Entrepreneurial Journal

Sometimes.....  actually, I'm constantly being tested, to do what is right. Making choices it's part of everyone's life, but we have to agree that the time you will take to choose, exactly this intersection between situation and decision, is the most agonizing parte of our life. What will I do?! What way should I choose? Or yet, what decision to take? The answer is simple but sometimes difficult, bitter, uncomfortable or sometimes we feel tempted to say, impossible. Deep down in our soul we always know the answer and what we have to do. DO WHAT IS RIGHT! You have to choose now to do the right thing. If you choose it today, tomorrow will be easier and you will minimize your agony. Once a decision is taken, the concequence is chosen. Action and reaction eternal law.

          This week I had the opportunity to read the article from Charles Handy from the Harvard Business School. I liked his approach to the question: What´s a business for? because sometimes we as entrepreneurs just start a business thinking about money and profit, to became rich and to have a very comfortable life, but we usually don´t think about the people we will need to arrive where we want to.           He said: "Markets rely on rules and laws, but those rules and laws in turn depend on truth and trust.Conceal truth or erode trust, and the game becomes so unreliable that no one will want to play." Integrity and virtue in business is vital to be Independent for the creation of our own wealth. If we are a "bad" company nobody will trust us, and will invest in another things, maybe in their houses or under their beds, so the economy would collapse.           What´...

This week I had the opportunity to read many articles about how to handle with money, I will share here about the article called: Attitude On Money from Stephen W. Gibson, and three fundamental questions that will align thoughts about money. First question: What is your attitude toward money? Our attitude toward money is very important because it will determine if we are able to gain more or not. Stephen says: "For me, I believe we need to think about and understand money; what it is and how to get it. We cannot go through life saying we don't want to "even think about money." As leaders and fathers we need to thing about money because we need money to bring food on the table, give a better opportunity to our kids and so on. I see money as a fuel to achieve our goals. People without money are like a car without gasoline. If we think about money we will find ways to gain money, if we pray, work and follow the instructions we receive, money will come to you. Once yo...

          If you want to be a hero let's start from the beginning the first step to be a hero you must be a person who act rather than a person who says I can't. You have to be committed with yourself body and soul to find and follow your heroic Pathway.           Our personalities and desires shape our callings. Each of us has to find out purpose and what we really want to became. We have to ask ourselves: Who am I? Who do I want to become? This questions will clarify our purpose on Earth and our path as leaders, fathers and entrepreneur and when we discover who we are and what is our proposed here we start understanding our path to succeed. We must remember that success sometimes doesn't mean power or money. Entrepreneurs are driven by action and it's easy to be destroyed by this two things, (power and money).it is not Wealth that destroys people but wealth without understanding does. To...

          D-E-A-L-I-N-G is one of the most listened word in the entrepreneur daily basis. Sometimes you deal with people, sometimes with products, services, other companies and with the governor, taxes, fines and so on. During our time as entrepreneur we always have the same question; What is the best alternative, the faster, the most economic, and the most ethical decision, without harm our company? We have plenty of books teaching and giving us advice on how to make better decisions, why we should take this or that decision, but the thing is that EVERY BUSINESS is DIFFERENT from one another.            Handle with people is very different from dealing a product or a service because people have feelings and you may hurt feelings, and in your life as entrepreneur for sure you will hurt some feelings when you take some decisions, and it doesn´t  mean you took the wrong decision, but if y...

This week I had the opportunity to interview a famous entrepreneur, his name...... Carlos Wizard Martins, we had the opportunity to serve a mission together he is in Forbes Brazil ranked with the most rich people in our country, Brazil. I had the opportunity to serve a mission with him and after the opportunity to work with him.Today I would like to share somethings I learned from him, actually I learn many things from him during my mission and after during my professional life. Here are some teachings from him to me. Business are business and church is church; sometimes people thing they have the right to receive some advantage just because you and I, are from the same church, and this is wrong, for your business succeed you have to work with the bests and sometimes It doesn´t mean they are church members, Unfortunately. In business not always the smarter wins but who arrives first. We have to be innovative and if you fell a market tendency, you have to start doing, ...

          You can´t do it! No, it is not possible, sorry! I could not do it for you, sorry! You are a liar! I don´t trust you! You deceive people! This is just some of the sentences an entrepreneur listens during his life, and it really hurts when he listens that, but it hurts more when it come from people you thought  was your friend.           As you may know I started my entrepreneur life since I was a kid. I was seven years-old and I sold old newspaper for the mini-markets we had near my house, they paid me some cents for the used news paper, that they used to pack the products, like eggs, and milk bags, so with that money I bought bubble gums to sell for my classmates at school, cheaper than they sold at school´s convenience store. And with that money I bought my toys and things for me. As I was getting older we (me and my brother) always sold things to make a living, thinks like food, ...

          I always want to be better, better than my competitor, a better company, better entrepreneur, better father, husband, better, better and better. This week I studied two different articles and one book about, how to be better. The first article was from Gordon B Hinckley, "stand True and faithful" the other one was from Clayton M. Christensen about "how will you measure your life" and the last one was the best seller The seven habits of high effective people.           After all this lectures my desire was to be.....better. I learned that to be effective I need to follow some steps, and to be a better person I need to help others, and to have the desire to help others I will need stand true and faithful. To be better does not happen overnight, it takes time, and one of the most precious think we have in this life is our time, so using our time wisely will be the secret to succeed i...

SELF-MASTERY AND CHARACTER:           This week I will write important insights I had about self-mastery and character. In business scenario there are many corruptive ideas, and without character and self-mastery, the businesses companies won´t last too much.           Let´s start with a quote from N. Eldon Tanner “ If you wish to achieve financial success, if you wish to be happy, if you wish to be healthy, if you would be morally clean, if you wish to find religious peace of mind, there is only one sure way, and that is the straight and narrow path—the way of honor, the way of industry, of moderation, simplicity, and virtue.”           To achieve the good things in life we have to be different, there is no other way. To be different in this world (business world) we will need to live a simple and virtuous life. Nowadays where wrong looks l...