Hello again: it's been seven years but we are back!

Hello, Entrepreneur Performance Community!

It's been a while—seven years, to be exact—since my last post. 

During this time, the entrepreneurial landscape has undergone significant changes, and like many of you, I've been navigating these shifts, gathering insights, and honing my skills. 

I'm thrilled to reconnect with you and to share the knowledge and experiences I've gained during this period where I seerved as the CEO of the Venezuelan American Chamber of Commerce and Industry, based in Caracas, Venezuela, and as editor-in-chief for the Business Venezuela Magazine.

In the years since my last article, I've continued my journey in the fields of management, leadership, and innovation, always with a focus on fostering personal motivation and maintaining a positive attitude. As an economist and business performance coach, I've had the privilege of working with various industries, startups, and multinational corporations, gaining a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities entrepreneurs face today.

Now, more than ever, it's crucial to stay informed and adaptable. With this renewed blog, I aim to provide valuable insights, practical advice, and inspiring stories that can help you thrive in our ever-evolving business environment. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for articles, seminars and workshops, please feel free to send me a note.

Thank you for your continued support and engagement. Let's embark on this exciting new chapter together!

Luis Vicente 

New Blog on the Radio Show: 'Performing at Your Best'

Dear Friends,

I would like to invite you to read my new blog PERFORMING AT YOUR BEST.

It presents all the different episodes of my Radio Show 'Performing at Your Best: Mindset Evolution with Luis Vicente Garcia', which started back in June 2015. The show airs live every Tuesday at 3 pm PST, 6 pm EST.

You can visit this new Blog at http://performingatyourbestmindsetevolution.blogspot.com/ or click the following link: New Blog click HERE

We cover many aspects that directly relate to business owners, entrepreneurs, managers and executives. The topics range from entrepreneurship, franchising, public speaking, Teams, Customer Satisfaction Empowerment, and Business MAGIC, among other topics and I have been very fortunate to interview such incredible people as Bob Burg, Marc Koehler, Joan Detz, Abel Calvo, Dr. Andreas Boettcher, Margarita Pasos and other amazing guests that are now fabulous friends.

I hope you like the posts, listen to the radio shows, share them and comment them. You can send me your emails to coachluis@luisvicentegarcia.com

To go to the show's main page click on the following link: Show's Main Page

Here's to your increase Performance and your Success!

Luis Vicente Garcia

Be Positive... during this Holiday Season!

Dear friends,

This Holiday Season is a very special time of the year. We are just three weeks form the new year and it gives us wonderful opportunities to review what we did in 2015 and how to prepare better for 2016! 

We can review our achievements, how close we are of getting our goals and how are we developing the plan for a successful new year. Are you ready?

As you know, it will depend on many different issues: your TEAM, the use of your RESOURCES, the EFFECTIVENESS of your operations and the level of PERFORMANCE you achieve.

We all have challenges; and we have to think of new ideas and new approaches to solve them and take care of the many pressing issues we have today.

And as we enter this new holiday season, I want you to have the chapter I wrote for the book “Dare to Succeed”, which I co-authored with Jack Canfield and many other experts from around the world. The chapter is called ‘Be Positive, Be Successful’. And it is based on what I truly believe that:

“Our own positive attitude and personal motivation are the key driving forces for everything we do.”

Thus, start improving your attitude and learn how to be motivated and be positive; then you can do wonders in your lives and help as many people you want. And start with one very simple rule: SMILE J

If you would like to download my chapter ‘Be Positive, Be Successful’, please Click HERE.. And please share it with those you care.

Happy Holidays,

Luis Vicente

# # # BE POSITIVE, BE MOTIVATED, BE INSPIRED # # #

# # # THINK POSITIVE, AND DO IT OFTEN! # # #

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Transition into your Q4

Every Company is entering the final quarter of the 2015 Calendar this week. Are you ready and prepared for it? Have you met your goals and objectives so far and have the energy to continue with the energy and enthusiasm these last three months?

As we enter this Q4 there are four tips I would like to suggest so that you get ready to FINISH STRONG your 2015!

1.       Review your results up to date: every business owner and manager need to understand where you are today. You have had a certain level of revenue and production; have engaged in new transactions, business relationships and made new clients; have had to pay your costs and expenses. Are you in the level or range which is acceptable to your company and industry? Do you know your metrics?

