This is the third time I’ve done a year-in-review on this blog. Usually I go into the process thinking, “Not a whole lot happened this year” and then by the end of the review, I’m all “Okay, this has actually…
Category: Reflection & Goal Setting
Part 1: Resetting Push. January has just ended, and I already need to hit the reset button. This month, I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole of terrible habits. Instead of making progress on goals and ideas, I feel like I’ve…
It’s 2015! And as with the beginning of any new year, the world is awash in resolutions, goals, and ambitions for the year ahead. Do you have resolutions, goals and ambitions? Or are you one of those people who has…
Push. That’s the mantra this year. Push. Day in, day out, for the next 365 days, that’s what I plan on telling myself. Push. Push myself out of my comfort zone. Push myself to share ideas, to launch new initiatives….
Sitting here, looking back at 2014, it’s hard to know what to think. The year feels like it was neatly divided in two- pre-job change, and post-job change. Pre-job change, I was doing a pretty good job at working towards…
Post Welcome Week, I had two tasks dominating my to-do list: a Welcome Week debrief report, and self-reflection. The debrief report, although it took three straight days of writing, and was over 6000 words, was relatively straight forward. The self-reflection-…
I often live inside my head. I have a brain full of ideas, thoughts, and plans. For the past few weeks, my brain feels like it has been going non-stop; my new job has basically opened up a whole new…
Time is a fickle thing. One minute, you’ve got lots of it, the next minute, you’ve got none. One month will seem like it’s taking a year to go by, while the next month goes by in a flash. All…
I have just become the ultimate traitor, and I have never been so excited. Last September, I was hired to work in the Science Advising Centre at Saint Mary’s University. I was offered the job shortly after Dalhousie’s Orientation Week…
If April felt like it flew right by, then May seems to have lasted forever. It actually feels like it’s been the longest month ever. But it’s been a pretty awesome month, so I’m not going to complain even a…