UPDATE April 6th 2011 - I started to build this project no matter what. Front-end is almost done :)

Today I’ve done lot of video conferences with some very interesting people. Day after day I notice how many opportunities I’ve missed out on because I didn’t execute them.

While chatting with Davy Kestens, my friend from Belgium, I explained to him that even though I’m only 25, I have this feeling that I’m terribly old. I feel old because of all the opportunities I didn’t take and all the bad decisions I’ve made in the past.

I’m a huge fan of TV Shows. I remember watching an episode of Fringe that talks about the fact that all decisions you make determine who you are. That’s common knowledge. However, nobody tells you how to change course when you realize you made a bad decision somewhere along the way.

Today, I suddenly became extremely frustrated when I saw a huge amount of “connect.me” buzz on twitter. Why? 2 months ago, I had exactly the same idea. I designed the User Interface and I even thought of exactly the same domain! (Sadly, I didn’t pursue the project and didn’t register the domain name)

Check out the design I made, pretty awesome huh?

Friends tell me that I should good about this because it shows that I have great potential. But to me, it’s an incredibly frustrating to realize that I wasn’t able to execute this project because I don’t have the team, the money, nor the available time to pursue my ideas.

Time after time, I see people starting up websites I came up with years ago and who are now making millions with it. I had the idea of Groupon 2 years ago!

Though I know, that’s not important. I realized that I need to “do” stuff, instead of blaming around. Over the past few years, I worked in order “to survive”. And I know that is not getting me anywhere. I’m going to change my mindset based on a great quote I heard in the movie “The Social Network”:

If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you’d have invented Facebook…

That’s pretty much why I’m writing this blog post, just doing things and stop blaming around.

I want to focus on building web applications that truly help people. To be honest, I don’t get enough satisfaction from designing general websites for clients. I want to work on really great projects on my own. Sadly, the client work is currently the only way I am able to “survive”.

I’m well aware that great connections and networking with the right people will help me access the resources I need in order to execute the projects I wish to do in my life. There is a small chance that I’m able to do this on my own, but execution is everything and what I need to most right now is an amazing partner that can help me out.

Either if you are an investor, a coder, designer, marketeer or just someone who wants to build great things with me…

simply…

CONNECT.ME