Live and Learn on Purpose.
It never takes long. A new semester starts (or year, or whatever increments of time your life refreshes on) with excitement about the new projects ahead. Your load seems light as you begin exploring your new roles with enthusiasm and curiosity. Unfortunately the honeymoon doesn’t […]
You’ve heard me talking about it for a while. Hints. Whispers. Random podcast episodes… What Is The Intentional Academy? A passion project, that is in it’s infancy. What do we stand for? What are we trying to accomplish? That we can answer with this,
There’s an old saying: The more I look around, the more I realize that very few people reach success in a big, shining moment of good fortune. They don’t win the lottery. They don’t have a flash of genius. They don’t get discovered. There’s no […]
Often, we make our lives busy as a way of hiding from ourselves. When our plate is empty, we have time to think. That can be liberating, or it can be terrifying.
What do you do? Are you a professional? A student? An educator? A kid? A parent? No matter the answer, I’ll bet you’re busy. B-U-S-Y We have a tendency to impress. We take on opportunities that let us show our chops. But eventually we reach […]
Students face a number of unique circumstances that create stress in their lives. Typically, effort in any one class comes in peaks and waves. Overlay 5 classes, and you find yourself with a fire to put out every week. It doesn’t take long before you’re […]
The promise of most classic productivity books is: “follow my steps and you’ll be able to get more done, faster.” The promise of most recent productivity books is: “follow my steps and you’ll be able to get the right things done, largely by saying ‘no’ to the […]
Weeks 1-5 of the semester: lectures, reading assignments, homework (some of which is collected and graded). Maybe a quiz or two. Week 6 of the semester: TESTS! Every semester is the same thing. Each class arrives at big assignments at the same time: tests always […]
It’s 10:00 PM, you’ve got 2 assignments due tomorrow, a quiz the next day, and an exam the day after that. You haven’t eaten dinner yet, and you haven’t started either assignment. You think to yourself, “if I could just clear this to-do list, I […]
As we gear up for a new semester, teachers and students alike hope that this will be the best semester ever. We’ve got some work to do, or we will find ourselves in the same place as last semester: busy working without learning, stressed, firefighting, […]
