Revisiting My Mission Statement

So today we were supposed to look at our mission statement to see if there was anything that we wanted to change about it. This was my mission statement from before:

My 5 Core Values are Perseverance, Humor, Honesty, Family Oriented, and Loyalty.

I will be humorous when the mood cast on the situation calls for me to be.

I will strive to persevere in trying situations to make myself a better person as a result.

I will be remembered for being honest and loyal to not only my family which matters most to me, but others as well.

I don't think I would change my mission statement from what it was because I still like the way it sounds and it fits who I want to be as a person. A way I could be humorous is when my friends are feeling down I could joke around with them and our inside jokes to help them laugh instead of being sad. A way I could persevere would be to just make it to graduation at college because college is trying at times and sometimes I have wondered about what I wanted to do so just making it through will be a big accomplishment for me.

Getting Involved

So for this post we were supposed to look at some ways you can get involved on campus or in the Storm Lake community so I thought I would talk about what I already do that helps both. I am a part of the BV Buddies program, which involves mentoring a student either from the elementary, middle school, or even high school level. You meet with your mentee one hour a week and do fun activities with them. It involves the campus because it is a BV club you can join and most importantly, it involves the Storm Lake community because you are helping the youth become even better people. I love this organization because I love working with kids and it can teach you a lot as well. Overall it is a great organization that people should definitely think about joining!

Thrive Charts

Today's blog post was about the charts in the Thrive book and what we found surprising or interesting. I thought it was surprising that the amount of happiness goes up really high if you spend more time meditating or doing yoga. I did not know that it could cause that big of an impact on your level of happiness. I thought it was interesting that after reading 6-10 books you are not any happier than if you read any more than that. I love reading and I thought that if you read more, you would actually be happier but it kind of plateaus instead.

My Pride Shrine

For today's blog post we were supposed to look at what would be put in our pride shrine. I would put the following things in mine:

1. The basketball from the game when I scored my 1,000 point
2. My high school diploma and some day my college diploma
3. The scrapbooks I have of newspaper stories and other athletic and academic achievements
4. The basketball I received from the first coaching job I had
5. Pictures of moments that I will never forget that happened in the past

These things are important to me and they give me a sense of accomplishment so that is what I would put there.

Change in My Hometown

Our blog post today was to talk about something we would change about our hometown that would make it better and make people happier. I think that something I would change would be having more nature based activities and places to go because there are a lot of areas that could be utilized specifically for nature activities that are not being used for anything right now and it would get people out and about more than what they are. Although there is a sense of community already in my town, I think that this would help strengthen it even more. I guess it would not necessarily have to be nature based either but just more things to do in general where people can get together and do something different instead of the same old stuff they do all the time.

5 Priorities and Core Values

Today's blog post was about our 5 priorities based on our daily schedules and how well that matches up with our core values from before. My top 5 priorities based on my schedule would be:

1. Education
2. Family
3. Friends
4. Happiness
5. Work

I think that technically I could have all 5 of my priorities match with my core values because education and work would go with perseverance since you have to work hard with both of those in order to accomplish what you need to. Family and friends would go with family oriented since they are very important to me to have in my life. Finally, happiness would go with humor since that is something that I find enjoyment in and stuff that makes me happy.