Rooted in my Heritage: An Entrepreneurial Journal

This week we read an interesting lecture delivered by Stephen W. Gibson titled, "Attitude on Money." In this article he makes the case that money is neither bad nor good. However, it does wield tremendous power.  Money provides the ability to accomplish great things for good or evil. Mr. Gibson says, "The possession of excess money often reveals or exposes what kind of a person the individual is." In essence, "money can make good men better...[and] bad men worse." When tempered through the stewardship principle of the gospel where everything belongs to the Lord and we are simply stewards who have been charged to make good use of and care for the possessions that have been entrusted to us, money can be a tremendous blessing in our lives and the lives of countless individuals.  However, when generating money becomes the sole focus and obsession of our lives, then lives of countless individuals are damaged including our own.  So in light of Mr. Gibson's a...

This week in our entrepreneurship class, we watched a video clip entitled, "Loyalty to God and Family" presented by Jan Newman. In this short clip he spoke about how as entrepreneurs we should always maintain our loyalty first and foremost to God and our family.  Often in the entrepreneurial world the pressures of creating a business naturally lead to putting more important but often less pressing matters to the side in order to deal with the urgent, albeit less weightier matters of the business. In the long run it is the family and our devotion to God that ends up getting short changed because we reason that God and our family will always be there after the pressing problem has resolved.  But the reality is that there will always be one pressing problem after another when running a business and if God and our families are constantly shuffled to the side, we lose our foundation that brought the business opportunity into existence in the first place. Even though the temptation...