Composition of Me, an Entrepreneurial Blog

  Steven A. Hitz wrote the book Launching Leaders to well…help launch leaders. What I found most interesting about the book is that it never actually talked about overseeing a big group of people, or how to make people listen to you. It never talked about how everyone will want to be you if you follow these steps. The book was focused on improving yourself and being a leader in your own life. It gave steps to follow to connect with Heavenly Father to discover what you should do in your life to stay in step with Him. The book encouraged you to find your own personal core values and LIVE by them. Core values that will help you make decisions that are peaceful to your soul. Personal habits were highlighted and discussed as something that will either help you along or drag you down. Financial advice that encourages you to use it as a tool to accomplish your truest desires. In short, this book was not about all the people that will be under you, it was written to make you a leader in ...

I recently purchased a folding side table. You know the kind that your great grandparents used to eat their food from while they watched TV. So yes, a TV dinner table. I was excited about this purchase because it would allow for my husband and I to enjoy our Covid friendly date a little easier while we ate and watched a movie together once a week alone in our bedroom. Amazon had one that looked great and was available with free shipping. I hit add to cart, paid for it and the table was on its way. Meanwhile, my husband and I were wondering the isles of Target and noticed the exact same table that I had just ordered at 1/3 the cost. It was significant savings, and I was inclined to return the table I had bought on Amazon. The packaged arrived on my doorstep and I started the return process without even opening the box. However, a small problem arouse, the company I had purchased the table from (that used Amazon as a middleman) expected me to pay the return shipping! At first, I wa...

Is a Randy Pausch for real?  An amazing professor that offered his "secret sauce" that did not seem so secret. Living a life that was at times messy and embracing it. His parents instilled in him at a young age that his creativity was worth more than clean white walls, and as he aged, he taught his daughters children that making a mess in the back seat of his new car was acceptable and unimportant! Randy was taught to dream and not be held back by the insignificant and mundane things that often fill our lives. When Randy visited Disneyland as a young man, he noticed more than cartoon characters, he noticed that imagination was valued. His dream of becoming a Disney Imagineer was larger than life, and after a few hiccups, and detours he saw his dream become a reality. Randy was an average guy, living life with work ethic and a dream.  Dreaming is the "secret sauce." Randy did not live and extravagant life, he was not famous, and he died of cancer at young age. Howeve...

 My life has not been extraordinary, although it has been exciting if only to myself. I grew up in small town USA with a father who worked 60 hours a week as a lab technician, and a mother who taught 3rd grade at the elementary school. I spent the hours daydreaming about what kind of life I might have one day. As the years passed by, I married my sweet husband and had three beautiful children. I embraced the life that I was living and focused on my family. The children are mostly grown now, and I find myself again daydreaming about what the future might hold for me. Gordon B. Hinkley stated, "The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner." This quote brings comfort to my soul. I know that I am not a genius, but I can have balance in my life, and I can work in an extraordinary manner. I seek to take care of myself and my relationship with Heavenly Father first...