Week 5: Mastery: Skill, Character, or Luck

I wrote down a few notes from the video clip: A Hero's Journey.  I am looking forward to reading this book this semester! 

The questions that matter:

1. Am I a good person?

2. Have I contributed something meaningful?

3. Who did I love?  And who loved me?

·        Choose 10 role models.  Interview them about their triumphs and regrets.  

·        Ask 5 people you know well what you do better than anyone in the world.

·        Use your God-given talents to do something that brings you great joy.

·        Spend less than you make so your time belongs to you.

I wish everyone had access to this valuable knowledge we are gaining through this course.  I see so many people pursuing happiness in all the wrong places—likes on Instagram, money, fame, entertainment, pleasure, etc.  You can “make it big” and have all the material things in the world, but inner peace and true joy come from doing and being good and having meaningful relationships with Deity and family and friends. 

I am so grateful to be attending an academic institution that teaches spiritual principles along with secular wisdom and best practices.  I am grateful to be learning from those that have gone before and found success by applying principles of faith, integrity, and love.  It is so important to remember that at the end of this life, all of our material things will be stripped from us.  What we will be left with are the things that really matter: our knowledge of God and Jesus Christ, our relationships with family, and our spiritual desires to be good and become perfected in Christ.