Networking Event

WHAT??? Today I went to my first networking event. It was a Ballard Center meeting were they invite several director from the Perpetual Education Fund (PEF). They were there to explain more about PEF, trends in the world, and invite us to apply to their different on campus internships. During David’s, director of the PEF, presentation a notice how many company and people are fighting to turn our world in a better place. Most companies that I talk to is all about making profit and decreasing cost. However, their vision today was different. They were more focus on others and in selfless actions.

WHO??? At the end of the presentation I meet Jeff Robert employee of PEF. We talked about the growth of countries and the need for even more education. Also, we discussed Brazil economical policies and how PEF fits in. Those were just some of the topics they discussed. At the end of our conversation he invited me to apply and said that I would be a perfect fit for their project. He also send the most people hired by PEF comes from those on-campus internships. With this experience I saw the importance of going to networking events because there are a lot of opportunities out there.

SO WHAT????? With PEF presentation and meeting David and Jeff a notice the importance of give back to community what we received. Most people does not have the opportunity that I’m having, therefore, my duty is to give the same opportunity to others. The more we focus in others less problems we will have.

NOW WHAT??? I will not only look for big billionaire companies to inter or work for but also look for companies like PEF so what I do can change the people’s life. BYU motto is: “Enter to learn and go forth to serve” and that will be my motto too.

Remote Meeting

Since my group and I started working in our group project we used Google Hangout to communicate and schedule face to face meeting. Our meeting were very effectives and sort. All documents necessary for the case was in a Google doc were everyone had access to. However, we never had the experience to do a remote meeting.

Last week we did our first remote meeting and different. Communication is much harder and with you don't have a mediator you meeting can get out of track easier than face to face meeting meeting. One thing that a notice is that because of the delay of the internet several people would be talking at the same time and it has hard to understand the idea. Another point that change the environment of the meeting is the background of the participant. One of the participant had her roommate in the back and throughout all the meeting I was trying to figure it out what her roommate was doing. So organization, background, mediator, and a good microphone is key for a good remote meeting. 

In that meeting we were discussing about our cause project. For that project we created a survey to understand people's option about Adobe. Even though our project is over, I would like to know want you think. So right below this paragraph you have a link for the survey.

Adobe Survey 

Hard Things

This past week was the craziest week of my life. This week I had a project called INTEX, that is an activity that you prepare a proposal for a new system a presented the solution for a board. Just to finish the project took me 67 hours beside time to prepare presentation and present. At the beginning I was complaining about how hard it was and how time consuming it was being. However, I learn that it is through hard things that we learn and value what was created or done.

Life will never be easy and if we want to have success in life we need to do hard things. All successful people give time, effort, money or a type of sacrifice in a certain way. Therefore, success only come we hard work and persistent. And at the end, if people don’t like the result it will not matter because you will feel proud of yourself.

I will start to get out of my comfort zone and start doing hard things. That is not proud on being week and lazy.

LAS VEGAS!!!!

This week my wife and I went, for the first time, to Las Vegas. We had a lot of fun and we enjoyed every single moment there. However, I learn the importance of not gamble and how addicting it is.

 My first experience gambling was in my honeymoon, where we separate 40 dollars just to play in the casinos of the cruse. In the first 30 minutes we lost all the money. With this experience I could not understand why people would gamble. However, in this trip to Vegas I understood why.

The second experience gambling was in Las Vegas. My wife and I did the same thing that we did in our honeymoon, we took 40 dollars just to play in the casinos. This time we won, we left the casino with 45 dollars. I remember how happy we were. However, the taught that we could win easy money stayed in my head for hours.

I learn that gambling is really addicting and that we should not do it and there is not easy money. If we want to be rich we need to work hard because everything that comes easily also disappear easily.

Hoot Suite

Hoot Suite 

WHAT?? In my presentation, this week, I explain the importance of using Hoot Suite to manage social media. What I learn from it is that social media is more powerful that we can image. Most companies are trying to avoid social media because they thing is not worth it deal with so much information. If you don’t have a tool to manage social media is almost impossible to analysis all comment in every single social media. However, Hoot Suite makes our and every social media managers’ life much easier.

SO WHAT?? The importance of knowing about Hoot suite is that every one of us in 1, 2, 3 or maximum of 5 years will all be working and dealing with the dilemma of using social media. If we know Hoot Suite and how to use it, we will stand out and we can get raise or even promotion just because we know a tool.

NOW WHAT?? To the end of the year, I will learn how to use better my Hoot Suite account and I will try to do analysis about what people think about me grossing all social media platform.

LinkedIn

This week we have been discussing several topics and technology that can help us or our business in this modern days. One of the presentation that really got my attention was about the use of LinkedIn for networking purpose. I have a LinkedIn but I never gave importance to it. I just did because every business person was sing up for one. However, I learn that more than 92% of companies today use LinkedIn for recruiting purpose and more than 80% of the jobs are not listed in the internet. Normally those 80% come for you, and not you for them.  Therefore, I learn the importance of LinkedIn in today’s world and how importance it is to get your net work

So what I’m going to do this week is expend more time improve my LinkedIn and leverage it to get my dream job. Also, I will teller my LinkedIn to the job that I’m looking for and stop to put everything that I did in my life on it.

Kill one Leon a Day

“Kill one lion a day” is a Brazilian cultural sentence meaning just solve one big problem a day. This week was so busy for me that I didn't know want to do. I had so many problem to solve that was hard to find time to do everything. So this sentence came to my every day.

What I learn was that we need to organize our time and focus in one big problem a day. Sometimes we try to change the world in one day, but that is impossible. The big secret is to be constant. We just need to solve, figuratively, one problem, do one big project, or do um mid-term a day. And as we develop this constancy we will have more success and solve more problems in our lives.

Now, I will continue to solve problem but one at a time. I will not be like crazy anymore run all through Provo trying to solve all my problems in one day. Like the Brazilians says “Kill one lion a day”