Lynette's Life Starting Now

I have really enjoyed this class and the insights it has brought into my life. I really feel like the things I learned were things I needed to work on right now. I wasn't sure if I was going to get anything out of this class since I don't plan on going into business for myself any time soon, but I have had many growing experiences and lots to work on in my marriage, parenting, and life in general. I am currently reading 7 Habits of Highly Effective People  and I am taking my time and reading it slowly so that I can incorporate the ideas into my life. I hope to keep working through it over the next month or two and see how it helps me to become a more effective person. As I start a new school year, I hope to be able to bring the concept of mastery into my life a little more. I have some areas that I'm hoping to work on for my schooling. I'm hoping that my next classes are a good place to put these ideas to practice. I'm also continuing to work on being open to aski...

In the talk "Entrepreneurship and Consecration," Elder Gay talks about how we must use our money and talents to better the world. The story of the girl from Darfur ripped out my heart. The whole talk was very moving and I hope to process it and implement some change in my life. The article "What's Business For?" is a huge essay on why I originally didn't want to be a business management major. It calls for a world that I wish were real, but I am afraid we move further and further away from every day. Virtue and integrity are so important in an economy because if executives, shareholders and even employees are doing thing for not only the good of the profit margin, but the good of the world, the economy will flourish. Instead of all the money being controlled by an elite 1% of people and companies, the wealth will be distributed and the quality of life for everyone will improve. According to the author, the real justification for business is that the busine...

This week we read an article called "Attitude on Money." My attitude towards money isn't so great or healthy, most days. Ever since my husband was laid off and out of work for almost a year between 2008-2009, I'm terrified the same thing will happen again. School has been a big blessing for me for two reasons. The first is that I'm getting an education so that I can get a good job and secondly, it takes up a lot of brain power that used to be used in obsessing over the budget. Not that I don't still obsess over the budget, but I feel like I have more control over it now. This view of money can be really debilitating. For a long time our quality of life wasn't what it could be because I wouldn't let us spend money on anything fun or frivolous. While there are thing that can be improved in our money managing skills and decision making, I think that we are finally coming to a good point where we make smart decisions, but still have some fun things in our ...

This lesson's reading and videos were kind of disjointed and didn't have a coherent theme, in my opinion. The lesson title is "Dream Big Dreams"  but I didn't feel like any of the material really dove into that concept. This is a shame because dreaming big is NOT my forte. I was really hoping for some inspiration on the subject. The launching leaders video was really out in left field. It talked about a book and program for emotional fingerprints but the class doesn't give any information on getting the program and why would that video be there if using the program isn't part of the class? It just made no sense to me. Anyway, I found it hard to take much away from the lesson when I couldn't feel a theme and just didn't feel inspired by any of the materials. I guess the biggest lesson learned is that not everything is meant for you and sometimes you just have to move on and find inspiration elsewhere. On a more positive note, I led a meeting for m...

This lesson was a bit dull for me because I had already read a couple of the talks in several other classes. They are great talks but I feel like they may be a bit overused by BYU-I. Anyway, I did like learning about the concepts from the book Good to Great . It is currently on my to read list, so I enjoyed getting a summarized version of it. One thing that I am hoping to take away from this lesson is learning how to build people up and bringing everyone to a higher level. I have just been given a new calling at church and I think it will give me an opportunity to practice some of these skills. I know that as a mom, these skills can come in handy but I really want to work on this in a "professional" area and my calling is the only place I really have an opportunity to do that. Even my job is hard because I work with kids and work in a different place every day. It's hard to see any long term effects from my actions. This past week I did my entrepreneurial mentor intervi...

I really appreciated the readings and videos for this lesson. They were all focused on moving forward in the future and not giving up when things get hard. I've been feeling very stressed with some things in life that I have no immediate control over. I was almost to the point where I wanted to drop my classes for fall and start working full time. I go over this every few months and my husband is always the first to tell me that I need to stay in school and stay focused. I really appreciated having this reaffirmed through the materials in this lesson. Not making as much money as I could right now and spending money on tuition can be so hard. I know that I will be blessed in so many ways if I just keep going. Our finances will be fine. Everything will be fine. I just need to keep working and moving forward. I have been chanting this to myself a lot over the past couple days and I need to keep remembering it. The sacrifices that I make today will make me a better person, will help me...