Entry #10

This week for the $100.00 challenge, I was able to begin advertising to an entirely new area with new customers. I moved to Arizona from Rexburg this past week, and so I am now able to to continue doing my business in an new location. I have been able to advertise my business through Facebook. For this week’s reading material, I had the opportunity to review more entrepreneur blogs that taught me a lot of new skills and tools that I could use in my own business ventures. One page that I found that I was especially drawn to was one titled “How To Change The World” by Guy Kawasaki. The title was what initially caught my attention because obviously changing the world would be something that I would love to do, just like many other people, I’m sure. As I continued to look at this website, I was especially impressed by all of the different things that Mr. Kawasaki is involved in and how he has such a desire to help others learn how to create change in this world. I really like how he has taken to writing books, creating a website, and giving speeches as ways to continue to inspire others to do good.

Entry #9

This week for the $100.00 challenge, I was able to continue the process of advertising my nail painting business, but I have found obtaining business to be quite tricky. Luckily, I am going to have the opportunity this coming week to advertise in a new location and I am hopeful that I will be able to find more customers and success with my business in that new location. In reference to what Elder L. Tom Perry said, I have had the opportunity this past week to really consider how I value money. For me, personally, I do not believe that I value money all that much because money is not something that I am particularly worried about very often. This is interesting because I am clearly not in the best place financially, since I am a young college student. Regardless of my current situation, however, I am just not usually one to stress or worry about money too often. I have also learned this past week about the importance of managing your money well and making sure to avoid debt whenever possible because more often than not, getting into debt will just be a continual detrimental process for you and your loved ones.

Entry #8

This week for the $100.00 challenge, I was able to continue advertising my nail painting business, and I was also fortunate enough to paint the nails of my very first customer. I was also able to speak with a couple of other prospective customers, whom I expect to paint the nails of this coming week. This week provided me with the opportunity to reflect on my experience of reading the E-myth book. I learned quite a bit from this book about how to successfully run your own business. Something that I learned from it that I did not know before was that it is important to create and run your business in a way that will make it easy for anybody to run it the very same way as you even if you are not there. This is what is called a “turn-key” business because all the new boss has to do is turn the key and the business is ready to go. I had never really thought of McDonalds as a successful entrepreneur business before I learned that it is actually one of the best in the world because it can and has been easily duplicated in a way that creates the very same results.

Entry #7

This week for the $100.00 challenge, I was able to continue the process of advertising my nail painting business. I was becoming slightly discouraged because no one had contacted me about wanting to set up an appointment to have their nails painted, so I decided to begin advertising my business on Facebook. I was able to post a photo of my flyer to my ward Facebook page and also to the local garage sale Facebook page. I have been fortunate enough to already have been contacted by a couple of different people for appointments. Something from this week’s readings that really stuck with me was President Kimball’s talk on the Savior and the perfect leadership qualities and He exemplified during His life on earth. I really appreciated the opportunity to learn more about what those attributes were because it also helped me set goals for myself as far as how to best develop those attributes. I am always striving to become more like Jesus Christ, and I now know how I can continue to strive for that even in the business world or any other situation when I might have the opportunity to become a leader. I am anxious to begin working at developing those wonderful leadership qualities that the Savior showed us.