One last lecture. Don't give up. 

I think that desiring to be an entrepreneur can play with your mind a little. One minute you're so excited about your ideas and research and the next you can be filled with self doubt. So my favorite thing that I have learned from this class and would share with someone else, is simply don't give up. Your success is around a corner and even though you can't yet see it. it is there. It requires you to keep going long enough to get around the corners. 

This semester was filled with car accidents, major family happenings and changes and some financial strain. My own small business took a downward turn and instead of the complete joy it has been so far, it has become a little stressful and even a little depressing. But, I can take my own advice! Don't give up! I have learned some very important lessons that will help me with this business as well as with any other that comes later. The education that comes through grit and persistence is as valuable in ways, as a college education.  Lifelong learning is the most important kind because it opens your mind to see new opportunities and it shifts your thinking to see failures as education and not failures. 

One of my favorite parts of the course was reading case studies that gave an overview of a person's experience. It helped me to see that unforeseen things will happen! Adjustments will need to be made! And that persistence and hard work coupled with the ones ability to learn can bring great rewards!

My very most favorite thing about this semester was seeing the ways that successful people reach out to others and use their talents to bless. I hope that I will continue to seek out and find opportunities to serve, right where I am right now, and someday in more monetarily substantial ways.