Academic Action Plan for the MAiL Paulina Mooradian Azusa Pacific University
Step #1
The Connective leadership model describes a leadership template that is made specifically for the present Connective Era. This era is marked by the apprehensions between diversification and interdependence. The Connective Leadership book explains that leaders who can recognize the common needs and worries of diverse classes, regardless of how limited they may seem, can aid in better grasping and instituting collaborative and inventive ventures (Lipman-Bluman, 2000). With regards to the ASI I scored highest in power and second highest in collaborative, however the style that makes me feel most accomplished is collaborative. In my academics as well as in my potential work environment I would prefer collaboration as opposed to power. I feel I succeed better in a group setting where there are multiple insights, thoughts, ideas, and more shoulders to lean on in times of stress or anxiety. Differing proposals in a divergent group environment prompts the members to call upon one another when working on a task or a project. I enjoy mutual support and being able to function alongside others because it makes me feel dedicated to my group and the goals we are striving to achieve. Even though collaboration consists of working together, individual work is also required because everyone is expected to take responsibility. At this point in time I also see myself favoring the contributory style due to the fact that I find contentment and pleasure from carrying out my part of a project or task well so that my fellow members are victorious. With regards to this achieving style I view myself as someone who is more than willing to take part in significant activities and I obtain gratification in offering up my time to assist others in achieving their goals. Considering the leadership competencies we reviewed in class, the one competency that best describes where I am in my academic and personal life is inspiring developer. My current reflective rating for this competency is a competent three because I engage myself in sincere and worthwhile advising relationships and I take pride when someone asks me for guidance or counsel. Another leadership competency that characterizes myself fittingly is responsible influencer with my current rating being an emerging responsible influencer. I relish in actively participating with other members in any kind of group setting and displaying an appreciation of the benefit of discussing diversification and embedding aspects of diversity into our groups morals and ethics. With regards to the Emotional Intelligence assessment that I took from the Emotional Intelligence 2.0 book, by Bradberry and Greaves (2013), I scored an eighty-six as my overall emotional intelligence score. In terms of social competence I scored a one hundred on social awareness. I garner a sense of achievement when I accurately perceive the emotions and thoughts of other individuals. I have a knack for being able to sense how other people feel in certain situations, whether it is personal or in a public club or group. According to the assessment, I scored an eighty-eight in self-awareness. Being aware of my feelings and emotions has served me well as I am one to recognize what I feel and why I am feeling the way I am feeling. For example, if I feel excluded, ignored, or disregarded I will say something to the individual or individuals. I have no problem opening up to people expressing my emotions and feelings, however, I have not always been this way. Coming into college was when I realized how important it is to express myself.
Step #2 Considering where I aspire to be in the future with regards to the leadership competency inspiring developer, I have my heart set on serving as an advisor or counselor to those who could some inspiration in their daily lives. This could be in regards to family life, personal life, or professional life. In my friendships, family, and future work environment I strive to produce an engaging and participative context in order to be successful. I aspire to develop the skills needed to become an adept and proficient mentor or adviser. For me to grow into the inspiring developer I desire to one day become, I am motivated by having regular discussions with my mentor in order to improve my own mentoring skills. Spending time with individuals who inspire me in my life can help me to reach out to people in my personal or professional lives and be able to guide them while persevering through my own personal growth. As I reviewed my A-ASI results I was not surprised that the collaborative style was the style I aspire to utilize most often. In the years that lie ahead in the MAiL program I intend to further immerse myself in classes, groups or clubs that center on leadership, leadership competencies and meta-competencies. This way I can grow in my understanding of each of the competencies and learn about how my understanding of them can help me to pursue my dreams of becoming a mentor or an adviser in a college setting. I acknowledge that I would need to polish up skills in terms of the leadership competencies, for example, strategic mobilizer. I am placed in the emerging section of strategic mobilizer where I hope to uniformly initiate goals, in a collaborative setting, and digest the value of obtaining honorable individuals to communicate those goals or plans I have set (Lipman-Blumen, 1996). Contemplating my future endeavors, I intend to strengthen my development in terms of responsible influencer as I am in the emerging stage of this leadership competency as well. As I manifest myself into a responsible influencer I continue to refine the collaborative style I attach myself to and as I proceed in this program I desire to become more conscious of divergent or