Learning the Startup of Me

 I have really been enjoying the book we are reading on Mastery. It is opening my eyes about things that I need to change so that I can experience what it feels like to enjoy mastery of something. I am a person that learns things very quickly, and I thrive on being able to pick up new knowledge and skill and remembering it. Something that I learned from the reading was that to become a master at something this is actually the opposite of what you want to do. The beauty of mastering something comes in the mind set of always being a beginner and taking things slow.  This brings me to my next thing, which is the patience you need to be a master and to teach others when you do become one. That is not one of my strong suits. Since I tend to learn things quickly and it feels easy to me, I get impatient with others who take it slower and are struggling to grasp the concepts. In the book Mastery the author explains that he once had the same mindset when he was a pilot instructor for t...

      This week we started a new book on Mastery. The pages are small, the story flows and I feel like I am learning a lot more about what it means to become a master of something. I have also learned that I am guilty of doing the very opposite of become a master, which is learning a skill to  simply beat someone else, gain money or get a good grade. It is true that we are raised to chase after winning, no matter the situation we are in.  I have seen this in myself this week even. I like having good grades, and sometimes I put getting a good grade above what I am actually learning. My husband keeps me grounded when I get nervous about not doing well on an assignment by asking me "did you learn something new, and did you try?". For that reason and many more I am very grateful I am doing school with him as my support system.  Turns out becoming a master at something is also about persevering. That word is one of the words you have heard before, but until...

      This week I learned a lot about believing in myself more. There were a lot of assignments due this week and I am not gonna lie, it was very daunting. I am taking 12 credits, 5 classes and it is a lot to plan out after not being a student for 2 years. I really liked the reading that was apart of this week. It lead me to think about setting new goals for myself. I want to take care of my body, figure out what I am good at and what I can love, and just continue to try.  The main thing that really changed my perspective this week was writing the book report for Launching Leaders. I was playing catch up a bit on reading the book, but I am so glad I read it when I did. There was a story about a fisherman and a businessman that really changed my whole perspective on how I should be living my life.  Almost everyone in my family has college degrees and it is something that is expected of me to do, because in my parents eyes that is how I will live a ...

 This week’s readings were wonderful, and I learned a lot from them. The first thing we were prompted to read were the next couple chapter of the book Launching Leaders. So far, I have enjoyed reading this book because it has the perfect balance of personal experience and information to help you improve.  These chapters focused on setting out our course to become the person we want to be in the future. Chapter 4 started out with the author telling a story about how he randomly developed a fear of flying in his adult years. At the time he traveled here and there for work and this fear was causing him to not have confidence in himself. I read that story and it was exactly what I needed to hear this week. There are fears that I have randomly developed later in life that sometimes get in the way of my day-to-day activities. It was such a comfort to know that I am not alone in that experience, and to also know that there is a way to solve it. He learned more about flying by learnin...