Personally Professional

I've been doing a lot of goal setting in my classes lately. My CAPS prof as well as my Study Abroad Experience instructors seem to be oh so interested in my goals as an up-and-comming professional. I guess it's an easy assignment to grade. But, as I sit in Panera devouring my asiago and veggie cream cheese bagel, I'm starting to realize that the practice of goal setting can be very beneficial. Regardless of my unwillingness to accept it, there are only 8 days left of classes this semester. With the school year drawing to a swift close, I want to set goals for the summer. Next year is going to bring a lot of big changes, so a strong personal foundation will be essential for survival. The best thing about goals is that they can be anything; they can be serious, ridiculous, frivolous, huge, small, or a combination of any of those lovely adjectives, and then some. The following is a simple list of the goals I'm setting for this summer to bolster my sense of self, happiness, and connection to the world in which I am slowly becoming an adult.

*Read the newspaper
*Be joyful in my work at Dellwood
*Pack light for Ecuador
*Take a crash course on speaking Spanish
*Write letters to my favorite camp counselor
*Be open to, and trusting of, new relationships
*Craft
*Intentionally spend time with childhood friends
*Go to church
*Frequent the farmers market
*Take my mom to Eloise Butler
*Run at least 10 miles a week
*Keep in touch with my Drake family
*Explore Minnehaha Falls
*Be thankful

I don't know what next year will bring. I don't know what the summer will bring. Heck, I don't even know what tomorrow will bring (besides watching pole vaulting in the Jordan Creek Mall). But I do know that I want to enjoy whatever life throws at me. The good, the bad, the sad, whatever. Go set your own goals.

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