Kayla’s Entrepreneurial Journal

  Week 14: 4/5-4/8   Finishers Wanted: First Presidency Message Thomas S. Monson Tells of a sign in a furniture window that stated “Finishers Wanted” The sign got Pres. Monson thinking about being a “finisher” True Marks of a finisher are such: 1.       The Mark of Vision 2.       The Mark of Effort 3.       The Mark of Faith 4.       The Mark of Virtue 5.       The Mark of Courage To dream the impossible dream, To fight the unbeatable foe, To bear with unbearable sorrow, To run where the brave dare not go. To right the unrightable wrong, To love, pure and chaste from afar, To try, when your arms are too weary, To reach the unreachable star! 6.       The Mark of Prayer   Recognizing and Shaping Opportunities 2.3-2.4 Strategy and Structure  by Alfred Chandler is a great book on defining the economic models which industri...

Week 13:  March 29 – April 4   An Attitude of Gratitude  Thomas S. Monson (my favorite) Tells story of ten lepers and 1 was grateful Popular refrain from the 1940s Accentuate the positive; Eliminate the negative. Latch on to the affirmative; Don’t mess with Mr. In-between.   Gratitude List: 1.         Mothers 2.         Fathers 3.         Teachers 4.         Friends 5.         Country 6.         Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ   Identifying and Exploiting the Right Entrepreneurial Activity...for You I’m a sucker for a good worksheet:  Walden: Henry Thoreau Quote “I learned this . . . that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet a success unexpected in the common ho...