Week 14: The Last Lecture

This course will offer you an opportunity to reflect on your life as it is and plan for the life and future of your dreams.  In this course, you’ll learn how to dream big and set goals that will help you to accomplish the vision of the life you want to have.  An important piece of that vision is your entrepreneurial and career goals.  How do these goals fit into the bigger picture of your personal and family life?  You’ll learn how to set boundaries and guardrails that will help you safeguard the things that matter most to you—like your family relationships, your relationship with Heavenly Father and your personal integrity.    

This course helped me to look beyond the day-to-day and start to daydream and visualize the life that I want to have with my family in 5 or 10 years and even in 25 years.  What do I need to start doing or stop doing in order to achieve my short-term and long-term goals?  It’s easy to become complacent and keep living the same life over and over, but this course helped me to realize that I need to be deliberate in establishing habits and routines that will help me become the person that Heavenly Father wants me to be. 

When considering entrepreneurship, you will want to examine your motives and intentions.  The world says that money can make you happy and that the more money you have, the better.  This course taught me about how Heavenly Father feels about the pursuit of riches and what I can do to make sure that my heart and intentions are in the right place.  I learned that not only should I be concerned with building my life and my family but that I can make a contribution in building the kingdom of God. 

This course does a great job of combining spiritual principles with practical principles and application.  It set out a great pattern for learning, to balance the pursuit of secular knowledge with spiritual understanding.  We learned from prophets and apostles as well as successful businessmen and women and entrepreneurs.  Together, their advice and counsel provided a balanced foundation for all of those preparing to set out on a business or entrepreneurial venture.  My advice would be to take their counsel seriously and allow it to change your heart and your life.  We live in a time of great opportunity for education and entrepreneurship and it is a blessing to learn from the wisdom and experience of those that have gone before.