Journey to Success

THE LAST LECTURE Do you dream of being free to follow your own ambitions? Do you dream of leading your own path to success? Do you dream of being self -reliant? Do you know that you are capable of achieving that end?               You and I, we are divinely endowed with the opportunity and potential to do great things that can change the world. In fact, it is our purpose to seek out how we can change the world around us for the better. Our missions are different to be sure, but we are responsible for founding our destiny in greatness. If we take time to listen to our inner voice and the directions that it calls us in, we will not be led astray.             Once a direction is chosen, set up obtainable goals and ideals. Then come the guardrails. Guardrails keep us from venturing too far off track and losing our way or ourselves. Preparation is key. Be careful to remember all of the what...

    It is hard for me to believe that I am nearing the end of my first semester back at BYUI, and that of one pursuing Entrepreneurial Business. What a great class this has been.  I have felt motivated, excited and encouraged by all of the great examples we have studied. This week has been no different.     We started this weeks study with a talk by President Monson entitled "An Attitude of Gratitude". It spoke a lot about how we can cultivate that attitude in our lives. If we are able to do that we will be able to have more joy and be closer to the Lord. I will strive to do this more in my life.     Then we studied 2 fantastic articles from the Harvard Business School. Both focused on how we can identify and exploit good opportunities for possible business. Something useful that I learned was that I need to think about my own capabilities and see how they compare with others that have the same ideas and goals. I  should seek out things that ...

Wow this week just awakened something in me. I am so grateful to be a part of a business school that is encouraging me to look beyond myself to the world and how to make it a better place. In "What's a Business For" by Charles Handy he quoted something from Dave Packard. I feel like it sums up the intent of his article. Packard said, "I think many people assumes wrongly that a company exists simply to make money. While this is an important result of a company's existence, we have to go deeper and find the real reasons for our being. As we investigate this, we inevitably come to the conclusion that a group of people get together and exist as an institution that we call a company so that they are able to accomplish something collectively that they could not accomplish separately - they make a contribution to a society, a phrase which sounds trite but is fundamental." When we learned about micro lending from Muhammed Yunus I appreciated his willingness ...