My recent nuptials have me thinking long term. I started thinking about buying a house, getting a dog (as practice for), raising a family, and soon found myself thinking about student activities. Perhaps your brain jumps around quite like mine does, so this leap from raising my own kids to developing the ones I work with on campus everyday makes sense to you. Here I am wondering: how to we get our students thinking long term? How do we get students to focus on the bigger picture when ultimately, they won't' be around to see the effects of their hard work? A few things come to mind that...