Friday, January 3, 2020

Design your perfect 2020: How to create powerful goals and stick to them

Notes from a webinar by Michael Hyatt
Lifescore assessment online quiz

1. Get specific about what I want. 
Begin with the end in mind.  Keep it personally meaningful?  At the end of this year what do I want to have achieved? What will I regret not doing? What will matter most to me?
Address the 3 circles of life:
Circle of Being
Spiritual
Physical
Intellectual
Emotional
Circle of Relating
Marital
Parental
Social
Circle of Doing
Financial
Vocational
Avocational
Write down specific goals. 42% more likely to get them done.

Simple Step: Write a list of 7 to 10 goals I will pursue in the coming year.

2.  Concentrate my effort on just a few goals. 
When I write down 25 things I hope to accomplish, I just get overwhelmed.

Simple step: Get clear on 2 or 3 goals on which I'll focus for the first quarter of the year. 

3.  Aim for my discomfort zone.   The things I really care about are going to take more effort to attain. Three zones in Goal setting: Comfort zone, discomfort zone, delusional zone.  I want to be in the discomfort zone.

Simple Step: Make sure each of my goals is in the Discomfort Zone.

4.  Keep track of my progress.  Keep goals visible! Have a plan to view them daily, weekly, and monthly.  as the saying goes: Out of sight, out of mind.

Simple step: Decide how I will track my goals.  

5.  Enlist the support I need.  Only share my goals with those I believe are actively committed to helping me achieve them.  Avoid overload

Simple Step: Find a supportive community to pursue goals with. 


Thursday, January 2, 2020

Eat that Frog


Eat that Frog
1.      Decide exactly what you want.
2.      Write it down.
3.      Set a deadline – set sub deadlines if necessary.
4.      Make a list of everything that you can think of that you are going to have to do to achieve your goal.
5.      Organize the list into a plan.
6.      Resolve to do something every single day that moves you toward your major goal.

**Resist the temptation to clear up small things first.

Develop a compulsion to closure
1.      I actually feel happier and more powerful when I start and a complete a task of any kind.
2.      I satisfy a deep subconscious need to bring finality to a job or project.
3.      The sense of completion or closure motivates me to start the next task or project and then persist toward final completion.
4.      This act of completion triggers the release of endorphins in my brain.

*When I am overwhelmed at starting a project try the salami slice or swiss cheese method slice – layout the task in detail and do just 1 slice.  Swiss cheese method: Work on a task for a specific amount of time, even just 5 to 10 minutes.

Do it now! Do it now!
Back to work! Back to work!

Self-discipline, self-master and self-control are the basic building blocks of character and high performance. 

Prepare the workspace.
1.      Put only what I need in front of me. 
2.      Everything else on the floor behind me.
3.      Carry myself as though I am an efficient, effective, high-performing personality.
4.      The cleaner and neater my work environment, the more positive, productive, and confident I feel.

*What one career accomplishment would have the greatest positive impact on my work life?

Develop a positive mental attitude.

1.      Optimists look for the good in every situation.
2.      Optimists always seek the valuable lesson in every setback or difficulty.
3.      Optimists always look for the solution to every problem.  Instead of blaming or complaining when things go wrong, they become action-oriented.
4.      Optimists think and talk continually about their goals.  Always look forward not backward.
*One of the best rules for dealing with technology is to just “leave it off.” 
**Leave your computer off until you have planned and organized your day!

Apply the Law of 3
*Three core tasks that I perform contain the most of the value that I contribute to the College at Brockport/Drake Memorial Library.  If I could do one thing on the list all day long, which 1 (2 then 3) would contribute the greatest value?

1.      Business/Career
2.      Family/Relationships
3.      Finances
4.      Health
5.      Personal/Spiritual
6.      Professional Development
7.      Social/Community
8.      Biggest Probs/Concerns

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Library Liaison Meeting KSSPE

Meeting with Sheri Treadwell, KSSPE library coordinator
Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019


Met the new director.
She says everything is going well.  At the start of each semester in the KSSPE faculty meeting, she shows them how to order books and materials. They are all good at entering the information themselves (and they are).


Hasn't had any problems with the new system.
Primarily uses the KSSPE research guide and the databases recommended there. 
Doesn't hear too much from the exercise science folks, but I have worked with them in their research methods classes.  They do order materials.
Teaches an online-only class in the summer, may need help with that in the future.  I tried to explain the new role that LD plays, but that was a bit confusing.  We'll address it next year.  I will continue to update her with anything KSSPE-related. 
Appreciates the course reserves very much. 

New Programs:

--Strength and conditioning concentration (undergraduate)
--Coaching concentration being added to the Master's program (I think) 
--New Master in Athletic Training (this has been approved and is at the state level) 

https://www.brockport.edu/academics/kinesiology/ 

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Library Liaison meeting

I met with the coordinator for THE/MUS/IAC today.

They would like more streaming resources, plus digital copies of scores. (gave examples of percussion and brass and orchestra scores used recently)
Definitely uses JSTOR
World music is one of their biggest classes with 140 students. (online and in person)
Music appreciation will be starting in the spring 2020.  

Emailed her the sites for the LibGuides, which she knew about but needed a reminder for their addresses. 

Teaches music in the elementary class (only pedagogy one right now).

Beginning recorder and piano are taught there. 

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Making the Case for connections: Internationalization, Global Learning, and Courses

A faculty development workshop by Dr. Dawn Whitehead (AAC&U)

College students need to be prepared to work in a global context.  Employers are placing more emphasis on hiring candidates with global knowledge and experience. 70% say their company is globally connected.  

"Employers give students especially weak grades on key global learning outcomes: 
1. Problem-solving in diverse groups
2. Scientific literacy
3. Knowledge of global developments and trends
4. knowledge of cultures/societies outside the U.S.
5. Foreign Language proficiency "

1 in 3 international students studies in NY, CA, and TX.  10 % in NY.

IUPUI country information
IU ICCI 

Ways library can support internationalization:
Library Research Guide(s) -- background research

Library for information resources and research  help
Library and COIL classes partnerships
Encourage students to explore how knowledge is produced, distributed, and utilized globally.

ACE Model for comprehensive internationalization
 

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Survival Story: Through the Eyes of Holocaust Survivor

Survival Story: Through the Eyes of Holocaust Survivor

11/19/19
A lecture by Holocaust survivor Samuel Rind

Wrote the book  "A Tribute to Mom, We Survived Together"
He was 2 1/2 when the war started, saw his own brother killed right in front of  him by the Nazis.  Spoke Yiddish, Polish, and Russian. 
He first went to a Ukranian concentration camp, then Auschwitz


"Family is very very important." The best way he can die is to teach others about his life.

You are nothing without family.
The world today is so sad.. why are we killing each other?
Stop being selfish . 
"The little letters after your name do not matter, it's what's on your heart."  
Be kind.

Friday, November 15, 2019

Racial Justice Training

Workshop training for racial justice
11/15/19

For this workshop, people of color, nonwhite, minority
Racial justice.. justice for all, subset of social justice
Race is a social construction.
Cognitivie dissonance: Some think that some people are not fully human!
Individual racism: when a person has conscious thoughts that one race is better than another
Ethnicity vs. race: Some use ethnicity as a shield, as in I am Irish not white.

Recommended youtube videos:
"how to tell someone they sound racist" 
 THAT sounded racist vs. You ARE racist 

"Race the house we live in" 

"Calling in Black"

Vision for the Future: Open and Accessible ENY/ACRL Annual Conference

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