This week has been very enlightening for me.
I was able to study some wonderful lectures about finding my calling,
following my dreams, and even created my fifty item bucket list. There were a few things that stood out to me
during my videos and readings to study this week. One was from the talk by Jeffrey A. Thompson
called, What is Your Calling in Life, “Think
back on your childhood. It may bring to
mind something that you are good at. To
help you find your spiritual gifts.”
This stuck out to me because when I heard it I immediately started to
think of the things that I realized I was good at as a kid. Some examples of these were: I was good at
bossing my siblings around, I was and still am a quick learner in hands on
work, I loved and still do love to read, and I loved to make up stories. When I thought of these things, it helped me
reevaluate what I want to do with my life.
Another thing that popped out to me was from the eCorner
video with Tom Kelley called, “Using Your Whole Brain” and he spoke about the
Tortoise Brain. I liked this a lot
because it helped explain to me why I have the strangest dreams with amazing
ideas coming out of them frequently. I’m
sure there is more going on than my “tortoise brain” working in the background
of my mind and revealing things in story form in a dream. However, this really enticed me to look again
at the dreams I have kept record of and decide if there are any that are worthy
ideas for a story of some sort for my dream of becoming an author.
The last thing that I really think helped me is a reaffirmation
of failing and being willing to fail. I’ve
heard of people who have framed their first failed business license or their
first rejection letter from an agent or publisher because it helps them to
remember that failure is only one step into achieving their dreams. In the eCorner video with Tom Kelley called, “Treating
Life as an Experiment”, he says, “You have to be prepared for some stuff to
fail.” This is my reaffirmation that it
is always okay to fail at things in life.
I don’t want to be a failure at everything I try, but I really am willing
to fail or be rejected in some things because I can learn what I did
wrong. As I start to work on my bucket
list of fifty items, I know that some of those things will possibly end in many
failures. I will just have to get up,
dust off, and move through the failure to succeed.
Treat Life as an Experiment by Tom Kelley
Using Your Whole Brain by Tom Kelley
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