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Based on personal experience and scholarly research, Dean Karlan, Economics Professor at Yale and Co-Founder of StickK, envisioned an online ‘Commitment Store’ where people would come to sign contracts obliging them o achieve their personal goals.
StickK is a concept based on two well know principles of behavioral economics:People don’t always [...]
Years ago NYC-based The Learning Annex called to see if I’d be interested in teaching a class called overcoming procrastination described as “one of our most popular in the city.” Atlanta (my location) would be a good spot to try to recreate this adult education success.
I said yes. I love to teach, plus I was [...]
Creating a sabbatical requires a strategy, otherwise you might end up taking off work but not using it as a springboard to revitalize your life. For your plans to really be effective, you might need to re-evaluate how you see yourself in general, then you could more easily get down to specifics about creating time [...]
Taking a sabbatical could give you an opportunity to get to know yourself in a new way, and lead you to handling stress, challenges and change differently….
“It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but those most responsive to change.” This is a quote from Charles Darwin, and I found [...]
Being inspired and called to action is vital to a Life Entrepreneur. What if you could design your sabbatical to fully engage in some volunteer activity that you have secretly dreamed about? What if you could find a group like this one and be more involved on a regular basis? Wouldn’t it make sense to take [...]
Connecting the sabbatical experience to being a Life Entrepreneur makes perfect sense to me. Think about it from this perspective….
I have often related a theory about the decades in our lives: In our 20s, we try to figure out who we are; in our thirties, we work really hard to build our careers and fit [...]
Time.
Many things necessary for the faithful practice of ministry are in short supply. Nothing, however, is in shorter supply than time. Time for prayer, time for family, time for study, time for self.
These opening lines taken from the Sabbatical Grant application for Pastoral Leaders aren’t sentiments of “time shortage” felt only by the ministry. [...]
A girlfriend in Ft. Worth paid $25 in shipping fees to send me a box of rocks for Christmas. Seriously.
But these were special rocks: stacked on top of one another, they formed three symbolic cairns. Granted, they were purchased cairns, likely from some pricey boutique in Dallas, but cairns nonetheless.
Like anyone who hikes on occasion, [...]
Let’s confirm what we already know. Most people, at some point, would like to take time out from work. Of course, there are real and serious questions to consider:
Is a sabbatical a smart career move?
Can a sabbatical make me more committed to my career? To my company?
Will I be transformed by the experience? [...]
Taking a sabbatical is an ideal activity for a Life Entrepreneur. It gives you a chance to explore new parts of yourself, learn something different, engage in activities that will allow you to return to work renewed and re-energized. In looking back at my life, I can see that I have been a committed “short [...]