This week learnings were amazing and I could not learn more about my life’s principles and objectives with the “What Is Your Calling in Life?” by Jeffrey A. Thompson. For a long time I have been thinking about the contributions I can make in this world, and the activities of this week were of great help to shape the process to achieve this. I still haven’t find my calling in life, but I am optimistic to find it.
Things learned
The most important thing I learned this week was to narrow my priorities, goals, stars, objectives, and guardrails. A self reflection and prayer are helpful to find our important objectives.There are different levels of importance in the goals I would like to achieve in life, and I am afraid to left the most important goals. That’s why I think is so important to find our calling in life. I learned with the Stars and Steppingstones Chart to focus on the most important achievements I would like to do in life.
Things not learned
I learned some important principles in the readings of this week, but one that stood out the most to me was about failures. The ability to have a good attitude up to failures is something I still need to learn. Randy Pausch’s last lecture made it clear the importance of failures when it confronts our dreams and objectives. The hard situations happens so we can rethink about our motivations towards that goal. If our motivations and goals remain the same then we have certainty of what we want. That’s easy to say, but in real life situation, it’s required more than a rational thinking. In “Treat life as an experiment”,Tom Kelley said about the vacuum guru James Dyson: “He was willing to tolerate lots of failures and it worked it out pretty well for him in the end.”
My thoughts about Randy Pausch's Last Lecture
- Why do you think Randy Pausch was able to achieve so many of his childhood dreams?
I think He was able to achieve many of his dreams because he set goals and didn’t give up of them when facing challenges or failures.
- Do you feel that dreaming is important? Why or why not?
- Discuss at least one of your childhood dreams. Explain why you believe you can or cannot achieve this dream.
One of my childhood dream was to be a doctor. I can say it was my childhood dream because that was all I talked about and I studied for. Until someday I realized that dream was my parent’s dream, not mine. When I reached the age to dream by myself this dream confronted my real dream, to have an eternal family, having a man of God as husband and be a full time mother. This may sound cliche being a member of the Church, but from a child that grew up without a proper family, having a family with father mother and children going to Church was a dream to me.
Be a doctor is not possible first because it was not really my dream, but my parent’s dream, which was important until a certain point due the fact that it helped to occupy my mind with something good, I had good grades because of that, and it motivated me to be anything I wanted be. Second, I cannot be a doctor because I learned after I became mother that I am too sensitive to deal with blood and everything else. I am grateful for people that are strong to follow their dream to be doctor because I need their knowledge.
