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I took the first steps towards my ultimate goal by starting my own business
on my own time while I was still at EMC. That business was a hitech
consulting company which developed video analytics algorithms
for specialized video equipment, such as red light cameras and other
surveillance video systems. At the time, Google’s rapid growth had
made video data search a potential market need. This was a business
with a future.
That video software consulting company was the beginning of my new
life as an entrepreneur. In the next few years, I founded a Tae Kwon
Do studio, invested in two Chinese restaurants (one failed, one succeeded),
started an import/export company in Japan, and also expanded
my video software consulting company into China.
But I still was not satisfied. I still wanted to go beyond the usual business
dynamics and find something that really inspired me in a new and
exciting way.
tHe Bracelet tHat BroUgHt a neW Beginning
In July of 2010, I was visiting China. I had been going back and forth between
my home country and my adopted one frequently on business over
the past three years – but this visit turned out to be something special.
I was visiting my brother and his family – and I discovered that all of
them, including his daughter, were wearing a distinctive purple bracelet.
I had no idea what this was all about – until my brother shared
with me their copy of Will Bowen’s book, “A Complaint Free World,”
that had been translated into Chinese. Apparently the book had become
very popular in China, so they bought his book, which featured the
same purple bracelet on the cover.
When I read it, I was as taken with the book’s vision as my brother’s
family was.
Bowen believed that most of us spent too much time complaining about
the mundane things in our lives, instead of taking positive action to
improve those lives. By putting so much energy into what we disliked,
we were creating a negativity that held us all back. And something
that really stood out to me? It was his preface to the book, in which he
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