When did I start questioning my skill at business? This course really helped me to get that fire and confidence back again. If you are waiting to start a business, don’t wait. Learn what you need to learn and take vital steps each week moving closer to building your company. “We need to rediscover our entrepreneurial instincts and use them to forge new sorts of

careers.” This sentence at the beginning of the course has stuck with me this entire semester. I’ve often wondered when I stopped, entrepreneur’ing?   Why did I stop entrepreneur’ing?

           Living an entrepreneurial life will change you. It can change you for the better if you put up guardrails and decide ahead of time what you will and won’t compromise in your life. Work through your core values, number them in order and then write a short motto for each one. Bring your Heavenly Parents into your business. When you are striving to each eternal principle within your company you will have the added measure of the spirit to guide you as you grow and develop. Be aware of your beliefs and your thoughts. Gandhi said, “Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your work, your works become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.”
           The concept that seemed most impactful to me during this course is, “If the company culture is flawed, almost any strategy is in jeopardy.” I’ve seen this first hand in a few companies I have worked for. I’ve watched owners belittle employees that were an asset to their company, only to have that employee stop caring and move on. I’ve been in restaurants that were franchises and just a few blocks from each other and as a patron, you can feel the different energies from one to the other.  A business's culture is vital to the success of the company. What a valuable concept to understand at the beginning phase of entrepreneurship. This class has most certainly changed the course of how I’m building my company.