Week 09 Reflection: Entrepreneurial Journal

 Good is the enemy of great. While studying this week, this was a lesson I learned. It said that good is the enemy of great because it is easy to be good. This is not business related, but I played tennis in high school. I practiced two hours a day during the season, and often up to 6 hours during a day in the summer, but guess what. I was only good, I was not great. I placed third in the district and qualified for state where I would sometimes only win one match or maybe not win any. This is a confirmation that the people that are great at something they do are great because they put more time in than anyone else. I felt like I put in a lot of time, but the great were easily practicing tennis more than I was during the season and in the summer. I could make excuses, I lived in Rexburg, Idaho so it was hard to practice in the winter, neither of my parents played, but these are only excuses. If I wanted to be great I could have put more time in. This lessons teaches us the same with business. It is easy to start a good business, but it is hard to start a great business. This is where another lesson came in. To start a great company one of the first things that needs to be done is to get the right people on the bus. We need to surround ourselves with people that also want to be great. I had some close friends on the tennis team, but they were also good and not great. Now, this isn't saying that being good isn't good enough. It is still a good thing to be good, but that is why it talks about good being the enemy. Good is an accomplishment, but it stops us from being great if we decided that that is a sufficient accomplishment for ourselves. If we get the right people on the buss who are striving to be great then they will fill our minds with ideas and motivation during the times when we might start thinking it is good enough to be good.