Scott Turrel - Entrepreneur

This week I learned that not only is it okay to dream big, but working toward our big dreams should be a priority in our lives. It can be easy to get bogged down with life and forget that it is okay to make time for ourselves to work on our dreams. Realistically as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I have the biggest dream in the universe. I believe that by following the Gospel of Christ I can achieve eternal salvation, which leads to celestial glory. In that I will become a God as my Savior and my Heavenly Father. What a massive dream! With that in mind, knowing that I am a divine child of God, why should I think I am either unworthy or underserving of big dreams in life? I'm not. If my goals are worthy ones, and I ask for spiritual guidance from the Lord, then I should be able to accomplishing anything no matter how impossible it seems. That "impossibility" comes from either an inability to see how to achieve my dreams, or from personal doubt ...

 This week was interesting for me because I got to do my entrepreneur interview. Even though I decided to talk with someone that I have known for a long time, I was still able to learn so much. I had never really talked to him about his career, business experience, or life goals before. He had so many good insights, and yet he was able to answer in a way that made sense to me because he knows me. He didn't talk over my head or feel like he needed to dumb things down for me. He knows exactly where I am on my own path and was able to talk on my level. I'm glad I chose the person I did as I felt confident and comfortable talking with him about his experiences, where I think if I had interviewed someone new to me the conversation may have been more stale and less enlightening. Another thing about this week was the opportunity to review the talk Leadership with a Small "L" by President Kim B. Clark. I had studied this talk previously in my educational journey at BYU-I and...

  This week we studied the idea of overcoming challenges, something I know all too well. But that doesn't mean I'm an expert nor unafraid of future challenges. There have been many times in my life when I looked at the road ahead and knew it would be difficult yet forged on anyway. With roadblock after roadblock preventing me from making progress as a pilot I struggled onward anyway. In listening to and re-reading the words of Elder Holland when as the President of BYU he gave a talk to the student body about challenges, I found so many parallels to my own life. At one point he says " And when some of those challenges come, you will have the temptation common to us all to say, “This task is too hard. The burden is too heavy. The path is too long.” And so you decide to quit, simply to give up. Now to terminate certain kinds of tasks is not only acceptable but often very wise." (Holland, 1983). What about the times where I thought what I was doing was so very important ...

This week we studied the a summary of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: An Approach To Solving Personal and Professional Problems" by Stephen R. Covey, as well as a descriptive video on the 7 Habits through the Launching Leaders program. I find myself somewhat at a loss this week in being able to live up to my own expectations. Completing my assignments was more difficult this week than ever before and I realized I should have had ample opportunity to get ahead in my studies, rather than trying to complete my assignments on the last day. Life circumstances got in the way in a manner I never expected, or at least didn't expect yet. As I'm writing this, my fourteen year old is in the other room completing a research paper on the subject of integrity. This isn't a school assignment as she is now on summer break, but an assignment I gave her as a form of punishment and a learning opportunity.  I choose to write about this because in studying the 7 Habits, I fo...