Another week gone by and there were lots of great readings and clips.
I think there was a lot of great things that helped me in the venue of believing in yourself.
We had Randy Pausch's last lecture and here is a man who is dying and shares with us slices of his life. He is positive and he accomplished many of his childhood dreams. I think he is really inspiring. He was tenacious and happy and he got a lot done that way. It's something I can learn from and want to learn from.
He also shared great insights from things he's learned from mentors and friends like from Jon Snoddy about how you have to wait long enough so that people you meet get a chance to show you who they are and that's when you'll be impressed.
I love that and I believe it because I've experienced that moment when patience with someone pays of in making a great friend in life.
It's just a good reminder to really think about what you would say if it was your last chance and I think at the same time makes you think about what you'd really do with your life if you had a known time limit.
Which connected straight with the Bucket List activity we did. I actually have a list from when I was around 16 or 17 of a 100 things I want to do before I die and it's been neat to see how I've accomplished quite a bit of those. I didn't actually have access to it when I made this new list. I wonder if there are crossovers.
I was surprised at myself because it seemed hard to come up with that list of 50, harder than when Id made my 100 list. Maybe because I'm older I'm more cautious and take things too seriously. I'm pretty sure on my original list I have silly things like, "find Graceland."
I think a Bucket List is an important and good thing to have and update throughout a life.
I also really enjoyed Tom Kelley. I haven't had a chance to listen to all his clips but I hope to later on.
I watched the clip about thinking like a traveler and he made a good point about how when you're travelling your brain is on high alert. That you just SEE everything because you're trying to soak it all in. He shared this great quote, "The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes." -Marcel Proust
The clip about treating life like and experiment was huge for me too. I get so nervous about failure and success and I just love that he reminded me that lots of people fail and fail and fail again and then finally, because they didn't give up, they have a great success!
I really liked how Haykin talked about his strengths and weaknesses. It really reminded me of Elder Hollands talk in the April conference. Haykin gave himself credit for the things he is good at first and then commented on where he wants to improve. That's what Elder Holland admonished us to do. I love when connections like that crop up for me and I think it's something I'm pretty good at, but I need to work on giving myself credit for strengths first and then not saying how much I stink at this or that but looking at how I can improve.
So this week I think really helped me think about how I am going to fail at times and that is okay and also that I will succeed if I just never give up.
Being kind to yourself, especially while you're learning something new is important as well.
Good stuff!
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