The beginning of a new adventure and semester.

This is my first-time blogging, but I'm excited to blog and be able to look back on my journey through this class. In my studies this week, I read some advice that I thought was super important. Decide where you want to be in ten years and plan how you will arrive at this goal. With your plan in hand, be ready to adapt to changes and keep moving forward with your goal. Guy Kawasaki made a comment about starting a business. He said, “Don’t start a business because it’s hot, do something because you enjoy it.” He also made the comment to start a business to help people and not just to make money. The business that is to help people will be more successful. If you’re in the business to just make money, you lose sight of what is important.

I am looking forward to this semester and what I will be learning. I am excited to learn more about what an entrepreneur is. I want to learn what it will take to start my own business to give the idea of what I’m jumping into. I always thought it would be a great idea to open my own café, serving pastries and sandwiches. As I think about this idea, I also wonder how I can help people in the community with my café.

As I have served in different leadership positions in the church, I feel like these experiences will help me be a better leader and owner of a café. I will be able to communicate, organize, and lead my employees in a nice and professional way. I feel that doing the Pathway program and doing the life skills class also prepared me to know a little more on how to balance work, family, and church.