Stephanie Dulany

My Vision Statement:
There are things that I want in life, things that make me happy, things that I do well, and even my weaknesses. My vision statement is going to explain my life in a couple of sentences, providing key qualities that make me as a person. I will begin with my weaknesses because we all have them. Mine include a few literal things such as writing and not being able to whistle, but with a few more personal things like not having much self-controlling, letting things get the best of me, and even procrastination. These are things that I need to look more closely into and figure out how to turn them into my strengths. Things that I do well include playing sports, especially dancing, drawing, and just caring about others. Everyone who is around me would say that I am a very lovable person and they can tell that I actually care. Things in life that make me happy include caring for others, especially my boyfriend. My boyfriend in general makes me happy, especially knowing that we may be getting engaged and married soon. One more thing that makes me happy are dogs. There is not a dog in the world that I could hate; it's just how I am. Things that I desire to have in life include wanting to travel, have a job that gives me great income AND that I love, and having a happy family. I never want to be divorced, and I want to have the world's best children. I want to be their soccer mom, take them to dance practice, help them with their homework, everything. All of these aspects make up who I am as a person, and, frankly, I am satisfied with them.

Delaney Sweeney

My SMART goal relates to the goal area because it is educational, social, recreational, and professional. It is education because we are teaching students about water pollution; something they might not know a lot about at this time. It is social because we are interacting with different groups of students and adults. It is recreational because it relates to water, which many people use as a recreational object for boating, fishing, etc, and it is professional because we have to be responsible. We have to teach other students and many of them might look up to us for directions and advise; we have to be professional and organized because we are doing this project on our own. It's up to us how successful we are.

Stephanie Dulany

It is important to set goals, not only for your career, but for your whole life ambitions. I have my own goals that I try to achieve in life, as well. Before yesterday I was pretty adamant about my goals for my career. I had the exact idea that I would like to become a Physician’s Assistant, however, yesterday I just got the idea of becoming a Dental Hygienist. I explain this because I can show how often and easily goals can change. As for my goals in general, I would like a job that offers me good 9:00-5:00 hours, Monday-Friday so that I can have my evenings, weekends, and holidays off to spend with my family; but I would still like a career in the medical field somehow. I have other goals in mind for my life as well, though. I would like to get married in the next couple of years. I would like to be able to get a job right after I finish whatever education I am in at the time. After a few years of work, I would like to, hopefully, have enough money to start a family. My goals get pretty specific when I say that I would like to have 2 children, along with land and a nice farm house on it. However, my most important goal that I want in life is to stay married and live a long, happy life with my husband, so that my children do not grow up in a broken home like I did. Goals are good for a person to have because they give you something to strive for. When you finally achieve those goals, there is a great amount of satisfaction that comes with the happiness you get when your goals, years ago, finally turned into reality.

Stephanie Dulany

We have begun to break this project down into steps in order to better organize the project. We are using the strategy SMART which stands for strategic, measurable, attainable, reachable, and timeline. My strategy is to obtain more outer resources which may allow us to include our water safety skills with their company. If we could reach out to more companies, we will have an easier, and more attainable, means of providing ourselves, and the children, with more options for water safety practice. “Measurable” calls for a realistic plan that we can seek out, and usually involves an amount of money, people, or anything else. This project would call for a certain amount of people involved in order to teach water safety. I will strive to connect with two additional companies that would allow us to cooperate with them in order to promote water safety. It is attainable if we can give them incentives for allowing us to work with them. I can trade their time that they let us work with them, with some of our time used to benefit their company. This goal is reachable along with the timeline if we can achieve this goal by the beginning of next semester. This way we can work alongside them for the entire next semester, giving us more community service opportunities.

Abby Williams

I have several goals set for myself in life.  It is very important to me that I meet these goals to be successful in life.  I hope to do well in school and go on to further my degree and become a nurse practitioner.  I would then like to work in a practice with my friend who is becoming a doctor.  I hope to enjoy my job as a nurse practitioner while still having time for my family and keeping them and God first in my life. 

Heather Wharton

Doing well in school and in life is very important to me.  It is very important that I enjoy my job.  My goal is to study to be a physical therapist and graduate from Drury and physical therapy school.  I want to run my own clinic on the western coast of the United States. 

Delaney Sweeney

My SMART goal for our project is to
Specify: coordinate a classroom presentation and mini clean up with the boys and girls club at stalnacker.
Measureable: I want to create one classroom time and one mini clean up.
Attainable: I will be able to do this by contacting the boys and girls club and speaking with the people in charge to set up this project.
Realistic: This is a realistic project because we have already attended a lake clean up and we have all the materials we need for the classroom lectures.
Timely: We will plan this classroom lecture and lake clean up before December 9th, 2011.