Under Motivated and Over Caffeinated
Alright folks... so for the past two years I have really struggled to get motivated. I am still working a lot, and holding some different leadership roles, and doing well at Albion and with my fraternity roles. However, I have felt that I am just not doing the same type of things that I used to do and really getting involved in making a difference and a change.

Well as I wrote about before... I was involved in a key group of Brothers in my fraternity this year. Five Brothers came together to brainstorm what we thought the perfect future of our fraternity would look like, and what operational changes needed to be made in order to actualize those dreams. Well we created a document we called Proposition 86. It was a revolutionary document, and many Brothers said it would be impossible to 1. Get voted in by our House of Delegates, 2. Create simples steps for reaching the goal, and 3. A final actualization of the plan. Well this summer along with getting passed 52-1... and me getting elected to my International Board of Directors (IBOD) meant we were well on our way.

This fall has been a slow start for me... back to the under motivated part. I have just struggled to get into a big project and really move it forward. Its been on my mind a lot and my attention spam is shrinking as I am getting older, either that or something is lacking. What is it? Then this weekend came up... my IBOD had a retreat in Galena, IL. Now I am ready to roll!

We went to this small resort town in Northwestern Illinois. It was a small town with vineyards, golf, skiing (in the winter), water sports... very nice. We rented a big house there for the 10 of us and had a retreat. We spent time bonding, drinking, playing poker (I won money!), and of course meeting and talking about the fraternity and its future.

I was drinking a lot of coffee over the weekend... thats the over caffeinated part. We stayed up until 2-3 AM each night talking about recruitment, hazing, ritual education, leadership training, scholarship, programming... the history of our fraternity. It was an exciting time and I feel confident this board is going to do great things. I will be leading a few major projects in the fraternity and I am very excited.

So hopefully I won't need that much caffeine in a long long time... and also that now I can get motivated to tackle some of these big projects. I am very excited right now for what the future holds.

Edit - Bonus of the trip is that I got to stop and eat with Novali on my way home. She has another loose tooth.