You're probably getting pretty bored and more than a little stir crazy if you're doing the right thing and self isolating during the COVID-19 pandemic. I can't stop the isolation or the pandemic. I'd be happy to if I could. In light of that, what you really need is a book that you just can't put down. I can suggest these 25 enthralling thrillers … [Read more...]
4 Steps to Change the Way You Think
I changed my handwriting in my mid-30s. I was sitting in a graduate class, watching my professor write on the board, when I realized I really liked the way he wrote his "a"s. His looked like the ones you see on this screen, not like my little circles with lines on the bottom. I liked my professor's "a"s so much that I began modeling them in my own … [Read more...]
How to Practice Self Care During COVID-19
I cried this week for the first time since COVID-19 started. I watched the pandemic hit internationally, then come to the United States. I led an organization through a convention while watching New York City turn apocalyptically quiet. I came home Sunday to find my college freshman home until fall, to learn that I won't see my own students … [Read more...]
8 Things I Love About Working Remotely
Introverts joke that they've prepared for COVID-19 their entire lives. I'm making similar jokes, but not because of my personality. I mostly worked remotely before it was required by many of our universities. I've done all of my advising work and College Media Association volunteering remotely since last summer. I started teaching an in-person … [Read more...]
Quotable: Benjamin Hardy on Goal Investment
VIEW AND SHARE MORE PROF KRG QUOTABLES HERE. … [Read more...]
How to Accomplish More by Doing Less
What if I told you that you can do more by doing less? It sounds ridiculous, too good to be true, but it’s not. You can accomplish tasks with greater value and feel more fulfilled at the end of the day by doing far less than you likely are now. Leo Babauta calls these things “Most Important Tasks (MITs)” in his book, The Power of Less, which … [Read more...]
The 20 Books I Quit in 2019
I give you a lot of book recommendations, but I really never tell you what not to read. I don’t tell you the books that I quit on. You may recall that I think life is too short to read bad books, so I have no problem at all quitting a book I hate. You should quit reading bad books. It doesn’t matter if your friends think the book is great or … [Read more...]
