Week 7 - Overcoming Challenges

This should be the title for my life! Especially while I am taking classes on-line. It seems that the assignments I struggle with the most are the ones that aren't clearly defined.  Definitely a huge obstacle that I need to overcome.

LDS Perspective
"The great work is you - your life, your future, the very fulfillment of your dreams" (Elder Holland) How often do we take the time to consider that we are the "great work" and our ability to come off conqueror is what we all hope to achieve?

There are so many who have given so much to be members of the church, they used the same dedication to live a life worth living. What sacrifices are we making to show God that we appreciate all that we have been given and all that we are able to accomplish?

Children were once taught the value of hard work, as a society we no longer know what hard work really is. Work is a gift and the ability to work should be cherished, it builds character and refines who we are.

e-corner Videos
All of the videos really focused on getting to the root of the problem. Often we try and treat the symptoms but until we get to the root cause we really aren't moving forward.

So You Want to be an Entrepreneur?
This section of the book asked us to take a personal inventory of our skills, accomplishments, abilities. It then asked us to identify people in our life that could be resources for starting a business. The inventory assignment was fine, albeit lengthy but I really didn't like the format of the people that could be resources section. I felt that it focused too much on using people. I have seen so many relationships ruined by people using the "friends" as financial/capital investors for their start-up businesses, mostly MLM.   This is especially true amongst members of the church. It wouldn't surprise me if someone said that it is easier to "sucker" a Mormon into an MLM than any other group of people. At the same time, I think that it is interesting that most sales companies actively seek young RM's because of their ability to cold call customers. I think that there needs to be a real discussion about how abusing relationships in this way can be detrimental to being successful in business. It would have been nice to have had the option of doing this assignment from a potential start-up or an entrepreneurial employee. Our friends and family can be a great source of strength and knowledge. We don't always need to think of them with dollar signs on they back.