One part of my studies included watching clips from successful business persons. Here are two excerpts. These are in regards to brainstorming and being creative to work through problems.
"Often we're so fixated on what we want to do or what we think we know that we tune out the noise around us. [All else is a distraction and we focus on what we know best.] But that noise contains great information. Be conscious of the ways that your focus can breed it's own myopia. Remember the "thought problem", not just the answer. You need to work in your working, finding, figuring stages because that is often where the most discovery comes from." Richard Pascale, Oxford University
"Diversity in experience breeds creativity" Julia Cleverdon, Google.
Don't you do that too?!? Man there are a lot of times I am so fixated on what I want to happen, or the way I think things should happen, and it gets really boring waiting around for the world to work how I expect it to. Life is often predictable and about the same each week. But who says it has to be. We need to stop focusing on the result, on the end, on what we want... and figure out the why, how, and where to get it. The JOURNEY is why I am here, and I forget it every day. I rush through homework assignments every week to get them done because I want to do other things. But how are we supposed to learn anything if we can't pay attention to what we need to do- to get to where we want to go. We need to learn how to be comfortable with uncomfortable things. Then maybe we can learn from within our problems and issues. We have trials, we are challenged every day by the adversary and that is how it will always be. Every day we will be faced with something we don't want to do.
I spent four years of my life struggling back and fourth with school. I knew it was something I wanted to finish and accomplish but I was scared. I was scared to fail. I knew it was going to be hard and I tried so hard to go the easiest rout, and time kept dragging on and on and on. Thankfully, now, I have a year left and I will have my BA. But it was my fear of the challenge, my fear of the fight that kept me from just jumping in and pushing through it.
It is not arriving at our destination that proves success. It's the knowledge, the character, the faith, and the Trust in not just God, but in our selves that successfully empowers and improves us. SJH
There are some very important points I want to share which combine principles from last weeks post, what I've said thus far this week, and all of which is embodied in this talk. I'm referring to "Cast Not Away Therefore Your Confidence" a talk given by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, BYU devotional, 1999.
Please read this talk and think of the ways it applies to your lack of courage; increase of doubt, fear, and procrastination; and the ability we all have to use the Saviors sacrifice to push through trials. Please think of how these things work together to effect positively and negatively our ability to grow. We are creatures of growth and change. We need that to feel happy and our Heavenly Father wants to help us increase in all aspects of our lives. I will leave you this week with that talk, and two quotes I found. Enjoy, take notes, and re-evaluate what the truth in the way you live your life is.
“Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed—the courage to say no, the courage to say yes. Decisions do determine destiny.”(Words of a Prophet) Thomas S. Monson, November, 2010.
"You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make." Gordon B. Hinckley
Cast Not Away Your Confidence. J.R.Holland 1999
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