Week 10

As I read, study and complete assignments, I always have the same question in the back of my mind.  What is it that I am to do with all that I am learning?  In other words why am I on this particular educational journey.  I have never really wanted to own my own business or so I thought.  I now realize that I like being the captain of your own ship.  What I think I don't want is all the little loose ends.  I want to make a plan, and move forward with it without to many loose ends.  Although I think or maybe I know that there are always going to be loose ends owning my own business.  More than likely I will have loose ends daily.  The question is can I learn to manage my approach to dealing with these items.  Last Saturday, it was 9:30pm and I was putting the final touches on the yard work that we had been doing all day, yet I could have kept going for another several hours.  However this would have had health implications along with marital implications, (my husband was done and ready to go in).  I am usually not one to write down all these thoughts in a place for others to read, (I have a journal but that is for others to read when I am died), however I think if I am truly going to face up to all that opening a business is going to entail I have to get these feelings down on paper so I can address them. 

Formula for Success

Pres. Monson

From those parables I would like to suggest that if we are really to be a chosen generation, we have the responsibility to be prepared, to be productive, to be faithful, and to be fruitful as well. What we need, as we journey along through this period known as mortality, is a compass to chart our course, a map to guide our footsteps, and a pattern whereby we might mold and shape our very lives.

First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love.

This is a day when time is precious. This is a time when we cannot afford not to be engaged in an earnest search for truth. May we fill our minds with truth.

Attitude on Money

Stephan W. Gibson

Remember, the ways we see things are a combination of what filters others have placed in our minds. These filters, ideas, beliefs, opinions and teachings get into our minds when we are very young and color and form the way we perceive or see things and issues. That is why so many of us think just like our parents think on so many issues when we are young.

I believe we can all better understand life and the different ways each of us see things in life, if we all remember that we all see things through filters.