What Is the Purpose?

This blog is created for the purpose of getting my thoughts out on "paper" so that I can record the journey of becoming a better entrepreneur and to capture the process I go through to get there. 

The start of this blog correlates to a class I am taking through BYU Pathway Worldwide. It is BUS 110 Introduction to Entrepreneurship. 

Lessons Learned

Since I have started my bachelor's degree the first thing that I have learned was to involve the Lord in all I am doing. I learned that, even though the specifics of what I am learning is not important to Him, the fact it is important to me is. It is a way for me to act for myself and to get His help. I learned that I should involve Him in everything I am learning. There was one time (before I started my bachelor's) I was taking a test and I had studied for it. I remember praying to my Heavenly Father that I did everything I needed to do to be ready for the test and that I asked Him to help me remember all that I studied. There was a point that I couldn't remember an answer to a question but I knew I knew it. I passed it over and finished the rest of the test. I came back to that question and sat there. I ended up saying another little prayer and sat and thought. All of a sudden the answer jumped into my head and I was happy to be able to finish my test. I ended up getting 100% on that test. I was grateful that I did my part and the Lord did His. 

So, one of the first lessons I learned from BYU Pathway was to involve the Lord in my schooling, it made sense and there have been many times that I have been blessed because I involved Him. 

This week it was an introduction to the class and there were a lot of things to read and watch. 

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A line from the article "Living Life As An Entrepreneurial Hero" was "to live life as an adventure." In my life my motto is "This is an adventure". The line I read resonated with me. I love taking an experience and treating it like an adventure which makes the brain think something different, especially when it is a negative experience. Like when we had a nail in the car tire and we had to get to Idaho for my sister's sealing to her husband and daughter. It could've been a tense couple of hours but between the praying to have the nail stay firm and not get a flat tire and the joking around the experience was so much better. 

Taking this motto and applying it to becoming an entrepreneur is helpful too. The path to owning my own business is not easy and it takes some initiative. Thinking of it like an adventure makes me think of steps. Different things I have to do to get to the end goal of owning that business and making it profitable and something that people would be excited about. 

Another line from the article is "All epic journeys and all paths to mastery begin with a first step—so will yours." One thing about myself, that I realized in the past couple of years, is that I have a hard time starting things or doing something for the first time. Once I get past it or have done it at least once, I usually don't have a problem doing it again. With my Etsy business I had already done it before but to come back years later and start over with something else was a bit daunting. There was more to do within Etsy and it was tiring just looking at it. This past October I just took the initiative and got started. I have now put on at least 8 items to sell and I have a bunch more to do. It's just taking the time to get the items on. At least with the items I sell it is digital. So, once something sells it can just go back on. I don't have to start all over to sell it. With knowing that taking small steps to get to a goal helps me with achieving what I want.


Lessons Not Learned

The line "You get to choose, but you are not in control. Real entrepreneurs learn to fail quickly, cheaply, often." is one that I need to not be afraid of. I think that's why I have a hard time starting things is that I don't want to fail. I do know that failure is inevitable and I need to embrace it, not fear it. It's how the great's have become masters of their craft. One of those things is drawing. I love the idea of drawing but I don't want to fail at a single drawing so I have to learn how to let that go and just do it.



Location: Citrus Heights, CA 95610, USA

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