How’s your heart? Not a question you typically hear someone ask a healthy person. It’s an inquiry reserved for a patient on the mend, someone recovering from by-pass surgery, or perhaps an angioplasty. However, while reading Gods at War this week, Kyle Idleman was suggesting that perhaps I needed to consider the health of my …
Category: Health and Well-Being
I Quit
Dear University President, I Quit…those words appear on a sheet of paper rolling upward from an old manual green typewriter on the front cover of a workbook created by Jeffrey L. Buller for ATLAS leadership training which addresses the Great Resignation that is currently being experienced in higher education. In the following pages, Buller shares …
Quiet Quitting
The Great Resignation…I am uncertain who first mentioned this phrase to me, nor do I recall the context of the conversation; however, I do remember being encouraged to read about this phenomenon. And it doesn’t take much persuasion for the investigative side of me to start digging, in efforts to learn more about a topic …
Functioning Not Flourishing
My sincerest apologies to anyone within the sound of my voice who is becoming so exhausted by my use of the word flourishing that you are ready to strangle me. Enamored by the word several years ago, it encapsulates the idea in my mind of what optimal health and human performance looks like, and the …
Won’t You Reconsider?
Have you ever had anyone use the inquiry, “Won’t You Reconsider?”, conceivably in an attempt to express concern that you were about to make a poor decision? It’s a really polite version of Have you lost your mind? or You really think that’s a good idea? Really!?! Perhaps it would be an effective question a …
God Speed
What thoughts come to mind when you read the title to this post? Do the ideas connect to a specific person, time, or place? Is it an unknown phrase and therefore offers no meaning to you personally? Perhaps, you are sitting on the edge of your seat in anticipation of where I might navigate this …
Forest Bathing
Before the heat and humidity of a summer in West Tennessee hits, it’s enjoyable for me to spend as much time outdoors as possible; whether that happens while relaxing on the back porch, engaging in a morning walk, volunteering with Campers on Mission, or participating in a women’s weekend with TWRA, being outdoors revives my …
Junk Food
“I bet you don’t eat stuff like this!” This comment was made by my colleague as our paths crossed in the bakery section of our local grocery store. Within his hands, located between an aluminum tray and a plastic lid, was a Danish-style pastry with cream cheese that looked delicious. Just a brief glance into …
Bean-Eatin’ Appointment
“You and me, Partner. We meet center of town, high noon.” As a fan of movies and television shows set in the wild west, I’ve heard some variation of this phrase thousands of times, but I must admit that the latest GEICO commercial caught me by surprise with its application to our modern culture that …
Meh
Okay…so-so…average…good…fair-to-middling…each of these synonyms, whichever you choose, expresses roughly the same idea, but what if there was a word that captured a deeper, truer meaning, especially when spoken? It’s simple for us to say “Okay” (we even have an emoji and hand signals), but the crisp syllables of those letters fail to express the same …
Flourishing @ Life 