The Start-Up of You

Taken from thefourthestate.com

In the article "Your Entrepreneurs Journal" by Jeff Sandefer, he recommends splitting up each entrepreneur journal entry into different sections. The sections I have selected for my journal are What I Learned, Lessons Not Yet Learned, and my Weekly Goal.

What I Learned

One of the big takeaways for me this week came from one of the readings titled, "The Start-Up of You." The executive summary of the book explores the idea that individuals should treat their career as they would a start-up company. Successful entrepreneurs create successful start-up companies by being willing to take intelligent risks, developing a network, figuring out what sets them apart from others, and by being willing to adapt the plan when necessary. Professional success can be found by applying these skills to any type of career, start-up or not. 

A quote that I really appreciated from one of the readings this week said, "To put it simply, living a life of meaning is about living life with intent. It's about deeply, honestly knowing ourselves. And it's about developing the wisdom to appreciate that this brief spark of consciousness of ours is an enormous, rare privilege–one in which we're capable of extraordinary things."

I am really looking forward to this course and all that it has to offer. I am excited to spend time discovering what my life plan is through self-reflection and learning about other successful entrepreneurs.  I am hopeful that in learning more about what my professional life plan should be that I will be able to then live a life with intent and accomplish extraordinary things.

Lessons Not Yet Learned

The idea of permanent beta was discussed in a couple of different readings and videos this week. My understanding of permanent beta is that it's this idea that careers are always a work in progress, similar to how something in a beta testing phase is not in its final and complete phase. I would like to learn more about how I can best apply the idea of permanent beta to my future professional career.

Weekly Goal

My goal this week is to establish a schedule for accomplishing the various assignments required each week in this class. I find that I am able to get the most out of a class when I have a well-defined scheduled for when assignments are to be completed each week.