MEASURING THE COST

When we start like a entrepreneur many cost came for our mind - cost for buy, cost for sell, cost of maintenance, cost of transportation and many others but, sometimes we may forget to evaluate the cost paid by our family (wife and kids).

This week I share a video of The Kauffman Founders School with Mega Cadoux Hirshberg: Surviving the Entrepreneurial Life: Work and Family.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zg-0JhfGgk

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Meg Cadoux Hirshberg knows firsthand work-life balance may be a challenge, but argues you can take steps to lead a life that’s fulfilling on both fronts. 

In this video we can learn how answer the follow question:

• How to make time for children?
• How to find a work/life balance with family? and,
• How to limit smart phone use?

Sometimes, during the weekend I was with my wife at movie theater and frequently I answered the calls of work or my called of the church that I attend, and my wife a day said - You need to stop of answer the calls, it is my time, my moment.

I knew that she was right. We had determined that time for us, my wife and I, and I was including other persons in our time.

If we do not know balance our time, we can pay a high cost, our family - wife and kids.

Gordon B. Hinckley taught us that we have a fourfold responsibility. He said: 

“Each of us has a fourfold responsibility. 

• First, we have a responsibility to our families. 
• Second, we have a responsibility to our employers. 
• Third, we have a responsibility to the Lord’s work. 
• Fourth, we have a responsibility to ourselves.” 

“It is imperative that you not neglect your families. Nothing you have is more precious.”

Mentors - the experience of the oldest

"(...) but rather give thanks unto God that he hath made manifest unto you our imperfections, that ye may learn to be more wise than we have been." 

 About A.D. 401–421, a wise man called Moroni, said this great true about this necessity of learn by experiences of others. This week I would like to share my experience in an interview with an entrepreneur, that for me is a example and a mentor.

His name is Eufrasio Francisco Barbosa, his company started when he had 30 years-old. He had married and was starting his family. Was a great interview and somethings were very important and touched my heart

Asking about the lessons that learned during his entrepreneur life, his highlight the following:

• You need be the first arrive in the company and be the last to leave the company. Start one business, not mean that you can relax and arrive later because, you are the boss, contrariwise, this is the motive that you need arrive yearly.
• The eyes of the owner is what fattens the cattle. Some times, I observed that some employers decrease the production when I not was in the company and, when I was the production increase, still that we have good and reliable employers, is necessary that all see the our presence.
• Involve the family in the most important decision. Be an entrepreneur is a hard work that requires long time and many hours of dedication, and this may be a puzzle in the relationship between family. The most important decisions need to be take as family.

At the end he give me these advice: 

1. Pay the tenth! You not can achieve the success if don't have God in the first place and like your partner.
2. Work hard. The business world is cruel and not will have mercy of you.
3. Keep learn. We can always learn, learn by books, learn by other's example, by own experience. 
4. Don't give up! If you fall, get up.
5. Keep your words. If you promised anything to comply. Your word is your integrity.

Exist a big difference between our age, maybe we can know more about the technological things, but never, and repeat, never, we can forget the experience of the oldest.

I believe that these advice are for my increase and development, principally, because this man is my father.

The Most Enemy of Great

This week I share a quote of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't is a management book by Jim C. Collins. 
Jim Collins brilliantly highlights the danger of good, or in other words, of accommodation of achieve the good things, while we could achieve the great things.
He said:
“Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don’t have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don’t have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life. The vast majority of companies never become great, precisely because the vast majority have become quite good – and that is their main problem. That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem. If we have cracked the code on the question of good to great, we should have something of value to any type of organization. Good schools might become great schools. Good newspapers might become great newspapers. Good churches might become great churches. Good government agencies might become great agencies. And good companies might become great companies.”

Our goal not is achieve the good results or good things, our goal must be achieve the great! We were created not to be only persons, we are created to be great persons. Think big, think great!

REST

This week my subject is: Rest.
Exactly, rest. Many times, we think that we are supermen, because we have desire and effort for create a new business. In some days ago, I wrote about the necessity of hard work and organize the time for all things. This week I feel that in this journey, we need to learn to rest.
In his book, A Field Guide for the Hero's Journey, by Jeff Sandefer and Robert A. Sirico, dedicated a chapter only for Rest.
In chapter 7, we found:

" Without rest, as we press on, day after day, striving and working, we become frazzled. We think less clearly, we make poor decisions; we snap at loved ones. The old saying is true - All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Our senses become dull, our mind and bodies worn down, by constant hard work unleavened by appropriate leisure. Rest means getting sufficient sleep, but it also means allowing yourself periods of down time, times when you are awake but your brain is allowed to be "off line". (...) And, when you return to your work, you will find that problems often will be easily resolved now that your mind and creativity have been refreshed."

 Remember, that we need work perfectly and constantly, but if our body don't have rest, our mind will be fault.
Leonard da Vinci said: "Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer".
All people are different, and because this, each one need to find your manner to relax and rest. For me, I love listen music and watch movies and, sleep! Of course! Discover yourself what the best manner for rest and relax.