Blog number 2

I feel like I have learned a bit this past week about my future goals and aspirations. It kind of goes hand in hand with what I was thinking about last week. Last week I realized that I need to find what I am passionate about, but I was only thinking about what I was passionate about business-wise. This week I feel like that scope was increased. Not only do I need to find what I am passionate about in the business field, but I need to find a career that will support me in my passions outside of my career. I need to find a job that will allow me to spend as much time with my family as possible. Also, a job that will help me reach my end goal, which is to start my own small guitar shop as a business. This week as I watched the video on Randy Pausch, I learned that I need to push through my brick walls. When people come to me and tell me that my goals are lofty, or might not pan out the way I think they will, I need to keep pushing. I need to stay dedicated. I feel like without dreams life would be sort of dull. Even eternally I think it is important to have dreams. I think another way to think of dreams is to have hope. I may be wrong, but I think hope is synonymous with having dreams. One of my dreams as a child was to become a rock star. I really don’ think it was a great goal, because as I get older it becomes less of a dream. Mostly because I know it would take too much time away from my family. I think the dream changed, though. It is still in the vain of the music industry, but I would love to start a guitar shop. It would allow me to be surrounded by musically talented people, I would be able to teach guitar lessons to those willing to learn, and it would allow me to spend plenty of time at home with the people that I love. That’s it for now. I am sure that I am going to continue to learn more as I take this class.