Mitt Romney spoke at BYU Forum on "Lesson Learned".

• Almost nothing he has done in life was planned in advance.  Surprising since he believes in setting goals!
• Since his experience running for President, he is even more optimistic about the nation.  America is still the greatest nation on earth.
• All of our words and deeds may very well be recorded in Heaven.
• Fellow members of the Church are amazingly good people who will be there to help when you need it.
• You are not defined by secular measures. Durante said "Fame if you win it, comes and goes in a minute."  It's about friends, not power candy or adulation cake.  It's about lifting others.
• God does not always intervene.  "Search diligently, pray always, and be believing, and all things shall work together for your good, if ye walk uprightly and remember the covenant wherewith ye have covenanted one with another." D&C 90:24  Elder Busche told how his business was failing & he was so upset, he spent hours on his knees in prayer.  He said he finally heard an audible voice that said one word:  "Work."
• Stay focused on the greater purpose.  When he was debating Obama, he wrote on the top of his paper "Dad" and a simple drawing of a sun to remind him of his father's fierce focus and to let his light shine.  Find ways to keep perspective during circumstances that make you sweat.  
• A Lutheran Bishop gave him "3 rules for comparing religions."   1) learn from an adherent, not a dissenter  2) Compare the best with the best  3) Leave room for religious jealousy (wishing we had something like that)
• The influence of one single person is enormous.  One 70yo man named Jim Wilson decorated his truck & put 40000 miles on it going to 150 events for Mitt Romney.  In one area, someone lit his truck on fire.  Romney made sure it was replaced.  
•  American needs heroes that are larger than self instead of larger than life.
• Listen to at least one person who will tell you the truth about yourself (it's probably better it it's not your mate)