Pursuing Passion

Week 14-Final Week This class has been very insightful and influential; it has filled me with great knowledge and has helped me to see things and myself with a new perspective. All around, this class has been one of my favorites. With what I have learned, the last bit of advice that I would share with someone striving to become an entrepreneur would be to remember and commit to these three things: 1. Your values 2. Your family 3. Our Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ, and your relationship with them These three things are most important because they create the guardrails that keep you on the right path; they are your trail markers; they together create your safety net. These three things provide true meaning in our lives, a meaning that can be fulfilled by no other way; they provide true joy and happiness in this life. They also provide the most joy and happiness, as well as exaltation and salvation, in the life to come. Committing to these things will help to provide ...

Week 13: What I Learned: I really learned a lot from the video "Avoid the Wrong Job". I learned: * Don’t do things because you think they are what another person wants to do. Tell your story and do what you are passionate about. You get to craft your story. * Pick something you think is fun and that you are going to enjoy. Don’t take a job that you hate just so you can move on to something better. Do something you love now. * Pick your career now. Then you can change later if you desire. You can always change and choose different ventures. The world has changed from sticking with one job to engaging in several throughout life. Subtract the anxiety and pressure of choosing a career and you will choose something you actually like.   * Recognize that you don’t want to be “the best” at something. Don’t be a specialist. Learn more and be well-rounded, more generalized. And take advantage of opportunities that come up that may take you out of...

Week 12: What I Learned: I really loved the video "Entrepreneurship and Consecration". It taught me so much! I learned that I need to t each myself that it is not what I have, but what I am. Who you are is not what you say, but what you do. I need to listen to the voice within and the voice of God rather than the voice of the world; be inward focused but outward driven. I learned that I need to t urn to the scriptures to know how to run my business. It has it all! I need to d o all things for the purpose of doing the will of the Lord. If making tons of money is my purpose, even if it is for the purpose of helping others, I will not be happy, nor will I be where the Lord wants me to be. The voice of God is needed in my financial business. I also learned that when we begin to make service to others needs our constant progress, our needs will be met. The talent of men of business is to be used to benefit all people; to uplift the masses and rescue them from poverty. We...

Week 11 What I Learned: For our businesses, we have to have passion and have to believe that it all is worth it. It is always a struggle to balance life and family, but if we believe enough in all that we do with family and work, we will make time for both and strive and do all we can to get that time in for all our passions. We must put the Lord and our families first, and all things will be balanced in the ways they need to be balanced. What makes life balanced is the understanding that “I am here now” and “I am going to be there then”. Being mindful and present in each moment is finding life balance. Setting priorities and planning our day in accordance with those priorities (shifting out what we don't want in life) is a way to balance. We can stay balanced by being ethical. Never put yourself into a situation where you can’t say no, where you can’t be flexible. We need to be flexible in our plans. We must pay attention to what is important, ask ourselves the right quest...

Week10 What I Learned: This week's readings felt like an answer to my prayers. I have been striving to know what career path to choose, and the career path I desire to pursue requires much hard work and more years in school than I ever used to plan on attending. I had felt the Lord's confirmation of this career path at a previous time, and I knew I desired this path, so I felt pretty strongly that this path (to become a Nutritionist) was one that would be good for me and my family. However, in the last couple of weeks and at the beginning of this week, I felt very inadequate. I didn't believe in myself and in my abilities to push through with more schooling and start my own practice as a Nutritionist. I didn't have faith in myself to be able to accomplish these big dreams I had, and I wasn't implementing faith in Christ and His ability to help me to do and become more than I am now. I was asking the Lord at the beginning of this week if I should pursue this caree...

Week 9 What I Learned: I learned that  90% of life is just showing up. This concept reminds me of the need to stand in holy places. Most of life happens with us being at the right place at the right time. For example, I met my husband because we both happened to be at the right place at the right time. Part of this includes standing in places that invite and being a person that invites the spirit to enter and dwell always. As we do these things, we become a leader that follows Christ and that strives to exemplify the way He led and still leads His people. As we do these things, all will be well, with us and those we lead. In addition, I learned that the best leader there ever was is Christ. As we strive to develop Christ-like attributes, we become better leaders that are humble, obedient to good, confident and firm in morals and values, faithful, trusting, trustworthy, genuinely caring and giving, successful, loving, compassionate (to yourself and others), balanced, and stron...

Week 8 What I Learned: I learned that being persistent and consistent, even when things are or become difficult, is needed to obtain mastery and to become successful-to fulfill the full measure of our creation and potential. We must a lways keep enduring and keep trying, no matter how long it takes. We must not underestimate ourselves and the Lord; we must not doubt ourselves and what we can do. And the Lord will bless us to push forth and accomplish all we are meant to accomplish. With the Lord, we can do amazing things! I also learned that we need to get to the source of issues and problems. If something continues to go wrong as we keep trying to pursue the same idea/goal and are doing what we can to be persistent and consistent, then taking a step back and trying to figure out the source of the issues will help us to better progress and see improvement. In addition, we need to know the reasons why we do or do not do things. For example, I know that I desire to become a Nutr...