2.       Review your GOALS for Q4: now that you are here, today, you need to review your goals for Q4; do not change them, adjust them. Our goals need to remain the same. Only our strategies, actions or plans need to change and adapt. Maybe a new sales level (lower or higher); maybe a new product or service you have been working on through the year; or maybe a new marketing strategy. Develop them and see how the complement your current goals and then go and work on them;

3.       Share your stories of success. The people in your company have been working hard this year; and probably this will be the strongest quarter for your company as it is to many others throughout the world. You most probably have had very interesting stories these past nine months that are an immense source of ideas, vision, client testimonials and possibilities. Share them with your team; let them know what your clients say, what the management team is thinking; share these stories with your team members. They will get the energy to Finish Strong! 

4.       Celebrate your Success! Las weekend I had the chance to speak to a group of insurance brokers during their annual convention. One of my messages was: celebrate your successes. Usually we wait until the end of the year; or we wait until the completion of a certain level of sales or production. What if we start celebrating every significant accomplishment? What can we do to create a sense of pride in every action within our companies? This is why I suggest that you start celebrating your successes and accomplishments on a regular basis as they will make a difference in your companies.

To finish STRONG Start NOW! 

At the end it is your company, your team, your products and services, your people, your clients. Work with them, review your goals, understand the level of satisfaction and get ready to finish the final quarter of 2015 very strong!

Luis Vicente Garcia, Key-note Speaker at the United Nations!

Dear Friends, queridos amigos

It is my real pleasure to share with you the video of an amazing opportunity I had to speak at the headquarters of the United Nations last June. I was one of the founding members of the Global Economic Initiative where 30 entrepreneurs from seven different countries gathered to speak and discuss about some the issues that are affecting the world of business, education and economics today. It was an incredible event.

Luis Vicente Garcia speech at the 'Global Economic Initiative' at the United Nations

My message was that regardless of our circumstances, you need to be positive, be an optimist and have a strong personal motivation. Once you have these key-ingredients, you will be able to become a better entrepreneur and business owner, have more clarity and see things in a much better way.

We cannot leave everything that needs to be fixed to the governments we have in many countries, particularly in Latin America. This is why I call out to the local and regional entrepreneurs to:

a)      Be the ‘change factor’ we need to be and want to become;

b)      Generate the initiatives that are needed to empower our people and our teams – basically through training and education; and,

c)       Guide our countries to a higher level of growth and development.

We can do this and much more form the private sector and need to start working on these initiatives today, as taking ACTION today is a must.

Thanks to the National Association of Experts, Writers and Speakers and to the International Entrepreneur Foundation for such an incredible invitation to speak at this life-changing event on this magnificent institution in New York.

Luis Vicente  

An Entrepreneurial trip to ARMONIA

I can describe my trip to Oaxaca, Mexico earlier this year as a "Magical" life changing experience. Being part of the entrepreneurial team that went to visit ARMONIA near the mountains of Oaxaca was an inspiration. Representing the National Association of Experts, Writers and Speakers as well as the International Entrepreneur Foundation I felt that it was an honor, an incredible learning experience as well as a new big responsibility.

ARMONIA is the life work of Dr. Saul Cruz, who saw poverty not as the lack of money but as the lack of opportunity. Being in Oaxaca I felt that experience with energy and passion, learning that there is so much we can do - individually and as a group - to change poverty, inequality and unfairness in many parts of the world.  Having had the chance to travel with 3-time Emmy Award winning Director Nick Nanton and his team, as well as other members of these incredible organizations, allowed me to learn, develop as a person, make new friends and see the world from a different perspective.

Being from Venezuela I am confronted with many issues in my daily life: scarcity, insecurity, hyper-inflation and an increase also in the country's poverty rate; but it happens in many countries as well. Thus, this new and bigger responsibility comes from understanding really what poverty is: discrimination of any kind, the lack of vision, little or no opportunities, no education and having no future. When you add the lack of money, it turns into misery.

