Entrepreneurial Weekly Journal

If I had one final lecture to share with a group of students on what I learned from this course, it would be this story and what I learned from the book A Field Guide to a Hero’s Journey. Do what you can and control what you can control. In the book the author’s share a story about a little raindrop. The raindrop sees a farmer in a corn field that is dry and parched. He feels sorry for the farmer and decides to do what he can to help the farmer. Soon another drop and another drop join in to see what the commotion is. Eventually the whole corn field is watered because of this one little drop falling first. We can apply this lesson as we go on our hero’s journey in life. For example, in my life I have played football. In a team sport like football, you need everyone on the field to play disciplined football and do their job on every play. When a play on defense lacks discipline and tries to play hero ball and tries to make the play by himself its usually one of two things either a good p

I really liked this week’s topic of a journey of gratitude. President Monson’s talk Attitude of Gratitude is one of my favorites. I really enjoyed the story he told about his primary teacher, Sister Gertsch. The class had been saving up all year to have a party. They had been working hard saving every penny and nickel they had. It was almost time for the long-awaited party. President Monson tells the story: “None of us will forget that gray morning in January when our beloved teacher announced to us that the mother of one of our classmates had passed away. We thought of our own mothers and how much they meant to us. We felt sorrow for Billy Devenport in his great loss. The lesson that Sunday was from the book of Acts, chapter 20, verse 35: ‘Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ [Acts 20:35] At the conclusion of the presentation of a well-prepared lesson, Lucy Gertsch commented on the economic situation of Billy’s family. These

The  "What's a Business For?" article from this week’s study section was very interesting. The author Charles Handy explained why virtue and integrity are so vital to an economy. He said, “Markets rely on rules and laws, but those rules and laws in turn depend on truth and trust. Conceal truth or erode trust, and the game becomes so unreliable that no one will want to play. The markets will empty and share prices will collapse, as ordinary people find other places to put their money – into their houses, maybe, or under their beds. The great virtue of capitalism – that it provides a way for the savings of society to be used for the creation of wealth–will have been eroded. So we will be left to rely increasingly on governments for the creation of our wealth, something that they have always been conspicuously bad at doing.” Charles Handy said this about the “real justification” for the existence of businesses. “The purpose of a business, in other words, is not to make a