On Priorities
With a new semester, it begins again. I am not talking about the classes, the meetings, the students, the committees, the scrambling to pick up loose strands left over from last semester. I am talking about the promises we make to ourselves. It is our new year's ritual in a world of busy, whether it is manufactured or organic busy. Everywhere I turn, people are making bold declarations. "I will say 'no' more often." "I will only check email twice a day." "I will remember to stop and breathe." "I promise to make time for what matters to me and to stop wasting time on things that don't matter." "No more Facebook!" "No more Netflix." "No more letting people dump stuff on my shoulders. I choose me!" Everywhere I look, people want off the habitrail… Looking for meaning. Purpose. Authenticity. Time for the people and things we love. The sense that we are in the right place, doing what we sho