differing viewpoints. I also strive to better my responsible influencer self in an engaging and potent manner so that in my career as a life coach or a guidance counselor I can show others how to maturely integrate diverse perspectives, visions, and goals into their everyday life. The other aspirational achieving style is contributory and speaking of becoming a life coach I realize that I would need to contribute my own experiences in terms of contrasting perspectives regarding diversification. The contributory style explains that one takes pride in helping others accomplish their goals and this is a great description of the type of life or guidance coach I aspire to become. With regards to my emotional intelligence, the way I have learned to authentically pick up on the feelings and emotions of other people has been by being a listener, offering a shoulder to cry on, and letting people know that I am not there to judge but rather I serve as a means to be able to vent. I yearn to let college students aware of the fact that deep, personal conversations of their emotions are pivotal and beneficiary so I can hopefully advise how to become aware of their own emotions. This can be done by means of a light bulb going off in their heads and once that happens they learn why they are feeling what they are feeling. Step #3 While I have not perfected a method of embedding diversity in every aspect of my own life, my dream is to be an accomplished responsible influencer and I will achieve this dream by participating in activities where I experience and absorb diversity in action. For example, going on a missions trip or practicing counseling with friends and family and first handedly being exposed to all types of backgrounds and diversity and thinking up ways to indiscriminately bring all of those backgrounds and diverse perspectives under one roof. The leadership competency here would be inspiring developer and the achieving style is entrusting. In this program I want to both empower and inspire individuals to always be conscious of what is going on around them. I have also realized another way of inspiring and empowering others are by letting them know that they will be able to get through anything. I came across a book entitled You’re Going to Be Okay, Encouraging Truth Your Heart Needs to Hear, Especially on the Hard Days by Holley Gerth. This book implies that even though we go through bad times and we feel frustrated and things do not exactly go our way we can and will overcome these negative aspects of our lives. This would a way of spreading word that with confidence and faith one can come out on the other side strong and more resilient than ever. In this program I plan to execute this is by engaging frequently with my mentor and digesting her ways of motivating, encouraging, and empowering me as a college student. This way I can take all of that and be a mentor to a college student in deep need of motivation and empowerment. The other achieving style that fits in quite well here is the vicarious achieving style. This style elucidates that individuals in the vicarious category strive to be a quality mentors. Considering the competitive and power achieving styles, principled decision-making is the leadership competency that is connected to the competitive and power styles. I acknowledge that along with the responsibility of advising and guiding individuals comes the need to make moral and ethical decisions. A competent principled decision-maker, like myself, recognizes and conveys problems to others and can distinguish between opinions and facts. Competent decision makers also take ownership for their responsibilities. An aspect of principled decision maker that I could improve is having the confidence to articulate and communicate results and explanations to issues within my counseling practice. One of the classes that I could take that would help me to refine this skill is LDRS 534 Leader as an Agent of Change. Attention will be geared towards transformational change that happens when the call for change occurs. I am confident that by taking this class in the near future that I will become proficient and accomplished in making decisions that will help me to implement solutions to restore any faults or flaws in my business. With regards to the Emotional Intelligence assessment that I took, some strategies that I would utilize in order to improve my self-management skills would be to carry out my emotions in a non-irrational manner and to remain enthusiastic and productive as my emotions run through me. In terms of self-awareness, I need to work on maintaining a consistent pattern of expressing my worries and concerns so that my reactions to problems are not blow-out-of-proportion. Also I should work on thinking before I say something because there are times when my emotions take over. Thinking about relationship management, I could improve these skills by trusting in my existing relationships and refining the skills of handling conflict in a mature way. Step #4 Considering the leadership theories in Northouse’s book, the two theories that resonate the most with me are servant leadership and authentic leadership. Servant leadership focuses on the innate feeling to want to serve others and have that be one’s primary goal (Northouse, p. 220). In terms of my desire to lead college students and offer them guidance and counsel, my number one priority as always been and will always be to serve others before myself. Northouse speaks of some of the characteristics that servant leaders hold and the ones that I typically utilize in my everyday life are listening, exuding empathy for others and healing, awareness, and commitment (Northouse, p. 221). The first three resonate with me the most. One of the crucial attributes of a servant leader is offering an open ear