Chapter 10
BE AN ENTREPRENEUR: WORK ON LOSSES AND FRUSTRATIONS
Tenth law for quality of life
TENTH WEEK OF PROGRAM
BEING AN ENTREPRENEUR IS…
- Creating opportunities and not waiting for them to appear.
- Having important dreams and setting goals to transform dreams into realities.
- Opening up the possibilities of intelligence, taking charge of sensibilities and being more courageous to be able to acquire what we love, admire and most need.
- Not being afraid to travel unknown roads, even when we don’t know the way.
- Learning to use failures as trampolines for great victories; valuing losses as a starting point for the best triumphs; employing weaknesses as food for wisdom.
- Believing in life and never wasting it.
Our destiny is not predetermined, rather chosen.
Those who want to be an entrepreneur should have the belief that life is a huge university, but that it teaches little to he who doesn’t know how to be a student.
9. Beliefs, paradigms and judgments found in the matrix of memory are the biggest obstacles to being an entrepreneur. An entrepreneur should be someone who is open and should have a keen sense of observation. We cannot hide behind our diplomas, status or financial situation.
13. We must be entrepreneurs. Even though we make mistakes, we should not be ashamed of admitting it. If we need help, we shouldn’t be afraid to say, “Show me.” If we make a mistake along the way, we should not be afraid to start over again.
14. An entrepreneur is not infallible or perfect. He falls and gets up. He doesn’t feel bad for his failures, but rather give thanks for the ability to be able to stay on his feet. The theater of his mind is not controlled by fear and auto-sufficiency, rather is a sponge modestly absorbing the experience of others.
21. Those who fail are the ones who succumb to their doubts and insecurities. An entrepreneur has doubts, but doesn’t become a prisoner of them. What attitude do you take when you are losing the one you love? Does it make you mad, do you feel fear and blame others? An entrepreneur never blames others, rather opts to change. He chooses a path and is not content to find fault.
26. Unfortunately, many people lived enclosed in a capsule. They are cultured, but rigid. They are eloquent, but do not know the language of emotion. They want to be leaders in businesses and institutions, but are not leaders of themselves.
27. If you know how to open the windows of your mind, expand the art of thinking and practice the laws for quality of life in this program, the labyrinths in which you live won’t be dangerous ground, a desert, or a jail, rather a place where you place your most beautiful projects.
31. Don’t think people are complicated, rather that you do not yet have the ability to win them over. Don’t think your job is too stressful, maybe it is you who cannot transform it into an oasis. For many, pain is a problem, for the wise it teaches a lesson. The objective of the twelve laws for quality of life is to give you the tools you need to become a wise entrepreneur.
45. We are sparks of flame which shine for a few years in the theater of life and are then extinguished as mysteriously as they were lit. There is nothing as fantastic as life and nothing as ephemeral and brief.
48. Some suffer form depression, anxiety and stress, not as a consequence of conflicts when they were small, rather because of existential anguish, a true lack of meaning of life. Remember what we have seen: some have fortunes, but beg for bread of happiness; they are cultured, but lack peace; they are famous, but permanent companions of solitude. In a few words, they haven’t quite figured life out.
Life is a labyrinth, as such, plan for it. Never spend more than you make and never spend everything. Nobody knows the valleys through which they will have to travel in the future.
- See life as a labyrinth to be discovered instead of a problem to be resolved
- Create my own opportunities instead of waiting for them to happen
- Remember there are not “complicated” people, only those who must be “won over”