This week is Thanksgiving and so my schedule is a little off. The topic this week was "Becoming Peak Performers and Dreaming Big". I liked the readings that talked about how there is not one way to be a successful entrepreneur, and that most people don't even have a well written business plan when they start. There are lots of ways and lots of qualities that allow people to be great entreprenuers. Some are good at selling, some are good at online marketing, some are good at designing products, some are good at customer relations. The other areas are either things you eventually get the hang of, hire someone else to take care of or that you just struggle in. Also, I learned that most people get the ideas for their products from something from their previous jobs that they thought they could add improvements to. For me, that has not been the case but I've seen it with others. One particularly was how grandpa's friend Jim Jinard created Oakley sunglasses because he saw the need for improvement in what the current product market offered and obviously, he was wildly successful with that vision. He also launched RED cameras maybe a decade ago and is now one of the top most revered entrepreneurs in Hollywood. He owns four houses, two islands, but is overall not very showy for all he has accomplished. Grandpa says that he donates tons of money to charity, and although he is not a member has done a lot to help the church too.
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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