Week 7

We are at the end of week 7 now. It feels good to be half way through and I am finally starting to feel competent in some of my other classes. This week in B 183 I finished reading Mastery. I thought this was a good book. The way that he described different people (the dabbler, obsessive and hacker) was intresting and I can see myself spending time in each of those areas in my life. Hopefully I will be better prepared moving forward to become a master. The thing that I keep thinking about this week after everything that we read and watched is the step 3 of the 7 habits of highly effective people "Put first things first". His descriptions of the 4 different types of activities has made me examine each activity I do and see where it fits. Thinking about these categories helps me to better analyze myself and how I am spending my time. Is what I am doing urgent but not important? Is it neither urgent nor important? If I keep this in mind going forward it will help me to use my time more wisely and hopefully I will be able to transition more of my time into category 2 and work on things that are important but not urgent. I also really loved the talk from President Hinckley this week. He sure had a way of showing his love and understanding when he spoke. The section where he spoke about us being children of God stood out to me. "You are in very deed a child of God ...He is your Eternal Father. He loves you. You can go to Him in prayer. He has invited you to do so. Every one of you knows this, and what a wonderful thing this is. He is the Greatest of All. He is the Creator and Governor of the universe. And yet He will listen to your prayer!" This is such a comforting statement to me. God is the Creator but He will still listen to my prayers. Overall, this has been a great week and I hope that I can remember the things that I learned moving forward.