Ethics

          This week we talked about ethics in business and how it matters. I think that ethics and morals should overlap but also look for improvement in both. I think that one has to set the example for others to see how things so be in terms or workplace ethics. As we continue I think that we need to change for the better while still keeping our identity of who were are.      

  I was told once that "Hell, is when you person you are meets the person you could become." Interesting concept. I can almost picture that encounter in my mind and see all the skills and talents the better version of myself  possesses. I would imagine that experience would be very difficult. I often refer to this hypothetical version of myself when I begin to talk myself out of doing something I know to be important. This is also a great way to understand what exactly is important to you and what doesnt matter. I think people have a power to make themselves better when they are able to be self aware in the space they live. When we look at who we are and the environment we live, we are then able to observe and most importantly think about what it is we really want. When we make the hard choices first, everything else becomes easy.
   
Something I think is very important in becoming who you want to be are the goals you set for yourself. I think that wanting something is a great way to change things about yourself. I think that ones level of desire for something should be reflected by there will to do it. I think that we ultimately create our own realities with the time and energy given to us by the universe. If that is true then what would you create? Why? I think that ones goals should also be tested by questions from yourself and others. I think that people experience exponential growth in becoming who they are and that the growing period is dependent on their environment and their goals. I think that weak people allow their environment to dictate their goals while strong people experience the inverse experience.



                 This week was about how to become who you want to be and what that person should be. I think that this should be a life long pursuit because if you are not working towards something then you are being complacent. Also I think that one would need to be constantly reconsidering goals as well as being firm with others. Times change and so should we, to a degree. Ultimately, we need to be someone that will be able to to accomplish the goals we desire as well as being someone that others can use as an example.

               

          

Website construction and necessities

       This week we continued with working on our website by working on credit card transactions button and other methods that we can use to accept payments through our websites. I went with pay-pal and I designed my button so that it has been edited to my liking to optimize purchasing capability. My website is merchant based thus allowing people to purchase products from my site. Having the paypal button will greatly optimize the purchasing ability for my future customers.

 
     Also we were able to continue working on our websites and also looking at different formats and guidelines we would like to implement on our site to allow it to function more smoothly. I am going for appeal and for ease of purchasing. I feel that these two aspect will optimize my website as well as my business over all!

Passion for Passion

       This week we talked about the "Why" of things? The things that we develop passions in are typically things we have interested in and also the things we are able to succeed in. We also asked "Why" are we passionate and "Why" those areas tend to succeed? So what is passion? Is it possible to have multiple passions or can we only have one? I think that passion can be placed into to groups which are "Naturally born passions" and "Learned passions". Naturally born passions are typical passions and the easiest to succeed at but learned passions have the ability for us to grow the most. Learned passions require us to learn something out of necessity but ultimately become a joy to continue. So this begs the question " Can I become passionate about everything?". The answer to this is surprisingly no. Despite I said that people can learn to be passionate about things, you would not be able to be passionate about everything because if you did then those things would cease to become a passion.

      Passion is something that drive us to want to become better while also having the unique ability for us to enjoy doing as well. If we became passionate about everything then those initial passions would be prioritized as the same. The thing that unintentionally make a passion stand out is the fact that there are other things we dislike. But is that a bad thing? Shouldnt we be passionate about life and about everything? Yes and no. Life isnt the same thing as everything. We should be passionate about life and living but we shouldnt be passionate about everything. Passion is ultimately something that makes life worth living but if we are trying to make everything passionate then those passions become normality thus making life no longer passionate. I think the key to passion is priorities. I think that if we are able to prioritize our passions correctly then we are able to live to the fullest.

   In closing I want to share that I think that we have the ability to control our realities. I think that we are able to set a mind set that can dictate our surroundings to more desirable situations. I think, as people, we have that ability to make things more enjoyable by simply changing the way we think about things. I think once we find what makes us happy we are able to being growing in those areas and also trying to become passionate at the things we have to do also.




   

Websites ETC

     This week had so many components to that made everything feel overwhelming at first glance but then later proved to build upon one another. The first thing that I really learned was product analysis and how to choose what product will help your business the most. This proved interesting because we were required to choose 20 ideas to build a business on. Initially, I could only only think of maybe 6-7 ideas but I then pushed myself into thinking "What is it that people want verses what do they need?". This allowed me to look at things from a different perspective and I was able to expand my thinking process. Along side that new way of thinking I was then required to narrow down these choices upon certain guidelines that would prove to be most optimal. This was difficult because I realized that my initial idea would come to not be as efficient as others, thus I was forced to go with the better option. I noticed that in the instructions that people would still choose their first idea regardless of proving not to be as efficient as others. This shows that people will ignore the numbers in order to do what they want over all. I thought this was powerful and something to consider avoiding in the future and try to allow for the most efficient product.   

The necessity of fear

         Something I learned this week in me classes was the breaking down and understanding of fear. Upon this lesson I learned that fear has its purposes and is very useful. Typically we think of something scary like giant spiders and sharks when we think of fear, which is good. Fear is a survival tactic that has been installed into our survival DNA hard drive since the beginning of time. This allows us to protect ourselves preemptively without having us experience these deadly instances first hand. Many fears are simply derived from something that we simply dont understand fully. For instance, the fear of the dark isnt simply the fear of the absence of light, it is what we think might be lurking in the dark that scares us. If we simply shine a light in that dark space then are fears dissolve because we now know that there is nothing in the dark to harm us. I like this quote from JFK on darkness.

 "We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future."

 I think instead of cursing the darkness we need to appreciate what it allows us to do and grow from that.

      With this in mind fear is just a program we use to be safe and to grow, but with any program or system that has been practiced, fear is able to be misunderstood and can be abused. This can prevent people from doing what they really want to do. We cannot allow fear to prevent us from doing what it is that we dream about all day. So how are we able to defeat this abuse of our most primal instincts? Just like with the darkness, we must shine our light or simply understand what it is about that fear that makes us so afraid. When we do this we will understand that our misconceptions that our mind has come to are simply irrational and that we are then able to understand how to achieve our goals.