Category Archives: Reflection
Mindfulness Breakthrough!
Mindfulness has been my focus word throughout 2015. In the first four months of the year, I faced tremendous personal, professional, and educational stress. I believe that my mindfulness practices helped me survive that time, but I was in no … Continue reading
April Showers Bring More Mindfulness
As the year continues, there are days when I have to force myself to slow down and think about my mindfulness practice. There are other days when I notice some habits I have built within the last four months. For … Continue reading
Memories
While most of my blog posts focus on leadership and learning, this one will be more personal. Today marks four years since I lost my mother to Melanoma. Not a day goes by that I don’t miss her. My mom … Continue reading
March Mindfulness
2015 is the year of mindfulness for me. This is my one little word, my focus, my hope and wish, and my practice. A few times this month I used the hashtag #mindfulness when posting pictures. It served as both … Continue reading
Does your image match your beliefs?
Every once in awhile I like to make a word cloud of my blog. I posted two in January. The word cloud below was a summary of my entire blog. Below is today’s creation. This is a quick summary of the … Continue reading
Things I’m Loving Friday, Volume 13
I love to highlight the friends, apps, tools, books, and habits that help me as a leader, a learner, and someone trying to be more balanced and mindful. For this week’s volume, I decided to do a round-up of the … Continue reading
Mindfulness Update #2
As February draws to a close, I am reflecting on where and how I have been mindful. February was not as easy as January in terms of my focus word of mindfulness. This month ushered in some health problems and … Continue reading
Things I’m Loving Friday, Volume 12
I enjoy reflecting on what in my professional and personal life has made me happy recently. Saturday writing friend dates: I am in the middle of data analysis and writing my final two chapters for my doctoral dissertation. One of my … Continue reading
Mindfulness Update #1
My word (focus word, one little word, etc.) of 2015 is mindfulness, as I discussed here. Throughout this year I hope to reflect on my word, and my work to be more mindful in my professional and personal life. In … Continue reading
The Reader in Me
I was recently inspired by Franki Sibberson to write 100 Things about Me as a Reader. This was an idea she shared in Scholastic’s book Open a World of Possible, which I wrote about in my last Things I’m Loving … Continue reading
Reflections on Leadership and Learning 