30 March 2013

Business and Religion

So I'm taking a couple interesting classes. A religion class and an entrepreneurship class...and they are quite similar to each other.



Hear me out!

There is a frequent theme in my entrepreneurship class in that each presenter we've had come in, more often than not poses the question, "What would you do if you weren't afraid?"

Lately, the question posed in my religion class discussions has been, "What are you doing, because you are afraid?"

Fear is quite a motivator and a barrier. I doubt anyone enjoys fear playing a role in their lives. We want to be motivated by inspiration and pursuits that lead to happiness and fulfillment. How often though, do you do things because you're afraid?

In both classes, a conclusion frequented in discussion and through examples of stories and case studies is that when fear is the motivator it prevents us from reaching our greater or greatest potential.We might get somewhere, but we won't maximize our potential.

While I think a little fear is natural when we take risks, and maybe it is healthy to have a sense of fear. More than that though, should be a positive force (which depending on the class is called either "God" or "destiny")  motivating us and urging us to think bigger and do things that are called "difficult".





20 March 2013

Why I'm Blogging Again

Here I am, at the ol' blog again. I'm really excited about doing this. After these few year of chilling in the Business School, staring at Excel spreadsheets and reading weird formulas...I definitely do not write as much as I used to. My inner English major isn't too pleased. And that's putting it mildly, my inner English major is having an absolute FIT!

For those who didn't know, before I changed my major to Finance and kicked butt at that. I started my college career as an English major with ambitions and dreams of writing. I switched majors after having my writing graded and despite the highly similar quality and content...I got an A in one class and a D in the other, I realized a degree in English wasn't going to make be a better writer, just a very confused one.

Now, just so there is no confusion. I love my major. I switched to Finance for a reason. I find money fascinating, I love learning how it works in our economy, in business, and in our lives. Although the classes are difficult and sometimes frustrating, when all is said and done, I love the challenge, my classes really push me. I feel like college has helped me get tools to actually do well in a profession and that there is real application for what I learn.
Most of the time...there was that one professor who went on rants on and on and on that I'm still wondering if just may there might have been something useful in that lengthy expose on the Mafia in New York. I think what I got out of that was to be leery of shady looking Italian restaurants.

I need to start blogging again because creativity is such an important and valuable skill, even as a Finance nerd. Success comes from thinking differently and being able to see above and beyond is already there. I quite enjoy writing, this blog will be a nice excuse for me to post stuff. Perhaps my friends will be so kind as to goad me to write more so I get more practice.

I'm not completely sure what I'll do in this blog. I might post some poetry, vignettes of my life, maybe talk finance...for now just whatever strikes my fancy I suppose!

What do you think I should write about? What kinds of blogs do you like best? Send me a link to your blog! Send me links to blogs you like!

14 March 2013

Life 2.0

As you might have noticed, this blog has gotten a face lift and ALLLLLL of it's posts deleted. Yup. Everything is gone.

It's been a long while since I posted, and what I'm doing now is somewhat dangerous. I'd like to start blogging again...but obviously I haven't in a long while. This pattern may continue in to the future. If my life had stayed the same two years in a row something would be seriously wrong. Twenties are the years for exploring the world, trying new things and figuring out how the decades down the road are going to look like for you. That kind of thing doesn't lend it self to "comfortable" routine.

However, I am seeing more stability in my life moving in. I'm newly married. In another semester I'll be graduated from the university with my bachelor's in Finance. I'm young! I'm still spending a few minutes every morning amazed at where life has taken me at my age. If all this happens by the time you're my age...what happens with the rest of life?

I'm excited about what could happen next. I'm nervous too. That's the thing about "anything could happen"...you kind of get a mixed bag of good stuff, bad stuff...annnnd average stuff. I'm doing the best I can with what I understand and know and just going at it. I'm hoping it all works out. But it will, I mean, things don't always work out exactly how you anticipate despite your best laid plans, but that's kind of the awesome part. Sometimes you end up with better, or a learning experience...or something not good or bad, just different.

So I guess that's where I'm at in life. I'm hoping to blog again next week! We'll see how my workload goes. I miss writing, so I'm going to make an effort to do more of it.