Let Go

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Reflect on learning - What is the most valuable thing you learned in Project Business Plan?

Another reflecting post, oh how I love writing reflecting essays. They had some sort of mysterious power where you had to work out your brain juice and memory sap to recall your feelings, thoughts, pros and cons and etc. And then examine, comparing and analyzing them simultaneously.

Energizing really. Seriously.

Back to the topic. Hmm… so what is the most valuable thing I learned in Project Business Plan?

Sure, learning how to write a business plan is one of the things I learned. Valuable? Yes. Most Valuable? Nope. By the way, I’m not going to say teamwork again, this so too common in your everyday life around this university. You learned teamwork again and again, the only question about learning teamwork is, did you improve on your teamwork skills?

I did albeit insignificantly little.

So now, on my most valuable thing I learned in Project Business Plan candidate list is:

1. Power (Leadership) is good.

2. Good Finance is hard.

3. Planning is harder. ( This includes both the project planning and the team tasks and roles coordination)

4. Letting go.

The first candidate is pretty easy to understand, who doesn’t love power? Even in nowadays TV series and cartoon, games. But rest assure, despite being the leader for this time and this project plan, I’m not a power craze maniac who overuses my power, in fact, I did most of the job. The part that I like was they respect me and at least would try not to object whatever I have to say, that’s all. And it’s a great feeling. But that’s just it! Nothing much, so POWER IS GOOD’s out of the list.

Second: Good Finance is hard. I had lot of problem trying to adjust the rates, budgets, fees, and dealing with pro forma. Ugh, what a headache. They say money isn’t such a big deal, but it comes down to fulfilling your needs, it suddenly becomes a big fat deal. You have to plan the in and out of the money, so that when we are really going to execute our plan, we won’t have some last minute not enough money issues and cause the whole project to be delay. That is a stupid mistake. Then again, I always knew that Good Finance is hard even in managing money for your life, so THIS ISN’T MY MOST VALUABLE THING I LEARNED IN THE PROJECT BUSINESS PLAN.

Third: Planning is hard. As if dealing with finance isn’t enough, as a leader I had to deal with planning, and when I mean planning, I mean everything! From team members roles and task to finance planning, to project planning to whatever that has to be planned so that this project will proceed smoothly. This does take toll on my mental state, in a way. I got to think about synchronizing them in a right manner so that the result of the project turns out to be outstanding, and again, I failed. (I hope it isn’t too miserably.) Life is all about trials and errors, so get on with it! So again, you learned this sort of lesson in your daily life, thus Planning is Harder is once again failed to be the most valuable thing I learned in Project Business Plan.

And that leaves… the last one, LETTING GO.

Letting things go and allows them to all into the right place is hard. In fact is the hardest, among the listed four. To other this might seem to be a stupid answer, but for some reason to me this is the hardest, especially when you are the leader, you just can’t seem to stop worrying how your project is progressing, are they doing their jobs? You just had had to control everything, as if like a control freak. It is like you had to constantly worry about the project where ever you are, and whenever you are. And just when it takes a heavy toll on your mind, you had no choice but to let the project go and flow to its own path. Just bear in mind that you had done your best and do not regret no matter what the outcome is. No one can control everything, no matter how perfect your plan might be, only God knows how will the plan turn out to be. That is why to me the previous listed three is just a minor, letting go is the most valuable and hardest thing to do, at least to me.

So just learned to let go.

Don’t Worry Just Have Fun

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Reflect on learning – What is the most valuable thing you learned in Project Business Ideas?

Nope, it’s not teamwork, well, not really anyway. There are lots of chances of discovering its importance as they are scattering all around this university and whenever you have to deal with group assignment, you have to deal with good teamwork. So Teamwork is out of the Most Valuable Thing Candidate List. Mind you, teamwork to me, consist of relationship between members, coordination of the roles and tasks and

Next on the Most Valuable Thing Candidate List is, Discussion is good for your Business Plan health. Okay, I admit it’s healthy in the sense safe by having frequent discussions, but all means it’s a must, yet sometimes to me frequent numbers of discussions might make the world go rounder but somewhat slower. Since discussion is a common need and requirement in dealing with group assignment so is business idea, so it’s out of my list too.

The final item on my list is, how did I feel when I was doing the Project Business Ideas? Do I feel it’s fun? It’s annoying? It’s frustrating? It’s boring? As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m an emotional person who is easily influenced by my surrounding, thus I usually tend to get stressful when there’s any assignment. But this isn’t the main point I’m trying to here, in this paragraph. What I’m trying to say that THE MOST VALUABLE THING I LEARN IN PROJECT BUSINESS IDEAS is to have fun during the process.

It’s just an idea coming from brainstorming and brainstorming is just speaking out your ideas not analyzing it, so relax and have fun. I should have act that way, but I didn’t and as usual I get all stressed up again figuring how to deal with presenting the project in a correct and impressing manner. (And I obviously I failed, oh well.) During the whole process and progress I should have fun with my teammates instead of thinking, “No, no this wouldn’t work,” and “Ugh, this ideas’ weird,” and Sort of stuff.

I’m kind of regret right now, I should have enjoy the fun of doing it, at least by doing so I could have another good memories to add into my memory bank.

And that is the most valuable thing I learned in the Project Business Ideas.