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Upcoming speaking engagement: Limitless Conference

May 1, 2013 — Leave a comment

I’ll be giving a session for women on life planning and goal setting at the upcoming Limitless Conference on May 10-11.

Their website provides a description of the conference, as follows:

“What would you be ready to achieve in your life if all limits were stripped away?  Join us for this one-of-a-kind women’s conference and learn how you too can live LIMITLESS. Conference speakers include Olympians:  Amber Neben (cyclist), Leah Amico (Softball) and Tori Pena (pole vaulter) who have learned to break through limits of their sports and personal lives.

Once the limits are stripped away you will be able to explore your next steps through workshops in many different areas of your life (choose two) – finances, parenting, health & fitness, life plan & goal setting, the joy of being single, marriage, managing life changes, art and creativity, soul care and olympian forum.”

 

If you are interested in attending, use the promo code “Limitless” to get half off the registration fee.

Also, if you have any questions you would like to see answered, or advice to give on the topic of life planning and goal setting, feel free to get engaged in the comments section below.

I hope to see some of you there.

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“Acting on what matters is the act of making change in the world through a set of personal values that define who we are.”

Peter Block in The Answer to How is Yes

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Five ways to save time as a professor

April 10, 2013 — 1 Comment

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Everyone enters the “contest” of who is the busiest at some point in their lives. As someone who is a Mom of a 14 month-old, a full time professor, a person who subscribes to 121 RSS feeds (RIP in June, Google reader), and who can’t wait to learn what’s happening in the world of Mad Men, I know the value I place on time savers.

Here are five of the biggest tools/approaches that I have found to save the most time, in my role as a professor: Continue Reading…

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When you love your work that much… the only way to get out of trouble is to go deeper in. We must enter, not evade, the tangles of teaching so we can understand them better and negotiate them with more grace, not only to guard our own spirits but also to serve our students well.

Parker J. Palmer in The Courage to Teach

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The dip

April 1, 2013 — 3 Comments

A long-time professor at the university where I teach once shared with me something we both had in common. I had thought for the first five years of my teaching that I was alone in my feelings of discouragement at this point in the semester. My life and my relationships are mostly fairly constant (to the extent that anyone’s are…). The manic nature of the few weeks before finals left me exhausted and lacking a sense of purpose at times.

When I shared “the dip” that I had experienced in wrapping up each semester, he shared that he, too, had that pattern throughout all of his years of teaching. He has been teaching more than 25 years and said that every class he taught had the frustrating time toward the end of it, when it seemed like the end just couldn’t get here fast enough. Continue Reading…

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