In exploring the behaviors necessary to cultivate the Habits of a Flourishing Life, I find myself being extremely cautious about how much emphasis is placed on the self-reflective tasks necessary to engage in a Habit of Awareness. And yet, I firmly believe that for true transformation to occur, for us to become Christlike, we must …
Month: May 2022
Odometer Reading
Climbing into the Jeep on my way to West Jackson one recent Sunday morning, my eyes glanced across the dashboard as I placed the car in gear and took notice of the Odometer Reading, probably because it was a nice, even, rounded-off number: 14, 200. I like nice, even numbers; so much so, I almost …
Just Walk
“Ten thousand steps. Roughly, that’s the distance you travel sunrise to sunset, each and every day of your life. It adds up to about 115,000 miles in a lifetime—or more than four times around this big blue planet of ours. With that said, just one question: Are you using your steps wisely?” This challenge comes …
Soup Question
As the result of a friend quoting lines during a recent conversation and his encouragement to revisit a twenty-year-old movie, the educator in me not only found renewed energy to face the upcoming semester, but additionally discovered applications to an ongoing interest in the concept of Appreciative Inquiry and the struggle with students asking Lazy …
Follow Through
In the 35 years since I began viewing the game of basketball as a Bench Warmer and my time as a physical educator, I have lost count the number of times the phrase “Follow Through” has been uttered in my presence by coaches, fans in the stands, and those of us occupying seats on the …
Ordinary Blog
“Routine, usual, to be expected in the normal order of events, of common quality”—all of these appear as descriptors in the dictionary for the word Ordinary. Not necessarily an appealing adjective, and certainly not the word most of us desire to hear being used in a description about us--“Oh, Julie, yeah, she’s this Ordinary professor …
Sign Here
Serving as a proctor this week for a day of assessments on our campus, one of my duties in this capacity was to request that students “Please Sign Here” on a roster sheet in order to document their attendance. Uttering this phrase often as each student entered the classroom, I found myself in a routine …
Good Posture
If I were to pose the question to you right now, on a scale of 1-5, how would you rate your posture? What would your answer be? Like me, would you immediately contract your abdominal muscles, pull back your shoulder blades, and lift your torso to straighten the spine? Or just remain slouched in the …
Red Flag
While preparing a presentation for a special college course geared towards equipping college students to flourish in the transition from the college campus to the professional world, I found myself researching topics related to the concept of a Red Flag. Although I was ill-equipped to handle the plethora of relationship advice offered online, I was …
Flourishing @ Life 