Entrepreneurial Journal Blog

 This week was centered around a moral compass and set ethics that we want to hold ourselves to throughout your career. I am a firm believer that if you wait until the moment you end up in a difficult situation to make an ethical decision on how you want to handle it, you will usually make the wrong one. Deciding your ethics and a code you will live by in any situation that guides your action will always end you up on the right path and people around you will respect you more for it. We watched some videos of entrepreneurs that had lost everything due to the poor ethics of others around them, but had decided that they would rather that happen than to stop to the level of integrity of those who had wronged them. You can always get a new job or make your way back financially, but it is very hard to recoup integrity once you have given it away. We also made a set of ethics or a code of conduct that we ourselves wanted to abide by, and wrote it down in a hard format. The wording we use...

 This week has been my favorite so far and it would be hard to dethrone it (although it is early to be saying that). I am a huge advocate for having a vision and a plan for you life, nothing happens until you have a goal for where you want to go. This week was all about developing that life vision and plan. We made a list of the top 50 things we wanted to do in our lives on a "bucket list", which made me think deeper about what I wanted to accomplish in my life than I had before. The first 25 were pretty easy, but then I really had to start thinking about what I wanted to do and where I wanted to be over the course of my life. We also did the "Stars and Stepping Stones" assignment, with a supplemental starter jobs assignment that helped us identify the jobs we needed to be in and land to have us on a good trajectory to achieve all of our dreams. Having not only a final vision and goal for your life, but steps to actually get there and checkpoints to break up a bigge...

This week we learned some more about the why of Entrepreneurship, specifically related to this course. Finding a why is incredibly important both in life and as an entrepreneur. We covered a broad variety of topics, all of which were key to discovering the "entrepreneurial spirit" inside of us. If we bring aspects of hard work, personal branding, doing what we love, and devoting everything we have to the Lord, we are on a track for success to bless those around us. Although not explicitly said, something I gathered from the readings and videos was that we are building ourselves before and along with our businesses. We can't develop a functional and successful business without first having the traits and characteristics we want that business to hold and operate off of. If we build our "personal brand" in business terms, it involves having attributes that Christ would have, things like honesty, integrity, grit, vision, proactivity, love, and service. The gospel an...