I have just got back from a big business exhibition at the Kensington Olympia here in London. It’s catered for the budding entrepreneurs as well as small and medium business owners. There were a variety of activities going on in here, all with the ultimatum of getting new seed of ideas to starting or growing a company. Live seminars, presentations and great UK business celebrities were there to help all visitors with new potential strategies.

I even saw new business owners pitching their ideas on stage to a panel of UKs most successful entrepreneurs and the feedback from them was really awe inspiring. It was great to see everyone getting involved and working with each other.

I hope that more and more people would go to events and seminars. It would help expand their business potential or even motivate themselves to getting action and doing something!

The current economy is bad. In fact, it is worst than that. Friends of mine who worked in the financial sector in The City are now jobless. Most of them are job hunting in a dire market.

It’s amazing how all these banks could go bust in such a short period of time. It’s more like a dominos effect really. One financial institution to another.

In fact it was only yesterday that Woolworths and MFI (one of the biggest UK retails chains) are now officially bankrupt!

I think it’s really unfortunate to see great businesses going bust. If you want my personal opinion on the current crisis then I believe it all boils down to bad leadership and appalling management.

Most importantly, what are we going to do about it? Are we going to do NOTHING and wait until the best TIME arises to start a business?

But when is the right time to start a business and create a new change?

You see, I think the time is now. You should never procrastinate for your future. Everyday is a new opportunity day and you should find it and grab it.

The dire state of the economy should not be the reason to the failure of our personal economy. It’s purely an option.

So go out there and do it. There’s more opportunities out there than ever before.

This is a fact…

There were many new millionaires created during the last Great Depression.

And this is the truth…

There is no difference from the last Great Depression to this current day. The opportunities are still there.

Find it and get it. Take some action…

Everyone deserves success and the time is NOW!

All the best in everything that you do…

Ambar Hamid.