On my trip to Los Angeles I flew over Silicon Valley where today’s corporations were brewed from garages of folks like you and me. I was lucky for that I had the bright sun, not too glaring, shined through my window with the crisp morning breeze and the view of a clear and vivid bay.

No matter how many books we come across to help us cope with our anxieties and pressure, the magnificent view from aloft a plane just simplifies our own existence and the rest of our problems. How we’ve dreamed of living a better life when we’ve worked so hard in our offices takes on as a deep perpetual ringing in my mind. I’ve peered out of the right wing’s window of the plane trying to trace back where my office is as the blue water of the bay area caught my eyes. We are so small upon this grain of prolific sand and our problems become not as colossal as we’ve imagined it to be.

People have built tall buildings, extended daring architectures, and elongated congested freeways but from the airplane all these things are of no apparent paramount or monumental sight except for the mountains that overly scale the landscape. With this view we start to look less at the finer things in life and at the differences of small businesses and larger corporations as they move closer in. Everything down there becomes more blended together and yet divided apart. I began to realize no matter how small or big a company gets it is not a ‘big’ problem from this perspective. We cannot grow our company bigger than the city it is in and the business problems that we face are not bigger than the problems that the whole city is having altogether. On an over-note, the city and businesses cannot achieve to expand more up or out and lower its problems at the same time.

While the plane climbs the attitudes there is no communication with the rest of the world and it thus further disconnects me from the ground. This comes as a big shock to me while thinking about this as I cannot communicate with the people that know me best, I begin to feel how important my network is to me. Continuously I feel that without my work and being off the ground I am comfortably am without obligations and am lost of who I am for this slight moment. As I fall back into my fleeting thoughts I start to redefine my works and if there of any importance or quality to anyone. Or if there is any use or of any positive impact on others?

Personally in addition, that is why the quality of our work is so important to us and having the network to appreciate it is even more of greater accolade. When building a business we have all dreamed of, it is not the size of the business that many people commonly ask us that is important but it is in the quality of our business.

With this feeling, I was eager to work on writing a small script that would make a client’s life and his company’s task a little easier. The content for a web company is one of the most crucial elements to a web company’s success. Without it, their competitions are more ready than they are. My client asked if we can help them add images to their site, but there are roughly around 300,000 images to be added to their backend and associated with each webpage. Doing this with their employees is a full time job of a week to complete with no guaranteed from human errors & omissions. I carved my time out for Monday night and set up our script on their server. By Tuesday morning I got it running. Right now it is grabbing the images from a service server and saving it to their system along with the page association. It also does a check to see if each page has the correct information. As I am writing this it is on its round to finishing half way. I contacted him back and he thanks me for it. It was a small task compared to what we’ve done for his project but working on it fills my heart with joy.

Even when the company that I am working for is mostly part internet, the relationships with our clients is held with upmost importance. Without one or the other, there is no relationship. Pointing out the greatness of this dynamic, the act of appreciation for our work from our clients brings out the best quality in us all.

The plane ride has an impact on how I have reshaped my perspective on our business outlook. It is not a job that we are told to do but it is a passion that we want to help people achieve their goals correctly. And that workaholic self of ours work to satisfy our passion in a way that gives us merit. There are always many alternatives for our problems and finding a way to solve it differently and passionately means a lot to us. In business we will never achieve building an empire as high as a plane can take us but we can extend the quality of work farther than what our eyes can see through our networks. We might be a grain of gem that someone is searching for solution to. It has been an interesting plane ride.

About Xillent: Xillent, Inc. was founded in 2001 when a small group of Industry professionals recognized an outstanding demand for customized Internet services and solutions. The company understands that the value inherent to the Internet, it’s a channel to increase revenue, a mechanism to reduce costs, a dynamic marketing resource, a customer relationship platform, a tool to improve the supply chain – has yet to be fully embraced.

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