Final Advice

 

Each week in this course we learned a little more about the steps involved in the entrepreneur’s journey. We learned everything from creating a life of meaning to overcoming challenges and then finally celebrating your life. There are many take-aways from this course that I could expound on, however, just a few a worth mentioning in a “final lecture” type post. If I had just a few words of advice for someone beginning the entrepreneurial journey I would first begin by sharing the following quote by Theodore Roosevelt:

“In this life we get nothing save by effort. Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been some stored up effort in the past. A mere life of ease is not in the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world….Let us therefore boldly face the life of strife, resolute to do our duty well and manfully; resolute to be both honest and brave, to serve high ideals, yet to use practical methods. Above all let us shrink from no strife, through hard and dangerous endeavor, that we shall ultimately win the goal of true…greatness”.

Becoming an entrepreneur or embracing the one within us is no easy task. As Roosevelt states above, “we get nothing save by effort”. I would then share how important it is to find something that you are passionate about and to then pursue that passion. I would reference a podcast by Randy Komisar here, “How Do You Find Your Passion and How Do You Pursue it?” In this podcast Komisar said to focus on what our values are and what we care about and then we should marry them with the opportunities that face us now. I thought that was great advice that I would certainly share. Finally I would make sure to share the advice that the up and coming entrepreneur should read “A Message to Garcia” and strive to be the kind of person that Rowan was:

“People like Rowan—who accomplish missions quickly and efficiently, with minimum oversight—are as rare today as they were 100 years ago when publisher Elbert Hubbard wrote ‘A Message to Garcia’.”

Overall I found the content in this course to be quite beneficial. Each week I found something that I needed to work on personally and that resonated with me in a way that motivated me to do so. I would recommend this course to anyone wanting to begin the entrepreneur’s journey.