Bucket List - Check Up and Additions

1. Go to a concert - not check yet, but in progress. I am going to see the Civil Wars in Germantown in January with some great friends, the best kind.

2. Be a mentor - yes and no.  I have sought out to do this intentionally a couple of times, but not really succeeded.  I have realized though there are some kids right under my nose at church that I am going to invest in hardcore in the next couple of months...these boys have awesome hearts and I can't wait to help them to become more mature followers of Christ.

3. Find a mentor.  Fail. Epically.  I know it wouldn't be hard if I would just go do it, but opening myself up to someone older and wiser scares me.  I have no problem telling my friends about what a screw up I am, but a real life adult is a different story.  I know God is leading me to do this through prayer and scripture reading so if I don't it will just be disobedience.  So, here is to sucking it up and going for it.

4. Read.  I have read some pretty great books for school and I am working on some on my new Kindle Touch! I am pumped about this thing!  Three must reads from school last semester - Made To Stick, The Ragamuffin Gospel, and The Next Christians....great books!

5. Again, take more pictures is an epic fail.  Commitment starts now though, for sure. I promise.

6. Preach! Yes, I get opportunity at Collide and at church which has been a huge blessing.  Taking more time to prepare and fine tune my sermons is my new goal, which I am going to have to fight myself on, but here it goes!

7. Go to Moni's more. Well, my phone autocorrected something I typed in to Moni's the other day, but I do want to have more fun with my friends this last go round.  Fun, that's what this one represents - school is school and I will get it done, but I need to focus on having a good time with my family I have created in the past three and a half years.

8. and 9. Run and work out.  Fail, but I have already made a commitment and scheduled time for next semester, I think I might actually succeed this time.

10. Budget.  I have a good start to my savings, not great, but I am making a plan to add to it this semester, for sure.

11. Watch more movies.  I have seen a couple of new ones this year and plan to continue.  Taking more time to do this with friends is a big priority!

12. Journal and follow a Bible Reading Plan - new one.  I found an acrostic I am going to use in my journal (http://www.gcfw.org/c---g---s/grow/soap-journaling.html).  I am also going to start using You Version reading plans (http://www.youversion.com/) which are smaller and help me to measure and maintain success a little bit easier.  Not that bigger plans are wrong, I just want to see where I am head more clearly, I think.

Well, if I think of anymore anytime soon I will add them, but until then I am super excited about the last semester of my college career.  I am going to miss it, I know, but I plan on taking it one step at a time and watching God show me an awesome plan for the future.

Procrastination.

I have always been a procrastinator to some extent.  I get it done, no matter what.  It is just sometimes at the last minute.  This semester, I have been horrible.  I have waited till the last minute to do a project for the capstone class for my major, I sit here now needing to work on a project due for a final tomorrow.  I don't know what is wrong with me.

Tonight, I left my room to go to McDonald's just to get a change of scenery and I talked to God while on the drive.  I think he was showing me, Will, it is time to move on.  I think that is why procrastination has been so bad this semester.  I am not scared of leaving I am just comfortable where I am.  I have the BEST friends in the entire world, I have an INCREDIBLE church family, and I call Williams HOME and could for the rest of my life.  That is not how it works though.  I have to realize that finishing strong is just as important as the beginning and the end.  This senioritis junk is just an excuse.  I still have to work hard and do well.  Because that is what is important to me.  God has big plans for me else where.  I am pumped about the possibility of going to Truett Seminary.  I am ecstatic about serving at camp this summer. But, in the mean time, there is a job to be done here.  I have a group of great kids that need to have the gospel shared with them, that need to be discipled.  I know freshman that need someone to invest in them and people who are just craving for someone to talk to.  I have friends that I will never again live across campus from and we have memories left to make.  I need to do what I am suppose to right now and stop thinking about the future and think about what is on my list for today.

And on my list before I can go to bed is a Producing the School Play project AND going over some Greek flash cards.  So, I will go do that now.