Briana's Entrepreneurial Journey Journal

If you had one final lecture to share with a group of students on what you have learned from this course, what would you share? This semester we have covered a ton of information in Intro to Entrepreneurship. As I sit her and reflect on what I would share with a group of students, the main thing I would say is that entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart. There are many things to consider when choosing a path of entrepreneurship and most of these things depend on your attitude and willingness to make sacrifices, take risks, and work hard.  Taking the time to weigh out all your options so that the best decision can be made. But we all have a mission, and it is up to us to figure out what we want to do with this life that we were given. I still love what Jeff Sandefer said to a group of BYU-Idaho students on February 3, 2015, in his address called, “A Hero’s Journey”. He said, “You have a very special mission on this earth. A mission that will succeed beyond your wildest dream...

Thomas S. Monson in his April 1992 talk, “An Attitude of Gratitude”, said, “Like the leprosy of yesteryear are the plagues of today. They linger; they debilitate; they destroy. They are to be found everywhere. Their pervasiveness knows no boundaries. We know them as selfishness, greed, indulgence, cruelty, and crime, to identify but a few. Surfeited with their poison, we tend to criticize, to complain, to blame, and, slowly but surely, to abandon the positives and adopt the negatives of life…We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts and attitude of gratitude. If we ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.”  A ton has changed in my life during the past four years I have been in school, studying business. I have been able to use my own professional experiences to navigate my learning process at BYU-I. As many of my classes have...