W10 Reflection: Entrepreneurial Journal

 Taylor Richards teaches the lesson of not underestimating ourselves. Him and his team were in a magazine that listed the top boat dealers in North America. They expected themselves to be in the 70s but they ended up being 11th and the next year they were 6th. He had a personal experience that allowed him to teach this lesson of thinking highly of ourselves. He mentions we should not overestimate ourselves either but when building a business it is okay and helpful to expect success, this leads to success. I remember when I was in elementary school we all had an art project and then it was entered into a contest, I am not an artist and do not excel in that area but when we went to where they announced the winners I had won third place. I had done a little drawing of some penguins and I was so excited that I had placed even though I did not expect it at all, even though that happened a long time ago I still remember it because it feels good to do better at something than we expected ourselves to. 

Dallin H. Oaks said "I hope the importance of conversion and becoming will cause our local leaders to reduce their concentration on statistical measures of actions and to focus more on what our brothers and sisters are and what they are striving to become." We have the opportunity to become something. We can become whatever we want and when we work for and strive for these desires we will be able to achieve them. We can dream big dreams and we can reach them if we allow God and others to help us as long as we put in the work that is necessary. I am excited to see where living this lesson takes me in my life.