New Day

In Og Mandino's scrolls, he mentioned reading each scroll three times everyday. This reminded me a lot of something that my mission president had us do during the mission, and has done for his entire business profession. He would read his goals that were written on a card along with affirmations. He paces the floor, while reading them aloud morning and night, and then looks at the card throughout the day.

I've heard that every successful person has been called crazy at least once in their lifetime. It's because success has a price that has to be paid before the reward. One can not receive an advance of success ; it just doesn't work that way. I believe that success is gained by way of pain, struggle and a goal that was intended to be reached. Anything else is merely a pleasant happenstance.

Goals are meant to be made, discipline to be developed, and willpower to increase. Life is an obstacle course, a school, a playground that we may learn to create, to govern and to love. It's not easy, and it will make the soul groan with strain and weariness at times; however, as Alma states of repentance in The Book of Mormon, the pain is as sweet as the joy.

Three Pronged Fork

There are three things that I potentially plan to do someday. Perhaps I will only choose one, or perhaps I will not choose any.

My first plan was to go into Human Resources in talent acquisition because I really enjoy working with people and helping people to live and discover their potential. As I have worked as a manager in my current workplace, I feel not only the satisfaction of helping others to grow professionally by developing good habits, I also see myself growing by building leadership skills, habits and discipline to maintain those habits.

My second choice would be my own start up, though the idea came from my brothers, who enthusiastically entertained the idea of opening a restaurant. Though one wants more to manage a personal business, the other would like to operate a chain business. As I have talked to owners of both divisions, I have come to more of an understanding of the demands and stress that both choices could include.

Lastly, I have entertained the thought of selling massage services in the home. I enjoy massage and it could bring added income to the family, while bringing more flexibility to customize my time to the needs of my family.

50 Strange things

1. Finish my book
2. Find a fossil
3. Go parasailing
4. Run a marathon
5. Write a bucket list
6. Grow everything to make a meal
7. Go to a Broadway play
8. Learn a different language
9. Open the Granola Bar
10. Change a tire
11. Meet the 3 Nephites
12. Learn to dance
13. Watch the sun rise on a mountain
14. Train a seeing eye dog
15. Become a foster parent
16. Design a dress
17. Play in a softball game
18. Design a set in a play
19. Learn a skill to help someone
20. Learn to drive stick shift
25. Go on a kayaking trip
26. Learn how to swim
27. Overcome a fear
28. Visit 50 temples
29. Bring someone to a temple open house
30. Write a biography
31. Read entire standard works in 1 year
32. Build a tree house
33. Eat a banana straight from a tree
34. Eat squirrel meat
35. Go fishing in the ocean
36. Decorate my own house
37. Go on a trek
38. Serve a mission with my husband
39. volunteer at a Special Olympics
40. Hold a blood drive
41. Organize a charity drive
42. Find a gem in a mine
43. Go to lego land
44. Go hang gliding
45. Witness someones last breath
46. Take my mom bird watching
47. Let a butterfly land on my hand
48. Go see my dad
49. Play a major role in a play
50. Refurnish a desk
51. grow a plant from seed
52. Drive through the redwood tree.

Week 1- Ponderance

Training as a manager at wendy's makes me think a lot. There are actually a lot of parallels already in what I've learned in the past about managing a business, what I'm learning now as a manager, and what I learn in my business classes.

One thing that really stood out to me this week is "plan B" because of a recent lunch rush where Brittany went into labor, and I had to shift my crew around to the best I could maintaining a high level of quality in speed, service and product. Sometimes things happen, and they aren't really good things and they might not be bad things, they are just things that derail the plan, and you have to make a new plan.

So, let the planning begin!