Since the focus of the lesson this week is wanting to be an
entrepreneur, I collected thoughts and
learnings about what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur:
If you’re single and you want to do start-ups, stay single.
If you’re married and have children as an entrepreneur, set rules to keep your
family a priority and in balance.
More important than capital or assets, is your time. The
next 20 or 30 years are of great value to your life. Make them count. As an
entrepreneur, plan to create value by growing with a project and taking it to
the next stage. Be monogamous you’re your business as an entrepreneur. Don’t
dream of selling your company, but rather developing it and making it valuable.
I thought the idea of being monogamous in business was really
interesting. It is not an idea I always agree with. I’m a fan of developing an
idea and selling it and then focusing on developing another idea to invest in.
I think its valuable to have multiple ideas going and not putting complete
investment into one. So this is a new idea that I’ll consider, but not sure
that I agree with.
Jan Newman spoke at BYU and he had this advice that I wanted
to remember: You can always have time for fun things, don’t ever be too busy
for callings. When you need the Lord’s help, he’ll know where your heart is.
The Lord isn’t giving you the opportunity for your great education so you can
be wealthy and change business. Instead, its important to the Lord that you
taught Sunday School and did your home teaching. Your greatest Legacy will be
in your service to the Lord. One of the things the world lacks today is honesty
and integrity – be full of it and stick out as an example.
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