My Entrepreneur Journey

 Week 13 A Journey of Gratitude My learning from the course concepts this week: I appreciated the reminder to have gratitude. President Monson suggested six things we might focus our gratitude on: mothers, fathers, teachers, friends, country, and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It connected with some of the readings over this course that mentioned the importance of taking time to recognize and be grateful for blessings. Having gratitude as a practice helps with positive mental health, and is something that I need to focus on in my life a little more. One theme that I took away from the various readings and videos was that it's important to do something that you enjoy, even though there may be aspects of it that you do not enjoy. In the case study of Randy Harkin, there were many aspects of entrepreneurship that he enjoyed as he opened his consulting firm - Interactive Minds, but there were some that he did not enjoy. I was surprised that one of the things he mentioned was lonelin

  week 12 What is business for? Discussion questions: Based on what you read in the first two pages (pages 3 and 4), why are virtue and integrity so vital to an economy? According to Charles Handy, what is the “real justification” for the existence of businesses? What are two solutions proposed by Handy that you agree with? Why? According to the article "What's a Business For?" by Charles Handy, the rules and laws that govern the stock market are built on trust and truth. If trust and truth are not the foundation upon which it is built, people take their money and invest it in other places. Unfortunately, it has become common practice for companies to inflate their net worth and claim that their shares are worth more than they actually are. In 2001, John May pointed out that many of the top 100 fortune companies overstated their audited profits by 100 billion, making their shares seem more valuable than they actually were. Hamdy likens broken trust to broken china - thou

 Week 11 Attitude On Money What is your attitude toward money? My attitude about money: I wish that my family had a better understanding of money, how to make it, and that having money or being affluent does not make a person evil, and conversely, being poor doesn't make one virtuous. I believe that money is a powerful tool that can bless the lives of those who use it accordingly to bless lives and create opportunities. It becomes a problem when the making of money takes precedence over people and relationships or fosters a situation of judgment when other people don't make the same decisions that you think they should have made. How can your view of money affect the way you live? If you have a belief that having "too much" money leads to illegal and unethical behavior, which leads you down the road to becoming a bad person, you will subconsciously sabotage acquiring and "having" money because having money will never feel safe or comfortable. Things will com

 Week 10 - journal entry Reflections of the week: I had an aha moment. I started taking the Substitute Teacher Training, online in preparation for submitting my application to the school district to become a substitute teacher. As I was reading the material about learning styles, multiple intelligences, Bloom's Taxonomy, Marzano's dimensions of learning, and preparing a lesson plan, I understood why students were invited to disagree with (and explain why) the concepts taught in the book "Mastery" for our last book report! He describes an outmoded style of teaching! What he describes is how we were taught in public school, as I was growing up as a child - with the teacher standing in front of the classroom talking at the students. As I was studying the material that I need to learn, I reflected on my experiences volunteering in the classroom for my children's classes. It was much more like what I was reading about! As I learn more about lesson planning and attempti

 Week 9 journal entry -Disciple Leadership Things that stood out to me this week: In aspects of building trust, Guy Kawasaki talks about three things that are important in building trust. First trust people first, then they will trust you. He gives the example of Zappos - women buy shoes online because of the free shipping both ways, no questions asked. (I've made use of the shipping both ways. But have ultimately purchased and kept shoes several times. Genius business model!)  Second, he says, " There are bakers and eaters. When an eater sees a pie, an eater is thinking, “Zero-sum gain. I need to get as much of the pie as possible. My gain of the pie is your loss of the pie. I need to get as much of the pie as possible.” A baker by contrast sees the world as an opportunity to make more pies and bigger pies. Trustworthy people are bakers, not eaters . "  Last, he says, " The third quality of trustworthiness is you need to default to “yes.” Defaulting to yes means th

 Week 8 The main message that I found in the readings/videos for this week, was that there is hope for change in the future, to not give up, get discouraged and quit because times get hard. Particularly moving to me was Elder Holland in the video "Good Things to Come". I can only imagine how tempting it was to give in to despair, as he was taking his young little family in a car that broke down and wouldn't make the trip, with no money. I wish he had shared with us the ending of that particular experience, and how he got thousands of miles to his destination. What miracles came to pass that got him where he needed to go? We know he got there because he describes driving down the same road many years later and imagines giving his younger self advice: " Don't you quit! You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead..." As I've done the assignments for my courses the past two semesters, I've had the opportunity to learn new skills