Work-Life Balance
One of the persistent themes when exploring the entrepreneur and the life that that entails is finding a balance between business goals and family needs. There are some incredible pros to the entrepreneur’s life and also some potentially disastrous cons, especially when it comes to family life. The incredible pros include: freedom of time, potential personal economic security, and ability to follow your passion. The potentially disastrous cons can be: following business passion to the exclusion of family and friends, personal economic uncertainty, chasing the next big idea, and never finding satisfaction or fulfilment. These are very real and finding a balance that works for me individually requires some flexibility (it is a dynamic balance that can change through lifes stages) but also requires some inflexibility or strong commitment (when it comes to sticking to your priorities and principles).
One of the persistent themes when exploring the entrepreneur and the life that that entails is finding a balance between business goals and family needs. There are some incredible pros to the entrepreneur’s life and also some potentially disastrous cons, especially when it comes to family life. The incredible pros include: freedom of time, potential personal economic security, and ability to follow your passion. The potentially disastrous cons can be: following business passion to the exclusion of family and friends, personal economic uncertainty, chasing the next big idea, and never finding satisfaction or fulfilment. These are very real and finding a balance that works for me individually requires some flexibility (it is a dynamic balance that can change through lifes stages) but also requires some inflexibility or strong commitment (when it comes to sticking to your priorities and principles).
Attitude on Money
In a talk titled, “Attitude on Money” Stephen W. Gibson explored the role money plays in our mortal lives and how it relates to the temporal as well as spiritual elements of our lives. Reading it was a good way to prompt reflection on how I felt about money.
In a talk titled, “Attitude on Money” Stephen W. Gibson explored the role money plays in our mortal lives and how it relates to the temporal as well as spiritual elements of our lives. Reading it was a good way to prompt reflection on how I felt about money.
- What is your
attitude toward money? Whether you regard money as an end to a means
or just a representation of work, reward, or time, it is clearly a
measuring factor for all three. As that, money has no power or lure. It is
just a tool.
- How can your
view of money affect the way you live? Keeping a temporal perspective
on money, what it represents, and its temporary nature is key to keeping
it in a proper perspective. If I live my live guided by eternal
perspectives and priorities, money and the pursuit of material possessions
will always have a subservient role and priority.
- What rules are
recommended for prospering? One of the most recurring themes from the
Book of Mormon is “For the Lord God hath said that: Inasmuch as ye shall
keep my commandments ye shall prosper in the land; and inasmuch as ye will
not keep my commandments ye shall be cut off from my presence.” (2 Ne 4:4)
Prosperity is a byproduct of a righteous life and so the goal should be to
first, live a Christ-centered life and the temporal will be provided for. A
secondary theme from the scriptures is the principle of industry and work. “And it came to pass that after I, the Lord
God, had driven them out, that Adam began to till the earth, and to have
dominion over all the beasts of the field, and to eat his bread by the
sweat of his brow, as I the Lord had commanded him. And Eve, also, his
wife, did labor with him.” (Moses 5:1) And in the Book of Mormon, “And I
did cause that the women should spin, and toil, and work, and work all
manner of fine linen, yea, and cloth of every kind, that we might clothe
our nakedness; and thus we did prosper
in the land—thus we did have continual peace in the land…” (Mosiah 10:5)
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