Believing in Me

This week as I worked on my interview with a local entrepreneur I wondered if I would ever really be able to follow in her footsteps.  I would love to be successful someday, but fear is still very much present in the back of my mind.  During the interview Crystal Worcott (co-founder of WEice) told me that behind having no capital to start their business with, fear was the next largest struggle they faced.  She related that she nearly quit.  In some ways I felt encouraged by this interview.  Here was a mother who was in a similar position to myself.  She had several kids at home and lives in the same town I do.  She goes to the same church as me and works hard in her church callings and other responsibilities.  She found her place in the business world.  Maybe I will find mine.  But that fear is always there telling me that it probably won't work out for me. 

Overcoming that fear was made a little easier as I read through the talk by Dallin H Oaks called The Challenge to Become.  His words reminded me that I should only be concerned with what I am becoming.  If the Lord sends me on an errand to open a business, or help another business be successful, then I should work my hardest in order to become something new.  Even if these business endeavors are not financially successful, or end up failing completely, so long as I allow the Lord to change me through the process into something better, then I have succeeded.  This thought process helps calm the voice of fear.  Nothing in this world can impeded me becoming closer to my Savior unless I let it.  I am cautiously excited for the future and the roads that I will take, come what may.