W09 Reflection: Entrepreneurial Journal

I had a difficult week this week. In an effort to improve my poor quiz scores due to problems with information retention from all the readings and videos, I decided to open the quiz first and read the questions before doing the reading and studying.

Not only did it not really help (I still did not get the score I wanted) I accidentally botched the quiz by never closing the window. When I went to take it, it had been considered turned in with a zero. Luckily the teacher gave me a second go of it. On top of that the reading itself seemed extra boring this week. It wasn’t anything I found particularly interesting. Plus, despite having the quiz questions open and next to me the whole time I still found it difficult to find the answers. I wanted to give up. But I remembered what we had been learning about persevering. I realized that this was an opportunity to practice that, to practice pushing on despite difficult circumstances.

I did, and though I missed an assignment, messed up the final quiz, and felt so down on myself I managed to make it through the week.

That and I did learn a few things despite being so bored with the reading. How to hire good people and how to make a company great (even if I disagreed with a lot of that piece) are a couple things that stood out to me. I also liked what we learned about how being a disciple is always striving to grow more like Christ and also to lead others to him when possible. That played a role in my week, even outside of the school work. As a reward for my efforts, I took my wife out for ice cream. It is the middle of the winter but we didn’t care. She had a pretty difficult week herself. So, we felt like we deserved it.