Inspiration and Panic

I normally wait until the end of the week to write in my journal so that I have a complete perspective of the course content for the week. What I have noticed is that I also save the Acton hero videos for the end of the week (they're one of my favorite parts of the course) and so my journal often reflects principles I picked up from those videos. This week is no different.

The videos from Catherine Rohr and Corey Bell were really inspirational to me. They both had totally changed the direction they were taking in life and were continually motivated by a desire and drive to help others. It makes me want to be like that. I certainly don't feel like I'm a bad person, but I do tend to look inward (not just at myself but also my family) first because I’m concerned about meeting all of our needs. I really do hope that one day I will be in a position to serve my fellowman; to extend a helping hand to someone who is having a rough time. I do see the resources that God has blessed me with as a stewardship and I know that when I stand before him he will ask what I did with it. I hope that I can maintain my current perspective throughout my life and will be able to say that I did what he would have done, were he in the situations I was. That will be a very satisfying and fulfilling day.

On the topic of my $100 challenge, I’m in panic mode. I think this feeling I’m having is similar to the one I would be having if I really were relying on the income from a start-up I was running to support my family and the money just wasn't coming in. The company that I had contact with this week turned out to be looking for something different than what I am offering. They didn't really have any email campaigns established and so they have no way to track the performance of an email if we were to send one. I agreed to meet with them again and go over some of the key learnings that have come out of my last two years of testing emails, but that will be a much longer project than this assignment will allow for. So, basically, I have no clients and only one week to round up some revenue…yes, I’m panicking.