TJ Feb. 15th-19th

Tuesday after class, Kendra and I had our weekly meeting with Dr. Millard. We presented him the progress we had made over the past week. We talked a lot about the first board meetings and tried to nail down an agenda for the meeting. Tuesday evening, Kendra and I headed over to the Boys and Girls Club to try to track down Adam. We had no such luck. It seems very odd that Adam is very rarely at the Boys and Girls Club when the club is open for the kids. Not only was he not at the club, no one even knew where he was. Since Adam was planning on leaving the state on Wednesday, I asked Dwight to try to contact him on this cell phone. I ask Dwight to do this because he has worked with Adam several times and was comfortable calling his cell phone. Wednesday, after my class, I went up to talk to Dr. Starcher and ask him if the date we had planned for the first board meeting would work for him. Unfortunately he had a standing business division meeting scheduled at the same time. Thursday, I talked to Dr. Millard and informed him that we could not get a hold of Adam and Dr. Starcher could not make the scheduled time for the board meeting so we decided to push back the first board meeting until after spring break.

The greatest challenge this week was definitely working out schedules for the first board meeting. Kendra did the majority of the work sitting down with Kelly to work through the Center staffs’ schedules but it was still very frustrating trying to track down Adam and having to go to Dr. Starcher’s office twice to get a hold of him.

My greatest joy this week was getting ready for the final preparations for the board meeting. After our meeting with Dr. Millard on Tuesday I was so excited for the board meeting and it really re energized my spirits for this project. Although the board meeting was pushed back I am still very excited about it and ready to present to the board!

On lesson I learned this week was that you can’t let little things get you down. It would have been pretty easy to get depressed about not being able to get a hold of Adam or especially the board meeting being pushed back but you just have to stay focused on the goal. We shouldn’t focus on the setbacks but stay excited about the goal.

Question: Has anyone else been experiencing major setbacks likes the ones Kendra and I have this week?