Half-way Reflection

To be completely frank I wasn’t aware the class involved anything that it does when I signed up for it. It was one the last days of the drop/add and I was undecided about an extra class I wanted to take because I had too few credits left to graduate. Someone I asked for advice brought it up and I immediately liked the idea because it actually is something I want to pursue right after graduation. Having been raised in a very entrepreneurial family, creating and running a business has always been my ultimate goal and everything else as a means to it. However my organizational skills are not great and hence I found the number of assignment to do and share and declare at the beginning a little overwhelming. However I quickly realized I had to structure myself and take on these assignment one by one. Then came the part when you need to interview random people. On camera. At first I thought this was simply not going to be possible. I know myself I wouldn’t answer any such request positively easily. And in fact since week 3 I have yet to miss an assignment, that includes all the ones where you needed to approach people in the street and ask them to interview with you on camera. And every next time I did it, it felt a little easier. I reproved to myself that there is no skill or challenge that you can’t better at by doing more of it. And I believe that’s the way to become a more tenacious person. It is by realizing that you may be rejected and turned down or obstructed for and by various reasons and factors but if you stick to what you believe and have propose something of value your path to success will eventually clear. If you do not approach your goals and what drives you with this attitude, you may find yourself in a dead road, when the road is not really dead, you just haven’t tried hard enough to arrive at the next turn. My first tip to develop such a mindset is think about whether you know yourself well enough. Are you really doing what you love or what a combination of family, society and media opinion have forced upon you. Second, get yourself out there. Go and approach people, lack of experience can only be overcome by working on gaining that experience, and every new challenge will make anyone uncomfortable, but there is no other way around it than facing it. Thirdly, do not take anything negative personally. People who will try to put you down either are suffering inside themselves or trying to challenge you think your ideas further. Whatever the reason, take nothing personally, incorporate feedback into your future analysis and march on.