My "Last Lecture". Honestly I don't feel very qualified in giving a "lecture", but, I will do my best to convey the lessons I have learned. I feel like I have learned a lot throughout this semester. There were a lot of very great lessons to choose from. I would say that some of the most important things I have learned that I feel would be appropriate to share for my "last lecture" are the importance of having good values, being strong in what you believe and reaching your goals, don't be afraid to ask questions, and don't be afraid to take risks, make mistakes, and fail.
I don't think I can stress enough how important it is to have good values when starting a business and in life in general. The values that you live and go off of in life, really can affect the success of a business. If your only goal is to gain money, than you aren't going to be very successful in life. Your business could be successful, but not your life as a whole. You need to value what you are doing, you need to value the customers, and you need to value your employees. You need to have honesty, trust, loyalty, love, care, etc. within your business and actually hold up to those values.
You need to be able to stand strong in what you want. It can be very scary, but persevere! Set worthy goals and don't let anything get in your way.
Don't be afraid to ask questions and be teachable. It is inevitable that mistakes are going to be made, so don't be afraid to take advice and learn from those mistakes so that they can be avoided in the future. Taking risks and failing is all part of life, not just business. I think that we learn some of life's greatest lessons from our failures. But, that is the mindset you have to have if and when you fail. You can't let your failures keep you down. It is what you learn from the mistakes and what you do with them that either make you successful or not. You have to be willing to learn and try again. You need to have that determination. You can't let the first sign of trouble bring you down forever. If you do that there will be no room for success, no moving forward.

This week in B283 we focused a lot on failing. I learned that more often than not, people fail, sometimes several times, before they have success. It was very reassuring. I feel like I have not done as well with my $100.00 challenge as I would have liked. But, I have a learned a lot about what I could improve and where I could make some changes. Most of those changes would need to start with me. It was interesting to me to learn how many very well-known people have had some significant failures but have become some of the most successful people. We did an assignment this week where we had to choose an entrepreneur to study that has had some sort of failure in their life as an entrepreneur. I chose to study Walt Disney. I learned that he was fired from a newspaper agency because he lacked creativity. I would never of known that looking at all he has done with his life. I learned that he had started a business before Disney that went bankrupt. One other person mentioned Michael Jordan. He was kicked off of his high school basketball team. I learned that it is okay to fail. I learned that it is okay to fail, but that it is not okay to just give up. I learned that it is what you take from failing and what you do with that lesson that counts. Failing is inevitable. But success only comes if we keep working for it despite our failures.