to listen and understand what the individual is going through and acknowledging their views and perspectives. I have always had a major sense of achievement in being a good listener and friends and family will usually seek me out because they know I will listen and offer my full attention. Empathy is another characteristic of servant leadership and Northouse explains that empathy is considered as “‘standing in the shoes’” of another person (Northouse, p. 221). In other words, empathy is the attempt to view the world from another person’s eyes. To step into another individual’s shoes and have compassion for whatever he or she may be going through is the focus of being empathetic. There is huge feeling of accomplishment when I can relate to something that is going on in somebody else’s life, for example, if I realize that a friend or a family member is experiencing an episode of sadness because he or she is feeling lonely. I have experienced this feeling and so I can empathize and offer strategies to be able to move past it and know they are never truly alone. Commitment is considered as engaging with each and every single one of the individuals in an organization and devoting oneself to assisting them in their personal and professional growth throughout their time with the organization (Northouse, p. 222). I feel blessed to exhibit the natural ability of offering up my time to spend time with another person and talking with them about their futures and how they plan to execute their future goals and how I can help them as a they succeed in their professional and personal everyday lives. The second leadership theory in Northouse’s book that naturally resonates with me is Authentic Leadership. According to Northouse (1997), there are various definitions of authentic leadership and each of them is composed from different viewpoints (p. 254). One of the viewpoints is the intrapersonal perspective and this centers on leaders and what goes on in the leaders life (Northouse, p. 254). The interpersonal process demonstrates the relational aspect of leadership. Speaking of the interpersonal process, Northouse also explains that authenticity appears from the interactions between followers and their leaders and is a reciprocal process. The characteristics of authentic leadership include passion, behavior, connectedness, compassion, and consistency (Northouse, p. 259). All of these characteristics serve as tools that can be utilized when practicing counseling while I am in the MAiL program. Even though I feel I have mastered most of these characteristics throughout my whole life, there is always room for improvement. The authentic leader exhibits self-discipline, which goes along with consistency, in which they initiate goals and guidelines and self-disciplined individuals help their followers to reach these goals. The consistency, or self-discipline, characteristic is one that I need to work on and I will do that by setting goals for myself and following through. 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Personal Leadership Development Plan from LDRS 516
Paulina Mooradian
Azusa Pacific University
Introduction
The facets of my personal life story are made up of my emotions, thoughts, and feelings that have each played a role in all of my life experiences. With respect to my life story, I am learning how crucial it is to create a personal development plan in order to achieve greatness and virtuosity as a future leader. The purpose of a personal development plan, as maintained by George, McClean, & Craig (2007), is to document the adjustments and changes that are essential in my life and apply them to the areas in my life that need inspiration or improvement. My development plan will yield the ability for me to assess my progress when it comes to the skills and changes I plan on achieving in my life. In order to be prosperous in life goal setting and planning are necessary. The different sections I am going to touch on in Bill George’s Finding Your True North include discussing my intellectual development, discipline and stress management, values and principles, as well as spirituality and relationships. Other aspects are integration, leadership style, and future directions. In each of these sections I will shed light on where I am at in my personal development. Intellectual Development Where will I deepen my mind? With respect to how I endeavor to strengthen my mind throughout my life, I aim to not enable defeatist thoughts and judgments to enter my head. I plan to do this by making sure to take time to myself every now and then and relieve myself of all of my worries and stresses. This could also be a means of meditation, which helps me to balance out the internal and external experiences that I go through in my everyday life. With significant balance between all of my life moments through meditation I enable myself to live one day at a time and not worry too much about the future. Forgiveness is another means of deepening my mind; my idea of forgiveness is not letting negative events and people take a toll on me or surround me. I strengthen my mind by not thinking too far into the future and putting all of my concerns into the hands of God and living everyday to my fullest potential. This helps me to think more optimistically and productively. When I think about others who have a lot more on their plate than I do I think to myself that I am never alone and that everyone goes through tough times. Knowing that I can relate to others in situations helps to ease my mind because I can always ask for advice and give advice to others as well. I am a relational person therefore I like the idea of sharing my life experiences with others. What places would I like to live in or visit? In terms of different areas or locations I would like to visit, I have