A couple of years back a friend gave me a mason jar with pen and pad of paper for Christmas. The jar was to capture the highlights of the year, so at the turn of the next year, I could go back and see the successes I’d had. This year…
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I work within the library system at the University of Florida. In effort to increase my professional development for my role there, I have been taking the Supervisory Challenge courses at UF (that is where the values survey that vexed me came from). In addition, I applied, and was accepted…
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A few weeks ago I was going through containers in my office, and I decided to pull out all of my journals, morning pages and writing notebooks. When I was done, I was surrounded by no fewer than 40 various sized notebooks, plus another 30 or so “fit in your…
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Sometimes I feel that if I could just get a vacation – some time away from my normal routine and responsibilities (my fantasy get-away alternates from me just being at home, to me being in some cabin somewhere) – but if I could just get that break from things, then…
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A while back a friend of mine gave me a Daruma doll he picked up on his most recent trip to Japan. When I received it, the eyes were blank. Following what my friend told me, I set a wish/goal that I wanted to achieve as I filled in one…
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I have been struggling lately to use my time to do the things that I aspire to do with my time. Instead I squander my time on the enjoyable activities (e.g. binge watching Veronica Mars) because, dang it, I deserve to pamper myself. But if you do it all the…