Week 6: Moving Forward with Driving Passion

The theme for this week was Moving Forward with Driving Passion. I find this interesting because the book "So You Want to Be an Entrepreneur" focuses so much on owning your own business, being a start-up, etc that some people might this this is the only way to move forward with driving passion. I do no believe this to be true. I think that there are many opportunities to move forward with passion within the bounds of an organization or already established business. I think that sometimes trying to branch out and do it on your own can be your demise. You can have all the drive and passion you want but owning a business is just not the right thing for everyone. Business would fail with out people to work in them. As business grow you can't just do it on your own anymore. I you start-up fails you have to be humble enough to realize that may not be your calling.

Assignments:
Submitted my book report for "Mastery". The next book up is "The Dip"  thankfully I have already read this book (prior to the start of the semester) and have already begun writing my book report. I actually enjoyed this book and thought that it had good point about knowing when to just stop.

Stand True and Faithful - We must always remember to do what is right even when it may not be the popular thing to do. This is true in business and in all aspects of our life.

e-Corner - Our goal in life is to make the world a better place be this in our personal scope of the world or the world at large. We have the opportunity to influence many and should see to do so in a positive way.  We must also recognize that there is always something more we can learn.

D&C 122:7 "know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good."  (aka Grandpa Dave's Learning Scripture)

Mentor Session 3 - Finally an opportunity to speak candidly about what an entrepreneur really is and not just about how the book defines one.  I really wish that they was a different book/text for this course. It forces one definition and yet we are asked to be open-minded. There isn't enough of the entrepreneurship "realities"  to balance what is being taught, especially for an intro course.