Tick-Tock Goes the Clock...

Sometimes I feel like the rabbit in the famous story Alice in Wonderland… always running around stressing about my to-do’s, but after this week’s lecture and lab I think I have a better understanding of how I can reduce or put an end to me feeling all hippity hoppity all the time. Firstly, I really enjoyed our speaker this week. Our public speaking lecture could have been of some use to her but her message was great and overall she was wonderful. She had some really cool quotes that a jotted down and look forward to remembering for future use. The most important thing that I took away from her lesson was that the allocations of my time reflect my values, and I think it is so easy to understand and prove this concept as you observe others but it is a little more difficult to keep yourself in check in regards to how your use of time says things about you as a person. The next best thing I feel that I learned from this week’s leadership principle was that the things I spend time on should ultimately be supporting and working towards my long-term life goals. This was an idea that Tamara introduced at the end of lecture and I really enjoyed applying it in lab to see if the use of my time over the 2-day assignment was constructive to my goals. Somewhat surprisingly, none of the things I did over those two days were helping me reach one or two of the goals I determined as things I have been working towards this year. This was a pretty big warning/alert/wake-up call for me as to how I’m spending my free time, and one of my new goals to add to the list is to be more reflective each day about if I have been working towards my goals that day and to do a better job of doing so. I think that it will also be easier for me to do so if I make my goals more visible to myself rather than just leaving them as thoughts in my noggin. So, I plan to add some new decor to the dorm today (a nice big list of my goals somewhere I will see them often).