Settling down and looking into the future

Hello dear readers!

I am sorry for letting you wait so long for a new post. I guess my lack of creativity and drive for writing comes from me starting to settle down with life over here and not having too many new exciting things and experiences to write about. Some interesting things have been happening, but I am afraid I have to confess to all of you that I am applying some censorship to my writings since there are local people here following my blogging and everyone might not enjoy being put up for public display! For curious people you can always catch me online for more in depth sharing of what is happening over here! ;-)

Since the battle of figuring out the basics of how to live here is over I have lifted my eyes from the surroundings to the horizon. The last few weeks I have been reflecting a lot on where I see my life heading and where I want to go next. The problem is not that I have a hard time figuring out what I think I would enjoy doing, its rather the opposite. There are so many things that I think I would both love to do and be good at, so the hard part is to decide what not to do. Its like standing at a buffet table with all my favourite dishes from all around the world, and only one stomach to fill. Things that have crossed my mind is everything from entrepreneur within renewable energy & energy efficiency or training & leadership development, to becoming the prime minister. From becoming a hardcore intrepreneur within the public sector, to becoming a professor in science or theology. From becoming a management consultant in change management to becoming a reseacher in space science. From becoming an author to becoming a teacher. I am not sure if I would succeed in all of that but there are many interesting things to do out there! Bottom line is to find the place where I feel that my contribution to life on this planet (and beyond) would be the greatest. Good thing is that I have my whole life to make the decision. What I have decided though is that I want to continue to explore and develop my leadership potential in the most fantastic organization in the world, AIESEC. I have started to prepare for applying for the AIESEC International team for the coming year!

OK, back to earth. I got carried away a bit there. My colleague Jackie says that I am thinking too much... ;-) What else happened recently is that I bought a guitar. It feels great to have a great way to express myself besides blogging again. :P I was also sick for a few days. I was going to go to get tested for swine flu just in case, but after spending an infinity getting passed around from one line to another, from one hospital to another, and waiting in lines my health improved so much that I felt I was at full health again and I gave up and went back to work. The escape could also have been due to me not wanting to go to a place specialized for swine flu testing standing a few hours in line with some people that definitely got the flu. It felt like a statistically more healthy option to just get the hell out of there!

Work has been a little bit slow. All these companies I have been talking to about LED exports are so slow to take any decisions. My "to-do list" contains about 90% "Waiting for" entries. Local sales is still a bit of a question mark as a foreigner, so I managed to talk myself to get GO to a bunch of suggestions for how to improve some internal things. I am learning a lot about international trade and supply chains & distribution channels here so the experience is definitely very valuable even if it is not as challenging as last year's President job of AIESEC Sweden.

I received some questions about what books I bought at the Indian bookfair I was at few weeks ago, so I thought I would share my latest additions to my library with you all. When I think of it I realize that I never shared about the bookfair here, I only did it as a facebook feed. Sorry!

So, the latest addition to the library (In order (or non-order) of standing on the shelf)
The Holy Bible
The monk who sold his Ferrari – Robin Sharma
The future of India – Bimal Jalan
Strategies for real estate – Donald Trump
The theory of everything – Stephen Hawkin
Memoirs of a geisha – Arthur Golden
The art of happiness – Dalai Lama
Brida – Paulo Coelho
Awaken the giant within – Anthony Robbins
The Bhagavad Gita
Winning – Jack Welch
The End of Poverty – Jeffrey Sachs
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Hot Flat and Crowded – Thomas Friedman
How to become a rainmaker- Jeffrey J. Fox

All in all I think I did not pay more than 100 euros! More like 70 but I don't remember exactly. Any other book recommendations are welcome! I am interested in most things. :-)

See you soon!