Week 5

During this week, I read “Success Is Gauged by Self-Mastery”, by N. Eldon Tanner, and I learned two important things.

The first thing that I learned is that perseverance leads to success. The other thing that I learned is that obeying the 100% of the commandments of God is easier.

Also, participating in the discussion board of this week, I learned that the moment to make decisions is today. When the difficulties come, we must to have a previous decision and that must to be to obey the 100% of the commandments of God.

Other thing that I learned is that time must to be balanced to begin and grow a business and to spend time with the family. To begin a business requires time. So, the rules of when to do the things of the job and when to be with the family will make that we be able to balance our time.

Also, I learned that become an entrepreneur is related with planning time for the next 20 or 30 years. A business isn't something that is built and grows in few years. This is a career that takes many years. So, to begin a business, I need a plan for the future, for the next 20, 30, and 40 years, at least, balancing the time for the career and the time spent with my family.

Lastly, I learned a very valuable insight. When I work, I must to serve to God principally. I must to serve to God, doing what I was called in the Church. My time is the time of the Lord. So, when He called me to serve Him, is because I need to serve Him now. This part was very clear and the next time that I can, I will share my testimony about serving to God, and balancing time for my family and my career.

Week 4

This week, I had the opportunity to read “Are Successful Entrepreneurs Born or Made?” And, the insights that I gained reading it were that successful entrepreneurs are talented, educated and perseverant.

Also, I learned that luck in business isn’t the difference between success and failure. Luck is to be ready when the opportunities come.

From the talk “Perseverance” by President Faust, I learned that perseverance makes that we get our goals. Maybe we are smart and well educated at the beginning but the perseverance made that we reach our goals, our eternal goals.

Watching the videos: “How Do You Find Your Passion and How Do You Pursue It?” and “Most Entrepreneurs Are Not Rock Stars”, I learned that businesses represent hard work but I can enjoy it if I find the multiple things that I like to do in the businesses.

Other insight that I gained is that the hardest choices to made are among right answers. The hardest is to choose the best among many good choices.

Lastly, reading “Spreading Happiness”, I learned some insights from someone who loved what she was doing in her business, and about the advice of others. I pondered that a good advice may come with previous results of that advice. Also, I pondered that customers are the best way to finance a business and to grow the business.

Week 3

I would like to share some insights of some readings of this week.

Reading "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen, made me to ponder about the importance of enjoying the life and the career. Sometimes I feel that the job never ends, and I want to have more time for my family, then I try to do my best in my job to have more time for my family or I try to work in home to spend more time with my family. Then, I am working to improve spending quality time with my family. I provide the enough for them and when I see them, I feel that the time spend in my job is worthy, but this must to be balanced.

The reading of "The Start-up of You", made to think that I am an entrepreneur, and that I have been an entrepreneur since many years ago. I am in a way of learning, and I learned that I am an entrepreneur, inclusive working as an employee.

Maybe an entrepreneur is someone that works in the own business but I think that this goes beyond. In the career of an entrepreneur, there are moments of learning. So, as an employee, the learning to become a trained entrepreneur may be big.

I think that reading "The Start-up of You", I learned about the importance of networks. I learned that isn't enough being the best, is needed to have a good communication with the boss. Also, the formula "I^We", summarized what I believe; I didn't have a formula to remember it or explain it best in the past, but this formula explains it well. So, the skills and talents of someone added to the talents of others, power the potential of the team.

Other important insight was that I must to do what I like to do and what the market pays, but added to this and principally, it's needed to recognize what is our mission in the life.

So, pondering what is my mission, I will understand why I am here, and what can I do to do my best. I think that my best is spending quality time for my family, to build a family forever.

Also, I learned that the right decisions make that I can spend the time just working or with my family.

Lastly, I learned from the talk "Little Things Are Important" that the future is built by the actions of today. In fact, each moment builds the future. So, what I do every day makes what I will get or what will be in the future done.

Week 2

The integrity is the base of any long journey. I learned that some airplanes didn't support the flight because the pressure caused during the journey made that those were destroyed in the air. So, the integrity wasn't the enough strong to support any change of pressure.

The same is for the life. When there is a lack of integrity, the pressure will be high, and this means that we can't be for a long time in a career.

So, I learned that integrity is fundamental for any career.

As part of integrity to keep a long journey for a career, I learned that I must to be happy and enjoy what I do in my career.

Other thing that I learned this week was that each job is a step in the career, a step of learning.

In the previous days, I began to ponder about this. So, when a problem comes in my job, I see it as an opportunity of learning.

Then, this attitude makes me to have in mind the next time that I see the difficulties in my job or any new assignment, as an opportunity of learning.

Lastly, I pondered that the time that I spend with my family is fundamental in my journey during the life, and that I need to balance what I do in my job, in the Church, and the time that I spend with my family.

Week 1

This week, reading “Randy Haykin: The Making of an Entrepreneur”, I learned what matter most in the way of a career. As a personal insight, I learned that the family matter most first, and after that the way of learning is the most valuable skill to have.

Learning in each step of a career, builds what we want to see in the future.

From the life of Randy Pausch, I learned that he reached his dreams because he did what he liked to do as part of his life. When he was a child, he liked to do some things having some dreams, and he had those same dreams being a professional. So, he enjoyed his life.

Also, making a personal list of 50 things to do, I learned that there are many things that I would like to do.

At the beginning, I thought that it would be difficult to find the most meaning things that I would like to do, but writing one by one, I saw that there are more things that I would like to do.

So, I will write more things to do during the next years because I saw that there are more things that I would like to do, for my family principally, because I would like that my family become forever.

Lastly, reading “Stars & Steppingstones”, I learned and pondered that I need to set what I want to do after I have 70 years old. I am 30 years old now, and I saw that I haven’t planned what I will do within the next 20 years and the 40 years. So, I will establish what I want to do when I become 70 years old.