Week 8 Entry

 The first activity that we did this week was centered around a discussion on the most difficult thing holding us back from success in our entrepreneurial journey. I talked a lot about how I always think too far and too much into the future, and I don’t take moments to sit back and enjoy the present. I am a planner, and whenever I reach a milestone and accomplish a goal, I never take the time to appreciate accomplishing it and look at how far I have come. I am always on to the next goal, the next step, and I don’t feel like I have done enough. I have to keep pressing in the direction I want to be to try to reach a ceiling that raises as I get closer to it. I will never arrive where I want to be. There are pros and cons to this. I know it will keep driving me in the right direction and give me the motivation to move forward, but I need to take a step back and enjoy the journey, because that is where the fulfillment and joy comes from. All of the successful people I know would trade all the time, success, and money to have more time and memories with their family, spend the time they used building worldly success on the things that were eternal and mattered most. I want to work hard, make a great living, and have worldly success, and I don’t think there is anything wrong with that desire, but I need to want it for the right reasons, being that I want the freedom to spend time with my family, invest my effort into raising them the best I can, giving them the life that they deserve and serving the people around me. 

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