Week 1 - Entrepreneur Journal

Lessons Learned

This week’s assignments were very insightful for me.  I found Randy Pausch’s lecture to be inspiring and motivating.  He gave sound advice about following dreams – even the small dreams (like winning big stuffed animals).  I think he taught a great lesson about attitude.  He apologized for not being sad or morose due to his cancer.  He was lively, upbeat, positive, and even mentioned that we should choose to be Tigger rather than Eeyore.  A couple more things that stood out to me are to show gratitude and see the best in others.  Those are two things that I can implement more in my life.  I find myself easily irritated by my husband’s lack of help and support at home and with chores, but if I look for things to be grateful about and see all the things he does do, I would be a lot less irritated.  As I strive to see the best in him, I will have an increased appreciation and love for him.

Lessons Not Yet Learned

 Our assignments this week focused on following your dreams and creating a vision.  I need to figure out what my own dreams are.  I feel like I don’t know what my dreams or life vision are or how to follow them.  I stay very busy at home with my daughter, housework, homework, etc. and feel like I don’t even have time for following dreams, let alone take a shower or have a hobby!  I know there must be a way to balance everything and perhaps better time management would allow me to do more and be able to follow my dreams.  Creating a list of 50 things to do helped me to see what is important to me and gave me some great ideas for dreams to follow.  I also found the Stars and Steppingstones article to be very beneficial in determining how I want to be remembered and what I should focus on now to achieve that.

The Absolute Dumbest Dream.

A dream I had this morning:
It was at my old house in KF, and these cute little guinea pigs were walking around in the garage, driveway, yards, etc. There were even some cute ones all curled up in the grass, and I was talking to them and taking their pictures. They told me that they liked their pictures taken and thought I was nice.
Then these other animals, like little foxes, thought it 'd be fun to sneak up on the guinea pigs and scare them! Or even have them for a snack! They were right there saying so. I let the guinea pigs know of my concern for them with the foxes around (Who were RIGHT there! They had to have heard them as well!) And warn them that the foxes were planning on sneaking up and scaring them. The guinea pigs said they didn't care. Just then, a fox was all trying to be sneaky in the grass. And as he approached them, (I thought they were going to die!) he just greeted them and told them to have a nice day. And walked away. And the guinea pigs looked at me and said, 'We knew they were nice foxes. That's why we weren't worried.'
"Wow! how did you know?' I asked them' (as i was examining them with a magnifying glass). They were looking back at me through the magnifying glass and told me about how they believe all creatures are inherently good and that if you just let them be, they'll do the right thing by nature, etc.
So I took another photo of them and thanked them for their time.
As I was on my way to visit more friendly animals my alarm clock, THANK GOODNESS, woke me up!!!