Learning the Startup of Me

This week was filled with a lot of good material, and I took away a lot. One of the videos and transcripts we were given to look over was seminar done by Randy Pausch and it was called "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". It was a well-spoken talk and after reading most of it I went back and watched the entire video. The series it was a part of was called "Last Lecture" to give the speaker the challenge of what they would say if it was their last lecture. Randy was in an interesting place in his life when he gave this talk because he was suffering from cancer and was only given a couple of months to live.  In his lecture he went through a list of childhood dreams he had and then explained how he went on to achieve them. His list was short and to the point. Experiencing zero gravity, playing in the NFL, being an author for an article in the World Encyclopedia and finally being Captain Kirk from Star Trek. As he went through and described each one and how he had ...

 I'm not going to lie, I have never really thought of myself as someone who could be an Entrepreneur. I have the skills to learn things quickly and I have the memory to use that knowledge for my advantage, but I have never understood how to use those things to my benefit. Where do I start?  Lessons Learned: When I first saw all of the reading I had to do it was a little bit daunting. It has been two years since I was last in school, but I am reading to challenge my mind again. Some of the main things that really stuck out to me were first from Elder Bednars address to the students at Ricks College. He talked about the Law of Consecration and that it can apply to any part of your life, no matter what you end up doing. When you are willing to sacrifice everything you are for a purpose greater than yourself then you are living that law.  Living Life as An Entrepreneurial Hero by Jeff Sandefer had a lot of points that I really connected with. One of them was that you will bec...