Entrepreneurial Journal Learning Techniques

Notes from Readings:

 Elder Bednar: And only our best is good enough for the Lord. 
Guy Kawasaki: If you start a company just for the money, you will probably end up miserable.
Pres. Hinckley: The work of the world isn't done by genius's, it's done by ordinary people who've learned to work in an extraordinary way.
Muhammad Yunas:  All humans were born euntrepreneurs.
Charles Noble: First we make our habits, then our habits make us.
Bill Gates;  The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from another company,The best way to put distance between you and the crowd, is to do an outstanding job with the information. 


 So while the view ahead may be foggy, there’s plenty you can do, right now, to forge ahead. You can work hard to uncover special skills and talents. You can pay attention to which activities bring you great joy. You can commit to master skills or areas so that you start attracting opportunities to you. You can commit to new and exciting adventures—even ones as short as a year or two—which, when woven together, can make the path of a calling clearer.
Here are your four biggest goals:
  1. To discover an entrepreneurial “calling,” the startup of you
  2. To choose constructive habits and to deeply etch them onto your character
  3. To select your next “steppingstone job or begin your entrepreneur career.
  4. To Embrace Disciple Leadership by examining “The Ministry of Business” 
Week 2 Quotes:
Pausch-The brick wall teaches us how badly we want something and what we are willing to do to get it.  The brick walls are there to stop people who don't want it badly enough.  It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life.   If you lead your life the right way, the dreams will come to you. 
Stepping Stones- R. Buckminster Fuller- what needs to be done? Then go and do what needs to be done. 
Jeffrey A Thompson-Work is simply one stage upon which we can act out our service to God and our fellowmen.
 I testify that when you focus your work first and foremost on blessing others, you will become extraordinary at what you do and will find fulfillment and success much more reliably than if you spend your time at work trying to get ahead or get rich. 

 Week 3 Quotes: 
Sometimes we hear stories of a D-level person who is not playing by the rules and appears to be prospering and out-performing those who are playing by the rules, almost as if they had an unfair advantage. In such cases we feel a sense of injustice and frustration, as noted in this quote from Jeremiah 12:1,
 “Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper?  Wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?”                                                                   
  

Appearances can be deceiving.  It may seem that the wicked are prosperous and happy, but we know that “wickedness never was happiness.” (Alma 41:10) Given 20 more years, who do you think the customers will naturally gravitate to, George Bailey or Mr. Potter?  Who will be most successful over the long run with the greatest customer loyalty? 


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