Travelling with a group of incredible entrepreneurs from all over the world to Mexico, to have the chance to make a difference onto others, allowed me to grow personally and also see my business in a different way. This is why I am now looking for new ideas and insights that will create new opportunities for others to prosper and have a better future. And being a part of the Celebrity Films crew that created an amazing documentary also called ARMONIA, and becoming one of its Executive Producers was something I had never dream of; and something I will always be grateful for. If you want to see the documentary trailer please visit the following link

If you want to help the ARMONIA idea and project grow, please contact me at coachluis@luisvicentegarcia.com 

I then would invite anyone who wants to change their lives and also the lives of so many other people, who are in need of guidance, inspiration and motivation, to do something different, to see new ways to help people and to envision new ideas to change the world. And if you have the opportunity to go on a trip like this one, I can assure you it will be the trip of your entrepreneurial career, a life changing event and an emotional connection with the people you will be helping for years to come.

Luis Vicente Garcia

www.luisvicentegarcia.com 

Caracas, Venezuela

Entrepreneurs are today’s Adventurers!

Entrepreneurship has to be seen as a journey, as an adventure. It starts when we have that special idea to do something on our own, to create a business, or to innovate. It follows with our action plan, defining what we want to do and start working on it. We create a strategy, we get team members (friends and relatives at the beginning) and we start developing our idea. This is why for me ‘Entrepreneurship’ is a journey and this is why I see entrepreneurs as today's adventurers.

Entrepreneurship has been defined in many ways. It is the result of a person with very interesting qualities: takes action, combines resources, helps people, takes risks, organizes, discovers, and creates. An entrepreneur, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary is “a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money.” It then defines an entrepreneur as “one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.” What the entrepreneur really does with the idea or the dream he or she has, is to build a business that will make them grow and be successful, in whichever way you define success.

Entrepreneurship is not easy; however there is very interesting research that points that many more Americans and people around the world are willing to start and run their own business. In a survey made last year by the University of Phoenix, it was pointed out that 63% of the people in the US between the ages of 20 and 30 want to have their own business.

A very important report, issued in May 2013 by Babson and Baruch Colleges, starts by saying that:

 “The year 2012 was marked by entrepreneurial optimism in the United States”[1]. 

This single fact ‘optimism’ points out the importance of entrepreneurship in all growing economies worldwide. With data since 1999, the Report indicated that the percentage of adults involved in startups in 2012 hit 13% – a record high since Babson began tracking entrepreneurship rates in 1999 (you can see a full article on the subject that was reported by Elaine Pofeldt on Forbes magazine here)

We see entrepreneurs in many countries. Latin America on one end is very active in this area, with Chile and Peru leading the way; and the United States ranked at the top of the innovation-driven economies during 2012 followed by Singapore. Can this trend continue? I would have to say yes, as it is the entrepreneur who energizes and grows, generating a more dynamic economy.  

Governments in many parts of the world are continuously looking to entrepreneurs (both new and well established) in order to increase employment and generate new ideas so that their economies grow and the competitiveness of states and countries increases. Our job then, whether in the public or private sector, is to foster and create an atmosphere of growth, development and innovation in which entrepreneurs can grow and prosper. We see it in the small business that opened last week five blocks from our office, or the small shop that opened up around the corner or the new restaurant a couple kids started in the nearby mall. Many articles and reports show that record number of new businesses opened up in 2013 in the UK, India and Hong Kong, for example. And furthermore, the US Small Business Administration reported that “the small business sector is growing rapidly. While corporate America has been ‘downsizing’, the rate of small business ‘start-ups’ has grown, and the rate for small business failures has declined.[2]

There are too many opportunities to succeed in business today that were not available years ago. For starters, you can create your company online; you can outsource many tasks (accounting, legal, tax) so that you can focus on developing your business; you can hire better qualified talent. But you need to get out of your comfort zone or if not your ideas and your business will not grow. You need to get started and learning along the way so that you will not fail. Long working hours will be the norm; cash flow and capital will be required; and you will need to become an expert deciphering what your client will need in this fast-paced environment. And this means that you need to get the necessary experience and guidance in order to succeed.

