Kendra's March 15-19

This week we spent a lot of time researching and perfecting (well trying) to perfect our bylaws for the firm. I feel like I spent a lot of time just looking at good templates and we also had to come up with job descriptions for each of the officers in order to finish the bylaws. On Tuesday, I felt like I spent all day doing things for the project, but it was a good feeling! We met with Dr. Millard and he kind of gave us a path as to what we should try to accomplish before our next meeting, and it didn’t seem long, but the bylaws were one of the hardest parts. I feel like I just keep working on them, and there is always something to fix, like I am not going anywhere. But I know we are, it just seems like I wish we could be done with the bylaws! Wednesday I spend a little more time going over and proofreading them and spent time compiling a list from online and various sources of what job descriptions should look like or include and the kinds of things that officers of a non-profit organization do. On Thursday, we met with Dr. Millard again and he went over all the bylaws that we had updated thus far, and then made more corrections and adjustments. Then we set an agenda for our next meeting which is going to be Tuesday at 8am! Yikes!

My greatest joy this week was really learning things about non-profits and how they work. I am not really a huge fan of researching, but I actually enjoyed doing it this week. It gave me a chance to really explore different non-profits and how they do things and it helped me to understand and get a better view of what kinds of things the officers do.

My greatest challenge this week was that when we finally finished (or thought we did) the bylaws, then Dr. Millard suggested that we send them to Dr. Starcher to look at and go over before Tuesday. Well, I thought they were done, but he had noticed many things that weren’t exactly right and that we had to go back and fix  However, I was happy to see that we only had a few minor things instead of changing all the bylaws so it shouldn’t take us too terribly long to fix some things.

My leadership lesson for this week is that you have to PERSEVERE! Even when you feel like you just want to give up and be done with a project, you have to push until everything is completely perfect, no matter how long it takes! God has really been teaching me this, as I am a senior and sometimes just find myself lacking motivation for this and everything else relating to school!

Question: Is anyone else starting to feel your senioritis kicking in (even if you’re not a senior) and you can tell in this one and other classes? What are some suggestions you can give me??