Journal Entry #2
This was a fantastic week I have learned to rock climb, form
PPC tables, and outline what my base motivations are in life. The Focus of this
Blog will be founded on three question from a few of my readings this week,
Stars and stepping stone, What is your calling in life, and the book “Mastery”.
It was very interesting to look at how intertwined these readings were, looking
at the most base level of your own desires. To start out I want you to take a
second and think about these three questions.
1.
“What
is important to you? “
2.
“Why
do you get out of bed in the morning?”
3.
“What do you want to have accomplished by the
time you are seventy?”
Now take time to really think about each of these and write
your answers down. Tomorrow morning when you get up I want you to re-ask
yourself the first question and think is really why I am awake right now or is
there something else and adjust your answer.
I found that when you’re in the moment of occurrence you
find your motives differ. Like what is important to you, when you wake up feel
like sleep but is it more important to be at school, or yet more important to
not disappoint a spouse of parent. The deep motive is really hard to find and
yet and be shown to have the greatest effect on what you will become and do in
life.
Now the next hard thing to do is to envision yourself at 70
years old, I am 26 heck I can envision myself at 35. So how do we go about
finding out what we want to accomplish by the age of 70? First you need to look
at what you want, then start to go around and look at what people have done
with their lives, when I had to make a bucket list of 50 things this week it
seemed hard at first but as I continued through the week I started to search
and ask what others had done in their lives and really anything is okay as long
as it brings you the happiness you desire.
Lastly what I would like to talk about is a short video
entitled the last lecture by Randy Pausch, it was a very insightful video into
the importance of never quitting on your dreams. I really was touched by the
love and devotion that this dying man had for all of mankind. I feel that Randy
really was able to accomplish his dreams by focus and love, he had passion for
and loved technology and his other loves like family and friends added in
different ways to that passionate fuel.
Dreams are the basis for your greatest goals you deepest desires and
ever surmounting wants. You can never stop dreaming or you will lose yourself
to someone else’s dreams. One of my dreams as a child was to have a cabin in
the woods where I was free to go out and explore everyday where the sun was the
only clock I needed and my hands were my greatest devices. I feel and know that
I will have this dream as reality some day because it is part of my most
fundamental wants for my children to know and see what I used to imagine as a
child in the city; a vast wondering forest of untold wonder all around, where
you can be anything you want to be and try and fail at anything as long as you
keep trying.
In all Never stop dreaming and let the foundation of those
dreams drive you through the trials and failures because you know that with
strength and patience you will be able to achive anything.
