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on October 31, 2017

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Tip #16: The sweetest victory comes from competing with yourself.

Image by John Robert-Nicoud , courtesy of Pexels.com Are you watching the Olympics? I’m not a sporty person, but I do love the Olympics. While many people think figure skating is the ultimate winter sport, I’m obsessed with halfpipe snowboarding. The sport is so fast, so dangerous, and so elegant at the same time. As I type this, Shaun White just scored 94.25 points (out of 100), launching himself 18 feet above the edge of the half pipe, spinning and flipping again and again. After a tumble in his second run, he scored 97.75 on the final run to once again take the gold medal. In the post-run interview, a faint scar is visible from a bad landing a few months ago. Sports ain’t for wimps. That’s why I watch from my couch. But the story that really made me stop in awe is 17-year old Chloe Kim, who won the women’s gold medal . Kim had a solid lead going into her final run. In fact, she was already going to win the medal. She could have taken it easy, played it safe. Instead, she bec

Tip #9: Find a system for time and task management…and use it.

Source: pixabay.com from Pexels.com CC0 license As I finish writing this email at 6:30 pm, I am wondering what I’m doing wrong. I think I’m an organized person. I have plenty of systems in place to help me be organized. But do I follow through? Not as well as I should, I’m afraid. So for this week’s email, I decided to review some suggestions for managing work to get the best use of your day. Maybe telling you about them will make me hold myself more accountable? I started with an article I read a couple of years ago called “ How to Be the Most Productive Person in the Office…And Still Get Home by 5:30 pm .” (link is below). One of the best pieces of advice is to use your calendar as your To Do list. Create appointments with yourself to work on tasks, and be honest about the amount of time you need or can give to that task. You can also categorize the items on your calendar by color or tags. Every item on my calendar is tagged as CETL, teaching, scholarship, professional

Tip #2: Find a way to escape the weight of expectations. Even your own.

Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm for the programming organized by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. The tally of last year’s participation was incredible: 11 11 6 22 1 1 5 9 5 1 285 376 Professional Learning Communities Scholars at Work Seminars Book Discussion Groups Faculty & Staff Facilitators Peer Faculty Consultation Faculty Mentor/Mentee Pair Students Consulting on Teaching (SCOT) SCOT Observations + Focus Groups Build Your Online Course Workshops Scholars At Work Conference Certificates Awarded Total Participants 12,360 potential student impact When I moved over to CETL in spring 2017, one of the recurring themes from faculty was a request for flexibility in scheduling professional development events. As a faculty in SBS emphatically explained, “I want professional development, but I want it when I want it, and that’s not necessarily between 8 am and 4:30 pm.” During the 2017-18 acad

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