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I've been on top of everything I needed to do for the past 3 days! I know 3 days isn;t a lot in comparison to all the responsibilities I've had this semester, but I think I'm off to a good start. I just have to make sure I stick to the new me!

It all started on Monday in my Sociology class. We watched this video on Youtube called "A Vision of Students". It's a pretty dope video about what college from the perspective of college students. The video got me thinking about my life as a student and what my college education really meant to me. The following night I met up with a good friend of mine to study and try and get some work done. We took a little break from homework and I decided to show her the video. After we watched it we got to talking about our college experiences and our goals for the future and what plans we have to get there. I could feel the inspiration building up! haha.

So the very next morning a wake up to my phone going off telling me I got an e-mail. I open the e-mail up and start to read it. Turns out the entire thing is about taking steps to reaching your goals and making sure that you aren't all talk, but that you actually do what you need to do in order to acheive the things that you want to acheive. It pretty much went right along with the conversation I had the night before. Usually I just deelete these kinds of e-mail, but this one really got me. I think I read it 3 or 4 times through and I'm not too into reading haha. The e-mail challenged the reader to pick one thing in their life that they want to change and take a step toward it everyday for a week. I started to think about what I wanted to do.

That evening I had to the weekly CLA Ambassador meeting. The meeting went right along with these other events that were helpin me change my life. That week we took personality tests in order to see how we could work better together as a group and so we can help plan and execute programming as effectively and efficiently as possible. My results should me a few things that I knew about myself, but never really considered how much of an impact they had on my everyday life. My results told me that when it comes to tangible organization and scheduling, I'm pretty much a 0. I'm more into things being spontaneous, and just keeping everything in my head or scribbled on a piece of paper somewhere that I wouldn't misplace...hopefully. I like it this way though. I think I need to be disorganized in order to stay sane, but I realized that there was definitely a little room for improvement.

The next day I headed out to Target to pick up a white board. I got home and put it up in my bedroom right next to the door so i could see it everyday before I left. Next I wrote down a bunch of my goals on it; small, big, practical and abstract. From there I dug around in a stack of papers and books and found my planner. I hadn't even opened it yet. I challenged myself to use it everday for the next week and keep using it after that. So far I'm doing alright. I've actually been writing things down and checking things off my looooonnnnnggg list of things to do, including making sure I keep blogging to keep you updated on what's going on with me.

On that note though, I'm about to get back to studying for my quiz on Tuesday. Just wanted to share my week with you.

That's it for blog #3!
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I'm out - Thomas