Different Patches of Life

This month has been a very trying month.  I have been working two jobs, trying to keep up with school, being a mom, a wife, holding two callings at church, and all the other hats is taking its toll.  I keep telling myself that it is all worth it once I get the degree.  I am living by that montra.  The information from the HMM really hit home.  It is teaching us about marketing and what we need to do with our future businesses in order to figure out what the customer wants, so that we can in turn, provide it.  I know that the Lord has a plan for me.  I am grateful for both of my jobs.  They have been a blessing to my family.  I know that it is all worth it.  I love that my kids get to see that hard work does pay off.  They have helped me study for my school exams as well as made dinner so I could get homework done.  My family is a great blessing. My $100 has broken the $100 profit hurtle.  I needed to sell just over 40 c...

     As I am going through the journey of learning how to become an entrepreneur, I am constantly learning and growing.  It seems very intimidating to go out and ask for money from people.  Whether it be a bank, a person we know, or someone else, it just seems to be something to be scared about.  As I watched the video entitled, "Energetic Fundraising," He went through how not to do it and how to do it.  Its all about the person, not the money.  You need to connect with the person and help them see the value of you before they will consider your business venture.  They are essentially investing in you and your vision, not necessarily your company.  I found that to be very interesting, but it makes sense.  Most business ventures are very risky as most business go out of business in the first 5 years.  So to put money on a business, you want to trust that person will treat the money with wise intentions and be frugal with it....

As I was reading through all the stuff needed in order to create a business plan, I was reflecting about life.  If we took as much time trying to figure out where we wanted to go in life, would life be different?  We would need to create graphs on why we wanted to do certain things, or buy certain things.  We would use accounting to figure out what our bank accounts would look like in years to come.  We would put down all the things that need to happen to get from point A to point B.  That's a lot of work to put into what we want out of life. Then I came to the realization that very few people go to all that trouble.  Then the next question is why?  Well, the saying, "Life Happens" comes to mind.  We will have all these grand ideas about where we want our life to go and then, "Life Happens".  We do not know from one minute to the next what is going to happen to us.  We do know that we have a general direction in which we want to go....

Today is the day... As I was going through the readings this week I realized that I knew more than I thought I did while simultaneously knowing less than I thought I knew.  How can this be?  Well, I think that the older we get the more we realize that I know very little. I'm sure that by now you are asking what it is that helped me to get to this realization?  Well, one of the things was reading the "5 mistakes people make about naming their business."  I realized that I did a good job naming my business that I have had for about 9 years.  I gave it a name that can be easily remembered, but is also a play on with my own name.  It can be transferred easily because it does not have any stigma's attached.  My company name is "Mrs. Jewelry DR".  My initials are DR, but DR also stands for doctor.  I fix jewelry as well as create what ever people what.  So in my opinion, it does not hit any of the issues within this paper.  That is w...