I made it through the third week. Not only did I do my class load but I am also back east visiting a very sick family member. It was enjoyable to share the study material with my sister as we caught up with each others lives and family. As I watch videos and read the articles assigned to me this week, we talked about the talks and the implications they have in both our work and personal lives. My sister is a homemaker while I am a business owner. I talked about how if I am to be a success entrepreneur I needed to be an honest, reliable, and principled. I mentioned how if I wasn't an ethical business owner I would not be in business very long. My sister said, as she watched a few of the videos with me, that she felt the videos should be shown to new moms as well. She said that when ethics start at home then they come naturally in the business world. It was a interesting thought. She joked that she was the business owner of her family and maybe she could use some of these classes for herself.
In an article titled "Making a Living and a Life", the author described a grading scale for a business man. As I read the article I could see that his perspective was not from a purely numbers view but from a personal integrity standpoint. Evaluating myself as a business owner based on his criteria I was satisfied to see that I could say I was an A- to a B+ business person. While there have been times I have had made business decisions based on a purely monetary focus, for the most part I have always had my subordinates in mind when I reviewed and proceeded in with a decision. While I think this balance does not allow me a classic "A" per this authors outline I do think it was the best recourse for the situations I was faced with.
After this week's lessons I feel really good about how I have conducted my business decisions.
Friday, September 30, 2016
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Living Our Dream
I am in my second week of class and so far I am enjoying the material but not yet finding a fit for me in it. This week we are talking about our life goals and dreams. So many people live their lives with no purpose or plan in mind and so they waste precious time just wandering. As we focused on planning ahead and living a life with purpose I found myself looking back not looking forward. Have I lived a life a purpose so far? What more can I do with what is left of my life?
Like so many others I did not have a plan when I started out. I had an end goal in mind but no real path to reach it. I wasted time meandering around hoping someone else would set up my path. I was in my 30's before I started actively guiding my own life. I still did not have a plan but I was going to do something. I worked to teach myself how to manage a business and run an office. I used my desire to help my husband in his dream of being a business owner to give myself a purpose. I took my love of math and organizing things to set up his office and track in money. It took me a while to find a job that I learned to love and excel at.
Looking back I can see the choices and decision I made that got me here and I am please with the journey. I met and helped a great number of people along the way and guided others looking for purpose. It was an adventure that I do not regret.
Looking forward I am content to do more of the same. I have no great aspiration for wealth, I just want enough to live comfortably and help others that need it. Running our own business has allowed us to give jobs to young single adults looking for a way to pay for school. It has also allowed us to open our home to people who did not have anyplace else to go. In this way our money was sufficient to meet those needs and I am satisfied to continue this path. I am going to college purely for the selfish reason that I want to learn and this is a good place to start.
I am living my dream.
Like so many others I did not have a plan when I started out. I had an end goal in mind but no real path to reach it. I wasted time meandering around hoping someone else would set up my path. I was in my 30's before I started actively guiding my own life. I still did not have a plan but I was going to do something. I worked to teach myself how to manage a business and run an office. I used my desire to help my husband in his dream of being a business owner to give myself a purpose. I took my love of math and organizing things to set up his office and track in money. It took me a while to find a job that I learned to love and excel at.
Looking back I can see the choices and decision I made that got me here and I am please with the journey. I met and helped a great number of people along the way and guided others looking for purpose. It was an adventure that I do not regret.
Looking forward I am content to do more of the same. I have no great aspiration for wealth, I just want enough to live comfortably and help others that need it. Running our own business has allowed us to give jobs to young single adults looking for a way to pay for school. It has also allowed us to open our home to people who did not have anyplace else to go. In this way our money was sufficient to meet those needs and I am satisfied to continue this path. I am going to college purely for the selfish reason that I want to learn and this is a good place to start.
I am living my dream.
Thursday, September 15, 2016
The Beginning of it All
It is September 15th 2016 and I am starting a new adventure. For 25 years I have been a business owner with my husband. We have had many great successes and a few failures. Through it all we learned as we went. Neither of us had any college training in business. We learn through trial and error, advice from other business owners and research. This was a grand adventure and we learned a lot. Today I have started a formal college adventure. I am going to go find out what more there is to know about running a business in today's tech savvy world. I am looking forward to learning from peers and mentors and also being able to share my thoughts and experiences.
The one thing that has always been a constant in running your own business, no one else will do it for you so go get it done. That thought has the drive behind all of our successes and guided us through the trials. We always knew that if we wanted to be a success we had to make it happen, no one else was going to make us successful. I intend to use that same philosophy as I embark on the journey of obtaining a bachelor's degree in business management. I look forward to it.
The one thing that has always been a constant in running your own business, no one else will do it for you so go get it done. That thought has the drive behind all of our successes and guided us through the trials. We always knew that if we wanted to be a success we had to make it happen, no one else was going to make us successful. I intend to use that same philosophy as I embark on the journey of obtaining a bachelor's degree in business management. I look forward to it.
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