Launching Cait

Randy Pausch's last lecture was really wonderful to watch. Knowing that it was literally his last lecture made his words even more impactful. He had some valuable words of advice for someone, like me, who is still working on making her dreams come true. Some of them have been achieved, I've met a wonderful man and married in the temple, and I have three beautiful children. Others, I'm still working on. One part from his transcript that I want to remember: But remember, the brick walls are there for a reason.  The brick walls are not there to keep us out.  The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.  Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.  They’re there to stop the other people. I think this statement perfectly describes how he's been able to accomplish all of his childhood dreams. He told himself as a child that he was going to do something, then his brain spent the rest of his li...

Starting the semester off with a B on my first quiz was disheartening for a gal who has set her sights on getting all A's. And because I'm dramatic, it went from just a B on a quiz to "There's no way I'm going to be a successful entrepreneur." Because if I can't do it perfectly, then what's the point of even doing it at all? Doomed before I'd even really started. I suck at failing. I hate the learning curve. This trait has prevented me from starting hobbies that I may be interested in, because the story I've told myself is that if I'm not immediately brilliant at it, then I will never be good at it. Why have I done this to myself?! Yesterday morning I took my kids on a walk, and while I was huffing and puffing and thinking about that B, a phrase from Jeff Sandefer's "Living Life as an Entrepreneurial Hero" popped in my head: "real entrepreneurs learn to fail quickly, cheaply and often." It made me think that this...