Business models

Dear blog or diary, not sure what to call you.

This week has been a difficult week for me to carry out my activities because I had to go to the mine site.  For my instructor and others reading: unfortunately work days at the mine are 12 hrs, time after work is little and I was on a business trip so that meant that after office I still had meetings and other arrangement to take care of. There is not a lot of flexibility after hours either because we stay at the mine's camp site, which means, no internet, shared accommodations and curfew.  

I did manage to get some of my assignments done and read the material but did not complete for both of my classes so I will definitively have a hit in my scores. This week I was learning about business models in one of my classes and the discussion board was about the time and effort needed to be an entrepreneur.  This week being away from home and those that I call the reason for all that I do, made me rethink my life and it is serving as a reinforcement that I must continue the entrepreneur path.  I just simply am not at liberty of my time and my life because I am selling my time for money.  yeah, that is not a smart move.

I discussed on one of the discussion boards about business models and had the opportunity to remember how my Transportes Vian website started to be a hit. I am learning and reconsidering what could have gone wrong.  I had the service that we were providing and neither of us had the experience leading a web business. Our business model resembled a lot a merchant model where we advertised services on our website and visitors had the ability to select from the offering.

Just so that I can make reference to this in the future: here is the website http://www.digitalenterprise.org/models/models.html 

Lets begin

So I am starting this blog as part of a class assignment but I can already see the value of it and already anticipate that it will not end in 14 weeks. I will need to see if I can change the name of the blog later. If not, that's ok too because it will serve as a reminder of how it all began.

This week, I have had many things going on at home and work that I have been very consious of timings to make sure I don't miss a class deliverable. I have a learned several things including that we should not settle for less than our potential as mentioned by President Hinckley. That made me invest time wisely in reviewing the material. I was tempted a couple times to just get through the and complete the tasks. Glad we have prophets guiding us how to live.

I also learned about risk taking, and I pondered what it means. I used to live in an earthquake prone area, people would constantly panic and get scared every year when we had the little ones. I was optimistic and would tell them it was a good thing because that meant (in my mind) that the Earth was not building up pressure. I used to say that we need to worry if there weren't any earthquakes knowing that bothered should be because that meant that pressure was building up and it would go kaboom anytime. Seems that this is the risk itself and this is how I was able to picture or relate to the teachings of this week on risks. "Take small risks to avoid the big ones"

Great leaders have good friends
I wrote a list of books I need to read soon.