Celebrate your Life! W14 Last Week :(

Last Week of our Entrepreneurial Course L

Well it sure has been a great journey with lots of learning which, it’s time to put into practice!

One of the things that have stuck to my mind throughout this course is these words: “Never give up”. Being an entrepreneur is not easy, but it is achievable!

How can we be successful?

One of our lessons that we had in this course, was to be an Honest Entrepreneur. I tell you the same, being Honest is a big word; from this you can gain confidence from people, both customers and co-workers. Don’t steal ideas from your co-workers; share instead ways to improve their ideas.

Another thing that can make us successful is balancing our lives with our jobs and family. We all know that a family is given to us in order to give and receive support both ways. Take the time to spend with them, enjoy being with them. Plus, this is a way you can relax from the pressure you may have at work. My family is very loving and caring when it comes to supporting in something we have to at work. I have an entrepreneurial father and mother, they each support each other, and they try to involve us as kids in their business so that we know how to run the company ourselves. They are always creating ways for us to be self-reliant.

Don’t ever stop Dreaming! God has given us all talents for us to find and use them. Search for ways to improve your abilities and always think of other. Think about what are people’s needs? Are they things that you’ve always dreamt of? Is there something else I can do for people? These are questions that I’ve made to myself every time I see someone’s need. I would like my company to suit people’s needs. Dream Big Dreams!

Never stop being thankful! We have become great leaders and great entrepreneurs because of our Creator. Always be thankful to God and always share how grateful you are with him for given you talents and giving you intelligence to be able to create things that people need.

Last, enjoy what you do and don’t do it because “you have to”, but because you enjoy doing what you doing it! Being an entrepreneur does not have to be a burden for you, but something that you will be excited for every time you start a new week!

I really enjoyed this course, since it sure was a big open-eye for my future goals!

W13 A Journey of Gratitude

Let's give our gratitude to those who have helped us to become who we are now:


A church leader in one of our readings this week, taught us the following quote:
"Mother, who willingly made that personal journey into the valley of the shadow of death to take us by the hand and introduce us to birth—even to mortal life—deserves our undying gratitude. One writer summed up our love for mother when he declared, “God could not be everywhere, and so He gave us mothers.” [Pre. Monson]
I sure agree with him, God and his son Jesus Christ are the main people we should give our gratitude to, but next to them we have our parents, mother's specially. 
Being an entrepreneur we need to think about who has helped us throughout our journey through success, we think about teachers giving us classed of success, counselors, priests, family members, etc. We could not have done it without their help.

We got to the top thanks to their teachings and advices. I remember my very first teacher when I arrived to the United States, I had not one single word in English, and she didn’t either with Spanish. There was no way of communicating verbally so she would speak and point to things so that I would understand, and look at me now, writing blogs in English J. I am very grateful with her patience.

Each of us should always think of someone that has made a difference in our lives, that person earns respect and love for their patience.

I enjoyed this week, at the same time, I have learned many things, but enjoyed this journey through this course!

Becoming a Changemaker W12

This course is almost coming to an end. It's sad, but there is a lot that I've learned about, especially this week. Becoming a change maker: Jesus was someone that will always watch out for his people and others that did not follow him, he made a change in the world. 

This week I've learned from Google professionals that we can all make a difference in the world and make our entrepreneurism a better solution to all humankind. Big companies like Nike, Google, Apple, etc., have motivated people with their motto.

When we think of becoming an entrepreneur, we need to thing in changing the world, in understanding people’s needs and make it a necessity to buy your product. Great church leaders have taught us to never give up in pursuing our dreams, but most of all to help others and think on Jesus, what would he do?

I’ve always wanted to make a difference in my community, starting with my family, that is why I decided to serve a mission and help others that needed spiritual help, there are people that are ill, but have a great heart and hope that someday they will get heal. Becoming an entrepreneur can help our lives and the lives of others, but if we put God first.

Measuring the Cost: Life Balance W11

Life balance!

This week has been great in learning how to balance your life as an entrepreneur. We had a few case studies about managing work vs. family. One was about your daughter’s recital vs. having your largest customer calling you for an emergency and would not want anyone else to be there but you. It puts you to think because as an entrepreneur: customer satisfaction comes first, but when your family is involved in your daily tasks, what would you chose? In my opinion, family comes first since God has stablished it like that, where we have made covenants to have an eternal family. Now, customers as well are someone that are providing us money in order to bring food to the table. It is just a matter of balancing priorities and making right decision at the moment.

We learned from an Entrepreneur this: “Pay attention to what’s important” – Randy Kosimar, as he states also, “being a CEO, is hard to keep a balance”. But, as we also reviewed this week in another motivating entrepreneur, Corey Bell, “Everything is possible if you want it!” So, there are many life balancing experiences throughout our entrepreneur life, it’s on us to make the right decision at the right time.

