Tag Archives: personal goals
Books I Should Have Read in High School
This year, I’m taking on the Books I Should Have Read in High School, But Didn’t challenge Dana is running, and I’m pledging to read six books I feel I should have read, putting me in the Graduate Student category. The over-ambitious part of my personality wanted to try the Literature Professor category, but decided …
2010: A Recap
Even though I jumped off the Reverb 10 train, I am still and always interested in reflecting on where I’ve been to see where I want to go. So I’m continuing my tradition of recap posts for the third year in a row–won’t you join me, please? I finished 2009 by setting a lot of …
Possible Jackies
Recently, my blogging-friend Sharon posted a great entry about possible versions of ourselves, how part of being a productive person can be imagining different, better versions of ourselves and then working towards becoming those people. Sharon has a consistently witty blogging voice, so her possible selves include “The Sharon Who Has Become a Better Photographer …
11 Things
What are 11 things your life doesn’t need in 2011? How will you go about eliminating them? How will getting rid of these 11 things change your life? I’ve missed a few prompts over the weekend, including this one and the one about body integration, so I’m going to try and meld them together here. …
Possible Jackies
One of my bloggy friends, Sharon, posted a delightful entry recently on possible selves, and a theory that productive people envision better images of themselves and work towards them. She hypothesized all the Possible Sharons she’d like to be and what it would require for her to really be working seriously and productively towards being …
Reflecting and Manifesting
It’s no secret I’m a devoted proponent of self-reflection; I don’t think I could have survived or persisted in as many years of blogging (seven and counting!) as I have if I wasn’t. The end of the calendar year is a natural time to reflect and gaze into the future, and in the past, I’ve …
Community
Community. Somewhere there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our …
Blah Blah Writing Blah
I borrowed this post title from the wonderful Dr. Crazy, who’s on sabbatical and blogging her torturous and funny path through her current book project in posts tagged that way. Plus she likes one of my new favorite bands, Florence and the Machine! Her posts on writing have made me laugh, sympathize, and …
My First Prezi
Remember all those new tricks I’m trying this year? Well, I haven’t made as much progress on that list as I’d like–I’ve implemented the two-blog system, but haven’t been blogging with them myself yet, for example, though I plan to start soon (more tech snafus than I anticipated have slowed me down). But we began …
What I’m Trying This Year
Richard Byrne recently posted a survey asking teachers what new things they were trying this year–a survey that I missed, unfortunately. However, in true “Free Tech 4 Teachers” style, he also made a slideshow of all the answers he got and wrote a blog post about it, where you can view the slideshow of all …
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