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My goals are to keep my GPA up and maintain my time management skills throughout the year. I also want to meet new people and try an keep in touch with the people I've met at camp and throughout the summer!
For SLT, I really want to keep the team working together and efficiently!
For hilltop mentors, I want to try and keep the program strong considering I haven't done a good job this summer due to lack of time :( but once camp is over I'll get right to work!
As far as fears goes, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep the team motivated and keep myself motivated. I also fear that I won't be able to do my job correctly or follow through with things I say I will get done. Also, I think I will volunteer for too much at a time and get stressed and
overwhelmed! Which would be bad, so hopefully I'll realize that and work on it!

2010-2011: The year I'd like it to be

Erica's Goals:

My large goals for the year are pretty simple: have a good year on SLT and graduate. However, there are lots of little things and goals that go into making those two things happen, and most of that relies on myself. I hope that this year I can be a good role model not only to everyone on the team and in Student Life, but also around campus. Spending my summer telling incoming freshmen that it's cool to go to school sporting events and to make sure they maintain healthy study, exercise, and eating habits makes me want to do so as well, but it's not always that easy.

I want HLD to have a great year in which we reached out to campus, strengthened ourselves, and found the energy that got HLD where it is today. That takes a lot of convincing and we'll need to create a lot of buy-in. However, it is a great task that I am entirely up to. I love HLD and hope that energy becomes contagious!

Life-wise, I just want to have fun doing everything that I do. Things aren't always going to be fun--they're going to be a pain in my butt sometimes. However, I think it's healthy to find fun in every situation, and my hope is that I can do that. I also want to not live at the office 24/7. Literally. I love the office, but I don't pay rent there. However, Sara and I have a b-e-a-u-tiful apartment 90 seconds away that I hope to take advantage of and hope to be able to do work there as well as rest and eat normal food and not Ragsdale and the Huddle (though I do love both).

School-wise, I just want to do well. I love my classes, and sometimes the ones I don't do as well in are still the ones that I have learned a lot from. I've gotten all my hard requirements out of the way and literally just have Capstone as my only hard class this year. Hopefully my careful planning of classes will pay off--I wanted it to be this way! I want to study both on and off campus, and not just on. I think my workload will be manageable, I just have to make sure I pay attention to my work!

Erica's Fears:

My biggest fear is letting other people down. I don't mind letting myself down every once in awhile as long as a learn from it and move on. However, when I let other people down, it is the biggest disappointment to myself and is really hard for me to get over. That being said, I, like the rest of us, struggle to maintain balance between what I do for other people and what I do for myself. Hopefully, with so many people on the team in this same boat, we can motivate each other and help each other out to make sure we all have balance. I plan to face my bad habits and fears head on this year and hope to help everyone do the same.

Off to New York at 5 am!

Have a great week!

Erica

A Flying Leap

My goals and fears for the year....

So my personal, SLT and school goals somewhat overlap. Essentially, my number one goal for the year is to maintain balance and my sanity. I will be involved with a lot of things, but I operate better that way. I know my limits and know when I need to take me time. My hope is to realize when I need me time and have the ability to take it. I sometimes have a problem saying no, but I am slowly learning that in order to keep my sanity, saying no is the only solution.

In terms of school, I plan to do my best and maintain my GPA that I currently hold and remain on the Dean's List for the fall. Keeping my grades up and doing well in all of my classes are important to me. My RA job also plays a role in my goals. This year will be new territory for me because I will not be involved in an LLC, so therefore building community will take a little extra effort. I want to build relationships with my residents and have successful programs. My goal for this year is to have a fun and informative diversity program.

For SLT and EDGE, I have several different goals. As a member of SLT, I am looking forward to developing my leadership skills further and learning more about myself through my role on SLT. I am also excited to work with everyone on the team. For EDGE, I want to build a strong feeling of a family among the facilitators. I also would like to increase the amount of facilitations on and off campus, as well as the quality of facilitations. During the summer, I'm working on improving the quality of facilitations by organizing EDGE folder on Edshare, coming up with an element book and coming up with a process for facilitations.

As far as fears go, I am one of those people who greatly fear failure. I can deal with failure, but I try my best to avoid it at all costs. Another fear in the back of mind that pops up every once in a while is not being able to handle everything on my plate. However, I know myself and how much I can handle. I also know handling everything will require lots of organization which is something I'm good at. So in order to combat my fear, I will just need to make sure I'm getting lots of rest and that my planner is always with me and updated. This is also where learning to say no comes into play. I must realize that there will be times i have to say no and I need to be okay with that.

Hope everyone is having a rockin summer. I finally have a two week break from orientation and it's a MUCH needed break. Now I can finally get some sleep! :-)

Before I leap, here are some of my goals and fears for the year...

My number one personal goal for next year is to keep my life balanced! I want to maintain my gpa, slt, work, and cheer schedule and leave enough time for myself to exercise, relax, and spend time with my friends. When I think about it, I can't see how there could be enough hours in the day to accomplish all of this, but that just requires me to be organized and disciplined. Also, I know I will be happier and less stressed if I prioritize and follow through with what I say I am going to do.

One of my goals for SLT next year is to learn to work with people that have different opinions. Also, another one of my goals is to be able to confidently conduct myself professionally. I know this one will come with practice and what better job than LSS to perfect this one! Speaking of LSS, my goals are to plan proactively, market early, and get more people in attendance! Another goal, possibly a big dream, is to bring well-known speakers on campus.

Some school goals are to find the track I want to go into with my major, Communication, and match my major and my interests to a possible job I'd like to have after I graduate. Working cheer camps all summer has got me thinking about going into education so that I have my summers free to coach. And I also think itd be neat to be a high school cheer coach one day. This year my goal is to explore the careers that I am interested in and really start figuring out what I want to do.

Some of my fears for next year are that I wont keep that same energy I had my first year because everything was new and exciting then. However, I know that once I get settled back in Austin I will get a second wind and start off fresh. To face this fear, I will make sure I find time for myself to relax and also find new things in Austin to do when I am free. I will capitalize on my spare time and use it wisely when I can! Another fear is that I won't be able to hang out with my significant other as much as they may like me to. I'm afraid I won't be able to say no when I am too busy and can't go to everything. I plan on facing this fear by talking about my fear and making sure I PLAN AHEAD and prioritize.

Writing about my goals for next year has gotten me excited to start the next semester already!

:) JM

Before You Leap Blog #1

Here we go!

In Chapters 5 & 6 of Before You Leap, Kermit talks about setting goals for yourself, maintaining motivation, and fears. What are some of your personal, SLT, and school goals for next year? Also, what are some of your fears and how do you plan on facing them?


Please post in response to this prompt by June 28th.


Happy Blogging!

Erica

Time to get started!

Hey SLT,

We are going to use this blog to post about the summer reading as well as a few videos I found. Every other week, I'll post a few thoughts as well as questions for you to ponder. Then, you are going to make your own post in response to that one. I'll post the first questions and thoughts tomorrow.

Happy Summer!

Erica