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• Value Your Attention

  

  We've all been there. You just started a much needed and well-deserved vacation or weekend of rest and you decide to take a quick peek at your email. You... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• Avoiding Parkinson’s Law

  

  You were given three weeks to finish that project. It seems like ample time, and your stress level is low. You have plenty of other items on your plate, and thi... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• Asking for 85%

  

  If you had suggested to 12 year old me that I aim for 85% in school in order to get the most out of the experience and avoid the stress and anxiety that comes... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• Practicing Generous Exclusion

  

  To work in higher education is to have a profoundly deep level of experience with committee work. Higher education, as a field, is perhaps more invested in the... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• Sharing A Few Miles

  

  Yesterday was global running day. The wildfires in Canada delivered their smoke and particulate matter to the skies overhead with vigor and the air quality... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• How Do You Want to Feel?

  

  How do you want to feel when it's all said and done? Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• You Are More Valuable Where You Are Valued

  

  A lot has been made recently about the "great resignation" and the idea of "quiet quitting". There is no debating the fact that a significant number of folks... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• Find Your People

  

  There is no question that the world is full of a plethora of unique and dynamic individuals with different identities, beliefs, values, backgrounds, and... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• Reconsider Your Everyday

  

  "The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land through a hundred different... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• Sometimes You Need to Wear the Unicorn Speedo

  

  This past weekend, I donned a unicorn speedo and a smile and ran down the road in the middle of rural Iowa (well, it's pretty much all rural). I wasn't alone. A... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• More Work Doesn’t Always Equal Better Work

  

  We've all been told about the virtues of hard work. The myth of meritocracy embedded in the ethos of the American Dream is strong, and we see it represented in... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• Feeling Your Goals

  

  Quite a bit of time is spent considering goals and learning objectives in various spaces. Whether it be in the classroom, the boardroom, or the factory floor,... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• Ask More How Questions

  

  I've always appreciated the innocence of youth. When we are young, we are delightfully naturally curious and we ask a lot of questions. We want to know the "why... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• Extend the Timeline for Success

  

  Immediate action. Instant results. An ongoing demand for change and new policies, procedures, and funding. These are realities many of us face on a near daily... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• You Are Not Lost

  

  It's been quite the last three years, hasn't it? So many of us have endured such great sorrow, anguish, pain, and loss during the pandemic. We've also... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• Care for Your Rituals

  

  Each morning, I wake up, groggy, half asleep, and perhaps wishing I could simply lay my head back on the pillow. I'm by no means a morning person and anyone... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• The Power of Interdisciplinarity

  

  What is your major? It's a question that has become ubiquitous among college students everywhere upon meeting a fellow student for the first time. We ask young... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• Dipping into Our Cognitive Surplus

  

  Are you reading this blog post on your phone? Are you scrolling through social media accounts, telling yourself you're taking a break from whatever it is you... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• Impeccable Agreements

  

  Every day, we make dozens, if not hundreds, of small agreements with others around us. This is everything from agreeing with a colleague to take on a new projec... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS

• The Way of Absolute Candor

  

  I have been a Star Trek fan since I was young and watched Star Trek: The Next Generation faithfully every week with my father. Since then, I've continued to... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2023 FITNESS, SPORTS