Week 6 Journal Entry

The readings were so powerful to me this week, not just as a business student, but as a wife and mother and friend. Elder Tanner's talk especially hit me hard. I was at first reading it thinking about "mastery" as in keeping the commandments -- the ones like the Law of Chastity and the Word of Wisdom that I have striven to live since I was young. Then he shared a scripture in Proverbs 16:32 that says "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city." I REALLY need to master my anger. That is something that feels like it has gotten worse for me as a mother with kids who sometimes just won't listen. It doesn't apply to this class I'm taking necessarily, but I just wanted to share it anyway since it was the most powerful to me this week. Also, reading and watching videos talk about how hard it is to have a start-up company as well as make time for family really has me wondering if I'm ever going to make time for a business. Sometimes I think about how I might want to have a career after my youngest starts school, but then I always think about how I want to be able to volunteer at the school often and be able to have lunch with my kids every once in a while, and so many other things that I would miss out on. I still have time to think about it, but I always end up thinking that it's not worth it to me to sacrifice that time with my children, especially as they go through trials and may need me to be available to them more. So that's where I'm at this week.