Life is to pursue goals. Dream big dreams and do the work it
takes to make them come to pass.
In my life, I’ve surpassed every goal that was had for me. I
don’t come from a family of college graduates. I’ll be the first woman with a
degree. I don’t have family members who have had careers, rather they have had
jobs that barely took care of living expenses and had no 401k or retirement
plan.
I wanted more. I wanted to live a better way and I learned
early nobody was going to hand anything to me. And I got to work. And now I’m
in a career for the 3rd largest mining company in the world. I had a
dream to be more than I was shown. And along with my dream I did the work it
takes to bring life to my dream.
This week I was reminded the importance of the gospel
teachings in my life. A thought I particularly loved was that “to testify is to
know and to declare. The gospel challenges us to be converted which requires us
to do and become”.
We can know what we want and declare it. Words do not mean
anything without action behind them. Nothing comes until we take the action
needed to do and become what we dream.
In addition to our dreams, we have a plan for our life from
the gospel of our church. From our reading this week I loved the thought, “The
commandments, ordinances, and covenants of the gospel are not a list of
deposits required to be made in some heavenly account. The gospel of Jesus
Christ is a plan that shows us how to become what our Heavenly Father desires
us to become”.
When we focus our lives on becoming as Christ, we have a
pattern for becoming in other aspects of life. Being a success is as individual
as the person making the goals. If we are to succeed in career goals we need to
have balance and perspective and a way of living that I have found is more
productive when it involves gospel principles and commandments and covenants
than just business pursuits alone.
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