My Entrepreneur Journal

This week something that really stuck out to me was the message of trusting those you work with. And showing them that you trust them. I think this is huge. I often think about that. I know for me, I really need to be trusted and expected to do well or I won't. I have a hard time when someone doesn't think I can do it. Sometimes that motivates me to prove them wrong, but most of the time I just find myself feeling depressed and down. So to really find people who maybe aren't in the best place with their resume, and show them that you believe they are ready for the job, capable of doing a great job with it, and that you trust them to do it, is important. I especially feel this because a major goal I have for my corporation I'm going to build someday (hopefully) is to have different locations around that really help those who could use good jobs and just don't have the opportunities. When we lived in Texas there were many Hispanics living in our town and they mostly w...

I think the biggest concept I got from this week is that it is hard to go from good to great, and few will do it. I really struggle with getting great at anything. I settle too quickly in so many areas of my life and give up trying to master things. I love that he says to believe you are the best and that will help on that path. And to find the right people to help you do it. I have so many ideas and dreams and I want to succeed but lack a lot of motivation and drive at this point but want to start working on that. One way I was thinking I could start trying to do better at this is to really start working on a goal I have always had which is to learn to decorate cakes, and do it well. With YouTube there are so many to teach me if I'll let them through their online videos. I think I want to start attempting a cake two times a week and just give them to people as service. This way I don't get stuck with endless amounts of cake, but I am learning and practicing and figuring out di...

This week was a really good thing for me to look back on my life and reflect. Watching the Mormon Message from Elder Holland's talk about not giving up and things will work out, it made me think back on the last 9.5 years of my marriage and our times going to school together and with kids. It was really hard in many ways, but so sweet and good. It made me realize how much God has helped me throughout my challenges and obstacles. Things that seemed impossible at the time (for me anyways), were made possible and became amazing learning opportunities and sweet experiences as I saw how intimately God is involved in my life and will help me. As I pondered these things, I realized I can apply that to my future as well. I have so many dreams and hopes for my life besides having a large family, but my family is a large obstacle to SO many of my dreams because once you are a mom, you can't undo that and it takes so much of my life physically, mentally, emotionally, and with my time. I l...

The habit of the 7 Habits that had the greatest impact on me as I read was Habit number 3: Put first things first. Ever since I read it the other night, I have been trying to evaluate how I'm using my time. Am I putting urgent, non important things first? Or even worse-Non urgent, non important things first? I have realized I do a lot of nonimportant things first in my life and that's not great, no matter how I frame it to justify it. And as I have thought about this, I have realized how the church and gospel ask us to put non urgent, important things first. These things include reading scriptures, saying our prayers morning and night, serving others willingly through ministering, fulfilling callings, etc, etc. These things are super important, but don't have deadlines, except self imposed ones. And no one is giving us a grade. So it can be hard to make time for them, and to make sure they get done in a time frame that they really should be done. And to establish regular pa...