Your description of the changes you have experienced this year resonate with me. I have realized some professional goals, including co-leading a month-long study abroad seminar in Vienna, teaching/redesigning new and previously taught courses, and chairing several labor-intensive committees. While I feel like I have made positive contributions to all of these things, having so many things happen at once has been an interesting challenge for me. You made decisions to allow for more opportunities in your life, and, while everything went well, the process did take a toll. I have had a similar experience but am still working on ways to find balance--to find ease. I have struggled with shifting out of intense work mode, and my racing mind has prevented me from listening to what the rest of me has to say. I am working on ways to avoid my habit of being physically static and machinating. As I heard you say once, I am trying to remember that I do have a body. Here's to prioritizing this process in 2024!
Thanks for your reflections, Reeves! I've also struggled with shifting out of intense work mode and I finally think I'm there...just in time for things to start ramping up again. :) Here's hoping we'll continue to work on getting out of our minds and into our bodies in 2024.
The fact that you have been able to find ease this year, given all the upheavals you have experienced, is both inspiring and sustaining to me as a reader. Here's to a great 2024!
Your description of the changes you have experienced this year resonate with me. I have realized some professional goals, including co-leading a month-long study abroad seminar in Vienna, teaching/redesigning new and previously taught courses, and chairing several labor-intensive committees. While I feel like I have made positive contributions to all of these things, having so many things happen at once has been an interesting challenge for me. You made decisions to allow for more opportunities in your life, and, while everything went well, the process did take a toll. I have had a similar experience but am still working on ways to find balance--to find ease. I have struggled with shifting out of intense work mode, and my racing mind has prevented me from listening to what the rest of me has to say. I am working on ways to avoid my habit of being physically static and machinating. As I heard you say once, I am trying to remember that I do have a body. Here's to prioritizing this process in 2024!
My word for 2023 is intensity--
Thanks for your words, Veronica!
Thanks for your reflections, Reeves! I've also struggled with shifting out of intense work mode and I finally think I'm there...just in time for things to start ramping up again. :) Here's hoping we'll continue to work on getting out of our minds and into our bodies in 2024.
The fact that you have been able to find ease this year, given all the upheavals you have experienced, is both inspiring and sustaining to me as a reader. Here's to a great 2024!
Cheers!