Good Things to Come

This week was a very uplifting, inspiring week. We watched the Mormon Message "Good Things to Come". It is my absolute favorite. You can feel so much peace and hope while watching it. We need to remember that things will always get better no matter what happens. That's a valuable lesson to learn in life. It's a good lesson to learn while you're young, that things won't always work out the way you want them to but that they will work out. We need to do our part and keep trying and not give up. 

I love what Elder Holland says in the video, "Hold on. Keep trying. God loves you. Things will improve. Christ comes to you in His “more excellent ministry” with a future of “better promises.” He is your “high priest of good things to come.”

I think that this definitely applies to being an entrepreneur. I think that, as with everything else, starting out is the hardest part. It will be hard and the journey may seem endless but there is always help available to us as long as we are trying and if we keep on walking. If we really want something, we should stop at nothing to achieve what we want to. I think of myself starting my own business and all of the obstacles that will come in my way but I need to just address them when they come and push them aside. I shouldn't let them get me down and keep me from living my dreams today. 

I've been thinking about my dreams lately and why I have them. What are your dreams? What do you want to accomplish? What's on your bucket list?

And why can't we have that? What's stopping you?

7 Habits

This week one of the things that we learned about The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. I thought this was a very interesting read. I want to be more of an effective person and it was neat to read these to figure out what I need to do in order to get there. We need to develop these habits in order to me effective.
The habit that I decided to focus on was "Synergize". It actually first caught my attention because the quote "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" because I had first heard this in the movie, "Flipped". In the movie it was referring to people and how they can appear differently than how they really are. One of the main characters would look at people and measure them by this method. She would wonder if people's sums were greater than their parts. I thought that was an interesting way to look at it and when I saw it in this article we had to read I was curious to learn more about it.
I like what the article said about when you are communicating through this method of synergy, that you are opening your mind and heart to new possibilities, new alternatives and new options. I like that because I think that a way to be successful is to open your mind to new things. I think that we need to try new things in order to experience things more fully.

You don't Choose It...

I didn't Choose the Entrepreneur Life, it chose me.

I enjoyed Wences Casares' video. He said that being an entrepreneur could be good and bad (like with anything else). He said that even if we all had to be biologists that he would still want to be an entrepreneur. This life chose him and he knows that this is what he was meant to do. I thought about that for awhile about how the entrepreneur life choose you and I wonder if it chose me? I know that ever since I was young, I would make comments like "I want to be a CEO." "I want to run my own business." Those thoughts would float in the back of mind and every now and then they would resurface to make me remember something that I want. I follow a ton of people on Instagram that started their own business and read up on their stories. I wonder how I can do that and if I would be successful at it. I try to think about what my business would be like and what I would do. I have a a few ideas but I need to refine it more.
I thought about how we are born to create. We are born to be different and stand out. I wonder what I will create? I want to create a safe environment to empower women. I want to create photography. I want to create fashion. I want to collab all of these ideas to make something that I would wake up every day loving. I guess I'm just still figuring out what that something is.

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Motivation & God-given Talents

I am really enjoying this class so far. I love the motivational aspect of this class. It couldn’t have come at a better time in my life because of the current things that I am going through. I feel like we could always use a good pick me up. I liked reading about Erica Mills’ story and her success. She had success because she listened to what people wanted which is a very smart business strategy. She wanted to have the every-day card, for the little day to day things. She understood that no matter where you are in your life that you need a good pick me up. I can relate to that as well. We all need a pick me up. We all need to hear that we are worth it. We may know it and believe it and even trust in it but hearing it is different. It is special and it means so much more when it is coming from someone that you look up to and cherish.

I enjoyed this week’s activity of asking five people what you do better than anyone in the world. (God given gifts that give you great joy). This week, I was very ill and couldn’t leave the house so I wasn’t really feeling good about my life and myself. Everything seemed dark and miserable. I couldn’t picture when I would be healthy again and feel like myself. When I asked others, what makes me unique, I was overwhelmed with the responses.

My husband, Jarrett said that I am caring, the best supporter of him and others and the best back scratcher out there (haha).

Meg- born natural leader, all things fashion, loyal friend.

Mom- Outgoing. People like to be around you because you are fun and loving

Ami- Outgoing

Crystal- Bosses people around (my older sister, ladies and gents.) I took this as constructive criticism like that I am a good leader, haha.

TRY THIS:

Find something that you lost track of time doing. A calling must serve others. It must matter to me. What need today calls out to you? What problem do you feel you were put on this earth to solve?

Who did I love?

Who loved me?

Was I a good person?

This helped me to focus on what I want to become. It helped me to see myself through others eyes and sometimes that’s what we need to do. We need to remember what we are GOOD at and not what we aren’t good at. We need to be our own #1 fans and to keep trying even when things seem to be too hard to bare. We need to keep going and remember our special talents. We need to remember why we are here and to discover our God-given talents and develop them. People need our talents and they need who we are.