Goals!

In life people make many choices most of those face consequences, such as giving up on one thing to reach another. For myself one thing that I have found a great passion for are setting goals. Stated in the dictionary a goal is: a projected state of affairs that a person or a system plans or intends to achieve—a personal or organizational desired end-point in some sort of assumed development. Many people endeavor to reach goals within a finite time by setting deadlines. I find this exactly how I experienced my goals while growing up.
Early in life I always knew I wanted to be a Hokie. I would come to the football games and see the atmosphere and knew that since Hokie blood has ran through my family it only made sense for me to continue it. When I reached high school I wasn’t make good enough grades and knew that I couldn’t get into tech with a 3.7 gpa, so I had to think of other schools. Then I found out my friend came to Tech in a 2 year agriculture program. Once I looked into it I found out I could get a landscaping degree from it and then I knew that was the route I wanted to go.
Goals for me didn’t stop there, throughout high school I ran track and cross country. Those sports required a lot of dedication and goal setting. I would always make a statement during practice to run with the top guys and that would help me reach my goal times I wanted to get for my races. I didn’t believe people that running was 90% mental and 10% physical and once I learned that if you keep positive you can achieve anything. That is the same way with setting goals in general, you have to be positive the whole time and things will take shape for you.
Some goals I have set for myself for the future aren’t hard but yet will challenge me a little bit. I want to graduate in the fall of 2011 and get into the workforce in some kind of landscaping job. Currently I have a wonderful girlfriend who is 5 hours away but is always with me mentally and hope to be with her after school. Other than those I hope to one day own a landscape company and raise a healthy family!
Once I learned that goals aren’t hard to reach as long as you keep your head forward and don’t look back at what you could have done. Instead move on and keep what you want in your life in front of you and over time those things will be reachable.

Spring Semester

First time blogger here, didn’t really understand what it meant to blog so I guess this is a unique experience for me to be able to do. This spring I am taking 16 credits of which two are in Econ, Biology, English and Oral Communications. This semester will be a doozey for me since I had a “slacker” break, it will probably take a few days to get me back into school mode. I need to learn to manage my studying time as of now I feel that has gotten away from me.
The classes that I am most worried about is my Econ 1006, I didn’t get the passing C in the first section so now I am going to have to buckle down and try and master it. The thing that gets me going about econ is that it takes time to think through the problems and test the problems took so long to understand that I had to fly through without thinking. I am not sure why I have econ as my minor, other than the fact I want to have a business degree.
When I was in high school my ag teacher had an effect on my life in which made me want to beautify the outdoors. I took three landscape/horticulture based classes that got y interest in wanting to become a landscaper. People ask why I want to have a career in it, and my answer is that I love the outdoors and I have a creative mind in which I can put both of these things together and make people’s homes more special.
I have already received my Landscape/Turf Management Associates Degree from VA Tech in the Agricultural Technology program. Once I received that degree I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to go back to school and receive my bachelor’s. I had the feeling that I had what I needed to get through my work career as a landscape company owner. After talking with others about it I felt that if I had a more general bachelor’s degree I could have more job opportunities.
Once I finished my first year in the program I did my summer internship. For my internship I worked for a landscape/hardscape company near my hometown. Hardscaping involves installing patio’s, walkway’s , outdoor kitchens, etc… Once I learned how to install hardscape’s I felt that it was very beneficial to my work knowledge and that one day I could hopefully add that to my company.