Purpose: The entrepreneurial process is, at its core, concerned with "the pursuit of opportunity without regard to the resources already under control." This process is as applicable to your career as it is to creating and exploiting innovative solutions. This assignment aims to identify where you want to be and how you will get there over the next 5 years. Do not worry about your current resources. Think entrepreneurial! Task: For the first part of this individual assignment, you will use design thinking to explore the possibilities of an entrepreneurial plan for your life, highlighting how entrepreneurship and innovation could affect your personal and career paths** over the next 5 years.* ** The process and key learnings from the Logbook will be synthesized into a final deliverable in the final assignment, highlighting your inspiration, ideation, and implementation process. Deliverables: A completed logbook, using this template https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FQKwirAgRlC7VLa30UeJ56rJe83x8vdeMmXL6z7UTr4/ edit?usp=sharing A final deliverable sharing the key information from your inspiration, ideation, and implementation. This should highlight the key information, learnings, and insights from the logbook into an entrepreneurial plan for the next 5 years of your life. You can choose the format of how you will showcase the elements of your plan. For example, you can do a TED-style talk, podcast, a Mural board, a graphic novel, a stop-motion film, a traditional report, etc. Whichever format you choose, it should follow the conventions of that format and have all the key findings, needs, and insights from required content (Part 1, 2, and 3). Part 1 - Inspiration -** Current state & reflection:** - your health (physical, mental, spiritual); - relationships (quality of relationships with family, friends, spouse(s), children, etc.); - play (things you do for the joy of it); - **university & work **(things you are required to do) and **Two sides of yourself: **Imagine, sketch, and reflect two different future versions of yourself to help draw out what is important to you Reflection on the two sides of yourself. What is your current balance? Would you like the balance to be different and why University-view statement: describe your ideas about what university is for and what it means to you. (200 words or fewer) Life-view statement: describe your ideas about the world and values you hold (200 words or fewer) Part 2 Ideation - ** Daily Activity Journal: Record a minimum of 7 days **including how engaged or energized you were and if you were in a state of flow. (Optional, but recommended timeframe for your activity journal - 3 weeks) Reflection on Activity Journal: What did you notice about the activities that you spend most of your time doing? (200 words or fewer) 3 Mind maps & mashup job descriptions: From your Daily Activity Journal, choose three different activities: one that was engaging, one activity you were energized by, and one activity that brought you into a state of flow and draw/sketch a mind map for each (three total). Then create a mashup of potential job titles and descriptions from each of the mind maps. 3 Life Plans: Draw or sketch (don't type!) three different 5-year timelines for your life. Include title, goals/milestones for the 5 years, including health, relationships, play, and university/work. 1st life plan: **Top of Mind Plan **- your plan that comes easily to mind, or that you most often share with other people. 2nd life plan: **Pivot Plan **- your plan if you had to do something entirely different because your Top of Mind plan was disrupted and no longer available. 3rd life plan: Constraint-Free Plan - your plan if you had no constraints like if salary or people's opinions were not something you were considering (money, time, geography, family obligations, nobody would think less of you or judge you) For each plan include responses in the logbook including: 6-word title Image of your sketch with goals/milestones Your opinion rating of the following characteristics: Resources Likability Confidence Coherence Questions you have about the particular life plan, constraints, and ideas for exploring the plan. Part 3 - Implementation -** Personal Board of Directors:** A brief description (table, paragraph, or bulleted list, etc) of 3 people that now do something you have mapped out in each of your 3 life plans. Include one person for each life plan, including: - Image (if possible) - Who they are - What they do and how it reflects one of your life plans - What skills and abilities you hope to learn from them to better be able to execute your life plan Criteria: Your assignment will be assessed for the following LOS: #LO6_YourCareer: Students will appreciate how to connect design thinking, innovation, and entrepreneurship to their own career development and paths Grading guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JxyKTJec9-1pHr03KJj6RXTx-84ET2QzyLtjaTprRao/edit? usp=sharing Tips: Innovative mindsets: Being innovative requires some simple mindsets, ones that you have practiced throughout this course and will be essential for getting the most out of this project. Those mindsets are: **Be curious: **Curiosity makes everything new. It invites exploration. It makes everything play. It's the reason some people see opportunities everywhere. **Try stuff: **When you have a bias toward action, you are committed to building your way forward. Innovators and entrepreneurs try things. They create prototype after prototype, fail often, until they find out what the problem is, what works, and what best solves the problem. **Reframe problems: **Reframing is how innovators get unstuck. It also helps us make sure we are working on the right problem. Reframing helps you step back, examine your biases, see new opportunities, and open up new ways to solve problems. **Know it's a process: **Life is messy. Mistakes will be made, and prototypes will be thrown away. An important part of the process is letting go of your first idea and of a good-but-not-great solution—and trusting that something amazing can emerge from the mess. Collaborate: The best innovators and entrepreneurs know that bring truly innovative ideas to life requires radical collaboration. Innovation is a team sport. Many of the best ideas will be sparked by other people. You just need to ask, and know the right questions to ask. When you reach out to the world, the world reaches back. **Assignment Information: **Weight (20%) References: Much of the content was used or inspired from: Burnett, W., & Evans, D. J. (2016). Designing your life: How to build a well-lived, joyful life (First edition). Alfred A. Knopf. Assignment Information Weight: 20% Learning Outcomes Added LO6_YourCareer: Recognize how to connect design thinking, innovation, and entrepreneurship to their own career development and paths.