Graci's Life

This week we focused on a law on understanding and prioritizing a work-life balance. Now, as we look at this from an entrepreneurial background, we can understand that making sure you have good work. Life balance is going to really set your career off and really help you also manage your family dynamics. One thing that really stood out to me was reading through the mini-cases and pondering and kind of making those decisions based on what I would do. One thing that I took away from that is finding a middle ground. And when we talk about a middle ground, we talk about making a compromise and having both parties come to the middle so you can decide on a good situation for yourself and for your family. I also think that finding a middle ground in compromising also comes with good communication. And any situation is going to have a hard decision when you’re trying to bounce both work and home. But I do think that if you can openly communicate and be honest with the different people Working ...

This week we were able to learn so much about dreaming big and how that can lead us to success. I loved what Elder Oak shared in his talk about our studies this week. He shared that when we have a testimony in Jesus Christ and we can trust in him then we will be able to go far in life to Succeed in all of our goals and be successful in life. This week, we also got to write our paper from our interview that we had a few weeks ago. I got to reflect on who interviewed and what I learned from her. I interviewed my mother-in-law who was a hairstylist And she was able to take me through her journey and show me what she learned and what challenges she faced. This was very eye-opening and really gave me some good perspective on how I can take that into my own life and how that will help me be successful in my entrepreneurial Journey. I’ve learned a lot from her as she talked about having good customer relationships, and really choosing how you want to run your business and how that’s going to ...

This week we learned all about disciple leadership and using that as we are thinking about entrepreneurship and understanding how the two can tie together. This week I really loved the articles that were from different BYU Idaho devotionals. One thing I really loved learning about was Elder Bednar‘s talk as he talked about disciple preparation. Now in this talk, he talked about how he was in the MTC and how he was able to share being a disciple with these missionaries. I thought that this is so powerful because that is the main thing that they are doing while they’re on their mission is being a disciple of Christ. And now one thing that stood out to me is that he reads from First Corinthians as it says a disciple of Christ is one who is following and learning to be like Christ, learning to think to feel, and to act as he does, he or she is striving to gain the mind of Christ. I thought that that was so powerful because a disciple of Christ is truly us who was just following and learnin...

This week I was able to reflect on what we learned. I was very excited to keep learning about overcoming challenges and how we can help ourselves and help others around us. For the discussion topic, we had this week. It was talking about what our greatest challenge could be in a business setting and what we can do to overcome that. I shared that one of the many challenges that I struggle with is taking leadership and being able to stand up for myself when the time is needed. In a job I have right now I have experience taking on leadership positions and have struggled in the past with people overstepping me and me not being able to put my foot down and to be the leader I was meant to be. I am a huge people pleaser, and sometimes it can be hard for me because I don’t want to cause any contention. But I loved the talk by Elder Holland and how he mentioned that we have so much personal potential and this is the greatest place to develop it. I think that really helped me change my mindset I...