Learning More About Me and Entrepreneurship

  Money can bring a lot of different emotions to a person’s life. It can bring peace, happiness, misery, pride, and despair. As I have thought about money this week and its effect on me over my lifetime. It is something that I have struggled with. It brings me anxiety. I think this comes from my upbringing. My dad was laid off when I was a freshman in high school. This made it so we didn’t have a lot of money growing up to travel or get extra. I remember for several years when we had help from our ward to get our food. One Christmas we had some people from our ward do secret Santa. This time struggling financially was a huge impact on me. I have found myself scared of money. My husband and I are very frugal. We save and we buy what we need but are not too extravagant. The one thing we do splurge on is vacations. We feel that memories and time spent together with each other, and our family is worth the extra. I have also seen a lot of money change people and most of them not for g...

  Who am I? Who do I want to be? This week I read a talk from President Oaks titled, “The Challenge to Become”. We live in a world where it seems we are always being pushed to do something different, be better, have the biggest house, or the latest new car. I don’t know about you, but I feel like to the world, I am always coming up short. But am I? I know whose child I am; therefore, I know who I am. I have divine potential. I can be more than I could ever imagine. It takes faith to move forward in the becoming process. I have been on this earth for over 40 years and in that time, I feel that I have learned some important concepts. It isn’t important what the world thinks or believes, what is important is my relationship with the Savior. How I am living. Am I treating others with that Christ-like love that everyone deserves? President Oaks stated “It is not even enough for us to be convinced of the gospel; we must act and think so that we are converted by it. In contrast to the ins...

  I have always looked up to leaders who I know truly care about not only me but everyone they work with. They may not agree with them, but it is obvious that they take those opportunities to learn and grow as a person. I found Elder Bednar’s address to BYU-I titled “Disciple Leadership” extremely interesting. It talks about how we need to follow Jesus Christ and his example. It made me think how being a follower of Christ actually makes me a leader. One thing I have learned in my life is that the closer I am to the Savior the more open my vision is. Let me explain, I can look with a more eternal perspective. I don’t judge or jump to conclusions as easy. I find that I look for the good in others instead of always finding their faults. I find ways to make life better for those around me. Personally, I am a person who sits back and analyzes the situation. I feel that I read people pretty good and can guess where they are and how certain things affect them. This makes it so I can have...

  As you come to any difficulties or problems in life whether it is in your work life or personal life, there is one thing that kept coming up is to keep going, don’t give up. There are going to be times and circumstances in your life that you don’t think you can move forward but you must.   Perseverance and determination are key to moving forward during the hard times. President Thomas S. Monson shared in his talk, “Looking Back and Moving Forward”, that it is good to see where we have been, but we need to look to the future and move forward with hope. Each of us can change our circumstances and how we do things. Life is about learning and growing. We are going to have our ups and downs, but it is important to move forward with the hope for the future. We need to learn from our past and do better and try to keep improving as time moves on. President Monson shared the importance of each of us helping each other along the path. We can do this by being kind and showing respe...