Life is good!

Hey everyone out there! I am happy to report that everything is going simply AWESOME! I am enjoying all of my classes, and I have been able to manage my time to complete all of my work and also stay on top of all of my meetings and other activities I am involved it. While this feeling is very welcomed, it is also very strange for me. I have also been the type of person who works best under pressure when there are 6 million things to get done. But so far this semester I have been not only able to get my assignments completed on time, but I have also been able to put time and effort into them and I really like that.

Since things seem to be going so well right now I have come to realize that attitude plays a large role in my general feelings about things. If I go into a class with a negative attitude then I am less likely to spend time doing the work assigned and less likely to put the full amount of effort into the class. I don't mean in any way to say that classes are my absolute favorite and I look forward to them everyday, but I am saying that I am trying to prepare myself for life after Bluffton. This week in forum there was a guest speaker named Tom Sine who talked about life after Bluffton. During his talk he asked if we would turn to our neighbor and would talk about where we see our lives going after Bluffton. Naturally I was sitting next to a senior who is preparing to graduate and move on with their life. While they seemed not know exactly where they were heading, they were still moving onward. When it came time for me to talk about where I see myself I couldn't. Up until this semester I have viewed school as something that I have to do as apposed to something I choose to do. Which I believe has effected my college experience until this point. After Christmas break I was really unsure if I was in the right major, if I liked the activities I was involved in and whether or not I was at the right school. Now that I have had time to lay everything out and think about the future I have been able to kind of in a way trim off the things that bring me down, like my negative attitude. While I am still very much a perfectionist I have still be able to focus my attention on the more important things such as attending church, schoolwork, my true friends and also taking time out for me.

While this philosophy is still very much a work in progress I am going to continue to be positive and do my best at whatever I do. Not going to lie its going to be difficult, but I think I am getting to that stage in my life where I am going to put aside the poor me attitude and focus on positives in my life. That way when I do reach grown up world my attitude will be able to handle whatever life throws my way!