My Journey to Entrepreneurship

Money, who doesn't like money? I like the benefits that come from having money my favorite one is to have peace of mind of future bills that might arise and be prepared with the amount of money. But my attitude twords money is that is something that generatesl wealth and needs to keep in circulataion. Money is good but it shoudn't take over our lives and specially not over our families, because the biggest riches we can have in this life is out family. Don’t you just love when Jim Richie talks? I just identify myself and my early experiences with every word that he talks, and look forward to the ones I haven’t experienced. At the same time, I have I big list of books that he recommended to read. All the other assigned videos were the big questions to this week’s theme who is Measuring the cost and for me is the cost of success in the entrepreneur path, what fuels us, our passion to do what we do and what is the cost and impact of our daily life, our private time and family rel...

Dallin H. Oaks quoted this story about a father that told his son: “All that I have I desire to give you—not only my wealth but also my position and standing among men. That which I have I can easily give you, but that which I am you must obtain for yourself.” It will be easy to just expect everything that our Father in Heaven has for us handed with no effort. This week I interview a great example of entrepreneurship and she mentions that her daughters are anxiously waiting for her to pass the business to them and she said that she will never do that unless they are willing to work and learn from the bottom of the business up. Taylor Richards mention that after establishing his boat dealership they were invited to have this count down of the best dealerships in North America and the first time they ranked No. 11 and the second time No. 6, he said that he is a normal person with a great team. This teaches me that yes we want to become entrepreneurs but we need help along the way and ...

When Jim Ritchie mentions in this week’s video that our time is almost over with his videos. I felt first that I need to go back and listen to his videos again and then I got a little sad that this time is going fast because I feel for the first time the joy of learning. Jim Ritchie mentions some key qualities from a leader that covers all the other videos and readings for this week. He said, “My favorite definition of a true leader is a person who takes others to higher ground”. Sometimes we don’t need to have the leader title to take other people to higher ground, I like how Guy Kawasaki said that there are pie eaters and bakers, pie eaters take the chance to get the advantage over other people, but we know that the bakers are seeking actively to make more pies and reach out for everyone to have what they need and help everyone, even help the pie eaters. This is how bakers take others to higher ground. Carly Fiorina said, “think leadership is about three things: capability, colla...

Now this weeks’ videos felt like there were specially for me. I have always felt that sometimes I am all over the place and in the video with David Carrington he said “the first step of entrepreneurship is really to embrace thinking backwards, not problem solution, solution to problem…to thinking randomly. They take all kinds of input and then come up with solutions that no one else would think. And that’s what makes them entrepreneurs” These words are encouragement to me because I felt that thinking randomly and different process and at the same time come up with where some kind of disorganization or that the entrepreneurship concept was lost for me, but with what David Carrington mention I felt that is a common action of an entrepreneur. Taylor Richards mention Nephi with his challenges and his great enthusiasm to always keep pushing ahead. He also said something that really got to my bones “not underestimating yourself - and the Lord and the great things you can do”. I have experie...

The 7 Habits of the effective people by Steven R. Covey is a book that has been in my home since I was little. Listening to my mom's point of view of every habit and watching her using each habit has been a great example not only to read the book but to see someone having resulted from these habits. It is hard to only choose one habit because all of them are very important but I will base my selection on the stage in my life and what I need to implement more to reach my goals. First things first are the habit that has more meaning to me now. I am proactive because I created my own business and it has been working since 2010 and I have a clear goal of where I want to take this business to the next level. The wonderful advantage of this era is the information all around us and sometimes is too much to take to a plan because now I am confused by the step-by-step process. This habit that I will work on will allow me to start planning the daily process to move on to the next step. Also...

This week was a great reminder that God and Family are a top priority for anyone. I was reminded that is for God’s grace that we prosper in our projects and our family is the best support anyone can have. Jan Newman said, “There’s a couple of pieces that you can never let get compromised and that’s your loyalty to the Lord and your loyalty to your family--your spouse--and your family”. I like his approach about our loyalty to God and Family, means don’t take away the time we worship and serve the Lord and the time we can spend with our family. We can cut time in many other areas in our lives but this two we shouldn’t take time away to chase our entrepreneur dreams. Eldon Tanner in his talk “Success Is Gauged by Self-Mastery” said: “self-discipline, self-control, or self-mastery which is so important to all of us if we are to accomplish what we set out to do and enjoy the blessings which we desire so much” he explains that we need to know where we want to be or go and then the rest is...

A hero’s Journey video for this week taught me these key takeaways, first “Find great role models and ask them great questions” this is a very inviting and reminder that we are not alone and we can always have allies in our way to becoming that we want to accomplish. Another powerful key that I will treasure forever is three questions he asked 1) Have I contributed something meaningful? 2) Was I a good person? And 3) who did I love, and who loved me? These questions I will apply to me and my search for my calling in life to one day I can contribute to someone’s entrepreneur way. I am eager to apply the experiment to help to find my calling. The speaker in the video suggested asking 5 people that know me very well and ask them what I am good at and what do they think that my calling is in life? And I agree sometimes people around us can pinpoint that better than ourselves. He also said “think of the last time you lost track of time while doing something”, that is a deep reflection, an...