Plans for 2009

So... 2009. A scary year. A year of the unknown. This will be the first year in AIESEC when I don't have a defined path to follow. Linear movement is no longer an option...so where do I go?

State Manager isn't an option. Thanks, but I think I'll take the money. I've struggled in my role as LCP (thankyou Mr. Personal Life), and Jen has been my saving grace. I worry that the fate of AIESEC SA would be in my hands with noone to hold me up.

MC isn't an option either. Who am I to say that I am good enough to lead the nation!

So, where does that leave me? Long term international opportunities are out of the picture, because I need to finish uni. (And I can't afford it ! )

Plan B is "make it up". Yep, I'm thinking about creating a role for myself. I feel like everyone knows about this now, but that is a blatant untruth.

Train the Trainer is a usccessful series of conferences run throughout the AIESEC network. Highly experienced members and externals train members on how to be good/great facilitators. It's awesome. I don't know why this hasn't been instigated in Australia before now.

Imagine...AP AIESECers might come visit us! We could have International MC members come and faci.

Anyway - at the moment it is nothing but a pipedream, but it's an interesting one nonetheless.

thought

‘The time for words is over… If the human race has not advanced to the point
where we can put aside immediate self-gratification for the larger global good
and our own futures, then I fear for what the world of the next ten years and
thereafter will become.’

President Leo Falcam, Federated States of Micronesia
World Summit on Sustainable Development, 3 September 2002

Hoorah for learning

So I decided that mentors were -not- as lame as they sounded, and found someone who is most lovely and insightful. Alumni are wonderful, for the very reason that they made it out of AIESEC alive, and even went on to be successful! Imagine!

So now I have some food for thought, and new impetus to revisit/rewrite my PLP.

May Planning Meeting is also just around the corner...my goodness. All those brains working to create AIESEC's National Plan 08-09. Golly. I wonder why I'm invited? Ahem, positivity is so in right now.

I hereby vow to Contribute to the sessions at MPM, because if I dont, I wont just let myself down, but my LC wont have a voice on the national stage.

woo for the Alumni evening on Thursday by the way. Super excellent.

Learning

Today I faced a challenge, and instead of collapsing in on myself, I made it through! I think this self-development stuff is beginning to show! Then, it's early days yet. Let's see how that challenge pays out.

Missing people

I just had a thought. I really miss my friends right now, the ones that are sooooo far away (Germany, China, Melbourne etc). What if I brought everyone that I love here, close to me? But then, they'd want to bring everyone that was close to them...it would go on, until the entire world population would be lining up to get into this AIESEC office.

I wonder if there would be anyone left out?

PS - Facebook Chat is

Going to bring the demise of the working world...

Shame on my lazybones!

6 months! 6 months! My life seems to whizz past me without my permission. I figure it's like the toy you have when you're a kid - you hold it up to your eyes, and each click brings a new picture. Oh yeah, it's definitly been like that.

New job! stop smoking!
Quit Woolies!
LCP! smoking!
StateConference! smoking (discreetly!)
Quit great job! chain smoking!
Broke! can't afford to eat, let alone smoke :(

What on earth have I got myself into...

Every time I look around, something has changed, and not always for the better. In fact, my post State Conference world has been less than ideal. (But that's a story for when I'm drunk and my guard is down).

Love you all...