Don’t Let Space Be Alien

In Your LifeSustaining Enthusiasm,

Creating Balance

Wilkins-O’Riley ZinnDr. Z’s House of Fun

Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere.

Allow yourself the time and space to let your

mind wander and your imagination fly.

• Oprah Winfrey

Write about time: at home, at work, anywhere. What do you

take time—and need time—for?

If you were given one extra hour in each day to spend doing anything you wished, what would you do with it?

Sometimes, It’s About You:

Respect for a need for self-care is particularly important in our increasingly workaholic society. Americans

work longer hours and more weeks of the year than do our European counterparts. We have little time left

to regenerate our energies and resources, to participate in the artistic, nonmaterial, spiritual, or

other inner-directed aspects of life upon which we all depend for our individual well-being. A commitment to caretaking should include this concern, along with

the demand that society and its institutions be organized so that the emotional and nonmaterial

aspects of life are not ignored.Martha Albertson Fineman (2004), The Autonomy Myth,

pp. 288-89

What is your invisible work?

The Equity Factor

Getting Even

Axiom 1:People evaluate relationships by comparing what they give to a relationship to what they get from it.

Axiom 2:When what people give does not equal what they get, they feel distress: over-reward = guilt and under-reward = resentment.

Axiom 3:People who feel distress because they give more than what they get will restore equity by reducing outputs or doing work poorly; asking for promotions, raises, and such; or ending the relationship.

• Richard C. Huseman & John D. Hatfield (1989), Managing the Equity Factor

Activities are not created equal:

• o = neutral• - = negative• + = positive

Whether you hope to maintain balance or create integration

or set boundaries, it’s important to return energy to your core through activities

that help sustain your enthusiasm, both for work

and for life outside of work.

He told me if I had time to be in a play, I had time to work on

accreditation.• Faculty member about a

meeting with an administrator

Which of your activities energize you, sap your energy,

or just need to be accepted with grace?

Just Say No!

Most of us are so busy doing what we think we have to do that we do not think about what we really

want to do.• Robert Percival

We may go to the moon, that’s not very far.The greatest distance to cover still lies within us.

• Charles DeGaulle

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sweet 16?

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real

miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a

child—our own two eyes.All is a miracle.

Thich Nhat Hahn

Resolve to See the Miracles

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of

morning or evening.It is a little stardust caught, a

segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.

• Henry David Thoreau, Walden