eBook: Essays Written by Ging Loong

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BUSINESS ESSAY - Willingness to Do the Dirty Work

If you want to become a successful entrepreneur, you must be willing to do the “dirty work” in the beginning. If you are not ready for this, you might as well forget about starting a business.

There is a Chinese proverb that says: “In a thousand steps, the first step is the most difficult.” This is very true in business. The first step in building a successful company almost always involves doing hard, tiring, and sometimes unpleasant work. Many people dream of becoming their own boss, but when they realize how much effort is needed at the start, they give up. That is why so many never succeed.

The “Dirty Work” is the Foundation of Success

Dirty work does not mean doing something illegal or unethical—it simply means doing tasks that are tough, tiring, low-status, or uncomfortable. These are the kinds of jobs many people avoid, but they are often the exact steps that lead to long-term success.

For example, imagine you dream of owning a chain of F&B restaurants but have zero capital. How will you start? One option is to work for years to save enough money. But another, faster option might be to start selling food on the street as a vendor. You could cook at home, set up a small cart, and sell to passersby. It is not glamorous, but it is a real starting point.

Now, picture this: You have just graduated from university with a degree. Would you be willing to run a street food stall in the hot sun or the pouring rain? Or would you decide it is a low-class job, and you go to work for someone else? Your answer will determine how far your dream will go.

How Great Companies Started Small

Almost every major company you know started with humble beginnings and dirty work.

• Didi Chuxing (China’s version of Uber/Grab): The founders personally walked up to drivers on the street to ask them to try their app. They did not start with hundreds of salespeople—they were the salespeople.
• DoorDash (US food delivery): When they had no delivery partners, the founders delivered the food themselves. They wanted to test their service and make sure it worked before building a team.
• Amazon: Jeff Bezos started the company from his garage, personally packing boxes and driving them to the post office.
• Disney: Walt Disney started by drawing cartoons in a small garage.
• Apple and Google: Both companies began in garages with the founders building products themselves.

Even in the fashion industry, Zara founder Amancio Ortega started by making and delivering clothes himself. Today, he is one of the richest men in the world, but in the early days, he did whatever was necessary to get the business off the ground.

The Problem with Some Business Owners

Some businesspeople have been running small businesses for decades, yet they are still stuck doing the same dirty work every single day. Why? Because they started with the wrong mindset. They never developed a clear vision for growth. They lacked the ambition to build a business big enough to hire and train people to handle those tasks for them.

As a result, they spend their entire career stuck in the daily routine—answering every phone call, doing every delivery, handling every small issue without ever building a team or expanding their company. They remain busy, but they are not truly growing.

The Right Mindset for Entrepreneurs

Doing dirty work at the start is not a sign of weakness it is a sign of strength. It means you are willing to do whatever it takes to build your dream. But the goal is not to do dirty work forever. The goal is to grow your business to a point where you can delegate those tasks to others, while you focus on what you are good at, such as strategy, leadership, and innovation.

When you start, you might be the salesperson, the accountant, the cleaner, the delivery driver, and the customer service representative all at once. But if you keep your vision clear and your goal big, you will eventually be able to hire people for each of those roles and focus on leading your company to even greater success.

Final Thought

Every big company you admire today has a story of humble beginnings filled with hard work, long hours, and tasks that no one else wanted to do. The difference between those who made it big and those who stayed small is simple: they were willing to do the dirty work in the beginning, but they also had the vision and determination to grow beyond it.

So, if you truly want to be a successful entrepreneur, do not be afraid to start small, get your hands dirty, and work harder than anyone else in the room. Those early sacrifices will be the foundation of your future success.

SUCCESS ESSAY - All First-Timers Suck!

If you are not hungry enough to succeed and make money, you will be defeated by the "voice" in your head that gives you negative thoughts (focusing on problems) so that you will not take action that will lead you toward a successful life.

But one thing I want you to be aware of is that the "voice" in your head is right: "I do not have the ability needed to become successful, my ideas might not work, I do not have the resources to build my business, if I fail, my friends will laugh at me, and I will lose all my capital." Your possibility of success really is very low. Statistics show that about 50% of businesses fail within the first 5 years, and even among the successful ones, statistics show that almost 95% of businesses do not make more than $1,000,000 a year.

Believe me, making money and building a successful business is goddamn hard! Because we have no experience in doing business, which means we have very little insight into how to run a business so that it can scale and make a lot of profit.

All first-timers suck! Believe me, what we can do is try again and again without repeating the same mistakes in running the business. You must learn from each failure and mistake and not waste them so that your ability and skill improve over time.

I still remember the first Facebook ad campaign I made a decade ago about promoting likes. I spent RM50 and got no likes at all. Why? Because that was the first time I ran a Facebook ad campaign, so it sucked! After that, I went to a website sharing tips on how to create Facebook ads. I do not know why, but I had abnormally high energy that kept pushing me to read those articles for a few days. Can you imagine? A few hundred posts I read within a few days! Of course, if some were irrelevant, I would read them quickly or just skip them. Through learning from experience and learning from others, my skills in creating Facebook ad campaigns increased. None of this would have happened if I had just sat at home watching dramas or movies.

I still remember how I traded forex a decade ago compared to how I would trade forex now—it is completely different. When I think back, my way of trading forex in the first few weeks was really goddamn stupid. Although I no longer trade forex because my personality does not suit becoming a good forex trader, anyway if I were to trade again now, I would be way better than the first time. Again, none of this would have happened if I had not started trading forex.

I still remember the first ebook titled 𝐼𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑒𝑠 that I wrote a decade ago (at the age of 23). It was about how to deal with our minds using the strategies I shared with readers to achieve what they want in life. I tell you honestly—the content sucked! Super suck!!! I want to read that ebook now if I can, but I cannot because I do not know where the file is located since I changed to a new PC. But from what I remember, the content was terrible. I talked about a lot of concepts and theories, but those were not just the bad kindergarten strategies; they were some nonsense and completely out-of-mind concepts and theories. Now, after many years, I can "craft" the very "beautiful" essays when I have the inspiration to write something. Again, none of this would have happened if I had not written my first ebook and continued learning and improving.

So, my message is simple: please START if you truly want to be rich and accomplish your goal. Take action with the mindset to be ready for a lot of difficulties, challenges and sacrifices and the high possibility that you will not succeed on the first attempt. You might need to fail several times before becoming successful.

Actually, the worst-case scenario is that you go into debt due to borrowing money to start your business. Then you can declare bankruptcy, work for someone, and still be able to feed yourself. The better possibility is that you just lose all your hard-earned capital to start the business, and then the same situation happens—YOU DON’T DIE! You can go back to working for someone, and then if you are really hungry for success, replan and redo it again with new ideas and strategies. Now, you are not starting from scratch but starting from EXPERIENCE.

In this ebook, you will find:

#1 to 14 - SUCCESS ESSAYS
#1 to 48 - BUSINESS ESSAYS
#1 to 29 - INVESTING ESSAYS
#1 to 28 - SELF-HELP ESSAYS
#1 to 7 - HAPPINESS ESSAYS
#1 to 7 - CULTIVATION ESSAYS

In total, this ebook contains 133 insightful essays similar to the one above.

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