6-29-08

6-29-08
I did not work at Cummins this day; however, I did work at home for several hours on Learning Plan activities. I have never been a very organized person, and it obviously shows. I know this unorganized habit of mine is rubbing off in other areas of my life and negatively affecting many things- that and my other horrible habit of procrastinating on everything. I know the one thing I need to do to be able to greatly improve myself and my life is to find a way to overcome these two terrible habits. In the mean time, I spent several hours sorting through 6 months worth of papers, pamphlets, and handouts that I used at some time or another while working at Cummins. Some were articles Amanda gave to me to read thinking they would be useful for my learning plan, some were items I picked up, found, or collected throughout the semester that I knew would be useful (for example the papers and handouts from LEAD), and most were the handouts and papers I used while leading group. All of this was one of the reasons I tried to make sure I finished my actual working hours earlier in the month (as you suggested Erika) so that I would have the last few weeks in the month to finish everything in the learning plan.
I also worked on the donation letter I need to write to try to get donations for Hoosier House. Amanda gave me the tax exempt forms to use and Cummins’ value and mission statements to add to the letter. This is definitely a new experience for me and I want to be sure I do it correctly. I also worked on Cummins’ value statement to write my reflection of what it means. There are a lot of items I need to write about for my learning plan, and I know I need the extra time to get it all done in time, so as not to get behind like I did the last time.