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The beginning of a better me

Well, here I go. This is certainly my first time creating a blog for being or learning how to become an entrepreneur. As I reflect what has taken place this past week I realize that I do have marketable skills, I work hard, and can stay on task until a project is done. The one thing that I still struggle with is believing my ability to take on difficult tasks. I have self doubts. I have had feelings like this in the past and when the time came for me to perform that (seemingly to me) difficult task, I was able to perform just fine.

Aside from having personal doubts, another temptation out there are distractions. What things distract me: a plane flying overhead, a conversation the family members are having in which the subject piques me interest, music, social media, and pets. As I pursue a degree in Applied Management at BYU-Idaho, I strongly desire to become effective at understanding, as George Leonard puts it, mastery. As I just barely broke into this book, in which I have never read, I am impressed by Mr. Leonard's analysis of what Mastery is. In his book Mastery, Leonard describes in his introduction how mastery comes about by saying " Its not so much an idea whose time has come as an idea that has always been with us - It's just that we need to be reminded." I feel in that sentence that Mr. Leonard teaches us that we have this innate ability to do certain things in our lives, we just have to put our minds to it. 

In this course I desire to learn mastery. Mastery itself sounds like a daunting task, but perseverance, prayer and hard work will work to make me an effective manager of myself, others, and my career. I not only want to become an excellent business man, I want to be an impeccably honest, dependable, and trustworthy person for the rest of my life. Of course saying all of that is very easy! What specific, measurable, and manageable steps will I take to become a master of the business arts? Certainly self-discipline comes to mind. Without self discipline nothing good can ever be accomplished unless you are pushed from behind by someone else, ie a close friend, parent, spouse, or teacher. No one likes to have to be told how or when to do something though. I believe this is where education comes in.
Taking courses and successfully passing them with good grades takes a lot of self discipline. Also, I believe self discipline comes from self worth. If someone doesn't think too highly of themselves, what kind of luck will they have in having sufficient self control in keeping them on task and on par with their goals?

Attending school will continue to give me excellent opportunities to improve myself (and for me that is self worth, self control, and staying alert and on task). During my life I have had a few people from work or church reach out to be my mentor. At the time of their reaching out, I may not have appreciated that help as much as I should have, but I do remember them teaching the concept of "put yourself out there" and "don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. Not asking questions makes you dumb''. I know learning is a lifelong process. I just hope that I can always look for a way to enjoy everything that I learn, even if what is being taught appears trivial to me.


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