Taking “Introduction to Entrepreneurship” was the first step to help me find myself in the entrepreneurship world, and my time was not wasted. In this class, I' ve become a better person, and more reflective of myself and others.
My advice for someone that wants to start the entrepreneur journey is to search as much information as possible about it. I had the blessing to learn many things about entrepreneurship in this course, but also I had the opportunity to interview or talk with some entrepreneurs.
I also learned from incredible mentors, such as Elder Holland, James W. Ritchie, George Leonard, Sandefer, Rev. Sirico, Yunus, and Pres. Monson. I created my guardrails, I defined steppingstones along the road I am taking, established stars I want to reach, and I learned principles and concepts to better enjoy and endure the entrepreneur journey.
One of the most important readings was "What is your calling in life" by Jeffrey A. Thompson because it seemed he was talking to me. And I would like to share what stood out the most in his speech. It was the answer of the wife of his mission president, about finding purpose in our life:
“ As near as I can recall, she said, “When I do the laundry, I am building the kingdom of God. When I scrub the floors, I am serving the Lord. When I tidy the clutter, I’m an instrument in His hands. I do a lot of mundane jobs, but if my eye is single to God and I’m trying to serve my family, then I feel as much purpose in my work as a missionary can.” (Jeffrey A. Thompson)
The concept that has most impacted my life personally was the “Bucket List”. I have heard about this principle of living as we would die tomorrow, but I have never created this list. I created my list after thinking deeply over my life and things I would like to do while I am still health. This assignment inspired me to improve and gave me more meaning insomuch that I started sharing it with my family, friends, people I lead at Church, and etc. I feel the responsibility to help other people be aware about it. For this reason, I would like to give you two advices.
- First, imagine how you would like to be when you are seventy years old, and then create one list of fifty things you would like to accomplish while you still have time and health in order to become this person you want to.
- Second, reach to great mentors to help you in your journey. It can be books, people you admire and respect, and or faith, God, inner peace, etc.
In essence, I think we all enter in a stage of life that we yearn for something to impact others, and since I entered this stage this course offered me the best ways to find out this something.
The principles learned filled lots of empty places in myself. Probably each person knows himself/herself, but when we say or write about ourselves is fascinating, and this course offered this opportunity of learning about ourselves, which is fundamental in the entrepreneur journey: Give the first step, know yourself in order to find out your business, mission, or calling.
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