Week one thoughts

 1/7/23

(Lessons Learned) 

Observation: The very first day I was doing the reading and assignments, watching the video of President Hinckley talking to the young people, and reading about creating a life plan, I felt plagued by self-doubts and wondered what I was doing taking this class. I'm too old for the "startup" to be me! I don't have a lot of time to fail quickly and start again! I'm 50! I'm not a young person anymore! I've done many things in my life plan, specifically, having children and raising my family. But to create a plan for the rest of my life that includes some sort of career or business, felt totally overwhelming. The negative voices in my head were working overtime -" You're too old for this class!" "What are you doing, this is a complete waste of time!", "You're too old to learn to do new things.", "It's too late to start anything new!"

My logical brain answered that I have learned new things each semester of pathways, that I AM capable of learning new things, and that if I am patient and focused, I can work through my resistance. I reminded myself that I struggled with my BUS115 class learning Excel, and that I worked through my resistance, persevered, and ended up with a 97.5% in the class!

I learned that I have resistance to overcome, in starting and staying the course in this class. I remembered that by pushing through the blocks, I can be successful. I remembered that I felt prompted to pursue the Entrepreneur certificate, and that God has a plan for me, and that if I follow the promptings that I have, I will be prepared when future opportunities arise.

Lessons not learned

I'm not sure what lessons I have not learned! All of the lessons! I need to create flash cards for new terms and concepts to help me more thoroughly remember the material from this past week. I took notes on loose leaf note book paper to help me, but maybe I could re-write those notes here as well. That would be a good way to review, and help the material become more deeply integrated.


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