Half-way Reflection

Everyday I am thankful for my organizational skills. I can specifically thank my mother for instilling this skill on me at a very young age. However, since I am a millennial, technology is very much so my "thing." Thankfully I've been able to combine my organizational skills with my technological skills to keep up with the requirements of this course. My iCal is my life. Literally. I'm not exaggerating. If I need to do something, it's scheduled in my iCal. The secret to my success in this course thus far is scheduling when all of the assignments are due into my iCal. They're coded a green-blue color and when I submit an assignment, I change it to a grey color to signify that it's completed. 

Elevator Pitch No. 2 is when I felt like giving up. It had completely slipped my mind that for that assignment I had to record a video of myself. I had a pretty bad day the day this assignment was due and I was in no mood to be cheerful in front of a camera. I reluctantly put a chair on my bed and my laptop on top of it and looked at this ridiculous rig of a "tripod" I made. However, once I read over what we had to actually say/do in the video, my attitude changed. I was excited to talk about my topic. Thankfully I'm no stranger to public speaking and I was able to get the video knocked out in two takes. Sometimes you just have to make a makeshift tripod and talk about something you love and you'll forget about the bad day you had. 

Three tips for next semester's ENT3003 students about fostering the skills that support tenacity and developing the 'tenacious mindset:

1. MAKE NOTE OF ALL ASSIGNMENT DUE DATES AND TIMES -- Whether you write it down in your iCal, real agenda, or on a post-it note on your desk, write them down SOMEWHERE. 
2. Now that you've written down the due dates and times, plan time to actually do them. However, read the assignments while you plan for when you'll do them. Some assignments will take longer than expected and it's better to know that before you try to knock it out the hour before you have to submit it. 
3. Take pride in your blog. It's your own unique space on the Internet so fun with it! 

P.S. I still can't spell entrepreneurship without spell check...