Always learning

Reflect upon the things that you are learning and experiencing so far in this course. What are you looking forward to learning and experiencing? What did you learn from the readings and videos this week? I have learned a lot this past week of class. I really enjoyed reading about Yesil Magdelena. She had gained knowledge throughout her life. Ways that she did this was first in her education. She got her Masters degree in Engineering and then improved herself every couple years in her career by working in different companies and improving her knowledge, making the companies better and then leaving the companies better than she found them. She was a very sought out person that many wanted to employee and she got what she demanded in these jobs. I also enjoyed reading this week in the Ministry of Business. I enjoyed chapter six and the take away I had this week was that we can be financial independent. We do not need to be rich but be self-reliant. When we are self-reliant, we do not owe anyone, and we become free from our masters of debt. Financial freedom is a stepping stone toward greater goals and then we can focus on serving others. I learned that I can do these couple steps and work more faithfully on my budget with my husband and it needs to start now and not later.

This past week, I have learned a lot through setting my goals in my life, yet to happen. I really enjoyed reading the first three chapters of the book “The ministry of business.” I learned a lot about making business decisions in my life. I need to go to my husband in my business decisions. In the past I did not do this often. The past year, I have been opening to my spouse about how to help me in decisions that I needed a second opinion. He has been very helpful in opening my mind. I look forward to going to him in all my business decisions as well as our family decisions and not do decisions on my own. I am noticing our relationship is becoming stronger each day because I am not trying to do things on my own. I also enjoyed reading some insight from Randy Pausch. I read his book 11 years ago and really enjoyed his insight on life. He had so many dreams from being a child. He succeeded in many of dreams because his parents allowed him to dream. I liked how he told about writing on the walls in his home his goals and dreams and they were still up on their wall when he was a grown adult. I feel that dreaming helps us become who we are in life. Without dreams, we would not get anywhere in our lives and have a future. I made the dream when I was young to be a mother and wife and my dream came into fruition 17 ½ years ago. I have three amazing children that give my husband and I a love we never imagined we could have. We all love being with each other and I couldn’t ask for more.

A New Start

I am starting a new season in my life. I am back to college after 15 years of motherhood through the early to pre-teen years of my children's life. They have been my pride and joy in life. I have also enjoyed doing so by my husbands side. I am a real estate broker and have been in the industry for 18 years. I am looking forward to this class to help revamp myself in my work and how to improve myself in being a better entrepreneur. I enjoyed the readings in my college class this week. It is helping me realize to not settle in my goals, but to dream big and pursue my dreams. I am one that does not go out of my comfort zone very easy. This class will help me achieve the dreams I have thought often on, but never acting towards them. I want my family and I to have our dreams and achieve our goals, then in my business. I liked reading, Living Life as an Entrepreneurial Hero by Jeff Sandefer. There was a quote from Marcus Aurelius "It's not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." I hope I can change the past and move the future. In the end of my life, I want to be able to ask these three questions: 1. Did I accomplish something meaningful? 2. Was I a good person? 3. Who did I love and who loved me? I want to be the best person I can be and treat others kind and loving.