always dreamt about going to another country, such as Italy. For me, travelling plays a role in stabilizing my emotions. When I am in one place for too long I get depressed and all of my past pain and trauma enters my mind and I become like a zombie. Even just travelling to somewhere I have never been helps to get my mind off of my problems and I enable myself to focus on what makes me happy. There are numerous benefits to getting up and going somewhere I have never been, such as relieving myself of everyday pressures of school, work, and family. There is always the potential to learn about another culture and expand my horizons by travelling even just to a beach or another city or state. Getting out of my comfort has proved to difficult for me at times and this is why I want to plan to travel more in order to get out my own head and learn more about a place I have never been to. Personal Discipline and Stress Management What will I do to develop consistent sleep patterns? In regards to my stress management, maintaining my stresses has never been easy for me. Stress, in my life, seems unavoidable as worry and anxiety always seem to surround me. There are multiple ways in which stress takes a toll on me including my sleep habits because I either sleep too much or not enough. Either way I consistently feel groggy, disoriented or weak almost all of the time. During the times that I experience a lot of strain and tension I notice myself to be doing nothing but tossing and turning all night long. Nine times out of ten I have so much on my mind that I cannot seem to find a consistent pattern of sleep. One means of developing consistent sleep patterns is by giving myself a designated bedtime in which I will fall asleep at a certain time. I find myself to always be tired and this may allow me to get more things done before my appointed bedtime. Another technique for maintaining stable sleep patterns would be to listen to music because I find that when I am playing music through my ear plugs I fall asleep more easily. Most of the time I end up laying in my mind starring at the ceiling and I do not fall asleep until way after midnight. An additional method of managing my sleep could be by making sure I know exactly what I am doing the next day so I do not have to worry about all of that stuff while I sleep. This way I can focus on sleeping and not on the hundreds that need to get done because I will have mapped and planned everything out a head of time. What practices will I develop to better manage stress? In Bill George’s Finding Your True North he lists various practices to create a less stressful environment and one of the practices that resonates with me the most is listening to music followed by having meaningful conversations with my mentor. With respect to listening to music, I find that I can get the troublesome and adverse things out of my head if I listen to music I really like. Music diverts me from all of the other demanding and trying things that are flowing through my head at all times. A variety of music helps me to think about something that has nothing to do with the everyday concerns and disturbances that live in my head. The second method of better managing my stress is by talking to my mentor. My mentor and I started out as roommates almost three years ago and every time I am around her I feel a sense of relaxation within myself. She speaks in a very mellow and easy-going tone to where I almost feel like I am floating on a cloud of tranquility. She often will apply various spiritual verses to the different stresses I am experiencing in my life. These verses make me realize that God never forsakes me and to always trust that He has a plan for my life regardless of the mistakes that I make on daily basis. Values, Leadership Principles, and Ethical Boundaries What values are most important to me? With respect to the values that I cherish and hold closet to my heart, my top five values are honesty, commitment, compassion, gratitude, and devotion. In terms of honesty, in order for me to live authentically I always have to know in my heart that I tell nothing but the truth and that I do not do anything that would not be considered God-honoring. For me, honesty means knowing that I do everything with honor, fairness, and morality, which says that I always think about how my actions would affect other people and that I am being truthful to myself and to God. My next top value is commitment, which means that any dreams that I strive for in my life I seek them with loyalty and dedication as well as bravery. A commitment is a covenant that I make with myself and I set expectations for myself to meet. When my commitments are in the form of something I am really am passionate about I consistently celebrate that commitment by achieving what needs to be achieved in order to feel like I successfully honored my commitment. Compassion is my third top value; being that I am a very relational and interpersonal person I have a lot empathy and sympathy for what others are going through. I am confident that I was brought into this world to put others before myself and to take care those around me. The fourth value that I deeply cherish is gratitude, or indebtedness. I acknowledge that I would be absolutely nothing and that I would not be here if it were not for that fact Jesus died on the cross for my sins. Sometimes I think to myself that I do not deserve the blessings that God has provided me with because I am a sinner and I make mistakes almost everyday. Throughout my life I consistently and regularly give thanks for everything I am given and for anything anyone provides me with that will help me in the long run. I do my best to never take anything or anyone for granted and to live with my regrets in my life. Last but not least, devotion is my fifth value. Devotion