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Week 2: The Importance of Keeping our Inner Child Alive

 Throughout the 4 gospels and 3 Nephi, Christ often uses children as examples of how we should be. When you think of children in a general sense, do you associate them with having a skeptical, cynical mindset? Do you associate them with being "realistic", and behaving the way society tells them to behave? Do they lie and deceive? Maybe about eating their squash on the last one, but the answer for all of these is absolutely not. It is simply in their nature to have their imagination through the roof, and dream BIG. They are always honest, and simply just their true selves.  A video I watched in my entrepreneur class this week truly inspired me. The video was a lecture by Randy Pausch. Now, this lecture was one of the most special and unique lectures you can ever find. It is inspired by a lecture format called "last lecture", which basically is the last lecture a professor would give if it was their last lecture they would ever give. Only in this case, it was real. Pa...

Week 1 Reflection: New Beginnings

Beginnings have always excited me. There is something about having a fresh start that just gets me ecstatic! I have had some rough beginnings, I have had beginnings that are better than the middle and end, and I have had some, which are the best, the beginnings that set the perfect path for the intended goal, or whatever the "end", may be. This week I started a new semester of college. Now, this year has been very interesting for me. Interesting in both positive, and negative ways. First off, I dealt with a severe family emergency (which I might write more about in the future, but that is not the intention of this post), I managed to land a good job and had a good experience, I went through other personal things, and the list goes on, like I'm sure many of peoples lists. The way I would describe it: chaos. It's how life can be. Many probably relate. well, I had a few moments over the summer that I consider to be revelatory, and the biggest one is simple: The only one ...

Welcome to my Blog!

 I welcome you warmly to my blog. I can't wait be on the journey with everyone to success. The point of this blog is simple: to document my journey.  At the end of each week I will reflect upon what I have learned, and really just record my thoughts and ideas, and provide commentary on the things I have learned.  Excited to learn!