Entrepreneur's Journal

If you had one final lecture to share with a group of students on what you have learned from this course, what would you share? If I had one last lecture to share with a group of students on what I have learned from this course, it would be that the road maybe be long, but it is worth it. I have been motivated by the case studies that have been studied this semester. There has been a common theme of hard work and pushing through challenging circumstances. In business and in life the road sometimes seems long and that we are not going anywhere. Then suddenly something positive happens and there is a spurt of growth. We must chip away at our dreams. Like President Monson said, "We must be a finisher." What would be your last bit of advice to someone wanting to begin the entrepreneur journey? My last bit of advice to someone wanting to begin the entrepreneur journey would be that being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart, but I believe it reaps the greatest reward. I t...

In the talk,  An Attitude if Gratitude,  President Thomas S. Monson says,  "Mother, who willingly made that personal journey into the valley of the shadow of death to take us by the hand and introduce us to birth—even to mortal life—deserves our undying gratitude. One writer summed up our love for mother when he declared, “God could not be everywhere, and so He gave us mothers.” While on the cruel cross of Calvary, suffering intense pain and anguish, Jesus “saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother!” ( John 19:26–27 .) What a divine example of gratitude and love! My own mother may not have read to me from the scriptures; rather, she taught me by her life and actions what the “Good Book” contains. Care for the poor, the sick, the needy were everyday dramas never to be forgotten." This week this quote stood out to me because i am in the busiest...