W01 Reflection: Entrepreneurial Journal Blog

 

This week was a great start to the semester.  We opened up by getting to know some of our other classmates and reading through the syllabus.  We also had the opportunity to study a couple of talks, reading materials, and videos.  I think that there were some good insights from the study material.  One of my favorite insights was from Elder David A. Bednar, who suggested that we should avoid the academic path of least resistance.  After all, we are here to learn and to strengthen our knowledge in our field.  Cutting corners will not help us whatsoever in the long run.  I think that it is important that he called that out.  I think that all of us have been guilty of doing so.  Like President Hinckley said, we cannot betray ourselves in any way.  By cutting corners, we are betraying ourselves and our families.  

This week we also read material about the importance of journaling during our entrepreneur journey.  Journaling is much more than just writing your experiences down.  We can write down the lessons that we learned.  We can document how we would do things differently and how we can best react in situations.  It can also be for tracking what we still don't know.  To a certain point, it becomes a catalog of knowledge and experience.  It is important to organize it in a way that it is easy to find the information that you are looking for.  Keywords and searches can help organize the insights.  it is easier to find a system that works for us over a period of time.  

A goal that we should have is to start today, not tomorrow.  The sooner we start, the sooner we can move lessons not learned to lessons learned!  

I think for me personally I would like to apply this theory to a couple of parts of my life.  I think that it is hard to improve a part of your life without keeping measurements.  I think by journaling I will be able to "measure" my improvement that normally is intangible (ex. lessons learned).  I am excited to apply these principles to my life and I'm excited to see the results by the end of the semester and beyond.  


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