means never forgetting that God loves me no matter what I do and no matter what my sins because His grace and forgiveness will always be a million times more significant than my sins themselves. Admittedly, at times I lose my sight of God and I wonder why certain things happen in my life and then I realize that He gives me tests to see how I handle certain obstacles in my life so He can teach me ways to handle things in a God-honoring fashion. Spirituality/Personal Reflections For my spiritual or religious practice, I will: Touching on my spirituality and my religious practices, there are a few disciplines such as prayer and meditation that I would like to improve myself on. With respect to prayer, I feel closet to God when I prayer with someone such as my mentor, a really devoted and faithful friend, or an individual whom I feel immensely comfortable around. Praying amongst a group of intimate friends makes me feel as though I am not alone in this world even when I feel extremely isolated. I am someone who enjoys being around people who love and support me and want to see me succeed. As a follower of Christ, I know that God redeems me of my sins but from time to time I feel guilty and tend to think that God does not take my prayers seriously because of my sins. This has been a personal conviction for me at certain points in my life and I am reminded by my mentor that God hears everything I think, feel, and pray for and that I should not feel guilty. When I am in a calm and serene place with absolutely nothing on my mind is when I feel best praying by myself. In terms of meditation, I yearn to work harder on techniques such as stopping every once in a while and just breathing. I am often told my friends how important it is to simply take a deep breath and let go of all the unfavorable circumstances in my life. By doing this is a form of meditation for me because it gives me a chance to release any harmful or adverse thoughts or suspicions. Another method of meditation that I would like to work on with regards to meditation is one in which I free myself of all my sins by focusing on the good in my life, such as true friends, family, and church. I focus on the different aspects of myself that I take pride in; for example, compassion, humility, passion, love, kind-heartedness, hard working, and loyal. When I focus on these strengths of mine I am able to free myself of my guilt, condemnation, and the sins of my past that tend to haunt me. To strengthen these practices, I plan to: Moving onto how I would strengthen these spiritual and religious practices that I mentioned above, when it comes to prayer I know exactly what I would to improve myself. I plan to meet with my mentor more often than I already do because whenever I am around her I perceive a sense of freedom. I feel as though I am being cleansed of my doubts, guilt, and any blameworthiness in my being. She somehow endows me with a sense of relaxation and liberation whenever we pray together or talk about bible verses; she continually reminds me that no sin can ever be more powerful than the love, grace, and forgiveness of God. With respect to meditation and how I wish to better this practice, I plan to come up with a serene, peaceful, tranquil place I have never been to and claim it as my area to just breath and relieve myself of any troubles in my life. How I plan to find this place will involve utilizing the Internet and researching locations such as a beach, a park or even physically doing something like walking. When I am in a place where no worries can get to me I am freer to take deep breaths and let all of the toxic and negative energy out of me. One thing I plan to do is take little day trips every once in a while by myself and this way I can think about things without distractions and be able to work on myself and take time to breath and just do me. Building Relationships The most important people in my life are: The most prominent and influential people in my life happen to be the ones who do not judge me or look down upon me. These people include my best friend of over ten years, my mentor, and other various individuals in my life. I have a very small circle of people that I know I can trust and depend on and be completely open with. For the majority of my life I have always been a bit of a loner and would prefer to have fewer amazing, genuine people surround me as opposed to a lot of people who will end up hurting me. Due to the fact that I have been hurt by a lot of people I am hesitant to let certain people into my life and I tend to build a wall around myself in an attempt to be protected from being potentially jilted. When distressed I turn to: In times of anguish, agony, or pain I usually will turn to my best friend that I have known for over ten years of my life. There has been a lot of emotional strain and damage put upon me from my biological father that has scarred me for life. He was someone who was never emotionally or mentally present in my life and the destruction he has caused is ingrained in my mind forever. My best friend knows a lot about these personal family issues and whenever I am about to burst or explode I know I can call him and vent and he will allow me to do that. The same goes for my mentor, during times of sadness, misery, or despair she knows how to help me to feel better about myself and will tell me that she is always going to be here for me no matter what. Integration To integrate my personal life, family life, friendships, and community life with my professional life to become a better leader, I plan to do the following: Reflecting on how I can merge or amalgamate the aforementioned aspects of my life, I plan to do my best to resist fear that I will fail at any one of these components. One technique that could help me to integrate all of these