.

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Law is a system of rules put in placed and enforced through a set of institutions.

It is the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation, or of custom and policies, recognized and enforced by judicial decision.

With the rules in place, it helps to help people, business in place to deter them from administering any harmful or deceptive actions resulting in losses.

It is a intelligent system to control and maintain order. At home, school, work or in business, there are always rules and regulations to follow, depending on the seriousness, basic rules will be set for home and school for basic needs whereas at work and business, laws are usually used to control, reduce and prevent theft of confidential business secrets, recipes and fraud charges against both employees and employers keeping the interest of the business in place where profits is the key.

It reflects the way which we want to live our lives. With the help of law, it maintains the social order of how we live our lives, similarly likewise in nature; there are both predators and preys who also follow the natural survival instincts to prey and eat just enough and protecting themselves too.

If we want to survive, we need to learn the rules of engagement, in business, there are such rules which are not written in any books except for the one book which I have mentioned previously in earlier blog entries.

Everything in the world is about rules or laws whichever way you call it. Follow the rules and practice and you will be fine to live a long shelf life like products manufactured from factories. Just follow the standard practice and nothing will go wrong. Add and try being innovative and you risk putting yourself at risk and health complications, reducing your own life span.

Example: Man likes to be unique, such as having tattoos, piercing; playing punk act like gangsters only to flee at the sight of police, doing things that the society just rejects which includes smoking, gambling, drugs consumption, raping, prostitution and many others, all of which falls into the grey area and can be a double edge sword if used correctly.

Law is used everywhere and anywhere like a net casted all over covering all the way from the sky to the land and even the seas. 法律以经捕下了天罗地网，就算你是天之骄子也难逃法网，想逃也逃不掉。No matter where you go, you have to learn rules of the community and environment which you are engaging yourself into, and do so to survive, not to commit suicide like the robbers, scammers, who thinks they can outsmart the law but they are in fact just denying and tricking themselves that it is possible, but few years down the road, they will still end up being caught, if that is so, why still even bother to try their luck?

Instead of testing the system, why not ride on the system like a surfer surfing the waves like a champion, if you can’t beat them, join them. Don’t believe it, you better do. Simply said, just try swimming against a huge wave and see what happens. Perhaps that hard reality might knock some sense into those silly individuals.

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Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value on an event or with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods. It is the play of any game of chance for money or other stakes and to take a chance on either a venture or risk towards success.  It can be any matter or thing involving risk or hazardous uncertainty.

By adopting gambling, it is to engage in a reckless or hazardous behavior and in the process of doing so, affecting their close family members and people living near them.

It is only today that I talked to my mom that I understand their thinking. They think that they are investing rather than gambling. Investing in a new hope on a daily basis, resetting their losses on investments with each new investment, purposely does not want to know and record how much they start to ‘invest’ in gambling activities.

The wealthy and successful businessmen will factor in their total losses on investments and proceed onto another business venture if the business is not doing well, but the poor does exactly opposite, ignoring their losses, keep pumping in money with the slightest hope of recouping their daily investments.

Gamblers are investing in the wrong area which leads them to poverty, it is the poor who are digging their own grave and adding more restrictive chains binding themselves to poverty instead of wealth and success.

Lottery, 4D, TOTO, horse racing and even casinos are the traps businesses set for their own company and business profits increasing their own wealth at the expense of the already poor people.

Gamblers often say “small bets will not matter much” but the issue is not placing a small bet, but to be completely blind to striking a balance in their own financial statements which requires basic accounting knowledge. It is like wanting to work to bring the bread home and striking a balance between family and work time. People who are addicted to gambling purposely blind themselves to greed and worship money rather than being hardworking to learn the tested proven ways to increase their own respective pot of own gold in terms of hard earned savings in hope for a decent retirement without worries.

Just look at the track record of winners from gambling history, is there anybody across the world who as being featured in the news to strike the jack-pot winning millions and is able to increase their pot of gold instead of gambling it away bits by bits? Are they able to increase their own wealth without any external help of professional successful businessmen, no gamblers to date since the day gambling was invented has made it possible?

The answer is obviously clear cut and straight forward, gambling will not make anybody rich, instead it is the gambling operators that are successful and wealthy from, it is a simple predator versus prey whereby the gambling operators set multiple traps within the gambling den and the casino with more chances of recouping their losses and highlight how much the highest ‘lucky’ winner has won to date to encourage gamblers to spend more.

