October 15,2022 
This week I watched a speech called A Hero's Journey. There were several things that I liked about it and a few things that have been on my mind throughout this week. I related to the speaker who said that he had worried and wondered if he really had what it takes to succeed. I wonder this regularly. I always have ideas swirling around in my head and I want to do something about them. I think the thing that holds me back the most is my own self doubt. In this speech there was one part where he talked about waking up at age 50 or 60 and thinking that you had wasted your life. I want to overcome self doubt so that I can become all that I am supposed to become. Because I am a stay at home mother who cares a great deal about her children, I don't think I have been wasting my time or life, but I am moving into a different stage of life now. I have more time and I have learned so much about patience, time management, prioritization etc. and I want to know how to best use my time and talents to bless others.
In A Hero's Journey, it talked about being worried about the wrong things. Thinking back to my younger self, I can see times of my life where I was worried to some extent, about the wrong things. My focus was  prideful or selfish and I was worried about what others thought. I can see that, through motherhood and marriage and all the experiences that come with that, that I have changed my focus and that the things that are important to me now are of greater spiritual consequence. I feel like I am coming into my own and that I have been learning things for the past 20 years that are now going to be of great value in my entrepreneurial endeavors. 
I hope that I can spend the next 20 years doing what this speaker said, 'satisfying a deep burning need in the world,' and that I can do that with my family.

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