There is no way I will make it through this blog post without a reference to one of my favorite movies, Gladiator, so just let me alleviate the anticipation now. (Referenced previously in Face Down in the Arena). If you’ve never seen this epic saga of ancient Rome, I encourage you to view it from …
Category: Flourishing
His Favorite
Every little girl who has ever read, watched, or listened to a love story or song has imagined the surreal feeling of experiencing the ideal romance and being considered a young man’s favorite. It’s been acted out with their Barbie dolls (sometimes with Star Wars figurines too), it’s the source of diary entries, and the …
Hygge
It’s pronounced hoo-gah. See, reading does make you smarter, even if it’s just a weird educator’s blog post! Being introduced to this Danish term in The Flourishing Teacher, I was intrigued enough to search for more as I felt it captured an important component of a flourishing life. Lake launches this concept as she describes …
Leaders Who Flourish
When attempting to flourish in any capacity, it’s important to know the person God created us to be and this can be accomplished by pursuing a Habit of Awareness. Learning about ourselves and others opens our eyes to see the talents, gifts, and strengths that each person possesses along with the unique situations where various …
Educators Who Flourish
Without delving into deep research on the topic, most sources I found seemed to agree that public school teachers are either leaving their school or leaving teaching altogether at a rate of 13.8 percent; and with a decrease around 27.4 percent in the number of people completing a teacher education preparation program, our schools and …
How Do You Worship?
Have you ever been the recipient of an unexpected revelation from a surprising source? This experience seems to be occurring rather frequently for me in the last few months. Whether the resource was recommended or just stumbled upon, concepts are being exposed in a new light. It’s not uncommon these days to be reading about …
Generational Remix
If I requested that you provide a definition for the term “remix,” what explanation would your mind evoke? For most of us, our immediate response would be musically focused. In her book, The Remix, Pollak states, “In music, of course, a remix is a song, usually a well-known classic, that has been changed from its …
Are Bookworms Real?
Recognizing that I am weirdly curious about random facts, I made the choice recently to research the origins of the term bookworm. As I alluded to in the post What Are You Reading, I have always been an avid reader and treasure memories of visits to the library whether it was to discover a favorite …
Larks, Owls, and Third Birds
How many times have you spoken the phrase, “What perfect timing?” What an interesting phenomenon timing can be. Addressing other aspects of time in posts such as Chronos vs. Kairos, today I want to ask readers to consider time in the chronological sense, specifically in determining what your personal chronotype is and why delving into …
First Day Experience
By chance do you happen to remember your very first day on the job of the organization where you are now employed? Or perhaps where you worked the longest in your career? If researchers like Daniel Pink are correct and “that timing is really a science—an emerging body of multifaceted, multidisciplinary research that offers fresh …
Flourishing @ Life 