Campbell - Vision Board

Good evening, everyone.

My name is Aaron Campbell, and this is going to

be my vision board posting.

I thought I would do something a little bit different

and actually create a video.

So without further ado, I'll get into it.

First Vision Board.

Question is, is how mindful am I and how do

I deal?

Stress, Um, in my experience, uh, had a lot of

stressful years throughout the military.

Um, went through a divorce, and within the past two

years, um, I like to say it was the most

stressful time in my life, but I learned how to

deal with stress and learn that I don't have control

over all the situations that I'm encountering, Um, learn to

lick a stress as I encounter it in a more

objective manner rather than subjective.

Try and see both sides of it and, uh, come

up with the best way to combat it by looking

at it objectively.

Next one is going to be What have I noticed

about my living environment?

Um, in years past, I've had what you would call

a dirty sink filled with dishes.

Uh, you know, a very disorganized kind of livelihood.

Um, it's not the case anymore.

Um, strive to be organized in my mind, which in

turn would cascade into reality.

A little bit of organization that I like to follow

is this picture that I have from out front of

my house right here, Um, and the beautiful state of

Washington. So, having a beautiful, beautiful place to live, I

think, um, allows you to have a more organized, um,

livelihood as well.

Ah, next one is gonna be What have I experienced

in my mindful breathing?

Um, I found it eases my anxiety whenever I detected

coming on.

I know this because I feel my heart racing a

little bit.

Um, and my breathing is not in the normal pace,

as it usually is.

I've discovered that I simply can't do the brain the

exercise for a couple of breaths and call it good.

I need to actually take my mental focus and, uh,

completely completely focus it on that specific breathing exercise.

Um, at the time, when I wrote this, uh, specific

answer to question number three of the Vision board, I

was in San Diego.

This is a picture from years passed when I was

down there and uh, I took this when I was

coming in from sea on my ship.

And, you know, Sonny, you know, took the time to,

uh, combat that short little bit of anxiety.

And I think it's actually kind of interesting that the

ocean breath technique is what I use.

And this is a picture of the ocean by San

Diego. Next one's gonna be How do I take care

of my body?

Uh, three things.

First one's gonna be physical training helps my mental state.

I think it's a lot for, uh, other people as

well. This year is me in my college years, back

in 2000 and 11, playing college tennis the next way,

I'll I think that I take care of my body.

The best is bringing breathing exercises at the onset of

stress, as I just discussed with my previous answer.

And third is food.

This is actually a free to that I made for

my fiance and I this morning, uh, mixing spam in

with it.

It actually turned out pretty good.

I was quite surprised.

It was my first attempt at it.

Um, mental states and, uh, physical states can't be taken

care of very well if you're not putting good food

in your body, Um, I think it takes consistent effort

on my part to ensure that I'm maintaining a balance

between these three ways that I need to take care

of my body.

Um, if I let one go unchecked for too long,

uh, they'll be out of balance.

And as we've discovered in the past, between are sympathetic

and parasympathetic Nervous systems can cause them to get out

of balance.

Number five.

In what ways have I include a rest relaxation and

recreation in my life.

As you see, I take it a point to get

at least 15 minutes, uh, of a nap in each

day. If I can't get a full nap, just sitting

down and closing my eyes for a short period of

time really helps me out.

Recreational. I like to hunt and hang out with my

dogs. Uh, this is my Weimaraner, Jenny.

You see, on your left and my blue heeler Rambo,

you see laying down and enjoying the sunlight.

Number six, um, who are the significant people in my

life? And how do I show up in my relationships?

Uh, this was fairly simple.

uh, my now fiance.

Truly, as of about, uh, 10 days ago, um, after

a devastating divorce, I thought I'd never find happiness for

a very, very long time.

Um, I felt that I couldn't trust people.

Uh, I couldn't allow myself to be put out there

and, uh, be vulnerable again.

But as time, excuse me, as time has a way

of, you know, not going how you wanted to go.

I quickly met her, and the rest is history.

Um, I show up to my relationship with communication and

understanding. Um, and I don't have the ability to control

every social situation.

Um, once you realize you don't have the ability to

control every social situation, everything else just seems to kind

of, like, fall into line.

Um, relationships take work, they you're gonna have setbacks.

You're going to have happiness, sorrow, arguments, and you're gonna

have a lot of triumphs as well.

Um, without the setbacks and you know the bad things

happening, you can never fully appreciate the good times.

So I think that all of that history in the

past has made me very successful person.

Now, number seven, where do I see myself in five

years, Uh, in the military have been in for about

14 years now, at 20 years as the minimum time

that I can approach retirement.

Um, a couple of, uh, a couple of pictures through

my years.

This is from my first deployment in 2000 and nine,

Uh, in five years.

Plan on retiring for excuse me, a plan on planning

for retirement around this time.

Setting down roots for a rural small town, Kind of,

uh, kind of place trying to get a small farm

somewhere with the goats and pigs.

Um, I have I haven't, uh, aspiration to become an

officer in the navy.

Uh, this is my last year that I'll apply.

Um, otherwise, I'll just stay enlisted and go out of

20. However, if I do get selected, uh, for my

officer program, I'll end up retiring at close to 25

years. Um, after that, I don't think my fiance is

gonna want me to be gone for that much longer.

Uh, another.

Another picture of me.

This is from my also my first deployment in, uh,

the United Arab Emirates in 2000 and nine.

Uh, you'll see here.

This is actually taken in 2010 in Fort Lewis, Washington.

Um, which is kind of funny, because I now live

in Washington for my current assignment.

Um, here, another picture from when I was in Afghanistan,

back in 2000 and 12.

And this is me and my current rank.

Now, um, this was taken last year in 2019, and

this was my last command right before.

I, uh I left to come up to Washington State.

These were everybody that used to work for me.

Um, retirement pay as an officer would be nice.

However, it's not a need.

Um, don't need money to be happy.

It's just a preference.

Um, but who else can say they can retire at

38 not have to worry about working 40 to 60

hours a week anymore for us their lives.

So I'm thankful that I've been able to, uh, serve

for as long as I have.

Last one is going to be a What does the

life of my dreams look like?

Uh, looks a little bit something like this cabin out

by some water, preferably with a stream running through it.

Uh, this is the best one that illustrated the kind

of cabin that were my now fiance.

And I are, uh, looking for, um we want to

be by a stream, though not really by a lake.

Uh, we'd like to have 30 to 60 acres with

some some pigs and some goats.

Uh, goat farming is very profitable.

Um, requires a lot of work, but, hey, you can

do anything with the with the goat.

Also a pig to love, to have a little potbelly

pig that lives in the house and runs through, um,

the time that I answered this question, I had not

yet proposed to my girlfriend.

And here's a little snapshot from, uh, from the night

I asked her posted on instagram.

She said yes.

Thankfully, why?

I don't know.

It's beyond me and a couple of pictures and just,

uh, you know, enjoying life and keeping it simple.

And try not to stress too much of the things

you can't control.

Thank you for taking the time to watch my vision

board presentation.

I hope in the future, if somebody else can do

the same thing, have a good name.

Yeah,

Campbell - Vision Board

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