Week 5 Making Decisions


    In this week, we read a story about a person who has a card-making business. In the story, the person decides to take a slow growth approach to her business. She also gets feedback about her product from many families and friends. Through this process, she gets the opportunity to network and find individuals and corporate businesses to buy from her. Fast forward to the future, she has a lot of work on her hands, and she is really busy, but she can make up to 3000 a month. She has to face a decision on what to do with the business because she also wants to start a family. This creates conflict with what she wants to do in the future. In my opinion, she should hire others to help her or sell the business. This is because I think family is more important. With the business that he has now it would be hard to do both unless something changes. It was an interesting story and it helped remind me of the importance of prioritizing.


    We also focused a lot on choosing what you want to master and finding your passion in life. From the video, I learned it is sometimes not the best thing to ask yourself this question. This is because it is easy to be passionate in a lot of things and be willing to try new things. The best thing is to pick a bunch of passions that you do have and then choose which one is most important to you. Another exercise that I learned is that by asking others what you are good at, you might be able to notice things you didn't notice before. For example, you could ask a former boss what they noticed you were good at or what you excelled in. 


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