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Correct Direction

I was able to interview my amazing aunt Heather Pinegar for my entrepreneur interview this week. While I was talking with her, I felt more and more confident that the direction Tyler and I feel like we need to go as a family is the direction the Lord needs us to go. It was so comforting and reassuring, especially during a “refiners fire” week of illness in our house.

My aunt said several things during our interview that struck me, that really stood out to me. They weren’t really business-related, they were more Christ-related, yet she was able to incorporate them into her business and is finding success with it.

  • She started her business from a prompting, from inspiration from the Holy Ghost. By following this prompting and starting this business it would help her in her grief of losing her son Mick.
  • She tells the story of losing her son in an accident when he was a teenager. By sharing her story, she gets messages from many people, customers and not customers, who are in need of help in their own grief. Sometimes she is able to interact with these customers, one-on-one, and they are able to connect and empathize with each other’s pain.
  • She prays. She involves the Lord in her business dealings and is guided, reassured, and blessed in her business dealings.

All of these and more, are elements that I want to include in my business.

“The secret to such success lies not within the IQ that you were born with but with having the character and courage to accept a worthy mission and get the job done…Master a discipline that brings you great joy and you will never want for opportunity. Even better, once you have learned to get the job done, pick a worthy mission and surround yourself with like people and then you will change the world.” – The Acton School

I don’t need a big company that will change the world. I want a business, a lifestyle, that is centered on building the kingdom of God. I want to do it in the way that he needs me to.

Like I said, after a very hard week, it was wonderful to feel that what I was hoping was the right direction for me and my family is actually the correct direction the Lord needs us to be going.

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