Sunday, March 1, 2009

Goals for my 22nd year on earth

Tomorrow is my 22nd birthday... yesterday I changed my mind again on when to graduate... I'm not going to graduate until December, as I had originally planned. Its better that way... because I'm not ready to pack up and leave yet... if I graduated in August, I will have been home for just one year and I don't think I'm ready yet. I have felt myself changing every single day lately and something tells me that as much as I want to get out on my own into the "real" world, its not quite time and I need to slow down a bit or I'll regret it down the road...

Also I'm going to visit my friend Lea in Australia (many of you only know her as "Mate"), whom I just love and miss so much... that's a big reason I decided against graduating in the summer... I could only visit her if I went to the Summer A term, BUT if I went to Summer A, I couldn't get my scholarship advance as I'd planned, since they have changed the rules so I HAVE to take summer B... and I thought to myself, in one year, five years, ten years, twenty years... I will NOT say to myself "wow, I'm so glad I rushed through college and didn't go to Australia to visit Lea..." no, I will say the exact opposite of that... I have this great opportunity, money and time to do it, and who knows if I'll ever get to do it again.

So I'm going to Australia, folks...

I want to take some time now too to write out some goals for my 22nd year on this planet... no particular order, some silly, some serious

1. continue growing the healthy4him ministry at river run
2. get my personal trainer certification
3. go to Australia and survive the flights there and back
4. finish watching all of the Lost episodes I haven't seen
5. rewrite my basic cover letter and optimize my resume
6. take some courses in grammar and more courses in writing
7. do the challenge course at UCF
8. maintain my weight loss and continue to build strength
9. be nicer to and more patient with people
10. be slower to get angry
11. pray more, keep staying in the word
12. make a lasagna
13. make my own pizza dough
14. run a 5k race
15. FINISH MY DEGREE!!!

thats it so far...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'll train with you for a 5k

Lea said...

oh and not need to worry about losing fitness well you're staying at mine - im sure my fitness crazy family will take you marathon-running!