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W14 Reflection: Entrepreneurial Journal Final Blog

 What a semester it has been!  It has been full of growth and learning throughout the entire semester.  I am so grateful for the opportunity of taking this class.  I have learned a lot of principles that I will be able to apply in my professional career.   If I had one final lecture that I could share, it would be about how everyone's career path is unique and different.  I think that a lot of us get fixated on how our future is going to look like.  In reality, our future almost works out how we planned it.  Something will go wrong.  An obstacle is going to fall in the middle of our path.  It is how we respond that is most important.  Another thing I would add is that it's okay to start out as an employee.  Sometimes it is better for us to get up off of our feet and build a base.  This can take a lot of pressure of our shoulders at the beginning.  I would also talk about how it is important to get as much experience as possible and to become a well-rounded individual.  I think
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W13 Reflection: Entrepreneur

 Something that I learned this week was that specialization isn't always the best thing to do.  Sometimes being general and spread out your skills can be just as important.  I think that specialization can kind of pigeon hole is into a situation that we really can't get out of.  It doesn't help that for a long time people have said to specialize, specialize, specialize!  I think that after reading some of the readings, I've come to realize that this isn't always the best solution.   What I also learned this week that it's important to have an attitude of gratitude.  I think that being grateful is a good way to help keep our heads on straight.  It can help us understand that we are in a good situation, and that it could be worse.  I have also read studies that have shown that people who are more grateful tend to be more successful.  These are just a couple of things that I learned from this week.  
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W12 reflection

 I learned a lot this week.  Something that I liked was the importance of your vision and how compelling it is.  I think that a lot of us have hopes and dreams, but I don't think that many people take actions towards achieving them.  I think that in order for your dream to be successful, you have to be compelling.  If you can't motivate yourself or others, your dream will die rather quickly.   In one of my other business classes, we are learning about the importance of leadership and how we can motivate our teams.  I think that building a good culture and hiring the right people are the biggest indicators of how well your team performs.  If the leadership builds a good environment, their team is going to be able to succeed!  This is what I learned this week.  
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W11 Reflection

 I think I learned a lot this week.  I learned about the importance of work-life balance and how we can achieve it.  I have learned that it's important to set clear boundaries.  This includes defining when you are going to work and when you are going to have personal time.  This can also mean keeping work at work.  It's important to be present with family and not checking emails or taking calls outside of when you normally work.  I think that a lot of these situations can be avoided if we prioritize our most important tasks at the beginning of the day.  I also learned this week that it is just as important to learn how to say no.  If we overcommit, we can stretch ourselves too thin.  A good skill to learn is how to delegate.  Not only is work-life balance good for your family, but it's also good for your own mental health.  It helps you allocate quality time towards your family and friends, which can help you develop your meaningful relationships with others. I have experie
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W10 Entrepreneurial Journal Reflection

 This week we had the opportunity to study some good videos/readings.  One of my favorite is from Marissa Mayer.  She talks about how they allow their engineers to work on whatever they want 20% of the time.  I think that this is something that we should apply to our lives as well.  I think a lot of entrepreneurs start out with a 9-5.  I think that's fine, but I think it's important to apply this principle as well.  Outside of our 9-5, what are we doing to start our business?  What are we doing to chase our dreams?  What was cool was that 50% of the products that google launched that year (the year in which the video was taken) came from the 20% of time that they were allowed to work on whatever they wanted.  I think that that is a powerful message that we can all learn from.  I also liked Dallin H Oaks talk called "The Challenge to Become."  I liked the story of the rich man and his concern with giving his inheritance to his children.  The man said, "All that I
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W09 Reflection:Entrepreneurial Journal

 I think I liked the video from Guy Kawasaki.  I tend to gravitate towards his messages and teachings because his book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" is the first book that I read on my own outside of school/church purposes. In his video, he talks about trust and how it works.  Something that I never really thought of before is if we want to be trusted by others, we must trust them first.  He shares an example of Zappos.  I personally haven't heard of them, but I guess they are a women's shoe company.  He shares an example of how Zappos was able to get women to buy their shoes online without trying them on.  Zappos "trusted" their customers by saying that they would pay for shipping and handling both ways.  So if their customers ended up not liking the shoes that they tried on, they could ship them back no cost to them and they would receive their money back.  That "trust" took all the risk out of buying shoes online, and it was a big success.   I think that
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W08 Reflection: Entrepreneurial Journal

 This week had a lot of good study material that I enjoyed.  I'd like to start off by sharing what brother and sister Holland shared back in 1983.  One of them shared the following quote: "Only a small portion of what we are [is developed] and there is enormous potential in the human being." I think that one of the biggest projects that we can work on is ourselves.  Self-improvement is something that can greatly benefit our lives.  It's important for us to realize that we do in fact have control over our lives, and that we have the free will to make the improvements that we want.   I also liked the quick clip about not underestimating ourselves.  I think that we can achieve a lot more than we think we can.  Someone that I look up to is David Goggins.  In a lot of his motivation videos, he says that when we feel like quitting, we have only achieved 40% of what we are actually capable of.  It is up to us to push through the barrier and reach our full potential.   Confid
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