Permanent Beta - Week 1

This is my first Blog, ever, and that proves the title of this blog. Permanent Beta. Individually we are in permanent Beta testing. This concept resonated with me from this week’s material, there is so much fundamental motivation and perspective that can come from this train of thought. Ultimately both in life and in business we are our own greatest asset. This concept also fits in perfectly with the very reason for our existence; to improve and grow through experiences and our efforts to become better trough those situations. Each life lesson is a building block to new improved version of myself. Each day is filled with those blocks and only by choosing to mortar them in will I improve. 

I should invest in myself because, I will earn those dividends both temporally and spiritually. I should not seek to invest in passing a class or pretending to be something I am not. I should seek to deeply learn and change. Elder Bednar illiterates this concept by referring to the academic path of least resistance. He said, " College is not just an experience to endure and “get through” with the false expectation that somehow, someway we will magically be different on the day we graduate.  Rather, a college experience is a period of development in one’s life to be prized and prospered.  Indeed, simply settling for “getting through” college is like buying an expensive car that has no engine.  The car may look very good from the outside, but inside the real power is missing."

As I seek to improve it should not be superficial improvement but, rooted in the idea that I am improving on the previous version of myself.