And entrepreneurs need to learn continuously. With the right attitude and the right mindset they can become better on their daily jobs, managing their teams and companies, and improving their results. There are many tools that will help you to manage your personal and your business performance. But there is a simple fact, that in order to use all of these tools you have to start taking action; you need to take that first step. There is a beautiful quote by Karen Lamb which says “a year from now you may wish you had started today.”  And now the question is, what are you waiting for? What is that idea that does not let you sleep at night? When are you going to start?

Entrepreneurial intentions are rising, which is an excellent sign; and opportunities are present everywhere.  New stores and companies are opened every day; some continue, some change, some close. But the entrepreneur never quits, he follows his dream until it becomes a reality and then dreams some more. This is why entrepreneurship is a journey. You start with your business idea; you present it to family and friends and then to other people who might be interested in your future products or services. You then embark on the learning journey to become an entrepreneur, and better yet, with the goal of becoming a very successful one. And you have been transformed into a never ending adventurer!

Luis Vicente Garcia is a business Consultant, FocalPoint Business Coach, a Best-selling Author and an International Speaker. He helps businesses and business owners reach higher levels of performance. You can follow Luis at @lvgarciag, visit his web site www.luisvicentegarcia.com or contact him at   coachluis@luisvicentegarcia.com 

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[1] 2012 United States Report, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. ©2012 by Donna J. Kelley, Abdul Ali, Candida Brush, Andrew C. Corbett, Mahdi Majbouri, Edward G. Rogoff, Babson College and Baruch College

[2] http://www.sba.gov/content/small-business-trends

Business Owners: Tell your Story!

As entrepreneurs and business owners many of us work day in and day out doing what we enjoy, learning, empowering others and engaging with positive change. Well, at least that is part of what we do. The other part is, traditionally, working on our goals and following our dreams – or the other way around which will take us eventually to the same place. In a way, it will all feel very much like ‘doing what we enjoy, learning along the way, empowering others and engaging with positive change’, again and again.

Entrepreneurs are those amazing individuals that dare to take chances; that are creative while adapting and being flexible. And in the process, we need to understand that to many other people we can be a source of inspiration and motivation. This is why we need to tell our story; to show others that no matter what: ‘Yes! We have done it and you and they can do it as well; and even much better.’

Sharing our story is like giving a part of our ideas to other people, teaching them how to improve, explaining them how we began, or how many times we have done it. Yes I know we do not talk about it but we come up short sometimes; we fail in some cases; but the growing process is actually learning from all of those experiences. So get out there and tell people how we did it, and how we are constantly improving.

And in doing so, we need to go back to our beginnings. Usually we all have an entrepreneurial mind hidden some place until it wakes up. This entrepreneurial mind is the one that keeps us awake, that generates questions that need answers; that make us dream in many cases. When did it start? How did it start? Probably there is no concrete or specific answer as it may have been an evolution process; or maybe, as it happens to many other people, you know exactly when it all started.

For me, well, I started selling t-shirts and clothes after my travels; then it was a hot-dog stand and then a second one. I was working in corporate finance but doing other things on the side. And then the first big entrepreneurial move came, as I was the founder of a sandwich shop that grew into a 9-store fast casual hamburger chain. I started learning about franchising and about business management, plans, goals and the many interesting topics I work on today. And over the years, while having a successful career in the corporate world, I was also an entrepreneur.

Today as a business performance coach, I have the opportunity to share my story, my adventures, my journeys. And I invite you to do that as well. Share what you did and what you do; teach what you have learned, what you are doing and how you have improved. After all, we are here to teach and mentor others and what a better way to do it than through your very own story telling.

Dare to do it and inspire others along the way!!!

Luis Vicente Garcia

@lvgarciag

Excellence in Entrepreneurship!

Have you ever wondered what makes an entrepreneur and their companies excellent? or for example, why do you always seem to use the same companies as examples as having the best products or services or management practices?

One feature that all these companies have is that they are always looking to innovate to meet the growing and changing needs of their customers; and behind them there is always an entrepreneur who has the will to make it possible. In other words, it is the entrepreneur who always strives for excellence.

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to give a lecture on strategies for growth to a small group of entrepreneurs. During the lecture I spoke about successful people, amazing companies developing new ideas and also, about transformational leaders. And always one refers to the most innovative companies. We talked about Disney and Disney Institute; on Amazon and its founder; I talked about Peter Diamandis and the X-Prize or the Zappos Culture. And we discussed about the characteristics of successful people (if you want to obtain my PDF on the Characteristics of Successful People write to Info@luisvicentegarcia.com ).

