Herman School of Business
Blogging: A New Beginning
Like most things in each of our lives, this will have greater importance to me than the readers. While my goal is to impart knowledge that will change your world and make you a better business person, family person, or just a better person, the cold reality is that what we do for ourselves in life should be what we want to do and think we can do best. Musicians play their instruments, actors act, and ball players swat the ball. I have done many things in 58 years of life, and observed what others do. And with the stroke of these keys on this my first day of blogging, I am doing what I want to do most of all.
Teach others.
What a monstrous ego I must have. And actually do have. It simply means I believe in myself a great deal and therefore let’s skip the notion of “who do I think I am” and just realize I am a person with much experience, blessed with great perception and finally at a point in life where my daily toiling for dollars doesn’t impede me anymore. I paid the dues and can now be what I want. Many thanks to Aunt Kate who taught me that you have to do your work before you can “go out and play.” With enough money made to keep the wolf away from my door, the time it takes to make a buck can now be spent “playing” and for me that means writing as a means of teaching others.
In 35 years I have owned 21 companies, one of which had me consult with over 1,000 business owners all losing money. In over 300 cases we sold those companies to other investors thereby saving countless jobs and keeping the business going rather than see it shutter its doors and lose all employees. For sure, some of them did in fact get liquidated into oblivion, but not before we searched under every rock to find a way to keep them going. So in those cases where the company imploded and we simply sold the bricks and sticks, the marketplace was saying … “this one needs to go.”
In the last 18 months two books were written launching my career as a writer. Damn good books too, which you should read. We have already established the fact that my ego is huge (I prefer to say healthy), but really the books are wonderful, thanks to people like Clarinda Harriss and Carmen Walsh. The Innkeeper Tales and Hermanisms are the titles, ask your bookstore for it or go to Amazon.com and check them out.
But now we are blogging. Where shall we go. Each day I will try to give you another insight about life, business, or simply my observations to humor you. The main objective is to make you think. To make you reach inside yourself for more than you have realized. To make you not hold back any more. Think of your favorite singer belting out a tune, they pour themselves out on stage for our entertainment, or is for their own entertainment? The ones who really let it all go, let it all hang out, are the ones who seem to reach the greatest heights. Why? Because they love doing it. More than breathing. More than working at your job or mine. For they have found their passion and they don’t hold back. Well, now that I have found my passion, I promise not to hold back either.
HERMANISM # 1
If owners calculated the time it would take them to succeed, most would never even try.
- Posted: 10 August 2007
- Comments: 1
- Category: Starting a business
John, thanks for starting your blog, and I know you’ll have raving fans awaiting your frequent blog entries – you have one in me now.
Off to pick up your two books…
To life, passion and not holding back!
Written by Sherman Hu on 23 August 2007