This week’s lesson was very
spiritual in comparison to other weeks that we have had. This week we learned
on focusing on basically changing the world from where it is right now to where
it could be if we as entrepreneur decided to use our skills for the better.
Sarah Endline, creator of SweetRiot, focuses on how she wanted to create a
culture, a team and not just another corporation trying to earn a profit. I believe
this is very important when having a business that is going to involve
employees because you want them to feel driven by something greater than their
bi-weekly paycheck.
The greatest spiritual influence came
from a talk by Elder Gay entitled “Entrepreneurship and Consecration.” In Elder
Gay’s talk he discusses the standards that the world gives us for businesses compared
to God’s standard of successful business. The world’s standard is to maximize shareholder
earnings but with God’s standard is found everywhere in the scriptures stating that
we should have “charity ….. and labor for Zion.” As we go forth with our
businesses we must realize that we are to use our skills to build up the
Kingdom of God and to bless others in any way possible. Elder Gay gave a
personal story of a man that had a revelation to search out the LDS church with
a promise that he would be able to build a school. Elder Gay helped him receive
his school because the man became a member of the true church. God blesses
those who put him first.
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