This week in class we discussed mentors and how they play a role in helping an entrepreneur to be successful. One of the chapters talked about how we need to have companions on our journey who will not run away when the going gets tough. Personally, I think it's a dumb idea to involve friends in your business, so I'll have to do it the opposite and meet the friends that will be my mentors through the business (like Jaylee). It's like the whole you can't be roommates with friends but you can be friends with your roommates deal. Mentors help in every day life, too. I've been blessed with some really great adults, especially as a teenager, who helped me mature and become the person I need to be. I'm still in contact with several of them. One that I am particularly fond of is Kathleen. She helped me with a personal vision project for another class and in the letter she wrote me she said what a pleasure it had been to watch me grow up and succeed in my entrepreneurial dreams. She also said that I have had a lasting impact on her children and even now that I haven't seen them in 3 years, they talk about me and know that I love them. I'm glad that I have been able to return the favor of her love and mentorship, even if in a different way than what she helped me with. She was great to turn to for advice and encouragement as a teenager and now friendship as an adult. :)
Last week on Thursday we did the sell anything challenge, which was something I was not looking forward to. We had to make $100 in a day, and the places that would have made it easy like on campus were off limits. We ended up selling at a local grocery store for 3 hours each. It was 35 degrees outside and a miserable winter day (It was November 1st, but that's about accurate for Rexburg to be so freezing in fall). We split into teams of two and did a fundraiser for a woman named Razia in Pakistan who needed help feeding her buffalo so that it will produce milk to feed her family. Since we had to provide a product as well, we sold pencils. But really, it was a fundraiser because that is what made people support us. Nathan and I raised $46 during our shift and Emma and Halla raised $69. I was nervous about making the required amount because we'd be outside in the cold on a random Thursday and uh... selling pencils for a Pakistanian buffalo. And Rexburg isn't the most philanth...
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