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Reach High


What an interesting and demanding week it has been. School Work, Work, Thanksgiving, and family. So many things to be grateful for! This week was a great set of lessons that inspired us to Dream Big.

In the Hero's Journey reading we learned a lot about who we want to have with us on our journey. It reminded me that if I want to get somewhere and be something, I need to surround myself with people who are going somewhere and doing things. It helped me to make a very difficult decision about the direction of my career. It is very exciting and terrifying at the same time.

We learned from Taylor Richard that we need to set high goals and that with the help of the Lord, we can meet them. He asked that we never over-underestimate ourselves because it's more fun to do great things than it is to do good things. We should allow ourselves to "DREAM HUGE."

It was very interesting to me to learn about the way Google structures its work week for developers from Marissa Mayer. They give them their entire day on Friday, or 20% of it to pursue their own creative ideas. It has resulted in two things. Their retention of developers, and the consistent innovation and ideas. Innovation is key, and in order for it to occur you do need to devout time to it's practice. I really want to try to implement some of this into my future business.

Kathy Huber, a female pioneer in the development of the internet reminded us that we need to have a sense of responsibility and tenacity as entrepreneurs. We cannot let someones "no" stop us. We need to go forward and overcome our obstacles especially as women in business, and not let set backs stop us from the pursuit of those things we love and want to accomplish.

The last article we covered talked about learning about ourselves and trying to get to the root cause of why we behave the way that we do so that we can fix things. If we are able to do this we become more effective and aware and are better able to meet the challenges that lie ahead of us.
It was Jim Ritchie's review of a book called "Your Emotional Thumbprint" by Woody Woodward

Overall, it was a good week and I feel like I learned alot! My interview appointment was very motivating. I was moved to learn that I was capable of so much if I was only willing to have grit and put in the work where no one else was.




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