Moving Forward with a Driven Passion

There are many things that I learned or remembered from President Gordon B. Hinckley this week. some of the phrases that touched my inner self are these:
" Because evil thought lead to evil deeds" this helped me to remember that even thinking of surrender to opposition and difficulties, or feeling sorry for myself blind me to the opportunities in challenges and I do not grow then that is an evil deed that hurts my progress.
"Be true to yourself" this sentence it may be common but it is important to be and not to "act" I have been motivated by Jesus Christ example all my life, He has taught me how to be and not how to act.
"They paid such a terrible price for their faith" This is probably the strongest spiritual testimony I have of the veracity of the testimony of the pioneers. I consider myself one in my generation, my family and place around. I remember what I learned from the former HP CEO about leadership: about customer satisfaction, about how important it is. to keep oneself creative and willing to learn new things. I like this expression: " The old answers are not good enough anymore"
I also enjoyed Guy Kawasaki quotes about Passion and money: " You should not do it because you want to be rich - it is not lofty enough a goal"
" Money is not all that is cracked up to be that you know"

So you want to be an entrepreneur

"Success is Gauged by self mastery" I was very encouraging to read this words. Yesterday after talking with the Doctor about my surgery. He asked me. Do you smoke?. I answered, No. Do you drink beer? I answered? No. How is your sexual life? My wife and I are getting along well, was again my answered, and the Doctor replied in disbelieve. Anybody else? No, Nobody else, He finally muttered. Good that seems a healthy life so far. He confirmed a blood analysis and prescribed some medicines. He asked me for previous surgery, I experienced. I told him about the hydrocephalus one I survived. Our next visit will be in ten days. That conversation let me thinking. My wife had a surgery some days ago. She left the hospital sooner than expected, and now she is recovering well. I was first diagnosed one thing and sent to the surgeon. He is now taking a different turn. Are these blessings for the word of wisdom? I honestly did not want to go through the surgery room. I really expected this. Although I can not say or "sing: Victory" yet but It is good when good consequences come after living the word of wisdom. "Loyalty to God and Family", this video actually helped me to reinforce the idea I had while working one Sunday many years ago. I told myself:" I am going to have my own business, so I would never have to work on Sunday or any body under my command" So far I created my own job. I do not work on Sunday. I always spend Sundays with my family, reading the scriptures, watching "living scriptures episodes" I downloaded from "you tube" or videos we have. They are strong stones and guides during these times of challenges. So far we are OK but I know I can do it even better. What I liked about this lesson is the fact of being an entrepreneur, my grandparents showed me the first steps. Now that I am understanding better the way it should be done. I am after it. Was I born to be an entrepreneur? I do not know. But I am always thinking on how to improve things on any business I have the chance to work in. I am always suggesting for free. Now, I am working on my own endeavors. I never lasted on a job salary for too long. Life has been really dynamic for me to keep the "security" of one of them. So far I discovered that my entrepreneurial efforts had given me my "own job" I need to make than into a small business. Then I will call myself an entrepreneur. I will keep working on that.

Mastery: Skill, character or luck

This week I felt the pressure of my decision, I was trying to as much as possible to handle my homework on time. fortunately the blood needed for my wife surgery is already delivered. She was going to stay since today at the hospital but the doctor decided to take her in on Monday. Hopefully she will have a surgery on Tuesday. In this time of challenge the words of James E . Faust came at good time encourage our efforts. When this semester started I had no internet at home, my wife is sick and I had to put all my faith in my self employment projects. It has been good to know that my time skill organization have improved little by little. I worked, I registered two new students and I managed to have money for my wife errands to the hospital. BYU became a blessing with no comparison because of the things I am learning are helping me to organize my ideas and endeavors. I am reading the scripture more and reading more to general authorities than before. After reading and listening to Elder Faust it was so encouraging to recognize some of the attributes he mentioned in me a returned missionary 1. How to organize and use time wisely 2. The importance of hard work—that you reap what you sow 3. Leadership skills 4. People skills 5. The value of gospel study 6. Respect for authority 7. The importance of prayer 8. Humility and dependence on the Lord Even though I know I still have to keep working on many of them, it is comforting to know I am in the right track. It was very edifying and challenging to learn about the attribute of a real entrepreneur are and think and analyze myself enough to know if I had some of them. It is good to know what for other meant crazy attitudes are actually entrepreneurial attitudes. That itself help me and motivate me to keep on going to take the best advantage of this opportunity of being an on line BYU - Idaho freshman which is a great blessing in my life already. I really enjoyed and tried to put myself in the situation of the lady in the "spreading happiness" case study. One thing is to read about something and other is to try to be in her shoes and to make the decisions she was faced.

The start up of you

The startup of you gave me the chance to put myself into perspective. The things I am doing in order to be more professional in all my endeavors. Keep my self en Beta version. That is a truly new concept. I am not a finished product yet. In the process of finding the product or service to my customer I may find something that they really need that I am probably offering that I am not totally aware of. Then about the things I like to do. It made me think if I am doing any of that and I have to admit. I am not. I mean, when I talk about business. I really need to rethink all and learn to plan, to set up goals and measure anything that is measurable. I have to admit, I did not know it was possible but it seems it is. To measure one’s the fact of working for a purpose, for my family. All the material that I worked with helped me to focus in the most important in the business. I do really need to apply all the principles I learned this week. I have to learn and find out. There is always a beginning and we have already began. It is time to keep on going.