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Face Front! Friday!
Hello! It’s another Face Front! Friday! So let’s show everyone how we’re celebrating the end of the week! Post a video or an image of you or a passable proxy that shows how you’re feeling…
BRIGHT Goal Setting Step 3: ITEMS
You can and should set your own goals and play a proactive role in setting goals with others. You want to have a voice in creating your own to-do list. The SMART model of goal…
BRIGHT Goal Setting Step 2: RELEVANT
As we get closer and closer to New Year’s resolution time, you know that you can and should set your own goals. And play a proactive role in setting goals with others. You want to…
BRIGHT Goal Setting Step 1: BIG
You can and should set your own goals and play a proactive role in setting goals with others. You want to have a voice in creating your own to-do list. You know the SMART model…
For Both of Us: Are You Setting Your New Year’s Resolutions the Right Way?
From me to you (and to me, too): You know, it’s easy for me to give advice and I think I find it easy to take advice too. But for me to heed the words…
Face Front! Friday!
Let’s show everyone how we’re celebrating the end of the week! Post an image (you or a passable proxy) that shows how you’re feeling on this fine Friday. Me? BRRR! It’s too cold to type—but…
Your Harshest Critic (part 2)
Let me tell you about another conversation I had with a now-retired colleague. This one wasn’t really a conversation, though. No smart-aleck remarks, either. That senior-level colleague and I were on a departmental committee together,…
Your Harshest Critic (part 1)
Speaking of mentors and mentoring… This conversation actually occurred while walking down the hall with a colleague. I don’t remember what we were discussing. Senior faculty member: “Now, Dave, I’m my own harshest critic….” Junior…
Happy Birthday Harry Chapin
Harry Chapin was an amazing folk singer and humanitarian who died so young, too soon at age 39. He was born on December 7, 1942, so I’m a couple days late celebrating the anniversary of…