The Last Lecture

I started attending college in April of 2009.This class in all honesty has been my favorite course I have taken in my entire time going to school. Today is the last day that I will be doing homework probably for quite some time as I will be finishing up my bachelors. This in fact, is the last assignment that I will be turning in to complete my bachelors. I feel that this class and the things I have learned have not only helped me to have the courage to go after my dreams but they have enlightened my understanding on alot of life's most important lessons. Often I find that the lessons we learn not only apply to a business setting but also to us a children of God striving to prove ourselves herewith while here on Earth. To try to write all of the things that have impacted me throughout this course would take me all through the night, but to sum it up. This class has helped me to have greater vision, greater passion, self confidence, and it has helped me to embrace the fact that I am young and even naive at times. I feel now at times that being naive about some things is a great thing, I have nothing in my mind telling me I can do this or that. I feel like I can do it because I can see no reason why I cant. This class has helped me also to learn about having smart courage and that being an entrepreneur is not about making big risks and sometimes getting lucky, but making smart calculated risks that can turn out good no matter what happens because you can will things to turn out good. The will the succeed and conquer is ultimate in this challenge to overcome fear and actually put your foot down and start walking the path of entrepreneurship. I thank those that put this course together and the authors of the wonderful books we have read for helping to set me on a course for my life.

Week 12

This week has been a really big week for me. I feel like this whole semester I have been learning so much from this class. This week has really helped to solidify my feelings about owning a business and being an entrepreneur. I loved reading the book because it helped me to think about the skills that I have that can help me to be successful and also those things that I need to work on. I liked the perspective that it helped me to gain about creating a business when it talked about the myths that exist or that people often think of that prevent them from being an entrepreneur. All of those things helped to contribute to giving me the confidence to create a business and to have the knowledge of the things I need to do to be prepared.

One thing that really stood out to me was analyzing your fears and breaking them down so that they are not fears anymore. There are so many things that can be done in owning a business to minimize risk and that's what I am going to do. Most of what scared me was taking risks and losing everything, but that's not how it needs to be. This book helped me to see a healthy approach to being an entrepreneur and to consider what its going to take to be one so that I can mentally and financially prepare myself for it.