Se perseverante. El poder lo tienes tú

HELLO HIVE!

Cuando parece que no es el momento, porque a pesar de las acciones e intentarlo te sientes ignorado, como si no se percibiera tu esfuerzo, como si no hicieras las cosas bien... ¿qué haces?

When it seems that it is not the time, because in spite of the actions and trying you feel ignored, as if your effort is not perceived, as if you do not do things right.... what do you do?

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Sometimes life is incomprehensible to us because we expect every effort to result in a valuable response, and when it doesn't, the easiest thing to do is to throw in the towel and start giving ourselves reasons why it is "not worth it" to continue. But... Is that the right thing to do? Is that what we deserve? Abandoning a dream, a project and even the very hope of achieving something is simply betrayal to ourselves. Giving up is not the way, because the fact that someone else does not perceive or value your actions is not what defines you. And I do not mean that we do not allow ourselves to receive criticism, because these can also help us to visualize some aspect that we have overlooked, but keep the comments that add up, that help you build your dream.

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Lo único que te puede hacer brillar es ser perseverante, confiar en que eres capaz, y siempre buscar crecer.

The only thing that can make you shine is being perseverant, trusting that you are capable, and always seeking to grow.

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_{John Tomas}

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Crea tu destino. Tener confianza en ti mismo te abrirá muchas puertas.

Create your destiny. Having confidence in yourself will open many doors.

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Les cuento una anécdota personal: Cuando empecé con la idea de emprender, pensé en lo que me gusta hacer y mis habilidades, y me di cuenta que lo mío es explorar mi creatividad, muy ligado a lo artístico, así que después de tanto explorar me enamoré de la idea de crear libretas artesanales. Para el momento recibí comentarios poco motivadores, porque consideraban que no era la idea más prometedora y para darles más motivos yo solo contaba con una resma de hojas blancas y nunca había hecho una libreta. Pues, yo callé todas esas vocecitas y me dije "este es tu sueño, ve por él". Busqué cajas de cartón, en las mejores condiciones, pero a fin de cuentas era un material reciclado, y ese enfoque de reutilizar ciertos materiales también me parecía bastante prometedor, pues era un cambio de perspectiva. Empecé a estudiar desde internet técnicas de encuadernación y de ahí hice mi primera práctica, de donde nacieron unas 3 libretas de diferentes tamaños. Para la cubierta, utilicé unos jeans viejos. Jajaja, sí, parecía que me estaba volviendo loca, pero ¿saben qué? Yo me creí toda mi película y la estaba haciendo realidad. Se las mostré a mi mejor amiga, y de casualidad estaba ahí una Gerente de PDVSA, esa señora se enamoró de mis primeras libretas, no me las quiso devolver, y luego me mandó a pedir datos para pagarlas y encargarme unas 30 libretas. Yo no podía creerlo, pero me acepté. Mis primer encargo fue de libretas hechas en cartón de caja, el cual me alcanzó para unas pocas, así que tuve que comprar cartón y esto lo hice con el dinero que me pagó de aquellos primeros intentos. Las forré con tela jean reciclada, obras de arte que salían en un calendario, esto me gustó porque promocionaba el talento nacional, y unas pocas telas que logré comprar con el restante del dinero.

A lo que quiero llegar, es que si no hubiese confiado en lo que quería y que yo podía, no hubiese logrado esa venta, y otras que se dieron luego. No hubiese podido sentir la satisfacción de ver que estaba empezando a hacer mis sueño realidad. Fui perseverante porque no tenía los materias, pero busqué alternativas. Y sobre todo fui autocrítica, porque debía dar un producto de calidad.

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I tell you a personal anecdote: When I started with the idea of entrepreneurship, I thought about what I like to do and my skills, and I realized that my thing is to explore my creativity, closely linked to the artistic, so after so much exploration I fell in love with the idea of creating handmade notebooks. At the time I received unmotivating comments, because they considered that it was not the most promising idea and to give them more reasons I only had a ream of white paper and I had never made a notebook. Well, I silenced all those little voices and said to myself "this is your dream, go for it". I looked for cardboard boxes, in the best conditions, but at the end of the day it was a recycled material, and that approach of reusing certain materials also seemed quite promising to me, because it was a change of perspective. I started to study bookbinding techniques from the internet and from there I made my first practice, from which 3 notebooks of different sizes were born. For the cover, I used some old jeans. Hahaha, yes, it looked like I was going crazy, but you know what? I believed my whole movie and I was making it come true. I showed them to my best friend, and by chance a PDVSA Manager was there, that lady fell in love with my first notebooks, she didn't want to give them back to me, and then she sent me to ask for payment information and order me about 30 notebooks. I could not believe it, but I accepted. My first order was for notebooks made out of box cardboard, which was enough for just a few, so I had to buy cardboard and I did this with the money he paid me from those first attempts. I lined them with recycled denim, artwork that appeared in a calendar, which I liked because it promoted national talent, and a few fabrics that I managed to buy with the rest of the money.

What I want to get to, is that if I had not been confident in what I wanted and that I could, I would not have achieved that sale, and others that followed. I would not have been able to feel the satisfaction of seeing that I was starting to make my dream come true. I was persevering because I did not have the materials, but I looked for alternatives. And above all I was self-critical, because I had to provide a quality product.

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Katrina Wright

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Persevera y conseguirás los medios, persevera y lo lograrás. Si te dicen no puedes, no sirve, es imposible, piensa en lo que quieres y dime si de verdad tienen razón. Si hoy, mañana o pasado mañana no obtienes la respuesta que quieres, no quiere decir que seas un fracaso, porque la vida no se trata de suerte, sino de lo que haces por lo que mereces y la energía con que lo construyes.

Que no te detenga el que no te apoya, que te impulse lo que haces.

Persevere and you will get the means, persevere and you will achieve it. If they tell you you can't, it's no use, it's impossible, think about what you want and tell me if they are really right. If today, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow you do not get the answer you want, it does not mean that you are a failure, because life is not about luck, but about what you do for what you deserve and the energy with which you build it.

Don't be held back by those who don't support you, be driven by what you do.