Entrepreneurial Journal

          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...

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...