B 183 S Entrepreneurial journal wk 9 entry 10
This week during Introduction to Entrepreneurship the theme
was Dream Big Dreams. We studied Howard
H. Stevenson and David E. Gumpert’s “The Heart of Entrepreneurship” We watched
E-Corner videos “License to Pursue Dreams” by Melissa Mayer and “Think Big” by
Taylor Richards. My personal favorite
was “The Challenge to Become” by Dallin H. Oaks. We Finished up reading and reported on Seth Godin’s
“The Dip” and read more of “So You Think You Want to be an Entrepreneur?”
through mentor session 6 and the reading of the book.
Melissa Mayer who worked for Google spoke about Google’s
20%time policy. They encourage their
employees to take 20% of their time at work to work on personal interest
projects. Google has found that their
employees are happier. They create about
50% of Google’s product in this manner. She says:
”Passion and Momentum build when skilled employees have
access to great tools and the time to stretch them in new directions.” She also says “This shows trust and retains
excitement.”
Taylor Richard in Think Big shared a story about how his
boat dealership was awarded #11 in the nation one year and the next #6 in a
national boating magazine. He uses this
to teach and encourage to “Do not underestimate yourself, you can achieve your
goals and dreams.. . Involve the Lord and you can do great things. . .Don’t be
good, be great….Dream Huge.”
The things that touched me most this week came from Dallin
H. Oaks. in The Challenge to Become an
October 2000 talk. He teaches
“Institutions of the World teach you to know something. The Gospel of Jesus
Christ teaches you to become something.”
He teaches us about the process of conversion and the difference between
testimony and conversion. “To testify is
to know and declare. The Gospel challenges us to be converted, which requires
us to do and to become.”
Conversion starts with faith in Jesus Christ, repentance,
baptism, reception of the Holy Ghost.
It continues with “Steady succession of covenants,
ordinances and actions an accumulation of right choices and continuing
repentance. This preparation happens in our families. Exaltation is an eternal
family experience, our mortal families are best suited to prepare us for it. .
.When he comes again, we will be like him and see him how he is.”
“Conversion is often achieved more readily by suffering and
adversity than by comfort and tranquility… sometimes called the Furnace of
affliction.”
“The Challenge is to move through the process of conversion
toward status and condition called eternal life. Do what is right for the right reason
(charity, the pure love of Christ.)”
Do not be concerned about the other men in the vineyard and
the “time clock….be concerned with ourselves and how do we measure …do not
judge others.”
To evaluate where we are in the process he chooses two of
the many examples provided in the scriptures.
“1.Are we losing our desire to do evil? if so, we are
progressing toward our heavenly goal.
2. Do we have the “Mind of Christ?” when we see things how
Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ see them, we will hear his voice instead of
the world. Doing things in His way
instead of ways of the world.”
Part of the reason this talk touched me so much was not
necessarily what it said to our eyes.
The talk is amazing and teaches us so many concepts, but specifically
for me and my family, through this talk, I also had my personal prayers
answered, a tender mercy of the Lord.
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