What a great lesson we have learned this week. Now, time to put it into practice.

Draming Big Dreams W10

This week has been great as the past weeks, but there is something particular about this week: Dreaming Big Dream!

For the past two weeks, we've been preparing ourselves to have an interview with an entrepreneur. This week I had the chance to interview my own father, who has been an entrepreneur almost all his life. I learned that I needed to dream big and never stop dreaming, always pursue our dreams.

In order to be an entrepreneur, I need to have values, have a background that’s suitable for what I want to do.

From a video we watched this week, Kathy Huber, which is an entrepreneur had some difficulties being the minority among men. What did this mean, sometimes, we have to be good at something to stick out and get away for the stereotyping. Some industries may not be for a particular gender, if there are a few of our kind, we need to dream big and succeed showing people that we can do the job.

Other video we watched was about Googlers having their time during work to be able to create something and input it into Google. I feel a big company that allows employees to express their ideas, is a company that will have success.

I really enjoyed this week!

DISCIPLE LEADERSHIP W9

This week I’ve learned about being a leader. From when I started a program (Pathway) that got me into BYU-I, I learned to be a leader a few times I had to teach the class. I know that being in BYU-I, I can get to be a leader, since it is a Disciple Preparation Center.  Throughout my life I’ve been put into positions of leadership, at church I’ve worked with young women that are in need of help. It was once promised to me that if I help the youth of the world many blessings would come to my life. I know it’s true, and that promises do exist when you do what the Lord commands.

In a company being a leader does not imply to tell your workers what to do, a great leader is the one that will sit and teach workers how to do the things to be a successful company. I learned this week that big companies like a well-recognized company like Gillette has been successful because it has 3 things: Disciplined People, Disciplined Thought, and Discipline Action. We can learn and put into practice in order to succeed we can apply these 3 key points.

I am grateful for each opportunity we get in our life to help other and find rescue in other’s words. 

Overcoming Challenges W8

As always, every week there is something new to learn. This week, I’ve learned a lot about overcoming challenge as an entrepreneur. One of the leaders from our church has taught us to never give up, to always keep walking forward, because there are good things to come.

I know that as an entrepreneur, there is going to be rough times, there is going to be ups and downs along the road. There will be times when your car will be broken along the side of the road, but as you walk forward looking for help, you will receive answers if you have a goal set in mind.

Being an entrepreneur will not be easy, but it is never impossible. If you have your mind set on a goal, long term or short term, and do not deviate from the path, you will achieve everything. I have always learned from my parents that the path is not always easy, but once you reach the goal, and turn back to look at everything you have overcome along the way, it will be worth it, because it is your win not anybody else’s.

Always count on the Lord’s help, he will always be there in times of affliction, wins, and disappointments. 

7 Habits of highly effective people W7

This Week I’ve learned on how to be highly effective and apply the seven habits to our entrepreneurial journey.

As you all know the 7 habits of highly effective people are by Stephen R. Covey and it encourage us to become better in every sense.

-          Be Proactive

-          Begin with the end in mind

-          Put first things first

-          Think win/win

-          Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

-          Synergize

-          Sharpen the saw

This reminds me of a high school class where we watch the 7 habits video and our teacher helped us to understand the importance of being not only effective, but HIGHLY EFFECTIVE people.

My dad is constantly reminding me to be proactive, to never wait until an opportunity comes, and that I always have to be in the search out for opportunities. I recommend that as well, to allow it to get to you, instead, search for it and reach out for it before it even comes. Also prioritize important things first. I’ve learned to always have a list of things I have to do first, at work, at home, at school, my goals, etc. This has helped me a lot to get organize and finish everything on time.

I really enjoyed this week.

The Entrepreur and the Family W6

This week I learned the importance of a family in our entrepreneurship journey. Even in the scriptures, great leaders, behind all success there is always a family supporting. There is always time for everything, and God has blessed us all with the same 24 hours in our everyday life, the way we manage it, it’s on us. Our family comes first, being an entrepreneur comes from our home.

In my life, I’ve had many experiences with my parents always trying to be self-reliant, my mom has had a food business and my dad tours in his van (besides their careers). They have always taught us all that we need to be self-reliant and always look for opportunities to improve our skills. Never stop learning, is our theme. I am currently studying my second career and I plan to have someday my own web design business with my brother’s help in graphic design. This would not be possible without my parents’ advice. I and very grateful for the lesson this week and great entrepreneurs teach us to never let go of our family.

I have learned that as well as secular things, we need to have spiritual things in our lives besides the other thing. That is the key to success, always be on the Lord’s errand.

Spreading Hapiness W5

This week I´ve learned many things as always. I have greatly thought about advices throughout my life and who are the best people in my life who can teach me about success in life.

