A Final Word

I think that writing these pages has helped me to learn more about myself. I never realized how much expressing internal thoughts into words can really help you to better understand yourself. I have learned that in order to ventilate, you have got to let it out. People, especially fellow students, do not like to hear all of your complaints. Everyone has got enough of their own stresses to not have to deal with yours as well. Journaling is a great way to get bothering thoughts out of your head so they do not just sitting there. It has also reminded me though that giving my worries, fear, and even ambitions to God through prayer and conversation with him, I can find greater peace in my life.

Journaling has restored confidence in myself and allowed me to grasp more troubling concepts. Putting your dreams, your observances, and your fears into words allows them to become more real so that you can continue to either reach them, dig deeper into them or overcome them.

This class has made me a lot more comfortable about my future. "What am I going to do with my life?" has become a more exciting question and less of a troubling one. I have realized that I do not have to have one answer to that. I have accepted that I am allowed to have more than one dream. It all depends on where the opportunities in my life present themselves and my drive to pursue them. There does not have to be and really should not be a set path in today's careers. Innovation is constantly changing our scopes of focus and if we fail to see take those turns in the scope, than we certainly will limit ourselves. We will not only we limiting ourselves, but will be putting boundaries on our field. It is an integration of field of study and ingenuity that will put creativity into an awesome new functionality. Jane Detter is absolutely correct in saying that creativity is becoming the language of today's job force. If we do not think outside of the box, than other countries will move into our box.

It is incredibly important for business people not only to catch sparks of creative energy within their own companies, but to acknowledge innovation in other fields such as science, computers, communication, health ect. Recognizing and contributing to those fields will be essential to the mobility of our economy.

Creativity and Innovation make the world go round. Think and listen. Respect the world around you. Take risks. Ask the Lord for his help. Love and be loved. Be happy and smile. That is all there is to it.

Energy (or lack thereof)

I really feel that the amount of sleep you get affects how you see the world day to day. Without having enough energy, we miss out on the details of life because all of our energy seems to be more narrowly focused (get the job done and get to bed, that is all our bodies are saying).

That is why sleep is so important to me, becuase I know how wonderful it is to enjoy the simple things in life, listen to bird chirping and stop to smell the flowers. Also with energy, you are able to formulate more creative ideas because your mind wants to think outside of the box and not just "get things done."

College definitely makes you gain an appreciation for sleep. I will never take sleep for granted again.

Time Flies

I do not know how it got to this point in the semester. How is my car already covered in pollen, how are my eyes already swelling up, how am I already preparing for finals, and finalizing summer plans? How is it that so many of my friends will be graduating in a few weeks and I do not know when I will see them again? Time baffles me. How does it seem that a place in time is so far away and then it comes and you wonder where all of that time behind you went. I look at these group projects of ours as an example. We had ample time to work on them, to figure out when our schedules would work, yet somehow it is not done. I hate to procrastinate. I get so frustrated when people will not give up a little bit of time because they think they are already too busy. Maybe they are busy, but if they keep being busy then they time they could be doing other things, like spending time with people, building relationships, is lost. I realize that we (esp. at Wake Forest) everyone can use the busy excuse every once in a while, but when we keep backing down on our responsibilities, our relationships, that is when we need to reevaluate.

I pray to God all of the time to help me to prioritize according to his plans for me because honestly that is all that matters in life. He will guide you and lead you where you are supposed to be, sometimes we forget that by trusting God life can be a lot easier. We do not need to worry about the future or the past, but just need to live in the moment and let God guide us. This does not mean that time will not fly by trusting in the Lord, but it will help us to live in the moment.

That way we will not get so caught up in the goal, but will learn to enjoy the ride.

It is when people are driven by their temptations that we go off course from the path that God has laid out for us. It not only affects yourself, but it also affects people in your environment. For instance, if you go off drinking and having fun after bailing on your group for a project saying that you have no time, then you are not only going to be hurting yourself, but also your group. They will probably have to make up for the work that you did not do. You may even end up convincing them that it is alright to put the project off. That leaves the rest of the group cooking for 3 hours in the middle of the night when they learn that this unreliable girl is wrong!

Thus I learn that time flies especially when you do not want it to. I would have loved to go to sleep when I was first in bed at 11:30, starting to write this blog, but now I have a bunch more soup in my fridge and my stomach is very full from sampling everything 3 hours later and I am finally back in bed. I do not even stay up this late on weekends, my group better appreciate this.

Life is Blind

It is sometimes very troubling not knowing what is coming next. When are we going to fail or succeed? When are we going to be scared or excited? When are we going to feel love or remorse? When are we really being blind to the obvious?

Only God knows. We must be patient and trust that the path he has laid out for us is exactly where we need to be. How do we follow that path? Follow the Lord. How? Pray, believe, love yourself, love your neighbor, love God.

That easy? Nope. It is not easy being blind but faith is blind. Work with it. Struggle.

Inspired

I have been meaning to write on my blog for a while now, I do not know why I keep putting it off of my list. I just have not felt particularly inspired of what to write about. Tonight, however, I was inspired. I was inspired by all of the other entrepreneurs at the Reward's Ceremony tonight. Hearing about what my peers are doing makes me realize I have that drive too. I know I do, but recently it has not been coming out. I think I have been kind of holding myself back for a while. My first semester freshman year I was really getting involved in so many great things, then I joined a sorority and kind of forgot about a lot of those things and got involved in other great things. I do miss the Entrepreneurship Society that I used to be involved in and I miss some of the other things that I started to get involved in too. I think that I need to re-evaluate what I need to give my time to for my future.

I need to feel the excitement that I used to feel with my jewelry business again and maybe for another venture too. I just keep putting it aside when really it is something I am very passionate about and I want to see where I can take it and take opportunities up that are presented to me like so many of the students at the rewards banquet tonight have.

I decided that I need to be more in touch with the other entrepreneurs on campus because I can see that we all have this energy toward our ventures that is very inspiring. Maybe I should start to go to E-society again and suggest peer groups to share ideas within smaller groups and help each other. I am already eating with a fellow entrepreneur tomorrow for lunch to get me excited to make some moves with my business.