April 2011
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On Being "Fair" →
Check out this blog post by Andy Vance…
March 2011
8 posts
Quadrant 2 Coming to Life
I first read Sean Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens when given the book as a reading assignment for my first meeting as a state FFA officer. Since then, I’ve also read the original 7 Habits by Dr. Stephen Covey, and work to keep those principles as a foundation for effectiveness in my work and life. If you’ve never interacted with the 7 Habits, allow me to introduce you:...
Why we still need our girlfriends →
In our hectic world, it’s so easy to work, work, work, and let things like visiting with friends get pushed to the “sometime later when I have time” category of the task list. My good friend Theresa shared this article with me today. I gentle reminder of why we still need our girlfriends, and why I’m not sure that text messages count…
...How Sweet the Sound
I’ve been humming Amazing Grace all day. The pre-service music for last night’s Ash Wednesday service was three consecutive arrangements of Amazing Grace - a piano solo, a piano/flute duet, and piano/organ duet. I played the organ on the last piece, and my favorite part is a big transition from soft and soothing to bold and powerful. A wonderful reminder of the awesomeness of the grace...
Straight Out of a Pottery Barn Catalog
When I pull those 150-some glossy pages of picture-perfect rooms from my mailbox, I can’t wait to get inside the house, sit down with a cup of hot tea (or a Pepsi from the fridge), and slowly work my way from cover to cover, blissfully admiring the shots of rooms that must have perfectly mindful children and husbands occupying them, since certainly no one I know would actually have a mudroom with...
Things I Learned Today
Life just feels better when all your techno gadgets are working properly and synced together. God bless the cloud.
Life sometimes feels better when you can talk openly about an issue, even when no solution is found.
Days are better when began with a good round of frisbee with your favorite puppy.
When things aren’t going as planned, a doughnut can almost always makes thing better.
Everyday Language Report
I’ve just finished reading Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright, which has really challenged me to think about the words I’m using each day and the way I’m interacting with others. After listening more closely to myself this past week, I’ve realized it is so much easier to use “I”, “my”, and “me” than to speak in “we”’s.
If I want something accomplished, it’s...
"Great Aunts: The First Facebook" - Holly Michael →
Hilarious blog post by Holly Michael on her blog “Bringing Home the Bacon”. What really made me laugh out loud is the fact that this is my family!! I’m sure you’ll say the same thing! Mom: “Oh honey, did you know that <Cousin> is engaged?” Me: “Yeah, he asked her last Saturday night… I saw it on Facebook.”
Maybe it’s good to stop for a moment…consider what... →
February 2011
8 posts
In Steven Levy’s article in the March 11 issue of Wired magazine, titled “Facebook Reset”, he says, “I propose Facebook grant us a friend-list do-over.” Several paragraphs later: “If all went well, our friend lists would much more closely reflect those we want to talk to and be poked by.”
I tried this once. Pared back to the 200 people I really WANTED to...
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I wish I had a voice recorder...
…to capture the language I use throughout the day. Oh wait - there’s an app for that! Even so, I doubt I’ll start using my iPhone to record everything I say each day.
I’m reading Tribal Leadership at the recommendation of my friend Andy Vance. While the content is definitely challenging my ideas on many fronts, let me bring up just one at this point. The authors gauge an...
Learning from students
Yes, even though I’m supposedly the instructor, I love that I learn so much from conversations with students. Today’s discussions didn’t occur within the context of a class, but were nonetheless meaningful. Two different thoughts from two of today’s conversations:
1) Why are so many in our society pushing for all students to attend college? Are we heading toward an...
“Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Is it possible?
One component of my “real job” is working with prospective college students, from the time they are considering our institution through their successful transition to our program as freshmen. The fantastic students that will enter our halls this fall as college freshmen are members of the high school graduating class of 2011. I graduated from Cory-Rawson High School in 2001.
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“Whatever you are… be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln