BUS 110: Intro to Entrepreneurship / Entrepreneurial Journal

 This week in BUS 110: Intro to Entrepreneurship, we took a dive into our life plan and began focusing on WHAT we would like to do. We were asked to watch a video by Randy Pausch, entitled, " How to Achieve Your Childhood Dreams.”  This lecture was based on a serious entitled, "The Last Lecture." The point of the lecture was, if you had one more lecture to give before you died, what would it be? In this video Randy shares just that. The narrator in the video shares that Randy was a  computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was only supposed to live for a few more weeks or months. He shared the dreams he was able to accomplish. The way he was able to achieve his dreams, is that he didn't give up. He was given advice from a good friend that if he waited long enough people have a way of surprising you and impressing you. Randy attended Disneyland when he was a young boy, he was so impressed with what he saw th...

  This week in my Business 110 class, a few of the assigned readings stood out to me, one is a talk given by Elder David A. Bednar entitled, "Your Whole Souls as an Offering Unto Him," and a video that features James "Jim" Ritchie, entitled, "Launching Leaders." As a student at Brigham Young University-Idaho, I have the wonderful privilege of studying at a University that coincides with my faith.  In the talk given by Elder Bednar I learned how important it is to be a diligent student, both doctrinal and spiritual. It is about realizing that the "college experience is a period of development in one's life to be prized and prospered." (Bednar, 1999). As students we are to be faithful, have competence, learn when it is best to sacrifice and find success through out our life and educational journeys. I really enjoyed Jim Ritchie's video, he provided 10 principles for success. Jim Ritchie said that these different principles can be great reso...