We often forget our priority in our life while we are doing our job. Priority is important for our lives, which keep us to maintain the relationship with family members, religious faith, personal time, and culture. The journal named, "How Will You Measure Your Life?" in Harvard Business Review, which is written by Dr. Clayton Christensen, alert about unclear positioning priorities between our jobs and our personal lives. The article mainly emphasized on creating a strategy, building a purpose, allocating resources, creating a culture, avoiding the marginal costs mistake, remembering the importance of humility, and choosing the right yardstick. This essay will only emphasize on creating a strategy in life based on the journal. There are many ways of creating a strategy, but this essay will focus on having the motto, making short-term and long-term goals, and itemizing work and personal life to build better purpose in our lives.…
I am not going to start this off with a quote because that's what everyone else is doing. I am Avery Peak and I hate doing things someone has already done. I like being creative in my own way, that's why I have a grain shoot for an exhaust in my truck and rolling on 37inch mud tires.…
When I decide to read, listen to music or go on a walk with my dog I contemplate on how we all use our time. I always come back to the same thing we waste our time in worlds that are fictional to help us cope with our problems rather than face them. I have a saying I picked up and it goes ,“I don't invite life’s challenges but I don't back down from them either.” Entering the time as to where I am making the transition from teenager to adult…
Something that changed me and let me be the person who I am today is friendship. Friends can raise you high above the skies. Or, they can pull you down under the ground.…
Over the course of my long life (or lives depending on how you look at it) I have been known by many names. And not all of them translate exactly. My latest and last one is Gracen. I do not know how old I am, nor do I really care. All that matters is that I get two square meals a day and a warm bed at night. An occasional pet behind the ears is nice too. It’s times like this, late at night in my bed, when I reminisce back to where it all began.…
Throughout the course of a week, I was able to follow through on the 30 Day Minimalism Challenge.…
My whole life I have been a leader, the rule maker, the boss, a take charge and a "get stuff done" type of person. These qualities I attribute to being the oldest sibling, raised by a strong mother, and a stepfather determined to raise another man’s child as best he could. I thrive in situations where I can have control and can help guide a team or myself to the best possible outcome. I apply these characteristics to nearly every aspect of my life, sometimes to a fault. After dropping out of college eight years previously, to follow my dreams of being a makeup artist, I woke up one day and decided my life need a change. Not completing school had always weighed on me over the years like an unfinished task needing to be done. So, why now, what changed? My outlook on life shifted after meeting a special little boy named Jackson.…
When I was little, I decided that I was going build a time machine and jump from age twelve to twenty because I did not want to be a teenager. From watching TV and observing my older sister, I thought all teenagers we required to be moody, yell at their parents, and wear dark clothes. I did not want to be that way. Slowly, I began to realize that my perception of the teenage years was a little off. In eighth grade my view of calling and what it meant to be a teenager was transformed when I read Do Hard Things: A Rebellion Against Low Expectations by Alex and Brett Harris, and it gave me the push to begin pursuing ministry as a fourteen-year- old.…
Throughout our lives there are many obstacles we have to face, some may shape us and some may scar us years onward. My story is a common one that countless people have faced that got in the form of disguise that isn’t always pretty. Approximately ten years ago when I was a regular third grader, when life seemed to be rosy and full of fairytales, that nothing can be worse than not having your favorite meal at lunch, I had a theatre performance that changed my life.…
I believe, as humans, we take aspects of life for granted; It’s a fatal flaw we all possess. Many of us are healthy, naturally smart, and grow up in ideal environments, but there are also many who do not. I am privileged enough to have grown up in a well rounded environment, so I have this frequent need to help others. I feel I would be taking my life for granted if not using it to help others. My application would be incomplete if I could not express how helping others makes me, me.…
Every single human being on this earth has dealt with an obstacle or challenge in their life.From the newborn who only took a single breath,to the grandparents who has lived to 100.And when we realize this,at least when I did,is when I felt less alone in my journey of hardships.…
Do you remember when we used to go to Oregon every summer to visit Tia Lupita? Those were the best memories from my childhood. I loved spending family time together. Going to the lake every Sunday, bowling on Saturdays, going to my games during the weekdays and supporting me and my brothers were the highlights of my childhood. Do you remember all the amazing times we had and how much closer we were back then? Things are really different now, but they don't have to be.It’s a lot busier now with school, your work, and basketball, so we don’t really have much time in our schedules to spend time together, but we can try to make each day worth living.…
It is amazing how many things we take for granted. We make plans for the day, and don't think twice about how those plans can be taken away in the blink of an eye. I never thought much about it myself, until I was faced with the shock , and undeniable truth of my cousin's death. I don't think anyone really thinks about tragedy until they are actually faced with that horrifying moment in their lives .…
I am passionate. struggles in life leave mental and emotional scars. as for me, having a sense of passion or a strong spirit have helped me make it through the day or where I am right now. failure may come my way but it is through passion that I will move beyond my shortcomings.…
Charles Spurgeon once said, “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” Happiness can be determined based on how much a neurotransmitter, such as a dopamine, in the brain is produced. It can be also defined as when one rewards oneself for their own achievements of their goals.…