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Well, Here Goes

I'll start with the major question or mental block that I have with entrepreneurship.  The idea of 'dream big' just does not resonate with me.  When I encounter this idea, I mentally clench up.  The reasons for this are many.  First, what is wrong with living a small life?  In April 1982, Howard W. Hunter said  "There are some anomg us who are unhappy with their lives because they have wanted to achieve a measure of greatness in this life but now feel they have failed in some fundamental way.  We have concern for those who have worked hard and who have lived righteously but think-because they haven't achieved in the world or in the Church what others have achieved-that they have failed."   He goes on to quote from Joseph F. Smith in 1905: "Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life.  After all, to do well those things which God ordained to be the common lot of all man...