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Meet the Team Leaders!

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What I Would Change About CreateAthon

There are few things that  come to mind when I think about making changes to make CreateAthon better because it is/was one of the best experiences of my life thus far. Also I'm not really one to complain about things, it's hard for me to do. 

If I could change anything it would be that the CreateAthon experience isn't long enough. (haha) As for the actual event I think that there should be a mandatory no working periods, like when were all eating for example (no working lunch). I would also change the fact that we really only got one meeting with the mentors, I personally thought we should have had another check in with them maybe around midnight. Other than this mini rant I have no other complaints only good things to say and I hope CreateAthon is as successful if not more successful than what it was this year. 

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this is how i work.

I feel like for a very long time I’ve had a pretty good grasp on knowing how I as a human being work and deal with challenges. I knew that CreateAthon was going to be one of my biggest challenges to date so my ways of working were going to be put to the test. 

Things I Already Knew

(in brief)

-       I can not work in complete silence

-       I work extremely well under pressure

-       I have the worlds worst ADHD (I use it to my advantage)

-       I work better with other people than alone

Things I Learned

-       I can stay up all night and focused with out copious amounts of coffee

-       Sometimes I need to have alone time to think

-       I am pretty good at answering random questions

-       ‘Fake It Till You Make It’

-       I don’t mind working on the computer for long periods of time

-       It is possible to not get distracted by Facebook/Tumblr

-       I don’t need my iPhone as a distraction

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just picked up some swag for my room

lets just say it involves glow stick and parrot hats. aka the dollar trees finest. 

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They might as well change the name of this video to SPENCER WOODALL AFTER CREATEATHON. 

As many of you may know the even is only 8 days away, we had our last class with Peyton today before the event and tomorrow I am meeting with Billy at ACTS to tie up some loose ends and pick up the necessary materials I need for the journey. Also another thing I am excited about is over spring break I am going to buy a bunch of random stuff from the dollar store and put it in my room (theme is yet to be determined), but none the less it will be epic. 

Another piece of advice given to us by the all mighty Peyton was to just chill before the even and don't get all caught up in it over break, my plans for the first half of break the BEACH, or home but I'm thinking the beach might win out if the weather is nice. 

THE MEET AND GREET on Friday was awesome so glad I have an awesome team and they are ready to go they've received all the necessary things from my end to prepare for the event, but they should expect another email from me mom style reminding them to bring chargers, computers, things they want, etc. 

Words CANNOT explain how excited I am to do this work for ACTS now that the time is closer....  now on to brain storm that room.... The next time I'm on here will probably be the day before or the day of the event prepare for some craziness. 

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Freshly home from the ACTS 8th annual appreciation and awareness dinner! Thanks for the awesome food and hospitality guys, and the shout out!!