Entrepreneurial Journal

  This week the study of an article entitled “Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” from the Acton School of Business had a profound effect on me. I do not feel a summary can do it justice, it contains so many principles and truths that contain such power and is something I will read again and refer to it often. I shared it with some of the people in my life that are most important to me as I feel it will be able to have a positive affect on them as well.   If pressed to share what stood out most to me, I would share the following thoughts and quotes: ·          Once you have abandoned a foolish quest for the ephemeral rewards of happiness, wealth, and power, you can begin to look for your true calling on this earth—a Hero’s Journey. To do this, you must first learn to lose yourself. Unbundling this paradox will require you to accomplish three tasks. ·          We seem to confuse enjoyme...

In Elder Oaks talk “The Challenge to Become” he talks about the greatest dream each of us should have the dream to live with God again and to become Gods and Goddess as He and our Heavenly Mother are. How though do we obtain this greatest of all dreams? It begins with who we are becoming. This becoming comes because of how we allow the gospel to change and convert us, as Elder Oaks said conversion “requires us to  do  and to  become.  If any of us relies solely upon our knowledge and testimony of the gospel, we are in the same position as the blessed but still unfinished Apostles whom Jesus challenged to be “converted.”   God has prepared a plan for us to help us on our path of becoming perfect even as He is, it is through living the gospel of Jesus Christ that this is possible. Elder Oaks said, “This spotless and perfected state will result from a steady succession of covenants, ordinances, and actions, an accumulation of right choices, and from continuing ...

  During a devotional at BYU-I in December 2007 President Kim B. Clark taught about what it means to be a disciple leader, in a message entitled “Leadership with a small l.” Of this principle he taught: “The call to be a disciple-leader is a call to minister and to serve.  It is a call to lead as Christ leads.  It is leadership with a small “L”—the kind of leadership that builds and lifts and inspires through kindness and love and unselfish devotion to the Lord and His work.  It is the kind of leadership that we need at every level of every kind of organization in the world and in every ward and stake in the Church.  It is the kind of leadership you will need to build an eternal family.”   President Clark then set fort the principles that illustrate how to live lives of principled leadership. The first principle is to Lead by Example. For our children, the ways we live our lives will teach them far more than our words. If we want them on the path that...