The theme of this week’s lesson seemed to be about finding balance in life. I had the thought in my mind that any entrepreneur work that I did would have to consume my life, as Steve Blank put it, ”if you are single and want to do startups, stay single.” But these videos and talks say otherwise. They all seem to say, yes it is a lot of work, but to find a balance. I particularly liked the advice given by Blank in his clip. In his family, they set up rules; dinner at 7:00 and dad put kids to bed. The idea of setting up rules or guidelines for the family is definitely one that I will be using as we start going with a business.

Jan Newman also talked about finding a balance. He brought up that sometimes as we get older and new responsibilities come, we try to crunch things all in and usually it’s the family and the Lord that get crunched. These are things that should not be crunched. We may need to let go of some previous hobbies, but there always need to be time for the Lord and your family in your life. I thought that was very sound advice for anything in life.

I also enjoyed reading Part 2 of  “Mastery” by George Leonard. These chapters gave the instructions for being a good learner and a good teacher. He talks about being a good teacher for those that are not as talented or quick learning as others. I was really touched by this because I have a couple children that are simply slower than the norm and struggle to learn. As I read, I really evaluated my own teaching as a parent. I’m not completely horrible, but there are some areas that I can improve on.