First off, I just want everyone to watch this video, yes it's 54 minutes long, but I have never spent a better 54 minutes.
Entrepreneurship and Consecration
Elder Gay shares with us his heartfelt response that we all must do better in these things as entrepreneurs.
I finished reading the Hero's Journey this week. A Field Guide for the Hero's Journey by Jeff Sandefer and Rev. Robert Sirico is a inspirational book written with brief powerful stories. "a mosaic of what the greatest minds of all time had to say about nine tehemse that lead to a balanced life." To be honest I was at first confused on why there were so many random short stories, parables, quotes and poems strung together in a book. It made it difficult to read until I could take a step back and look at the whole. As I looked at each of the nine steps I stated to see how the hero's Journey came to be, and the writings inbewteen supported the outline. Here are the nine topics:
- The First Step
- Who Am I, Who do I want to Become?
- The importance of setting Guardrails
- What Companions do you want with you on your Journey?
- Stones in the Road
- The Giant of Despair
- Rest
- Fighting the Dragon
- Coming Home
What I have yet to learn:
Well there is quite a bit, but one thing I would like to point out is as we seek first the needs of others our own problems shrink. From the Hero's Journey we read "you might be surprised to find that as you focus on someone other than yourself, your own problems shrink; your horizons open up; your perspective broadens and deepens.” My horizon has broadened has I have understood this topic and listened to a talk given by Elder Gay. This has been an uplifting week as I have been taught line upon line to seek the needs of others before my own. I find now that it was inspiration that a few weeks ago I wrote down that very goal, unknown to me that I would be schooled by the spirit in every step along the way. The burning question remains, what will I do today to live this principle?
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