Often when talking about great products we refer to Apple or Sony. When we speak of excellent services they have emerged as companies like Zappos or Yahoo in the digital age that have stood out far above the others for the service they give. And there is a long list of companies including The Walt Disney Company, IBM, BMW, The Coca-Cola Company, TOMS and many others that are always in our minds when we think if excellent service. Each of us has our favorites, from movie theaters to restaurants or places we think when going on vacation. And, what characterizes them all? Why, that when we talk about something we use a company or a person as a reference? The answer is simple but complex at the same time: all these companies and all these people are in continuous search to improve the quality and excellence of their products and services, and thus, our lives.

Make a list of what you think that makes people and their companies successful. Make separate lists and see the characteristics and qualities of both, and look for similarities even though you will be talking about people or companies. In doing so, see what calls your attention and start understanding why they have been successful. It is a mix of desire and decision, creativity and innovation; and of course, continuous work - in addition to always have a good work team which makes them excellent.

And after all that, see how each of you, as individuals and professionals, along with your own companies can do to follow the path of Excellence!

Luis Vicente Garcia

Best Quotes for Entrepreneurs

I must admit I love quotes. They give you insights into other people’s minds and thoughts. So looking for quotes to motivate, inspire and teach us is something we all need to do. They can also suggest different perspectives at particular times.

Recently I read Tanya Prive’s Forbes article (@TanyaPrive1) on the 32 best quotes for #entrepreneurs which, with her permission, I present to you today.

Use them, allow them to guide you, and learn from them.

To your success,

Luis Vicente

Top 32 Quotes Every Entrepreneur Should Live By

(http://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyaprive/2013/05/02/top-32-quotes-every-entrepreneur-should-live-by/)

Tanya Prive

CONTRIBUTOR

The nature of being an entrepreneur means that you fully embrace ambiguity and are comfortable with being challenged regularly. Choosing this career path is completely irrational because the odds of succeeding are dismal, but most succeed because of their unwavering belief, laser focus on delivering and persistence.

Starting a company is a riveting roller coaster of emotions with tremendous highs and at times, difficult lows, but one thing that always helps me through the ups and downs is to connect with some of the greatest minds. Below are just a few of my favorite quotes:

1. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” - Peter Drucker

2. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” - Vince Lombardi

3. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve Jobs

4. “My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had — everyday I’m learning something new.” - Richard Branson

5. “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.” - Oprah Winfrey

6. It is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” - Bill Gates

7. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” - Warren Buffett

8. “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.” - Jeff Bezos

9. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison

10. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” - Albert Einstein

11. “As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” - Donald Trump

12. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill

13. “ Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.” - Thomas Edison

14. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

15. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” - Vince Lombardi

16. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” - Napoleon Hill

17. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” - Bill Cosby

18. “Success is not what you have, but who you are.” - Bo Bennet

19. “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t so you can spend the rest of your life like most people cant.” - Warren G. Tracy’s student

20. “To win without risk is to triumph without glory.” - Corneille

21. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain

22. “There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.” - Christopher Morley

23. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” - Napoleon Hill

24. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” - Albert Schweitzer

25. “What is not started will never get finished” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

26. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.” - Malcolm Forbes

27. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” - Jim Rohn

28. “The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake- you can’t learn anything from being perfect.”- Adam Osborne

29. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”- John C. Maxwell

30. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”- Ralph Nader

31. “Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”- Confucius

32. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”- Bill Gates

Start Early on Entrepreneurship!

Entrepreneurship is about daring, taking chances, not knowing where you are going and yet, taking action. Entrepreneurship is about movement, using action verbs, about implementing strategies to fulfill your dreams. I say fulfill as you will reach them along the way and then you, the entrepreneur, will be looking for new ways to improve your company, your team, your performance; in the simplest way, to improve yourself.

As a business performance consultant I meet regularly with business owners and entrepreneurs alike. And yes, there is a big difference in their definition. While business owners most times manage their companies, entrepreneurs look for ways to innovate, create and constantly improve. You may agree or disagree with me on this definition, but put some thought into it. Most successful entrepreneurs I have interviewed have mainly one regret, not having started earlier. However, the good thing I tell them is that they have started already. And the only way you will succeed in life and in business is if you put your heart and soul into making your company, your enterprise, successful.

