Entrepreneurial Journal

DECISIONS:                      This week I have the opportunity to learn about how to take a decision. I decided to make a quick research about the subject with my friends asking them two questions: First: -When you have to take a decision about something how do you decide? Second: -When do you have to take an important decision about your life how do you decide?                     The answer always followed the same pattern, for the first questions they usually answered, “-I just act”, and for the second question they start thinking a little more and usually say the same answer “-I think about the subject and after decide”.                     We have different decisions to ma...

          This week I read and watched about Randy Pausch's Last Lecture , and was a very good experience for me, I could remember my childhood dreams and realize that I have accomplished some of them. One of my dreams was to eat chocolate wherever I wanted…after 25 years…..CHECKED!!!           In Randy Pausch´s Last Lecture, he talks about his childhood dreams and how he achieves some of them and why is important to have our dreams. I liked when he explained about the brick wall. When we follow our dreams will always have a brick wall to stop us, just to see how badly we want to see that dream come true.            Randy could achieve many of his dreams because he had some qualities, such as, discipline, persistence and a very good mood. He could recognize that our life is an experience and we always learn something or develop important cha...

Today my brother is boarding with our students to New Zealand. They will spend 3 weeks studying, and having fun enjoying the summer time in Auckland . While I was there in the airport with them I remembered about 12 years ago, when we started. Leandro my brother always had big dreams, and one of his dreams was to have partnerships abroad with another English schools. In that occasion we had less than a hundred students, we were a small school in a little town, but he believed in our good work, and went ahead with that idea to have school partnerships abroad. He traveled to Canada and spend six months there, brought many simple and new ideas for us and we applied in our small school. After some time, we have more than a hundred schools partners. Today he is going to Auckland. And Saturday I will go to Toronto, Canada with another group. When we have big dreams, clear goals and good people around us, we will see good changes in our lives.

Hello everyone!!!           Today I will start declaring some important hints for a entrepreneur: 1. Have clear and SMART goals. 2. Always keep your word. 3. If you made a mistake, admit and corret it. 4. Don´t be afraid to change.           By the way, my name is Leonardo De Toledo Krieger and I am 34 Years old. I run my own business since 2003, I start my business career when I was 21 years old, buying a franchise of a language school in Brazil. We start from zero students with a lot of debts and doubts, nowadays we have more than 700 students and we graduated more than 3000 students in these passed 13 years, and we are not satisfied yet. We always want more!!!           The main objective of this blog is to share experinces of learning and inspiration. This week I learned, that is very important to have a mentor, and I have some very good mentors i...