My Journey From Ordinary to Extraordinary

  Chase Your Dreams     This week we learned about chasing your dreams and dreaming big. That caused me to pause and think to myself and ask the following questions. Who or what caused me to stop chasing my dreams? and Do I dream big enough?     I remember as a kid I had big dreams and I wanted to chase them and then one day or more like over time things changed. I didn't believe in myself and I didn't dream big anymore and I was no longer chasing my dreams. Dreams don't chase us, we chase our dreams! I realized this week what it takes to make our dreams come to fruition. I'm going to let you in on what it takes to make your dreams come true. Our dreams don't just land in our lap one day or it isn't like Santa and Christmas where you wake up and your dreams are wrapped up in some pretty wrapping paper with a nice beautiful red bow around it. This is how our dreams happen..... are you ready!? It's hard work, long days and late nights, and hard work! Did I me...

MOVING FORWARD     This week I was able to finish the book Mastery by George Leonard, in this book I was constantly reminded of the movie The Karate Kid. My mind was constantly drawn to the part where the main character Daniel LaRusso is being mentored by Mr. Miyagi, and he has to paint the fence and wax the car. Daniel is wondering why he has to do all this repetitive work, because he just wants to know when he's going to learn how to defend himself from the schools bullies. He want's to learn Karate! Well to learn the art of Karate it takes hours, months and years of practice.     In the world we live in we want it now, whatever it is, we don't care or even comprehend how many hours somebody puts into become great at their sport, we want it now. Like right now! Daniel LaRusso wanted it now, but through patience and learning the basics he was able to become great at Karate and beat the school bully at a Karate tournament.     In this book Mastery...

  A Hero's Journey This week I asked a few friends and family the following question. "What do I do better than anyone else in the world?" I received back some shallow answers that had no substance to them and were for lack or better words worthless. The one answer I received back was from my best friend and a successful entrepreneur. He stated he didn't like how the question was worded. He rephrased the question to be "What are you good at in the world?" I'll admit as he did there are people who are better than anyone else in the world, like athletes, business leaders and investors. That leads me to this question, is Warren Buffett the best investor in the world? Not by a long shot, but he's the most well known great investor. The reason is because he is a contrarian in relation to the masses on Wall Street. Another thing I learned about this week was what I believe will be the single greatest lesson during my summer semester at BYU-I. The lesson wa...

  Ethics & Launching Leaders