Going The Distance= Baby Steps

Week 1: 

Fostering the habit of noting unanswered questions or poorly understood terms will begin to make you more curious.

Successful Entrepreneur = Relentless Curiousity

"...DO NOT DESTROY YOUR EFFECTIVENESS.."
*There is no end in sight for the good that you could do.
"You look in the mirror every morning and say: 'I can do the right thing today, God be my helper, and I will do it.'"
>Gordon B. Hinckley (Oct. 2002)

Do What You Love- You can be rich and miserable or you can be poor and miserable vs. love what you do and be happy and poor or possibly happy and rich.

*ALL HUMANS WERE BORN ENTREPRENEURS
...Today's challenges actually present enormous opportunity
>Take smart risks....the start up? =YOU

Personal Branding- What are your capabilities?
                                   How have you succeded?
                                   What are you relationships with people?

Important Tools for Building & Maintaining a Career:
ASK- How do I invest in myself?
*Your network helps you solve particular problems that you're tackling at work.

                                 Launching Leaders:
Critic: "How could a man like Abraham Lincoln be President? All he has is a bunch of friends?
>Friends make a huge difference to you future.
>Great leaders usually have a lot of great friends.
*Great friends are people who lead others to higher ground while at the same time helping them enjoy the journey.
(Your journey without friends will be lonely and unsuccessful.)

Entrepreneurial Hero means  live life as an adventure... It means digging deeply for your special talents and gifts, and discovering how to use them in ways that bring you great joy, enrich your life, and serve others—customers, employees, family, stakeholders of all kinds.

The life of an entrepreneurial hero isn’t easier than a normal life—it’s more difficult. No hero’s journey is a cakewalk. Living life as an entrepreneurial hero means recognizing that life is hard, and that the greatest struggles bring the greatest meaning and the most powerful personal growth.

It begins with a paradox: you have to dream big but start with small steps

 ...and turning big dreams into step-by-step realities.

RIchard L. Evans: When young people can acquire the skills, the techniques, and the knowledge of these times, and along with it have a spiritual commitment and a solid faith and cleanliness of life, there is nothing 

that you can’t achieve; nothing in righteousness or in reason

*Faithfulness= spiritual development and progress

*Diligence= academic discipline and competence

>Avoid the academic path of least resistance

>"getting through" college is like buying an expensive car that has no engine.

REMEMBER: constantly learn how to learn

A disciplined and educated mind is a tool for reasoning and inquiring and evaluating and discerning.  These abilities are not merely the requirements described in a course syllabus; rather, they are essential skills for a spiritual, happy, and productive life.  More importantly, the combination of spiritual strength and mental capacity provides the means whereby we can act for ourselves rather than be acted upon.  

Serve God= mighty heart and strong mind

diligence= a tenacious persistence about, an engagement in, and a love for the process of learning.  

You have a responsibility to your family to become a diligent student as an expression of your appreciation for and gratitude to them.  

you have a responsibility to the Savior and His church to become a diligent student because of the covenants you already have made or will yet make— particularly the covenants of sacrifice and consecration.  

For a man to lay down his all...requires more than mere belief or supposition that he is doing the will of God

Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation; for, from the first existence of man, the faith necessary unto the enjoyment of life and salvation never could be obtained without the sacrifice of all earthly things. 

sacrifice= give up

consecrate= develop and dedicate

Best example of consecration= motherhood

self-reliance= prerequisite to service

In the eternal sense, there is really no such thing as sacrifice.

Consecration is related to but different from sacrifice.  The word consecrate means to develop and “dedicate to a sacred purpose.”  

Our pledge is:  I will give me and all that I can become, and I will live for the gospel of Jesus Christ.  

The principle of sacrifice is a lesser law preparation for the principle of consecration. 

True consecration is motivated by charity and produces an increased desire to serve.  

Children of covenant= more than our money & substance

only our best is good  enough for the Lord. 

service is what Godhood is all about

Money to assist the needy cannot come from an empty purse.  Support and understanding cannot come from the emotionally starved.  Teaching cannot come from the unlearned.  And most important of all, spiritual  guidance cannot come from the spiritually weak.

                                                                SUMMARY

From what I've learned so far, I do not think I could ever be an Entrepreneur without the help of the gospel. The stress of this more difficult path would probably overpower me. I love to dream big and I am excited to learn skills that can turn my dreams into step by step realities.