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Week #7

This week was a very wonderful week of learning. I loved the study materials, even though I did worse on the quiz than on any other one. Sometimes it goes that way. I absolutely loved the talk from President Hinckley. It was very powerful to remember that I had heard that talk again before as a 15 year old girl. I remember his direct advice about what to avoid and how to have a happy life. There are lines from that talk that I could distinctively remember as I watched it when I was 15. In many ways I am so thankful for my 15 year old self for taking that advice to heart and doing the best I could with it. I was able to be married in the temple and have a family that was sealed together. That has brought be the happiest and most joyful times of my life, but it would not have been a possibility if I had not heeded the words of advice and warning from the prophet.

In many ways we are not able to get a great perspective where we sit currently. When the Guy Kawasaki talked in his video about wishing he was driving the Ferrari as a student at Stanford and then when he was sitting in the Ferrari wished he was back in his carefree days as a student, it was so interesting. I think that life can be that way where we tend to romanticize the future or the past and fail to enjoy the current. As an entrepreneur you won't always know your path when you are looking at it. You will have to take calculated risks and live with those consequences, but if money is the only measure of success, there is a great chance of being disappointed no matter how much you make.

I also enjoyed finishing up Mastery. That was a great book and it helped me to learn how to fight against the natural state of things. There are many times when we have to push through the difficult to find something better and rarely does fulfillment come without a lot of sweat and tears. I needed that perspective this week as I am in some very challenging classes this semester. I know that the fight for my education is worth it, but it can be difficult to see right now. Again though, if I look back at what I have already done, I am amazed that I have come this far. I think that the more we focus on the fact that we will have to work and work hard and make peace with that, the better off we will be. This holds true with church callings, our career, our family life and pretty much all aspects. My aha moment was realizing that I need to love the work because there is not a point where the work stops. And if there is, that is not a happy point anyway.

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