For an assignment this week, we had to think about the important people in our lives, like every company has advisors, we needed to think about our advisors in our life. I particularly named my family members, even those that have passed away that have been great advisors for my life. They have been there for me during the hard trials. It was a great assignment, a fun way to help us think more.

Spreading Happiness, this topic was one of my favorite topics I’ve learned about. I always like reading stories about others and how successful they’ve been with small starts. This week, I learned that in order to be an entrepreneur, you needed to know your talents very well and know who you should work for and be open-minded for suggestions from your customers. Erica Mills thought about the happiness of everyone and hers as well, was able to exploit her talents and make everyone happy with greeting cards. I was very thrilled by her success.

This week was wonderful and sure learned more and more how to be successful and trust those with experience!

My Personal Constitution W4

This week as the other weeks, it has been amazing. I’ve learned many things and ways on how I can set short and long term goals. How to create my own personal constitution that includes: (from the bottom of the pyramid) Governing Values, Long-term goals, Short-term goals, Daily tasks.

I learned to view my life a different way, my important values and how I can govern them. The values I’ve learned from myself are: (in order of most important) “I am…”: Trustworthy, honest, integrity, charitable.

My short term goals are be able to read The Book of Mormon and be able to put into practice everything I learn from it. Also, be able to help others with my fast offerings. My long term goals are to finish my career, and put my own web design business and be able to apply my values into my job.

Another thing that I’ve learned throughout the week is my fears and how I can manage to not let them affect me in my goals. Some fears that I hope I never face are: Losing my job, therefore, I need to work hard in my values and keep them. Other fear is not finishing my career and not be able to come back to finish it. I hope this never happens, but if it doesn’t, learn how to manage to never give up and face them.

It was another great week!

Being Honest as an Entrepreneur W3

This week, I’ve learned that being honest in everything makes you a better person. I like this quote from a reading we did this week: “Here at BYU Idaho you are learning, not only how to make a living, but more importantly, how to make a good and honest living”.

Being an entrepreneur takes time, you need to innovate and create new ideas for the benefits of others. God gave us all talents that we need to develop along our life journey, so it takes time to discover them, what does that mean, that since it takes time and effort ,we will not let others take those ideas from us very easily. So, being honest with our fellow beings won’t allow them to take our ideas. We need to teach others with our attitude & beliefs that we can be honest.

I learned from a video we watched, about the “Risks in business“, that no matter the company we have, or how a successful entrepreneur we are, we always need to be honest. “You need to be honest in all your doings”, reminds us Jan Newman. No matter what, everything comes to the light, it is impossible for someone not to know what you have done.

It has been another great week of new learning and new things to put into practice in life.

New start, new opportunities W1

For my first week of class, I got the chance to learn how to be patient, getting used to the tools wasn´t easy at all.

We started by introducing ourselves, getting to know each other, where we were from, things we like and don’t like, and I met a lot of my classmates from the USA, but some are international like me.

I know this was the first post, but I want to write of what I want to get out of this journey, this class is about entrepreneurship and as we all do we want to have our own business at the end of the course. I want to be able to provide a better use of technologies for companies that don’t have that vision yet, therefore, I want to study this course to the end and learn new ways to have a better vision of my future company. I am so excited to learn more about this fun experience and to teach others about it. It´s wonderful when opportunities come to your life, you just need to catch them at the time you have them in front of you, that is the way to success, not letting the important things fly! Welcome to my blog!

My Entrepreneur Journey W2

This week I have learned a lot about finding what I want to do in my life. I´ve thought about a lot of things in life and most important, what I need to do to accomplish it.

Let´s start with “My bucket list”:

We had to write 50 things that I want to accomplish in life. Wow! I thought about it, I was in #20 and I couldn´t think of anything else, but then I meditated a little more and came to a conclusion that there are a lot of things I want to accomplish, starting with having children, finish my college career, and have my own business. Of course, all of this cannot be done without God´s help. I have been very blessed with a helpful family, they will always be there no matter what, they are helping me to continue my goals, and never give up!

I´ve been reading a book, which I find it very interesting: “The Ministry of Business”.

I found a very useful quote: “Don´t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition…Everything else is secondary.” [Steve Jobs]

I had the chance to share this quote with my dad, he has helped me by pushing me to never stop learning, starting with college. He has made it possible for me to be continuing and pursuing the career I´ve always wanted, even when others tell me to stop studying since I have a great job. I thought about the big blessings that the Lord gives us everyday, I call it OPPORTUNITIES. I´ve learn to never give up and enjoy every opportunity we get, because sometimes they can only be given to us one time.

 I know all things have to come to an end someday, and therefore I need to be prepared for it; I hope to have my own business at the end of my career and stop depending on a boss.

I really enjoyed the lessons that life has given me this week and I will continue, never giving up!