Kathryn's School Blog

      This week we learned about a Life Bucket List and we talked a lot about using steppingstones and ethical guardrails to get to your dream job even if you don't start there. I especially loved the articles on creating a life of meaning and prioritizing what matters most so you can eventually get to what you want. I think patience is hard for people. I also think flexibility is important to success because plans and dreams change and the way to get to a dream always can shift so being able to work with what God has given you is equally important.      I really liked the article about "Treating Life like an Experiment" by Randy Pausch. 1 I loved the point made that we have to be willing to make mistakes and try again. We won't get it right the first time, the second time, or even the third. Many efforts are required to becoming the person we want to be or finding the success we are seeking. If those didn't happen, plans wouldn't be perfected or improved upo

     This week I was introduced to the purpose of my Intro to Entrepreneurship course. Many of the videos and the articles that I was assigned to read were talking about believing in oneself and being empowered to make a difference while still being balanced in the things that matter most. Loving others and prioritizing the people that lift us is an important component to being a good entrepreneur and being consistent in business. It made me realize that you need to know who you are. You need to innately feel confident in your abilities and in your sense of adventure and seeking out happiness. I really loved the video titled, "Do What you Love". It was a talk given by Guy Kawasaki. He talked about his high-end ventures and how we should seek things that make us happy because the money won't matter as much if we are doing something that excites us. 1   He named off some brand-named companies and said, “Those companies do help the world”. He was pointing out that if we only