#scholactivist

I don't make New Years resolutions anymore ... for obvious reasons. Instead, this year I started a year in review exercise provided by Rosetta Thurman and I was prompted to select a theme word for 2014. Insert here the term "intentional".  Perhaps one of the unsexiest themes that could ever be selected for ones twenties, I decided this word would force me to be responsible for creating the opportunities I stated I wanted, and not rely on others doing so for me. Five months in, I'm nowhere where I think I should be. However, last Tuesday I spent 2.5 hours working with two astonishing young professionals to begin establishing our impact portfolios ... which was an invigorating [re]start. When I decided to brand 2014 as my year of intentionality, I thought it would literally just be about "I". Yet in my short portfolio building session, I learned creating space and community to make yourself and others accountable for actively pursuing their own endeavors was probably the most impactful form of intentionality, that I could experiment with.