Week 7 What I Learned: I learned that perfectionism is one of the biggest things that can keep someone from achieving mastery. Nothing is more destructive to creativity than this-than setting up such high expectations no one could meet, and then being self-critical about it when you don't meet those impossible expectations. I struggle with perfectionism and tend to beat myself up when I am not seemingly "perfect", and I see how that self-criticism and self-hate makes it so I have no desire to endure and accomplish. Instead, I feel depressed, or I feel anxiety, and I am then driven to succeed out of fear. Mastery is not about perfection; mastery is a  process and a journey. My dad always expected me to be perfect, and I thought I had to be perfect for me to be accepted and loved by him, and other guys and people. So I strove to be perfect out of fear, and that is where my perfectionism comes from. The master is willing to push forward day after day, year after year; the...

Week 6: What I Learned: I learned that I need to seize opportunities as an entrepreneur, but I also need to be careful in this, as I need to stay loyal and committed first to God and my family. Yes, I desire to start a business that will help and influence people for good, and this is a very good and righteous goal; however, if I put my business first rather than the Lord and my family, then my business and its success are in vain and for naught. For if I neglect my family or put them off, then I am not fulfilling the purpose I came here to fulfill, and I am not helping or being there for the most important people in my life. This will cause unhappiness and lack of fulfillment within me as well as within my family. I also learned that entrepreneurs don't have to fit a certain personality. Equally successful entrepreneurs can be more cautious or more risk-taking, more intuitive or logical, more inward than outward, etc. We are all unique, and we take our unique talents and ways ...

Week 5: What I Learned: I loved the Mastery book! I am excited to read more! From this book, I learned that t he things worth fighting for in life take much practice and time. We live in a fast-paced, convenience-driven world, but it is not meant to be this way. Things aren’t meant to be so convenient and easy. All things that are worth fighting for are not easy and require great amounts of effort. Be patient with the time needed, and keep pursuing. You can’t skip stages. Mastery is a lifelong process; to have mastery in our lives, we must first develop a growth mindset in which we seek after more learning continuously and always remember that mistakes are not finalities. The mistakes we make help us to progress on, change, learn, and overcome so we may better learn mastery of all aspects in our life. Entrepreneurial success, and success in anything we aspire to do or become, is a journey. We must continuously persevere so we may reach our goals and fulfill our potential. W...

Week 4 I learned what The Formula consists of, and I also learned the value of it and that I desire to implement it in my daily life.  The first principle in The Formula is titled “Get Up Early”.  Getting up early will help me to be more successful in all my doings, and it will help to set up a routine for my circadian rhythm as well as for my daily tasks. I believe this will allow me to be more efficient in the time I allow myself for certain tasks to perform.  The second principle in The Formula is titled “Work Hard”. Putting forth hard work to achieve provides a fulfilling of each individual’s need to progress, grow, and become. As I work hard, I will also develop many talents that will allow me to better serve all those around me.  The third principle is “Get Your Education”. Education comes in all different forms; it could come in the ways of secular learning such as a college education, or it could come from reading out of the best books. Great...

Week #3 2019 The readings this week were very inspiring; I loved the focus on honesty and integrity! The readings spurred much desire within me to change my ways and to become better at living the commandment, "Thou shalt not lie". I realized that I lie to myself. I lie to myself by saying things that are very self-critical, and I lie to myself when I try to ignore what I am truly thinking and feeling, which gives the impression to my own brain that I am not caring about myself and that I am an enemy to myself rather than a friend. For example, I suffer from some physical and mental health issues and they hurt very much most of the time; however, in an effort to feel and act more positively, I lie to myself and tell myself that I am fine when I actually feel like writhing. Because of this lying to myself, I wind up lying to others about how I am doing, which causes other people to think I am fine, and then I do not get the support I so desire. As I lie to myself, I think th...

January 18, 2019-Second Blog Post I believe Rand Pausch was able to achieve so many of his childhood dreams because he never pitied himself; he never acted as or saw himself as a victim, and was thereby better able to pursue his dreams and to believe in his own ability to accomplish. He knew it was all on him to make everything happen; he took responsibility for himself and the outcomes for his life. Once he did that, he was better able to see life as something that you make for yourself, and since he had high desires for his life, he pursued the good. He took the situation, circumstances, and cards he had been dealt, and he worked from there, never looking back or focusing on what he didn't have. I feel that dreaming is very important. A dream is a goal that is greatly desired, something in which we feel a passion to pursue. We all know the importance of a goal, right? Goals help us to be meaningful in our actions to get us to where we want to be and go. When we have drea...

January 12, 2019-First Blog Post Lessons Learned: I loved the readings this week! In the readings, I loved the things that were mentioned that entrepreneurs must do/learn, such as: accept that life is hard and seldom fair, know that you must persevere to develop the habits and character that will determine your destiny, understand that choosing doesn’t mean you are in control, that real entrepreneurs learn to fail quickly, cheaply, and often, and find the right fellow travelers, because you will tend to become like those who surround you. These affected me the most because I feel that once these things are accepted and implemented, the potential and opportunities for success are great and endless; they provide the framework and foundation for becoming a wonderful and marvelously successful entrepreneur. Not only for becoming a great entrepreneur, but also for becoming great at anything in life. No matter what passions or purposes we choose to pursue in this life, these things will b...