Like business whereby nine out of ten businesses will fail ten years down the road, gambling is identical if not the results don’t need to take ten years, in fact just one year will see the results with nine out of ten gamblers losing money than profiting from gambling.

If you who is reading this article right now, agrees and wants to increase your chances of winnings with the factors you can control to reduce your risk of losses, contact me right now and I will show, lead and guide you on how to grow your money into wealth.

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Privilege is a special right, immunity, and exemptions granted to individuals by a authority or government. It is for a person to enjoy more than and beyond what is considered to be an advantage.

It is like a key that opens to a window of abundance of exemptions and immunity at different places.

Like celebrities have privileges like private invitations to fashion shows, events from big companies due to the relationship they have with media.

Successful businessmen enjoy better privileges than other people, shortcuts from banks, people, and different treatments. Look at the airlines and the difference in service treatments if you need an example.

Privilege is far more exclusive than having an advantage. An advantage can be anything, by just knowing a new strategy other a fellow business competitor, that is consider an advantage.

Having privilege means to have lots of shortcuts, crash course to the top faster saving time, effort and minimizing losses which is the most important with the right advice from fellow businessmen.

Do you have to have an advantage or are you looking forward to have a membership which has its own privileges?

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Loss is the failure to make good use of something, the failure to preserve and maintain. It is the failure to keep, get or have something; to bear the loss of robbery for failure to safe keep your money and valuables.

Every business, individual will suffer losses regardless of how big or small the loss is, but with each loss, there is always a lesson to be learned from experience so as not to allow the same mistake to happen ever again.

Lives are lost when natural disasters strikes, causing homes, farmlands, to be damaged, and people suffer both financial and physical lost of homes and wealth plus food.

Foolish lives are lost when people without proper thinking commit suicide thinking that their problems cannot be solved which is untrue. Every problem originates from the cause, the root, plug and root of the problem and it will be solved. People commit suicide when they feel the problem is beyond their control, coward acts and signs of being selfish passing on problems to family members and love ones.

Businesses suffer losses when financial crisis strikes, a chain of events beyond their control happens and everyone suffers. The only crisis prove method is to be self-sufficient, grow your own food, have your own property on your own land and depend on solar energy which is possible but it requires lots of wealth to make it possible.

If you are always incurring losses regardless of what you do, be it in relationships, getting duped, in businesses being tricked into signing agreements to give up certain rights or ownership or money, it’s time to re-look at the process, and reflect on why such losses always and never fail to crawl back up on you sticking to you like a leech sucking your health, wealth and life away from you.

If you’re clueless, get this into your head, the mind. You are the cause and effect of it, if you want to stop the same repeating experiencing similar unpleasant events, than start from inside outwards.

Stop using, talking, communicating the way you used to, ask people for advice, get a proper coach, relearn how to handle work, human relationships, handling rejections, how to view at problems, how to deal and cope with difficult problems.

There are a lot of things to learn, if you don’t and is unwilling to accept the fact that you suck at handling yourself, selling yourself, than you deserve to be duped and being abused because you show and tell others with your behaviors announcing to the people and environment around you that you’re weak in any other ways. The strong will always walk over the weak, which is why bullies are all around.

Learn to change, accept your problems, and deal with them, if you don’t, whatever happens to you before, will happen to you again if you don’t want to change. This applies to all areas, regardless of relationship, business ventures, health, mental well-being, EQ, IQ and communication.

Do you always want to be a position destined to be a loser losing everything and everyday no matter how hard you try? If that’s the way you show to others, you reap what you sowed.

Example like supermarkets, they always say trolleys go missing every month, damaged etc, that’s because they didn’t make any effort in preventing those events from happening. If you put a stop to customers wanting to leave with a  trolley full of products, it is going to help business save thousands of dollars with just hiring a few full timers to stop and prevent customers from buying more than what they can carry themselves.

By allowing customers to make their problem the business problem, than the business owner who knows the problem but doesn’t do anything to stop it deserves to suffer a loss and the loss just increases, when people recognize that the company can’t be bothered with small minor issue.

No matter what you do, do the best within your abilities to reduce your chances of incurring loss and come up with solutions to increase your profit while reduce the loss to double, triple your profits.

Stay positive regardless of whatever situation and positive results will find you soon enough.

Who do you want to be? A loser or a WINNER?

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