Entrepreneur's Journal

 Week 11 Study     I enjoyed this week's study as I am interested in finances. In my opinion, my view on money impacts the way I live. I see money as a tool to help enhance things in my life but not a thing to make my life 100 percent better. I consider myself to be a minimalist and I could go on about that but one of the core things about minimalism is finding joy outside the material things in life. Yes, it is fun to have nice things, but it is more important to make sure you meet your needs. With this in mind, I have gotten rid of a lot of things that do not provide me with joy, and I have found more joy in those around me and in living a simple lifestyle where I can provide enough for myself to meet my basic needs. My point is, we must learn how to find joy OUTSIDE of money.

 Week 10     This week's study really encouraged me to take a look at myself and how I imagine myself pursuing my passions within the next couple of years. I learned about emotional intelligence and the ability to look outside myself to reach my goals. I learned about believing in myself like I believe in others and overcoming those emotional roadblocks.      As mentioned, emotional intelligence was a top lesson from this week. There are going to be times throughout our life where our emotions feel overpowering. However, we must learn to properly express them and validate them without "feeding" that emotion to grow into a habit over time. There are a few things I do to avoid this. I usually validate my feelings and say that it okay to feel that way, I then scan for more emotions that I am feeling (sometimes we express anger but are actually hurt and sad) and remember that there is more than one thing I am feeling. I then take time to calm down and recoup.      I loved a v

 Disciple Leadership      This week's readings and videos focused on being smart in choosing who you work with and how you interact with them. We should be making sure to pick wisely the people we place on our team. One of the videos stated it simply, " we try to do is we try to hire nice people...   somebody that’s got a big ego or got to have things his way to make the job satisfying wrecks it for everyone around him." The classic idea of picking people who lift others up and collaborate well stuck out to me in those words. Now, once we have a team of people we should pay close attention to how we act as coworkers. Are we bringing those with us to "higher ground" as well? In other words, does our example in actions and words help the people around us want to do and be better?      In my field of study, one is rarely working on their own. In video production, a crew works together to accomplish the goals of pre-production, production, and post-production. It wo