Working for Fulfillment MCOM Week 5

    Recently one of the places I have been spending a lot of my time at is Kiln. During the fall last semester, I thought about how I could better prep myself for the Marketing Business Program. I was thinking about my family members and which ones of them had some cool connections. While pondering, my second cousin Brighton came to mind. He works for a company called Kiln. I called him and asked if I could pick his brain for a second about internship opportunities. He invited me to come on to Lehi and get to know the company. During that visit, I learned so much and got to meet many members of the team. We ended the visit with a small interview on the couch and he offered me the position to be a Marketing Intern. We talked about the ways that we as a company could better tell the story of Kiln. I had a few ideas and said that I would definitely be happy to help with that. I filled out some paperwork then started Jan 3rd! I work there on Mondays & Wednesdays and it has been a super neat experience. I have had many opportunities to learn and grow. More often than not, I am assigned tasks that I have no idea how to do. Sometimes it is overwhelming because I want to do well, but I have gotten good at using my resources and simple looking things up. 

    One of the exciting tasks that they had me plan recently was to organize a photo shoot of the Park City location. I was in charge of finding someone who would be in our price range and also have the right style.  I ended up asking my friend Demi who is studying photography at BYU if she would shoot for us. She said yes, so we scheduled a time and then drove up to the location together. At the office space we staged the spaces so that they could look aesthetically pleasing and draw buyers to them. This was a long day, but also so fun. I have really been finding fulfillment in my new internship because I am working so busy and doing a lot of new things.

Can I get an award for ceasing to be late? MCOM Week 4

Our society is geared to congratulate people on doing something good, and not typically when they stop doing something bad. For example "We get credit for being punctual, but not for stopping out lateness". 

I think that this is an interesting idea. Last semester I had a 9:30am Spanish class. I loved the class. We danced, sang, shared, learned, and expereinced.  Every martes y miércoles I felt like I was back in my Chile element. But even though I enjoyed the class so much, I am sure that 9.5/10 days I walked in late to the room of seated students prepared to learn. Usually it was just a little more or less than 5 minutes. I often asked myself: "Why couldn't I have just have woken up 5 minutes earlier or took 5 less minutes to get ready?". In my mind it should have totally been so easy and possible. But for some reason, I made that mistake daily. I just couldn't get there before 9:30am. Luckily, I finished that class with a great grade. But even now I wonder, what would my motivation level been like to get there on time if someone had started positively recognizing me for stopping that lateness, breaking that habit, and changing my schedule? Maybe I would have taken that extrinsic motivation displayed in let's say an extra credit point or two to drive my bad habit away. I guess I will never know. I will keep this thought in mind when an opportunity comes around where I can really acknowledge someone's ability and effort to
cease to do something bad. 

Thoughts on the book "What Got You Here Won't Get You There" MCOM Week 3

Since college and high school started, I feel like my leisurely reading completely stopped. I was instantly was inundated with textbooks and homework assignments. That content started to be the only content I consumed. Well that is the only "non-religious content". I still continued to make time for scripture study. 

But this semester in MCOM I have been able to start reading two books and I appreciate that they are not text books! The book "What Got You Here Won't Get You There" started to touch on some interesting topics. The first topic depicted people who have a special ability to know where they are and where they are going. They are so grounded in who they are that we feel secure around them. The examples in the book had incredible talents and skills that made them Uber successful, but it mentioned that they had seemed to loose this source of "center". 

I definitely would love to continue to become the type of person who is very grounded and knows without a doubt who I am. I would say that I am slowly becoming this person who does not change with the tides on how I act and who I stand for. I want to be someone who is crazy driven but dependable. It sounds like consistency and dependability are qualities that make you that grounded person. 

Kennidy's Journal MCOM Week 2

Today I am reflecting on the fact that I have been home from my mission for just about 6 months! I returned back from Chile on July 28th, 2021. This blows my mind because it seriously feels like just yesterday that I was walking off of that plane and coming down the escalator to a crowd full of people that I love. They had signs, posters, and the biggest smiles. As soon as I saw my mom and embraced her, my eyes filled with tears and I couldn't believe I was finally in her arms. It was so surreal to be back with my siblings and lifelong friends. It took some encouragement from my siblings to take off my mask. I had been trained to keep it on in all public places because if I didn't in Chile the police would come and ask us to put in on and make sure that it completely covered our faces. After a chant of "CHI CHI CHI, LE LE LE, VIVA CHILE" and some hugging pictures, we walked to the car and went to grab some In-N-Out (A California classic). I walked into the restaurant and sat down with my sister and best friend Madison Frost. We ordered and got chatting. I slowly started to feel so weird. Here I was completely relaxing and eating yummy fast food, not doing anything crazy productive to help others in the middle of the day. It was different. I wasn’t used to it. The past few months though I have gotten used to it. But the goal is not to get too used to it–I still need to stay out of my comfort zone and look upwards and outwards. 

Kennidy's Journal through MCOM Week 1

My "DTR" with Writing  

 The process of putting impactful words on a page, that phenomenon that they call writing, has always impressed me. I approach writing assignments usually with the classic resent that a student feels upon receiving another lengthy homework assignment. That resent leads to procrastination, which leads to an even greater mental block. But once the deadline
finally starts to stress you out enough to start, you sit down, stop distractions, and begin writing. Rapidly, ideas usually enter my head and I realize that there really is something powerful that I wanted to say. No, it doesn’t fall onto the page perfectly, but an idea begins to come across. I am really starting to prove a point.

 

I love the feeling when one of your good ideas connects to the other and you can illustrate the desired topic in an interesting way. Upon completion, you never really feel like the writing assignment is perfect, but at one point you must turn it in. In my case, I often never read that poem, essay, or research paper again. But on the rare case that my conversations coincide with topics that I have spent hours learning about then craftily portraying in an essay come, I go back. I read them again, and wow isn’t that the most rewarding moment. 

April 2012-Mamo & Grandpa Visit with Great Grandpa&ma Nelson too!

    We love it when Mamo and Grandpa come to town as they are always ready to help with projects and party hard! This time Johnny and Kylie were here at same time so we had a big Harley Davidson Date!  

     Then we tried out a new lunch spot at Crystal Cove State beach after touring through the fish ponds in Laguna canyon! 

     Then when Chris got back in town we found a groupon for jet ski rentals in Newport Harbor so of course we had to do that too! And amazingly, Grandma and pa Nelson even joined us for that day and loved it!

   We also spent some time at the apartment making memories like baking and sewing American Girl doll clothes and reading stories.  The adults also snuck away for a date night at a steak house in the canyon!

March 2012-Birthdays, Basketball and Buddies...

     After the last play performance, Chris and I snuck out for a fun birthday party for our friend Katie at the Dueling Piano bar. We laughed so hard and even danced a little, such a great night with friends!

I forgot to show my Valentine's gift from Chris, I finally got that mom's necklace I wanted with all my kids' initials.  I'm also having so much fun watching Carter play basketball with his buddy Jack and Jack's dad as their coach!  And McKinley is my little friend who goes everywhere with me right now!  And lately that is mostly house hunting!  I really liked this house with a pool and play gym by our AV school!  This month we also had family dinner with Chris's internal Lindsey and met her for the first time. She was so  sweet and kind.