Change

We talked about how to motivate people to change, or to make a change, or to help make a change this week.

The speaker was really great, and she got me thinking about what I want to change and how I want to change what I want to change... that was an awkward sentence...

Anyways, we are suppose to take our leadership role and determine what we want to change about the organization and how we want to change it. I honestly think that Adaptive Aquatics and Gym Buddies are run great, and I don't see any reason why I should try to change them. But I'll keep digging.

Until I find something out, I'll just write about what I want to change about myself and how I'm going to change it.

I'd like to say my morning prayers more often and just better. I often find myself saying my morning prayers in the shower when I've really woken up, with the hot stream of water hitting my back. I guess at least I'm saying them, but I'd like to really work on saying my prayers when I wake up.

How do I plan on doing that? Well, baby steps of course! hahaha, I figure if I can do it one morning then I'll be able to do it the next. Saying my prayers is pretty basic, so I think its not a matter of setting up steps to achieve the change, but rather just deciding to do it, and going for it. So thats what I'll do.

Also! I'd like to write in my journal more often! I used to write in it aaaaalll the time, but now it's very seldom. And I really want to remember my freshmen year here. I can do that by setting my journal in an easily accessible place. So I need to figure out how to get it close to my bed. Also, I can try to have it out in the open more, so I think about it a little bit. And last, I'm gonna try to get a cool pen that will make me want to write more... as silly as that sounds, a good pen can make a huge difference.

Anyways, it's been real!

PEACE!

Goals

So, I wasn't in lecture last week, but I heard they talked about the importance of goals.

Whenever I think about goals, I automatically think about my swim team back in high school and my swim coach there. Mr. Olson, my high school swim coach, is a very goal orientated guy. At the first practice we would always swim for 10 minutes at whatever pace we wanted with the instruction to think about the goals we'd achieved in past years and the goals we wanted to achieve in the new year. I always enjoyed this because it seemed to start me off on the right foot. I would figure out where I was at that time, and would determine where I would be by the end of the season.

After formulating my goals Mr. Olson would have us write them down and turn them into him. This solidified what I had put my mind to do and I received the moral support and direction from my coach to help me get there.

Even though at the beginning of the season the goals I had set up for myself seemed near impossible and would only come from a perfect season, I always achieved them! There was just something about having an idea of where I wanted to be that would drive me during practices and urged me to work harder and harder. Achieving those goals was always the best feeling in the world, knowing that I had worked really hard and had achieved something that I had once thought would be nearly impossible.

Having learned this, I imagine the same goal setting strategies that I used in swimming are the same strategies I should use in setting goals for myself throughout life. I need to know where I am and where I want to go in order to help me achieve the impossible. I think that it's also important to have big visionary goals, but inside of those goals, smaller ones that help you feel like your on the right track when you accomplish them and help you reach your big goals.

My leadership role doesn't seem to be one that is too goal oriented, but in my leadership roles in the future, in church, on my mission, in other leadership positions in my future, I know its important to always start off with a goal. What do I want to do? and then have little goals, How do I get there? and go from there!

THE SKY'S THE LIMIT!