Lynette's Life Starting Now

I really loved this class. I think it's a good class to take even if you don't want to start your own business. There are so many great things for personal growth to take from it. The class focuses on the fact that you can't know what you want to do in business until you know who you truly are and what you're passionate about. I think that one piece of caution I would give is that no matter how passionate you are about something, you need to know how to run a business and do your due diligence on how it is going to make money and how the business will run. There is no one guaranteeing that you will make money just because you love something and if they say that's all you need, they aren't being helpful. I really loved The Last Lecture video by Randy Pausch. Even though the whole thing wasn't mandatory viewing for the class, I think it should be. I hope that when my time comes I can look back at my life with as much satisfaction and optimism as he did with ...

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...