Lindner shared the commencement program with Berry President Scott Colley, who was the featured speaker. One hundred thirty-two students were awarded degrees, including 94 undergraduates and 38 graduate students. During her commencement address, Lindner urged her fellow graduates to establish new goals for their lives. You have worked diligently through college and today you will be receiving a diploma to recognize your achievement. We all need goals - daily, weekly, lifetime goals.
Goals give our lives purpose and meaning.
Without goals, we just drift aimlessly, and we're not motivated. Lindner quoted a Harvard University study that asked graduates if they had goals for their lives. The study followed their careers over the next 25 years and discovered that the three percent who had goals had more stable marriages, had better health, and were more wealthy than the other 97 percent. They also led much happier lives. Enthusiasm is produced by having goals.