I'm still reeling a little bit from the video of a talk Jeff Sandefer, Founder of Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship, gave at BYU-Idaho. It took me 45 minutes to watch a 22 minute video because I had to keep stopping it to reflect on and write down different things that he was saying as well as thoughts that were coming to my mind as he spoke. There are two specific things that stuck with me from his talk; his joke about God and the "wise person" quote.
The joke about God illustrates how pride can show up in our lives and helps to realign our thought processes with those we have during rational, humble times. The joke goes, "Do you know the biggest difference between you and God? God never pretends he's you." For me, that is such a succinct way to remind myself where my blessings come from and to whom I owe it all. As soon as I start to feel like I'm pretty big stuff, I have to remember the origin of my gifts that make me good at what I'm doing. This is one of the pieces that I wrote down and will keep around forever.
The wise person quote goes like this, "A wise person does at once what a foolish person does at last." Sandefer followed that up by saying, that both people did the same thing, they just did it at different times; which are you? Timing really is everything and missing the moment when a task should be completed or an opportunity should be seized makes you foolish. As an entrepreneur, there is so much to learn from this; as a person there may be even more.
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