Week 14

As I reflect upon this course and the individual learning experiences, I have had in this course I can’t help but to be thankful. Grateful for all the study articles and videos we have had over the semester and for all that I have learned. I learned so much and loved every week of our study articles and videos! If I did have one final lecture to share with a group of students on what I have learned from this course, I would say to them to keep learning all you can from your mentors, teachers, and anyone in the business. The last bit of advice I would share to someone wanting to begin their entrepreneur journey is to be prepared in everything and anything. I would also share something that Jim Ritchie quotes, “Get prepared because opportunities will come and if you are not striving to be in an ideal performance state or at your best, your days of standing on the victory podium will pass to another.” He said this in the video for this week, and I loved it because it’s true. We need to be prepared in all things so that when different opportunities we are there to scoop them up and use them to our advantage. I will also share with them that Jim Ritchie says that most people fail in life when they do not understand how to balance their roles and responsibilities. The last thing I would say is that whatever journey you take with entrepreneurship to always seek and ask for guidance from the Lord. We should always be satisfied with the knowledge of what the Lord wants us to be doing to do His will for us, and to also have the integrity and honesty to do the right things when it comes to dealing with others, business, and entrepreneurship.

Week 13

I loved all of the articles and videos for this week. I learned from Ted Zoller that there are different paths to your entrepreneurial career. He said learn something in the companies you work for so that you can leverage it when you are building your entrepreneur career. I thought this was interesting, and to me it meant to gain and learn all you can from the different enterprises and corporations you will be working for because there will be a time where you can use it as leverage with building your own entrepreneur career. Another article that stuck out to me this week was President Thomas S. Monson’s article on An Attitude of Gratitude. Reading the article just gave me this deep gratitude for all that I have and especially for this opportunity to take classes through BYU-Idaho. After graduating high school, I always had planned to graduate with my bachelor’s degree. This opportunity to learn and grow at BYU-Idaho has made me so thankful for the chance to be able to get to go back to school and finish something I started out over 20 years ago. President Monson said, “This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless.” I loved that he said this because it’s so true especially during this 21st century of so many opportunities! I also loved this quote from President Monson where he says, “We can lift ourselves and others as well when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude.” He is basically saying that we can choose not to be negative, and that when we choose this, we can lift ourselves and others and harvest within us an attitude of gratitude. I really liked this and printed out and put it up in my room so I could always remember this. I am looking forward to learning all that I learned from this week’s articles and videos and being able to apply it to my own entrepreneurial journey. I am also looking forward to experiencing learning all that I can from my mentor’s and from my classes to help me as well.