Today we visited Steve Jones Plumbing. I found both his story before marriage, and their story once married, quite inspirational. He had a tough few years and worked through it on his own because that’s the way he was raised. He didn’t want help from anyone else. He wanted to go through life making accomplishments on his own. I thought that was so brave of him and something I couldn’t see myself doing. It really told me what kind of person he was and about his work ethic. Once married, he and his wife seemed to be the same type of person. They both seemed to be strong and always pushing through the hard times knowing everything would come together in the end. What I took away from today was everything will work out in the end. As long as you believe in yourself and have a good work ethic, bad times will come to be better.

04/10/2018

Jerry McDaniel spoke with us today. He was fantastic! I liked how he just talked about his life experiences. I thought it was a good way to keep our attention and to help us understand life as an entrepreneur. After he was done talking and I was taking it all in, it got me thinking about how many opportunities I have allowed myself to miss. I am constantly overthinking and talk myself out of attending what could be an uncomfortable situation. Those opportunities, regardless of what they are, could have taught me something about myself, life, or my future, but instead, I chose to skip out on it. What I really took away from today was that I need to start committing to the opportunities I am given, whether they might make me uncomfortable or not, or I might miss out on an important life lesson. I would like to hear from him again.

02/07/2018

Jennifer Vahling talked to us at Midland today. I loved her and would love for her to talk to us again. She was so intelligent and had such a great mindset. She really changed my way of thinking, especially when she said your brain isn’t going to deny what you say; it will just agree. That made me think that I should not be so hard on myself about things and maybe I would improve. A great question she asked: "Based on how you act would you want to be friends with yourseIf?" I really enjoyed her and thought she did a fantastic job.

10/06/2017