You Have to Start at the Bottom...

Sometimes you have to start at the bottom. A lot of the time you have to start at the bottom. This week we had a guest speaker in one of my classes come talk to us about hospitality and hotel management.  He has moved up the chain rather quickly for most people in that profession.  But he stressed to us that it doesn't always work like that. It rarely ever works like that.

He told us that most of the time you will have to start at the bottom. You will have to do that grungy work that nobody wants to do.  But that grungy work can give you the best experience.  Employers see that you have the patience and ability to work through that not so exciting work and it can and will help you.

Motivation

I am currently reading a book called Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel H. Pink. This book talks about the difference between intrinsic motivation (personally rewarding) and extrinsic motivation (physical reward).  Most people would think that receiving a physical reward like money or candy would make them more willing to accomplish. Through reading this book I have learned that being personally motivated can move me so much further in life than other things.

The author explains and shows multiple experiments that prove this common thought wrong.  When people receive a physical reward for something they do, they begin to think of it as a  job, a task that just needs to be checked off.  While when they are personally motivated to accomplish the task they have that personal desire and want to do it the best they can.

Continually having that intrinsic motivation can be challenging. Especially when we need those physical rewards to pay rent and buy food.  But if you can have that personal motivation in as many things as you can, your life can become so much more rewarding for you.

I Lived

Sometimes music is just the best thing.  It gives me a way to just relax and take a breather.  Some music just makes you feel good.  My feel good song for this week has been "I Lived" by One Republic.

One part of this song really has just pushed me through this crazy week. "I owned every second that this world could give."  This line of the song has given me a lot of motivation for some reason.  It has just made me want to use my time so carefully and really realize what I am doing every day.  Life has so much to give, and sometimes we get caught up in it that we don't really see what we are doing.  So to you, make sure you own every second.

Resources

This week was full of future things for me.  We had the mock interviews in class, I met with my career adviser to go over my resume and job applications and I met with my academic adviser to finish up my graduation plan.  Life is stressful.

Going through all of these things this week has taught me and shown me all the great opportunities for help that surround me.  I have friends and classmates that will give me their honest opinion and tell me what to fix.  I have an adviser that is helping me look and find internship opportunities and helping me really know what I want to do in the future. And I have an adviser that is helping me just make it through this thing called college.

Up until this year I haven't really taken advantage of these resources.  But I have learned that my life can be a little less stressful if I use them! They are there waiting to help me, I just have to let down my pride or whatever has been stopping me and go.