Random Thoughts with Will

      Over the past 2 weeks, I've found myself feeling a sense of nostalgia for the final month and a half of college. It's hard to believe it's been 3 years since I was finishing up my time at Baylor (not to mention all that has changed since then). When I look back on my final semester at Baylor, it was a semester of changes, of reflections, and a race to graduation. The final semester of college for me meant making a few defining changes in my life. Those changes included switching the track/area within my major, changing how I was spending my Saturday mornings, and changing how I was spending my Sunday mornings.      For the majority of my time in college, I was on a sales track within my major (there were also tracks in sponsorship and in CRM/analytics). Following a sales project in college and a summer internship in group sales, it became abundantly clear that sales was not the right role for me. That meant talking to my professors about it at the s...

     On this day 18 years ago, Pixar's  Monsters, Inc. first premiered in theaters. I can fondly remember seeing it in theaters on its opening night at the Regal Cinemas in Short Pump. We even saw it in theaters a second time when they added outtakes to the end of the movie, which included them putting on the musical "Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me. All of that may help explain why I've been experiencing nostalgia for this particular Pixar film, one that's improved with age. Considering that I've had blog posts about fellow Pixar films A Bug's Life  and the entire Toy Story series, it only made sense to reflect on another early Pixar film (at this pace, you're up next, Finding Nemo ). Monsters, Inc. does a great job of delivering laughs (more on that later) and lessons along the way, too.      Before diving into the lessons from Monsters, Inc. , I have to give it a shout-out for its awesome opening sequence with the doors a...