This week we learned about finding balance in your professional and personal life.
In a video featuring titled, Balancing Your Life/Your Career Successfully with Randy Komisar we learned:
- Life is a challenge... Love what you do
- Set Priorities... Seek what you love
- Pay attention to what is important... family
Keep a group of people who really know you close... These people will help to ground you throughout your life.
Acton Hero: Cory Bell
Cory Bell had great advice to share. I will sum up his advice as:
- Write a vision plan for your life.
- Everything is possible if you want it
- Give back- make an impact on the world.
Surviving the Entrepreneurial Life: Work and Family
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg talked about balancing work and family while undertaking an entrepreneurial dream. She talked about including your kids and spouse.
Kids:
- Share your work with your kids by talking with them about your work.
- Take you kids to work with you occasionally.
- Spend casual time with your kids, not just games and recitals. Spend time relaxing with them.
Spouse:
- Stay connected with your spouse by doing things that make them feel special. (Whatever that is for your specific partner.)
- Attend company meets with your spouse, even if you are not working at the company. This gives you talking points together.
- Travel with your spouse if possible.
Starting a company can be all consuming, if you include your children and spouse in the process you will have a better work and family balance. Including and sharing will increase your family's ability to tolerate your long work hours as you start a new business.
My favorite address this week was from Thomas S. Monson. His address came from an Ensign message titled, Formula For Success. In this message we are given three admonitions on how to lead a successful life. They are:
1. Fill your mind with truth.
Seek knowledge out of the best books. We have so much available to us in the form of learning. We must continually be growing if we are to reach out eternal potential.
2. Fill your life with service.
We each have the opportunity to serve our family. We also need to remember to give back to those around us. We are taught in the Book of Mormon, “When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God” (Mosiah 2:17). Christ lived a life of service, if we want to be like the Savior, we too must serve our fellow man.
3. Fill your heart with love.
When we fill our hearts with love, we are able to serve better. Love will increase our desire and ability to help those around us. When motivated by love we are able to accomplish many many things we thought impossible.
The final thoughts from Thomas S. Monson that I found very important were:
Be Prepared, Be Productive, Be Faithful, and Be Fruitful!
