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The Iron Man Spiritual Challenge
Posted on Apr 2nd, 2006
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Big D
Big D
Might I add the most amazing spiritual experience would be setting up a business exporting goods out of North Korea.
North Korea's score ranks 5 out of 5 in a recent poll of most difficult to trade countries in the world.
The pain would be monumental, the resources would be completely untapped, you would come up with showstoppers EVERY day that would prevent you trading at all. The infrastructure just isn't there and the first person to set it up would be rich beyond measure - that is what pain is. You would face personal battles to keep focused during tough times - of which there would be many. You would suffer rejection by the locals for not being able to communicate. Your whole living comforts would be compromised and again a struggle for you to change as opposed to the world around you.
Hong Kong and Singapore are rated the two easiest economies to do trade in the world with a score of between 1-1.5, where 1 is the perfect economy with no barriers to trade and 5 represents the worst economic state to do business with. USA scores about 1.8 lying about 5th in the world thereabouts of easiest economies.
If you want to try it - 3 months would be all you could muster, you would learn so much about yourself and your resolve. I suggest it is the utlimate challenge that would be the business equivalent of climbing Everest for the first time.
As an added challenge - do it with a tight budget and on a tight timescale and you must survive or you don't eat.
3 months - that's the challenge, you would change and change amazingly.
Check out my travel check list blog if you need help before your journey - it will save you 2 weeks of difficulty when entering a new country (either travelling or on business) and might save you having to use a 5 star hotel.
North Korea's score ranks 5 out of 5 in a recent poll of most difficult to trade countries in the world.
The pain would be monumental, the resources would be completely untapped, you would come up with showstoppers EVERY day that would prevent you trading at all. The infrastructure just isn't there and the first person to set it up would be rich beyond measure - that is what pain is. You would face personal battles to keep focused during tough times - of which there would be many. You would suffer rejection by the locals for not being able to communicate. Your whole living comforts would be compromised and again a struggle for you to change as opposed to the world around you.
Hong Kong and Singapore are rated the two easiest economies to do trade in the world with a score of between 1-1.5, where 1 is the perfect economy with no barriers to trade and 5 represents the worst economic state to do business with. USA scores about 1.8 lying about 5th in the world thereabouts of easiest economies.
If you want to try it - 3 months would be all you could muster, you would learn so much about yourself and your resolve. I suggest it is the utlimate challenge that would be the business equivalent of climbing Everest for the first time.
As an added challenge - do it with a tight budget and on a tight timescale and you must survive or you don't eat.
3 months - that's the challenge, you would change and change amazingly.
Check out my travel check list blog if you need help before your journey - it will save you 2 weeks of difficulty when entering a new country (either travelling or on business) and might save you having to use a 5 star hotel.
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