#3 Year 2018: Bad Thing Might Be a Good One, Sometimes The Best

Health is everything. Although this sentence may sound like a brutal cliché, I see it quite differently today. But I don’t want to anticipate. There is one saying that fitted to me pretty well: “The pitcher goes so often to the well, that it is broken at last.”. It really got broken. Fast and without warning. Out of a seemingly simple health problem, that I had “proficiently” left untreated for about two years, erupted a complicated affair and it cost me more than a month’s stay in hospital and three surgeries. When I think about it today, it was really crazy. Especially the timing –approximately 6 weeks before the big state exams, investors came to the company and I had planned a daily schedule into every single minute. In one word – a catastrophe. Surely, I’ll write more about it in the future, but now I cut it short. Thanks to self-denial and primarily thanks to modern medicine, I got out of it without visible scars or permanent consequences. Thank god!

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Petře, sakra! Můžeš se jednou tvářit normálně? ?? Jak vidíte, v pondělí jsem měl promoce. ? Pět let, mnoho vzpomínek, zkušeností, občas nějaké to zklamání a taky tuna nových přátel. ?? Upřímně cítím trošku nostalgii, protože jsem zakládal firmu přesně v době, když jsem nastoupil do prváku, a v takových chvílích si prostě člověk uvědomí, jak ten čas rychle letí… ?? Sbohem VUT! ? Třeba se vidíme někdy budoucnu. Damn, Peter! Can’t you make a normal facial expression just for once? ?? As you can see, it was my graduation on Monday. ? Five years, a lot of memories, experience, sometimes a little disappointment and of course a ton of new friends. ?? In fact, I feel nostalgic, because I set up a company at the same time I became a freshman at university, and in these moments, you realise how quickly the time flies… ?? Goodbye VUT! ? Maybe we will see in future. #ing #engineer #trustmeiamanengineer #VUT #graduation #graduationday #finishschool #endofschool #endofschoollife

Příspěvek sdílený Petr Pokorný (@iampetrpokorny), Čec 13, 2018 v 9:42 PDT

The first half of the year was not formed only by staying in a hospital, but also by large state exams and selling off part of my company. First things first. Finishing university was a necessity. (Once you start…) True, the last two years have been really intense, even though my follow-up program took part in a combined form during weekends. However, because of health complications the study cost me much more energy and sometimes I thought I was really on the edge. But the expected result finally came. I don’t want to sound ungrateful, but lately I had a feeling that studying wastes my time. Business worked well before the title and the reality of everyday life is quite different against the student’s desk. Well, anyway, I have this chapter closed, so far…

Let’s move to the STARTUJEME WEBY. To run a business à la me as the only owner has got its limitations. Thanks god I understood this principle in time. An excellent opportunity came about a year and a half ago. I’ll cut it short again. I had the opportunity to sell off some of the company shares with a condition that company will stay under my guidance. Fair offer, really. After half a year of negotiations, a new joint contract was drawn up, which came into force in the beginning of the year 2018, and after about a year of operation I evaluate the result as very good. Not all of the numbers have been summed up yet, but it is already clear that 2018 means the most dynamic growth in history (considering from the founding of the project). We also managed to improve the background, invest into interesting innovations, projects, and most of all we are working on the expansion of staff. So far, it’s great, but I still have to stay on the ground, though sometimes it’s really hard.

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Dneska jsme na poradě probírali novou korporátní identitu. ?? Jo, mohl bych se otočit čelem k objektivu, ale spontánní situace si nevybírá. ? Každopádně máme dost nových (a dobrých!) nápadů. ?? Teď je jen musíme přetavit do reality. ? Today we consulted our new corporate identity. ?? Yea, I could have turned to the camera, but spontaneous snapshots don’t take a pick. ? Anyway, we have many new (and good!) ideas. ?? Now, it’s our task to make them real. ? #corporateidentity #businessmeeting #businessowners #businesslife #onlinebusiness #workworkwork #digitalmarketing

Příspěvek sdílený Petr Pokorný (@iampetrpokorny), Čec 19, 2018 v 12:59 PDT

However, everything didn’t work out as I imagined. I didn’t manage to pay attention to my second company (E-commerce project with tennis equipment, invested a company share from my part in 2016). Warehouse works, expedition also, customers shop there, support is also great. So, the project definitely isn’t losing, but everything runs on a kind of automatic mode. The innovation is zero, zero, nothing. There was simply no time left. When I think about it, I also stopped seeing a few people, but instead of them I opened a space for new people… But I see that as a cycle of life, not as a tragedy. On the contrary, I perceive such thing more as one of the opportunities, which will come in 2019.

Honestly, my year 2018 did not spare the variety. Although it looked really black at first, the whole situation made me to process a bigger personal reboot. However, it is usually done only in critical moments, when you have to rethink your position and set new and better rules. So, if you can see mainly the good things in such situations, you will have a unique opportunity to improve a lot of things not only in terms of personal life. That’s why a bad thing might be a good one, sometimes the best.

That’s all for today. I wish you all a successful year 2019 and thanks for reading it!

P. P.