Front Row

This is a pic of Jon Vroman (the guy you're about to read about) and I

This past weekend I attended the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities (APCA)conference. A few students from schools around Texas attended. I was one of the three from my school that was asked to go.

Our job as students was to attend sessions by different speakers and performers. The performers ranged from comedians to artists, poets to musicians and even magicians. The performances were done during showcases during dinner on Friday and Saturday nights. The speakers were done in the morning in "Ed Sessions" and in the afternoon at "Speaker Sessions".

The majority of the ed and speaker sessions were about how to improve campus activities and get more students involved. Some were more of a "self-help" or motivational talk.

I have to talk about one of the sessions that really stuck with me-- It was by a man named Jon Vroman.

Jon had two sessions that really spoke to me and I loved them, but I'm just going to give you a highlight of one. It was about what he calls "living your life in the front row." Living your life in the front row basically means being engaged in life. Don't just sit back in the "nose-bleeds" and watch everyone else. Be engaged. Crowd-surf your way to the front row! I don't want to spend too much time on this because I want you to check him out for yourselves. Basically what he says is that there's no reason for you to not be in the front row, loving life and everything around you! If this doesn't make sense right now, just check out his website and it should start to make sense. I just had to write about this because what this guy had to say really stuck with me.

I'm usually a pretty upbeat person, but I've been especially happy these past few weeks. After talking to Jon and applying some of the tips he gave, I became even happier! I didn't think it was possible for me to be this happy. So yeah...he's great.

To find out more about him and get a better understanding of what I'm talking about (because I know that it makes very little sense) visit his website at myfrontrowlife.com.

Also, please check out frontrowfoundation.org. It is the charity he started, where people with a life threatening illness get to live their life to the fullest and experience a concert, sporting event or something of that nature, from the front row. It's a really great thing--I LOVE IT!