EA's Journey - One Class at a Time

Week Fourteen Celebrate Your Life I feel like I have learned much in this class. One surprising thing is that being the best entrepreneur you can be, means giving back to your community or country (depending on the size of your business). This shouldn't be just about you and how much money you can make and the toys you can buy to impress people. It is about making things around you better be it people or community. Tom Monaghan learned this after starting a successful pizza company called Dominos. Upon reading C.S. Lewis he learned he had pride and needed to get rid of it helped. He went on to build a university to give back for his good fortune.  Second, passion and drive are extremely necessary qualities for becoming an entrepreneur. It is best if you can find something you like to do, and then do it, and get paid for it. Also, these two qualities will help you maintain the energy levels you need to build to your business.   Third, values such as honesty and integrit

Week Thirteen A Journey of Gratitude What does it take to be an entrepreneur? A good idea? Business skills? Luck? Maybe a combination of all three? It seems to me it kind of depends on the idea. If you are good at making cakes and there aren't too many bakeries in your area you will probably do fine and you wouldn't need to graduate from Harvard Business School to open a cake shop. But there are some ideas out there that came because someone studied a particular field that not just the average Joe is going to think of because he doesn't have the knowledge in that field, say the tech, or oil, or medical industry. I guess you good find a business partner, but really he would have to find you because you wouldn't know anything about it. So you would need to have your own set of skills to make yourself of use to him. I feel a few of my children have the entrepreneurial spirit, but only one went to college and the other three have ideas and skills but no college

Week Twelve Change Maker What a marvelous thought; be a change maker. I love people who have a vision and the courage and determination to bring their vision to life. Even better is a person with a vision to help others. Elder Holland spoke of Mother Teresa. What an amazing woman and when she had someone challenge her that what she did made no difference she had an answer for them, she said, it was about love and not statistics. On another occasion, she said, “What we do is nothing but a drop in the ocean, but if we didn’t do it, the ocean would be one drop less [than it is].” What a profound statement. We don't have to cure or help the whole world just cure or help someone. I often think that I don't have a way to change the world, I guess that is not my calling or I am just not up to the task, but in reality, I know that any service is acceptable before God.  Elder Gay in his talk  Entrepreneurship and Consecration  given at a BYU forum blessed us with some very