elements is by ensuring myself that I have an amazing support network. With a trustworthy support system around me I know I could easily ask for help or advice if and when I really need it. My confidence often elevates when there are people whom I can tell only want the best for me and are always there to encourage and inspire to follow my dreams and pursue my goals. These are the people who will also let me know if I am pushing myself too hard or lacking in a specific area, whether that is family, friends, or my professional life. Additionally, what would help me to integrate my personal and family lives with my professional life would be to not hold onto my mistakes and to learn to live in the moment. Sometimes I find myself stuck in the past and that makes it hard for me to move forward and focus on what is really important. Ultimately, I acknowledge that boundaries would have to be set in that a certain amount of time would be with my family or friends and a certain amount of time would be spent in my career. This way I could balance everything out without feeling overwhelmed. What also helps me is prioritizing and keeping a schedule of what needs to be done, and this way I will not fall behind when it comes to any one of these components of my life. Leadership Style My preferred leadership style is: My top leadership style is affiliative because I yearn to be the leader who develops emotions bonds with those that I work with or surround myself with. An affiliative leadership style involves forming positive relationships with others and therefore trust and loyalty is created. I believe that once trust and allegiance is created then harmony is also created. When dealing directly with very powerful or intimidating people, I: During the times that I must manage or deal with intimidating people I consistently do my best to maintain a professional status. In any situation in my life it is inevitable that I will encounter frightening or intimidating individuals and because I am easily startled and nervous I take things very personally and the intimidation often sticks with me for a long time. One way I plan to do deal with this is by not running away from the person but by politely confronting them and express to them that I took what they said personally and that it hurt my feelings. By speaking up and expressing how I feel is a way for me to develop more effective communication skills. Leadership Development The experiences I need in order to develop my leadership include: As a future prominent leader there are some occurrences or happenings that should take place such as a moment where I will have to do quite a bit of multitasking. As a leader multitasking is vital and since this is not exactly a strong point of mine I acknowledge that I need to strengthen my ability to deal with multiple activities or duties at once. An additional experience that I have yet to undertake is to not be afraid to give my opinion and stand up for what I believe in. In any organization I realize how important it is to say what is on my mind in a proper and appropriate way. Due to the fact that I am a very emotional personal, my emotions and feelings often take over. I want to be able to express my emotions but not allow them to take a toll on me. These experiences I feel like I need to be exposed in order to be the most effective leader I can be. Leadership Purpose and Legacy The purpose of my leadership is: What I believe to be the purpose of my leadership is to encourage and inspire to be vulnerable and to exhibit effective communication without feeling judgment or retribution from anybody. I believe my purpose in leadership is to make people feel they are in a safe environment to express themselves and say what is on their minds in a proper and fitting manner. Ultimately, I desire to encourage people to feel comfortable in their skin and form positive bonds and relationships with each other in order to build effective leadership within themselves. At the end of the day, I would like to look back and be able to say: When I look back on my life someday I would to be able to say that I all put others before myself. I pride myself on my humility and going above and beyond to support, encourage, and care for those who serve as important figures in my life. I can look back and say that I own my mistakes and consistently take responsibility for my actions. Something that I appreciate about myself is my interpersonal skills and my ability to have deep, thorough, heartfelt conversations with people. These are all skills that I find very important in leadership and that I can look back and pride myself on. Future Directions What is my five-year vision? With respect to my five-year vision, I hope to be serving as an admissions counselor on the campus of Azusa Pacific University or as a life coach for college students. In each of these positions humility and vulnerability will be very much alive and these are two of my strengths. In order to achieve these goals of mine I plan to practice and worker harder on the experiences I mentioned above in the leadership develop section. I plan to work harder on multitasking and being vulnerable but at the same time not letting my emotions take a drastic toll on me. Last but not least, I plan to continue to inspire people to express themselves and be comfortable in their skin.
References George, B., McClean, A., & Craig, N. (2008). Finding your true north: A personal
guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
A piece of an email conversation between my mentee and I from LDRS 516 is below.
Hi Meagan,
My name is Paulina, I was referred to you by Barbara Wiltsey for a grad school mentor/mentee project I am doing and I would like to hopefully work with you. Let me know when we could possibly meet up to talk some more? Thank you