Wednesday, March 16

1. How did the day go? What success did I experience? What challenges did I endure?
I think today went pretty well. It's pretty quiet at work since it's spring break, but I was able to cross some things off my to-do list, got a short walk in and attended one meeting. My biggest challenge today was keeping myself focused. :) When students aren't around I find myself wanting to continuously check Facebook and Twitter.

2. What did I learn today? About myself? About others? What do I plan to do - differently or the same - tomorrow?
I learned about the rules related to housing selection. My one meeting today was to sit on a committee that heard appeals from students regarding their housing lottery number. That was interesting. Can't believe what some students think are reasons to have their randomly assigned lottery number changed.

I learned that I focus better when I take the time to get out and walk a bit during the day. I also was reminded that I also need some interaction scattered throughout the day in order to have periods of focused energy.

Tomorrow will be different because I won't be going into work. I'm headed to Chicago for a short 2-day symposium on First Year Experience transition programs.

3. Who did I interact with? Anyone I need to update? Thank? Ask a question? Share feedback?
I mostly interacted with the staff in my office - professional and the one student in the office. I do need to send our office manager an email about some equipment that she was asking others about the need to continue to store it. I also need to see if I can think of any additional tasks for the student working in the office for the next two days. I also need to go through a few files I brought home and decide if there are additional items on my to-do lists.

Daily Reflections

So, clearly, I'm not coming here on a regular basis. I was just telling a student the other day that I tend to use this space to vent when I am particularly steamed about something and need to do something to get it off my mind. :) You probably knew that.

I was reading a blog post that I connected to via Twitter. It's titled, "The Best Way to Use the Last Five Minutes of your Day." Here's the link: http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2011/01/the-best-way-to-use-the-last-f.html.

I'd like to try to take the time (even if it's only weekly) to reflect on the questions that it lists at the end.

1. How did the day go? What success did I experience? What challenges did I endure?
2. What did I learn today? About myself? About others? What do I plan to do - differently or the same - tomorrow?
3. Who did I interact with? Anyone I need to update? Thank? Ask a question? Share feedback?

I think if I can think about doing this here, it will help me remember what I think about these things. :) Stay tuned...we'll see if I can keep up with this.