W10 Reflection: Entrepreneurial Journal

Dream Big Dreams

Challenges to become

Elder Dallin H Oaks address in October 2000 taught me that we all face challenges but they shouldn't hold us back from persuading what we need to do to become what the Lord wants us to be. He talks about Laws and Principles we need to follow in order to become. Christ is our greatest exemplar in doing just that. He also talks about to testify is to know and to declare, to be converted is to do and become. We all need to have a testimony in something that we know and want to share but we also need to be converted in that testimony by doing what we say and becoming all that we need to as we become. 

The Heart of Entrepreneurship

This lesson gave me the prospective that I needed to learn again. I know that there are many different ways to be and entrepreneur but the most important thing is to stay true to why you started the business in the first place. There are always challenges but to stop, reflect, and regain focus as to why then you can continue to become successful. "Entrepreneurial is innovative, flexible, dynamic, risk taking, creative, growth oriented." It is not what you do but how you do it. There are the promoter type that expects surprises, adjusts to change but capitalizes on it and makes things happen. Then there are the trustee that feels threatened by change and the unknow, who relies on the status quo. A manager are valuable assets because they are intelligent, have energy, and experience. They are not in it for the money or materials but want to make it work the best way they can. Being an Entrepreneur is...

1. Where is the opportunity?
2. How do I capitalize on it?
3. What resources do I need?
4. How do I gain control over them?
5. What structure is best? 

When you find what you love to do and do it you will not feel like it is work but love everything you do. 

Think Big

This takes team effort to do. Do not over or underestimate yourself and what you want to become. Involve the Lord in everything you do and he will show you the way and bless you and your efforts. Pursue your goals and dreams and go for it!

Acton Hero: Kathy Huber

Taught me to have tenacity, perseverance, saying no doesn't matter, and to think outside the box in everything you do. 

Your Emotional Fingerprint

There are two wolves, which one do you want to feed? I learned about this parable many years ago in a few different settings and have always remembered my feelings of it as I read books, watch movies, and live my life. There are two wolves an evil one and a good one. "There’s a battle between two wolves—one is evil and one is good. The grandfather explained that the first wolf—the evil one— represented anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. Long list.

The second wolf, the grandfather continued, is the good one. Represented joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and even faith."  Which wolf wins... The one you feed."

"What you feed grows, what you starve dies."

We need to validate you emotions and pursue our dreams. I love what Jim Richie says "your emotional fingerprint is the foundation to human behavior."

In conclusion

The purpose to life is different for everyone but is also the same. We are here to become, to learn and grow, and to know who we are and where we are going. We have been given the tools to guide our way and to become successful in this life if we so chose to. I am grateful for the lessons I have learned and am learning in my life that build who I am and to see who I am becoming in the process. Success is not just sitting around waiting for something to happen but making it happen and doing go at what you do.