This is what entrepreneurs do every single day. They start with a dream and then go working out of their way to see it become a reality.

As the title of this short article suggests, you need to start early.  And then start again and again until you get it right and do it right. Taking the first step gets you going and moves you in a direction. It may not be the right one; you might have to change courses from time to time; so you have to set your mind on your goals. Developing your goals and creating the strategies to implement them is of crucial importance.

So start early. Your idea does not have to be perfect; nor does your plan (and of course you do need a plan). But until you start you will never know what you will need to change, to adapt, to modify. Simply put, start and start early so that you can become the entrepreneur you have in you.

Keeping things simple, for a start.

One sometimes wonders why other people seem to have more time or manage to do much more than what we do. Reality is that the day has 24 hours to each and every one of us. Then, why did Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Bill Gates or Steve Jobs achieved so many wonderful things and it seems we run of time always? Why were they so successful? While there are many answers that can be given to these questions, one of the easiest ones to grasp is that we need to always be able to do the simple things, one at a time.

For example, if we were asked to lose 30 pounds in a year, what will our first reaction be? Or if we are asked to read 15 books until the end of the year? Often we will think this is impossible. Well, it might not be. In order to achieve something great, you just have to do it consistently over a long period of time; it is kind of creating a new habit. To read 15 books in a year only, we have to read 10 pages a day; it is that simple. To lose 30 pounds in a year, break it down into simpler activities, like losing 3 pounds per month. Not hard in reality, we just need to start doing it, step by step. The truth is that it will not be that hard on us. We are only required to do simple, small things, one after the other and doing it continuously.

It's easy to make things simple, but it is also easy not to make them that simple as we like, by nature, to complicate things. It is equally easy to make simple decisions, but also easy not to make them. It all depends on our attitude. If today we decided to do the simple things and make simple decisions, we can do it also tomorrow and every day thereafter. If we do not read 10 pages a single day, the truth is that nothing will happen. However, if we do not do it for days, weeks or a month, it will take its toll and it may begin to affect our daily routines, our habits. Eventually, most likely we will never do it again or if we do, we might have to start from scratch. But the opposite is also true. If today I start reading 10 pages, to walk for 10 minutes, to slightly lose weight, or start anything, the idea of doing something new and acting towards a new goal might start working, as I am likely to repeat it again tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow and so on. We need to make those new habits part of our own daily life. And after regularly exercising, eating a healthy diet, reading 10 or 15 books a year, you will probably have a new vision and a new perspective on what you need to do on a continuous basis.

Successful people have achieved success in part because they chose to; because they decided to do things in a simple and organized way. And doing simple things or taking simple decisions after all, will create a positive environment for you to work and live in. And it will fill you with knowledge and will allow you to eventually make increasingly complex and more difficult actions. But you need to start at the beginning, at the simple steps. A marathon runner does not run 42 miles in two hours and 20 minutes without years of training. Like a baseball or football player, or a successful business person or entrepreneur: they have done the right things for years and have been determined to do so.

Most people choose not to make things simple. Success takes in the process of training, preparation and continuous improvement that allow the person to succeed in everything he wants and decides to succeed on. The important thing here is to realize and understand that all successful people achieved success just starting to do the simple things!

Luis Vicente García

Welcome to Entrepreneur Performance.

Welcome to Entrepreneur Performance.

This new Blog will focus on the point of view of the Entrepreneur. We will learn, write and study many of the critical areas that any entrepreneur, young or old; with a big company, a small company or just a simple idea, needs to focus and look for in his or her journey to success.

There will be new opportunities to be discovered and ideas to be generated, as we all define our mindset, work on our goals and look for growth alternatives. Many topics will be analyzed, like team work, strategy, sales, road maps and vision; and also, those issues that have been called soft areas such as leadership and success, motivation and attitude.

My idea is to help business owners and entrepreneurs work and develop, grow and prosper and find their passion to make their teams and their companies reach their performance potential.

Here’s to your Success.

Luis Vicente Garcia