For the past few weeks I have been a little confused about the project. I  do however understand developing the timeline is the first step but developing a detail timeline has the most challenging part of my project. The feedback from the client has also been slower than I originally planned.This week reminds me of the story in rule # 5  that our brain is  like a blender that has no lid and we store information everywhere in our brain.If for example, we are trying to remember a  picture we separate the color and the movement in different places of our brain.This hold true with my own timeline because what I actually have is different from what I have developed on paper.     

I am truly concern with my project progress. I need to step back and reevaluate my timeline. I feel like the German Shepard in the first story of rule # 8 where the dog is lying in the corner whimpering. Rule # 8 is very telling on how I fell at the moment with my project. Stress is flooding my system and draining my energy. I have had enough of the adrenal gland releasing the hormone adrenaline and I need more pleasure chemicals like dopamine. SO brain if you are listening! Release the crackling chemical dopamine. I had some setbacks because my USB with my project information was in my office at work and was misplace in boxes by one of our part timers. Are current office equipment and desk are the property of Texas Soutmost College so we had to pack up everything again. What a mess! I believe in myself and I will get this project done no matter what  even if I have to work all night to get it done.        

This week has been very productive for me. As I reflect in this week’s self-reflection writings I can think of the story in Chapter 8 about the villain and the hero. My goal is to fight the stress hormones that attack my hippocampus cells with the BDNF hero cells. I am not sure how to access them but calling all BDNF cells front and center please! It is crazy to think that high levels of stress can cause brain damage. I can also reflect on a pervious video that I viewed a few weeks ago about stress being your friend and that if you want to overcome it you have to change your mind set about stress. It is worth a try!  I communicated with my client this week and he has provided me with some feedback about the cover letter video. His first suggestion is to change some the verbiage in the video and also eliminate the voice over the middle part of the video.I will try to finish his request before the week ends but I am not sure I can accomplish it. I am about to catch up on the time line video creations and the next step is to develop the quiz components. Overall my client is pleased with the project and the feedback is very good and informative.A week ago I was not sure I could have accomplish as much as i did this past week. What I have learned this week is to stay focused on the end result and do something everyday without fail.         

I have had another great and productive week. The course requirements and the objectives were the two sections that I finished this week. The overall project is coming along and my hope is that students will like as well. I read rule # 11 chapter men and women and watched both videos. The first video with Paul Zak was very informative. His analogy of men thinking in small boxes and women thinking everything is connected together is genius. I am not sure how that is connected to my project but I think I can get two perspectives from my students about the project. One male perspective and the other female perspective about the overall functionally of the project .I did speak with my client this week by phone and I did get a positive feedback from my client. I overlooked Dr. Butlers email I just found it and I will make the necessary changes this week.     

This week has been very hectic for me. I had several projects due this week for other classes as well as put together an event for work and I only had a week to pull it off. This week I finished the evaluation component of my project. I feel very good about the overall progress of my project and I am excited to get any feedback from my client as well as my target audience in the coming weeks. After reading rule #2 “on the human brain evolved, too”. I can relate to the story how evolution of the human brain has come to pass based on necessity to survive and the ability to solve problems consistently. A few weeks ago I felt I was so behind in the development of my project and I was contemplating dropping the class altogether. I guess my survival instincts kick in and I managed to catch-up to my timeline. At times I amazed myself because I did run into a few problems developing the videos and somehow I managed to figure them out and proceed on my timeline schedule. I guess it all comes down to your attitude on any given situation and you need to answer the question do you raise to the occasion? Or you fail?