Week 5 Journal Entry

This week I learned a lot about mastery and perseverance. Creating a "personal board of advisors" for my life was a difficult assignments, considering I could choose anyone, living or dead, and there are so many people to choose from! Plus, trying to vary the people I chose so that I would get different viewpoints was hard, because it seemed easiest just to choose all prophets or members of my faith, and I think it's important to have even different religious viewpoints accounted for, because with the exact same beliefs we may not have different ideas as often. Watching "A Hero's Journey" was enlightening to me. Jeff talked about how the three questions that remain for those at the end of their life are: Have I contributed to something meaningful? Am I a good person? Who did I love and who loved me? These questions are something I want to remember and consider throughout my life, so I can be sure of the answers to them when I get to the end of my life. I loved as well that he talked about mistakes he made in his life that he hopes we will learn now and not wait to make the mistakes ourselves. Mostly, how important it is to spend time with our family, and how that should not be replaced by working too hard. As a stay-at-home mom, I do spend time with my kids, but is the time spent well? Am I making memories with them that they can remember, and teaching them things that will bless their lives? This is something I can improve, now, while they're still young and I still have the opportunity.