Soaring Like an Eagle...Part 2

Think "Eagle" when:
 

~choosing which merit badges to work on at a merit badge fair--try to choose at least one "Eagle required" merit badge at each fair
~moving up the ranks--don't dawdle
~deciding whether to help a fellow scout on his Eagle project or to stay home and play video games
~taking on leadership roles








Make a spread sheet or a poster or even an old fashioned "to do" list of the Eagle required Merit Badges as well as a plan for earning them. Ask your scoutmaster if the troop can work together on some of the more involved ones that take a lot of time and require accountability such as "Personal Management" or "Physical Fitness." Begin work on those two as soon as you can. Don't wait until you are a Life Scout; you will be busy enough then!

Speaking of earning merit badges, from now on and forever more, save all the little slips you get when you earn a merit badge. Organize them in your scouting notebook (you do have a scouting notebook, don't you?) in a plastic baseball card organizer. You can organize them alphabetically, chronologically, according to whether or not they are Eagle required...just whatever makes sense to you.