A little bit later

(intro: please ignore the lack of capitalizing, im (and punctuation) feeling lazy on this one) this week we learned about the 7 habits of highly effective people. and synthesize and synthesis. the group this week put on a great presentation. and even better, the father in law of my professor came this week. he is a real entrepreneur and gave us a few words of wisdom. he spoke about his life story and it was very interesting. i thought that it was really cool how he didnt actually plan on being an entrepreneur, but life just ended up being that way. i wonder how many people plan on being an entrepreneur. because for me, i think the skills to do be one are necessary for business success, but i am not really planning on starting my own business or anything and i think that it was really cool how he wasnt either. he also gave some great wisdom on balancing your lives, both business and family and church and other. he made it seem like family comes first, then church, then business and then other. at least that is what i got, and i think that is a good philosophy to live by. so i think im going to do that, yep...

A later week in the semester

This week was good. We had a really interesting presentation this week with a video that I really liked. It was about a 3rd grade dropout and how he become not only successful, but also "the wisest man" the speaker knew. I thought that the principle of self teaching was really taught well in that video. and although it wasn't the purpose of the presentation I really thought about that a lot. I am subscribed to a an entrepreneur news feed and now I am trying to read up on more of those articles, along with articles that explain more about my major, accounting. It is that concept of teaching yourself wise and important life principles that will help you with what you want to do with your life that I think I really learned this week. I am looking for things that I know and things that I don't know in readings that I find, readings with real-life scenarios, and from these I see what I already know, what I need to practice, and what I will need to know. I think that the idea of self teaching needs to be taught better, and not just self teaching through reading your text books, but learning from life and the lives of others, things that will be important in your life and the lives of your family.

week 3

This past week was week 3 in our b 183 class. it was a good week. there was a great presentation on Monday about finding a balance between what you like and what you are good at and what will support you through your life. It reminded me of the reasons I choose to be an accountant among my other choices. I remembered that I really wanted to go into woodshop and be a carpenter. I still wouldnt mind that, but I had the opportunity to try accounting in Argentina and I learned to love it just as much. but the nicer thing about accounting is that it will pay the bills and it is in high demand now. I like both, and I like to think that I am good at both, so it came down to what would be a better life plan. I thought that it was interesting in the presentation this past week who they described all of this as a seed, soil, water, and sun. All of which are needed to grow the plant, and if you are missing one, you will fail. I think that is very important to think about when choosing your life path, it need to have 4 things, 1) you need to like it 2) it needs to be in demand 3) you need to be good at it and 4) it needs to pay well enough to support you and your family. So with all of that to think about, this was a good third week.