It's a new semester and this is supposed to be my journal as I work through Introduction to Entrepreneurship (B183). It is supposed to be a place for me to write down my thoughts, insights, lessons learned, and questions I have. So I'm just going to start and treat this like any other journal that I have and just start writing what is on my mind.
Few things I've learned this week:
I had a personal training session this week and my trainer and I were talking about goals and New Year's Resolutions. In the past I've tried to do your typical New Year's Resolutions, but those never seem to last past the middle of January. I then moved on to having one goal to work on throughout the year. Again, I would get so far before quitting. As I shared that with my trainer and how I was having a hard time coming up with a goal he told me what he was doing. He would have a word that he would focus on throughout the year and everything would come from that word. His word this year is finances. He wanted to get better at his finances, make a few big purchases, etc. So instead of focusing on all the small and numerous goals that he wanted to work on, he is simply focusing on Finances. When he does that he takes his time to work on all the small things but they just don't seem so overwhelming.
I thought about that and still couldn't come up with a word. There are too many things I want to get done in too many different sections of my life- health, finance, emotional, work, friends, etc. Nothing seemed to fit. Then I got the reading books for this class and I read the first page of the introduction of Mastery and this stuck out to me:
"Mastery, "the mysterious process during which what is at first difficult becomes progressively easier and more pleasurable through practice." -Mastery; pg xi; Leonard.
This was it! This is my word for the year. Mastery. I know I will not master anything this year and that's not the point. The point is to practice, practice, practice. Practice eating better. Practice exercising. Practice better finances. Practice studying my scriptures. Practice saying my prayers. Practice being a better friend. Practice love. Practice becoming like the Savior.
As I practice the things I'm working on will become easier and more enjoyable and I'll be more likely to master them one day.
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