If I had one final message to share with other students about what I have learned from this course, it would be to get prepared! Getting prepared means checking and evaluating our personal character as well as gaining an education, exploring our interests and passions while developing skills, becoming self-reliant, and even preparing our physical bodies by exercising and eating healthy. Engaging in each of these activities will ensure that we can seize an opportunity when it arrives or create the opportunity we want.
My last bit of advice to someone beginning this journey would come from what I learned from Elder Robert Gay in his speech, "Entrepreneurship and Consecration." He taught that "The Law of Consecration is the window through which we must gauge all that we do- it is a call to renovate our hearts as we deal in a self-absorbed business world." To me, this means that I have been given gifts, talents, and opportunities from the Lord. He wants me to be successful in what I do. I have a responsibility to use these resources to build His kingdom. He will guide me to know which business ventures are worthy of engaging and which are not. Elder Gay taught that business is about service and rescue. This guidance resonates with me. I want to do something meaningful with my resources and I can use this as a guide.
I would warn you to beware of pride. Pride can drive us to achieve what appears to be success, but is actually greed. We can't be prideful and humble, and we won't know the Lord's will for us unless we are humble. Pride deals with comparison. Theodore Roosevelt said that comparison is the thief of joy. When we are filled with pride, then we will never be satisfied. President Oaks once taught that you can never have enough of what you don't need because what you don't need won't satisfy you. I think this applies to business and seeking wealth and success. Let us make the measure of our success the lives we have improved by seeking God's guidance and building His kingdom.
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