Ian's Entrepreneurial Journal

I am thrilled to have had the opportunity to take a course in entrepreneurship at BYU-Idaho! Brother Holmes, my instructor has taken the time to put together some really thoughtful and substantive material for the course. I have learned that being a businessman doesn't necessarily need to stress me out, but there are some guidelines to follow. I know that one thing I really need to do is find my passion, dream big, don't get discouraged when failures happen. Failures in business are inevitable, but it doesn't mean that it is the end of you and your business.  I learned about charting my course to success through mapping out stars. I also need to realize that my business ideas can evolve over time and my whole business plan can change. As a matter of fact, one of the simple principles that stood out to me in the Harvard Business School journals we studied in this course taught me that not all entrepreneurs necessarily need to do a lot of planning and research. If too much ti...

Gratitude is more than a great word, it means giving thanks to God and to the people around us who have helped us out in any way in our lives. I feel tremendous gratitude for my parents for raising me right, keeping me active in the church, and in teaching me to follow my dreams. Thinking back on what I've learned this semester, the one thing: Dream Big rings strongly in my mind. I want to follow my dreams. Unfortunately my dream was to be a meteorologist, and I allowed myself to be scared away from that plan because math difficulty and several around me who suggested it wasn't a good career. I regret that I gave that up. However, I have other various interests. I have even come up with ideas that maybe I can be a Youtube weather reporter. Why not? There are so many people out there passionate about the weather who were also in my predicament.  Getting back to gratitude, I feel I owe gratitude for all people around me who have been supportive of me in any job or endeavor I have...