Week 4: Mastery: Skill, Character, or
Luck? February 1-7, 2015
Entrepreneur Journal entry 5
This week we studied “Are Successful Entrepreneurs Born or Made”
from Action. “Perseverance” by-James Faust- April 2005. We watched E-Corner Videos: “How Do You Find Your Passion and how Do You
Pursue It?” by Randy Komisar, April 28,
2004. “Most Entrepreneurs are Not Rock Stars”
by David Friedberg, October 5, 2011. We Also Watched Jeff Sandefer’s “Hero’s
Journey” Devotional to BYU-Idaho. We read a case study entitled “Spreading Happiness:
Warm Fuzz Cards” about Erica Mills and Craig Mills, founders of Fuzz Cards, a
greeting card company. We began reading two Books: “So You Want to Be an Entrepreneur? How to
Decide If Starting a Business Really Is For You” By John Gillespie-Brown; and “Mastery,
The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment” by George Leonard.
Some of the main things that resonated with me this week
were from Jeff Sandefer’s “A Hero’s Journey.”
He says: “The Hero’s Journey is all about you, but not about you at all.” He teaches to have a mentor meeting with 10
role models, from all aspects of our life, in three specific age groups: 20-45,
45-60 and 60+. He encourages to meet for
1-3 hours and ask about triumphs, regrets, lessons they wished they learned
earlier etc. He shares that the age
group 60+ all answers can be boiled down to three questions and he shared the
lessons accompanying each:
1.
Have I contributed something meaningful?
a.
What is my special gift- ask 5 people I know
well, what I do better than anyone else in the world to press for specifics and
examples and that their answers will be surprising and consistent.
b.
Use God-given gifts to do something that brings
me great joy and satisfies deep need in the world that helps others. When found the thing that intersects all 3
than have found the calling.
2.
Am I a good person?
a.
Establish and Maintain Ethical Guardrails- make
a list of all “I Will Not’s” then when I do cross it off, recognize is as a signal
to stop, reflect, redirect. Anticipate
moments of great temptations write a message to self, label and put in drawer
for when you are considering crossing those boundaries- your message in a
bottle
b.
Joke- what is the biggest difference between God
and you?. . . God never believes he is you.
3.
Who did I love and who loved me?
a.
Choose Fellow travelers well, surround yourself
with people of character- you become like those people you surround yourself
with.
b.
You can never get back the precious and fleeting
moments with your young children.
c.
Give up measuring yourself against others-stepping
stones to gratitude.
d.
Thank the people in your life.
What does this all mean to me. as Jeff Sandefer said:
"Don't Waste Your Life"
"Don't Waste Your Life"
"Don't be full of pride thinking it is all about you."
Keep an eternal perspective to help guide me through this life.
