Hurrah for Israel.....even in New Mexico

  When I signed up for this Entrepreneurship class I assumed it would be learning all the ins and outs of beginning a business.   I wanted to take the lesson on building a successful business and use the same lessons to help build institute and seminary programs.   I did not however expect this would be a class on finding my own personal journey of mastery.    Week after week I did learn about the positives and negatives of starting a business but I also learned the importance of becoming a leader.   Not just any leader but a leader who can help raise up others, a leader who you can look at yourself at the end of the day in the mirror and be proud of what you have accomplished. To become the person we want to be we first learned about goal setting and creating our own bucket list.  This was such a great experience.  Not only did I create my list, but so did my husband and all my kids.  It allowed us to discuss our goals of what we want indi...

A hashtag is a way to give a quick synopsis of something important.  In my head as I learn new concepts or something affects me in a way that I wish to remember it, I think of it as a hashtag.  This weeks readings were jam packed with # hashtags. #thankateacher In the conference talk entitled “An Attitude of Gratitude” by President Monson, he taught us the importance of giving thanks for those who have impacted your life. He gave great examples of teachers he has had in his lifetime.   My profession is a teacher. I loved how he said that he knew his Sunday school teacher loved him.  Christ was the ultimate teacher.  He is the example we want to follow and he showed us that we cannot teach if we cannot love the students.  I reflected on all the teachers that I have been truly blessed with.  I recently connected to one of my seminary teachers from when I was a teenager, it was a sweet conversation as we discussed things he taught me that now I teach...