Ideal Group Interns

Christian Perales March 22, 2016 What are Goals and Strategies, How Would I Accomplish One of my Goals? Many people wonder how certain things are accomplished but only dwell on the success, ignoring the work and strategies that go into it. A goal is something that many of us are striving for; it is the thing we all try to accomplish. Many people will say that things are easier said than done, but with strategy, which is a plan, you can accomplish your goals in a shorter time frame and usually with less stress. It is easy to say that there is a lot of work that goes into completing a goal, but that does not mean that the goal is unobtainable. A good strategy for accomplishing a goal would be to break it up into parts. Set multiple deadlines for how much progress you’d like to make by a certain date. As your progress meets your deadlines, it brings you another step closer to accomplishing your goal. As the progress adds up, the distance from you and your goal gets smaller. Anoth...

What is “Goal and Strategy” and what is one of your goals?  What strategies are you using to get that goal accomplished?             Goal and Strategy is to have a measurable and realistic agenda set out and applying your resources and skills to accomplish that agenda. I’ve learned this certain definition by the tasks assigned to me in the gardens over the summers worked at Ideal. With every job put into the task list, I had to make sure that we could measure the time it would take to complete it, assign people with the skills needed, and referenced our agenda to be sure that we weren’t wasting resources.             The goal I want to accomplish this summer is to work on my managing my blood sugar and fitness. My blood sugar would be a job that takes several different processes. First, I will have to assign certain eating habits and time frames on when to eat. Th...

                This past Wednesday was jam-packed and important in my life because I received the Rotary Youth Citizen Service award. The amount of preplanning to make sure this day went smoothly was immense, but I was able to get through it all successfully. The people who have guided me throughout my life, like my mom and dad, have shown me the value of diligence and dedication. I mentally thank them every day and am grateful for their parenting, whether they know it or not.                 The lessons they taught me helped me get the Detroit Rotary Youth Citizen Service award, which is a scholarship for $1,000 dollars. In the application, I had to write about my service projects, my duties at home, and any role models I had, along with some other topics. These three topics were easy to answer because of the experience I earned ...

   Today was a pretty interesting day for me. When I got to Surplus, I changed my into my work clothes. I went to go do some cycle counting but Keith told me that they moved the parts and they were going to have me work on something else. He asked Phil if he had something for me to do. Phil had me work on folding boxes for parts. It's been a while since I've folded boxes, but I still remembered how to. I did about a hundred before going to my meeting with Nick Luxon.    I arrived to Contracting around 11:30 and Sylvia took me to Nick's office. I sat down with Nick and started talking to me. We talked about my family, education, goals, and work. I asked him questions about his job and how he got to Ideal. Our meeting was about 30 minutes. Before the meeting ended, he gave me his business card and set another meeting for another day. After the meeting, I had lunch with Enrique. I went back to Surplus and continued to fold boxes for the rest of the day. My day was grea...

                Today’s job was simple and clear- cycle counting. It’s the world’s most interesting task, but also the most tedious. It consists of taking inventory of the tools and parts that are in lots in what we call the cage. The cage is a small room in the shop that stores a great amount of surplus material for Ideal Surplus. There are as many boxes as there are fish in a lake, so this project will be running for a bit of time. The difficult part is searching the list for the item number on the tool, which can take several minutes if you have many pages to look through. Sometimes I double and triple check because I felt that I messed up or remembered the wrong number to look up. Many times, the part in the box isn’t on the list, so you have to take it out of the lot and put it to the side; however, if that part was on the list and it was human error when looking up the number, it can have serious proble...

Today I read pages ten and eleven from the “Navigating Your Financial Future” article and I really like the real world example given. It talked about an average male named Ty and how he should budget given his circumstances-bills and other expenses. Along with this it gave you a template so that you may also budget with Ty. This template will be something I use in the near future because as a college student I would really need to budget everything.  It even goes into further detail by giving you tips on how to shop smart and look for deals on your wants/needs. I found this section really valuable and necessary.     Today was a pretty casual day for me and I was reminded on how to do put piking sheets into the network. In the morning I was still waking up so I grabbed a cup of Joe and went straight to my email. I had nothing about a specific job I had to do for today, so I went to the scans pile. I saw that we were really backed up on scans so I got started....

   For the past 2 weeks, Christopher and I have been doing cycle counting. It's pretty straightforward task, we're given a location with a list of items. Our job is to make sure we mark off the correct amount of items that are in the location off the list. If we fine any item that's not on the list, we put it to the side. I was working where Christopher left off and I did about another 2 locations as well. I stopped around 11:30 to go change back into dress clothes because I had a lunch in with Sylvia at Holy Redeemer.    Sylvia, Rossie, and I arrived at Holy Redeemer around 12. We had students from Redeemer be our hostess. I had a great conversation with the students that I was accompanied by. I met Sister Elizabeth as well and she kindly brought Ayleen to the lunch so I could of given her a hug. Lunch was great and after lunch, the students gave me a tour of the school. After the tour, we went back to Ideal. Once I got back, I changed into my work clothes and...