I deserve more.

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Wee Chuan Peng Dennis of Dennis Wee Realty Pte Ltd

From a Secondary 2 dropout, Dr Dennis Wee became a self-made multimillionaire and a prominent figure in the real estate industry and the training circuit. He achieved this by constantly challenging the norms of doing business, learning from his many mentors and having positive attitude and tremendous enthusiasm

Why does someone decide to be on their own rather than join an existing company?
I think a big reason is self actualization. They wanted to achieve more in their lives. To achieve bigger dreams, rather than just lead a mediocre life. It's about becoming a strong individual.

In your opinion, how would you define entrepreneurship?
To me, an entrepreneur is someone who creates a product / service and makes it unique and profitable. Entrepreneurship is about creativity and persistence, never giving up.

Link: http://www1.soe.org.sg/soevote/public/nomineedetail.php?nid=819

Extracted out of his SOE interview, I found these 2 points particularly powerful.

My friends once had a discussion with me. We were talking about studies in university.

He was quoting how he felt that business management was particularly useless.

“You don’t have to have a degree in business to start a business. You however need to have a specialized degree to start a practice like law or medicine.”

However since both of us were focused on 2 different sides of the coin, we ended up not really understanding why we each thought that way.

“I think a big reason is self actualization. They wanted to achieve more in their lives. To achieve bigger dreams, rather than just lead a mediocre life. It's about becoming a strong individual.”

I don’t want to live a mediocre life. I want something more exciting than steady income.

I want to be a better person. I want to become stronger.

Recently I had an incident, where I was forced to stand my ground and literally complained about this other guy. I never like complaining; I reckon I would in the end forget about it and do nothing if it was not my friends. In that high emotional state, I came up with this poem,

I don’t like how others judge me;

I think about it.

This time I felt empowered because

I made it known to my friends.

They pushed me;

Supported me,

Reminded me.

I did it.

I fear not what happens now;

My friends will be behind me,

Giving me the strengths I need.

So you can see, I really am what I am because of my friends.

However, wanting to achieve a different result, I have to sow a different habit.

So much so, I feel slightly different from them.

I don’t want to remain self-sufficient.

I fear that by being with them, who feel sufficient with that they have now; I too lose the fire in me.

Yet however the road is like being in a dark dark tunnel. There is no light. There’s no walls. There’s only uncertainty. However, you possess the knowledge that by walking straight all the way light beckons. You however know not of, how far you’d need to walk, and what you’ll encounter along the way.

At this point of time, you start fearing, what if that knowledge is flawed? What if I’d never get out of this, and why’d I walk a different path from the rest of my friends.

Strength is found in teams, being a solo person puts fear in you.

Yet the rest of my friends are focused on what you call security, to find, great wealth working for someone.

I have a more different goal; I seek to be a millionaire by 2 December 2013. It’s not that easy, and definitely I can’t do what my friends are doing, I need to put in a more different way of doing things to get a different result.

Majority of my friends are walking on the main road. What I feel I’m like doing is suddenly deciding that I no longer belong to the main road, deciding to bash instead the forest. Some of my dear friends see that and think that I’m crazy, trying to retain me; they know of no path through that bashing. It’s futile resistance to them.

Yet I know where I’ll reach is which road I have to take. The main road is safe and expectable, nothing risky. Yet of no obstacles I know about, shall I encounter through the bashing. Of manholes, pythons, bees or the lack of food, I do not know. All I know is that bashing through the forest brings me to a different place.

The uncertainty is killing. But I know certainty means a certain result. My life is worth much more than certain and unfulfilling results. I deserve more.