Week 2: What I have learned

It is amazing that this course is in my life right now. I know that every semester I ask why did I take this specific course but then by the end of the semester I know why the Lord guided me to take the course then. This course is no different now. Being fired last week from my job has left me with no income or insurance after this month and I feel like I am at a cross roads in my life. One I can find another job and do the same thing I have been doing the last 10 years of my life or I can pursue my dreams, become an entrepreneur that makes money, lives life and is happy. I have literally been unhappy the last three years of my life. This course each thing I read, watch and study pain my heart because I know this stuff, I have been reading entrepreneurial books since 2004 yet I still don’t do it. I keep coming to the “brick wall” as Randy Pausch says, I climb a little and then stop and eventually get back on the ground. Why?

I am looking forward from this course to help me achieve my dreams of being an entrepreneur and making money that will allow me to live and be happy. I am looking forward to gaining just a little more knowledge that will help my scale the “brick wall.”

I believe Randy Pausch was able to achieve his childhood dreams because he didn’t have to learn how to be creative because it was fostered in his home (spent less time of adulthood figuring that part of success out.) I also believe that he is a man that tenacity of not letting go, keep pushing and never stop. He saw that “brick wall” and probably thought it was fun to climb.

I do feel that dreams are important. My wife has no dreams, and she doesn’t feel like she knows how she is or where she is going in life. Dreams allow us to become free from the mundane and monotonous life. Dreams allow us to want to become better and allow us to become more in tuned with Heavenly Father. I believe that Heavenly Father has given each person a dream, whether or not we remember that dream and pursue it is another story.

One of my childhood dreams is to fly. This dream has slowly incorporated another aspect of my life I didn’t realize until I took a BYUI class, and that is that I like to build; building things are part of my life. Now my childhood dream is to build ultralight aircraft airplanes and sell them on the internet. I believe I can accomplish this dream, I just need to realize that there will be a lot of “brick walls” and I need to have an amazing support group to help me accomplish this dream.