Entrepreneurial Journal Entry – Week 2

This week was full of great readings! I feel the common thread throughout all the videos and articles was that of ethics, honesty and integrity.

I’d like to focus my entry this week on the article “True Blue, Through and Through” by Sheri Dew. She gives great steps to take to evaluate oneself to make sure we are living our life with integrity.

1.      Decide today, once and for all, that you will be worthy of trust. The Holy Ghost is not able to inspire or endorse the words or actions of someone who is not true and who can’t be trusted.

2.      Have faith that the Lord can and will help you, and then diligently seek His help. Faith is the first principle of the gospel because it is our faith that activates the power of the Atonement in our lives.

3.      Make covenants and keep them. Now is the time to learn to be precisely honest. Now is the time to commit yourself to a life of integrity.

4.      Stand up for what you believe. It is not possible to denounce who you are, or to live beneath who you are, and be happy.

5.      Expect your integrity to be challenged. Metaphorically speaking, be on the lookout for Potiphar’s wife. She will show up again and again. Count on test of your integrity. But also know that every time we choose to be obedient, every time we make a tough but righteous choice, our integrity will be fortified.

6.      Don’t give up.  “I know of no easy formula for success. Persist, persist, PERSIST; work, work, WORK – is what counts in the battle of life.” Heber J. Grant.

7.      Covenant (or renew your covenant) with our Heavenly Father and His Son to do what you came here to do. For doing what we came here to do is the ultimate expression of our integrity.

May we be like the Sons of Heleman – who were strict to remember God day in and day out, and who were true at all times to whatsoever thing with which they had been entrusted.