Everything during your college life can be super
stressful. Between coop, class work, extra-curricular
activities, and anything else that you may do it feels like there are not
enough hours in the day to do everything.
I believe a good way to cut down on the stress is to try to do something
that you never have done before. Make it
a goal of yours to accomplish this and after you succeed you will feel
great. It will also make everything in
your life seem easy compared to your accomplishment. This may seem like an added stress but like I
just said the feeling of completing the task will make it better.
My personal thing I am working for is training and
eventually competing in the Tough Mudder. For those of you that are not familiar with this
event, Tough Mudder is a 10-12 mile military style obstacle course. There are 23 obstacles that range from
jumping in a pool of ice water to running through a maze of electric shock
wires. I have been training for this for
months. It is right around the corner on
June 1st. Finding time to
train is difficult with everything that I do but I make it work because I know
all the lack of sleep will be worth it when I finish the Tough Mudder and get
to enjoy my free beer that you are rewarded.
Now your personal goal does not have to be something
ridiculous like mine but you should have one you are working towards. It could be a simple 5k or going sky
diving. Just make sure you have
something that you can work towards.
Keeping up with your goal not only helps you focus on getting to the accomplishment
but also helps you to focus on other daily activities like your school work and
coop. Hopefully I have inspired some of
you to work towards accomplishing a goal of yours. Comment and let me know what you guys
chose. I will make sure to update
everyone on how the Tough Mudder went in June.
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Greg Monforte is
a Drexel University Sport Management pre-junior from South Jersey.
Currently he works at Not Just Pizza in Sicklerville, NJ and Daddis Fight Camps
in Philadelphia where he has social media and marketing responsibilities.
Greg is also the SMTSU Director of Marketing & Outreach. Follow Greg on Twitter @Greg_Monforte.
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