This week I began teaching a class at a local university. I assigned a Blog Post topic to the class and have been reading the students’ entries this morning. The topic was Ethics. I allowed them to decide the approach they would take and invited them to either create their own blog site or to just send me the paragraphs that would make up a post if they did have a Blog Site of their own. I was impressed by the diversity of approaches I received for this assignment. Some talked generally about the subject of ethics and others looked at business ethics exploring the ideas from the text. My hope is that the students in this class learn a little bit more about themselves and each other in the course. I hope to learn more about communication in this digital age as seen through their eyes. I think we are off to a good start.
SHIFT Happens
January 19, 2018
Ottawa is the capital of my country, a city where I spent some of my formative years and one of my favourite places in the world. The parliament buildings always remind me that people have been making decisions that affect my life and millions of others for generations right here in this meeting place. It is a place where both official languages are spoken as well as many “unofficial ” languages. It has beautiful river valleys and skylines and museums and galleries that hold the treasures of our land. In short, The people of the National Capital Region are engaged in the running of our country. They represent its diversity and its commitment to excellence and compassion. Ottawa is impressive. I do feel very fortunate to be Canadian. Ottawa reminds me of just how lucky I am.
This week I have been working for one of my favourite national agencies, Parks Canada. I love the work and the people who I meet. I also enjoy the sense of contribution I get from doing what I can to help members of the Parks Canada team protect and present our natural and historic treasures.
On a personal note, I miss being home. Over the past few years I have found comfort and a sense of belonging with my family and friends in St Albert that I cannot remember having experienced before now. Could it be that my wunderlust has begun to fade and I have found a place I can comfortably settle for the next few decades? I believe that I have. That is not to say that my trips to the University of the Virgin Islands and Hawaii will stop all together. That is not to say that cities like Ottawa, Halifax and Paris will not continue to be my destinations of choice. That is to say that my perspective has shifted. My home, my heart is in St Albert. And I am content.
July 16, 2015
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July 14, 2015
Freedom to choose liberates power. I have always believed that. When I can choose what I want to do I am much more likely to feel responsible and accountable. I raised my children with choice and consequences and now that is how I treat myself.
Today I have NOTHING on the agenda. I can do whatever I want today. I can go whereever I want to go. I can contact people and maybe connect if schedules permit or I can stay here at the lake with the blue sky and the song birds.
I can work on my book. It is a possiblity and yet I hesitate.
My book is sitting patiently on the dining room table about three metres from here. I could just get up and go sit in front of that book and start editing. I have that power to choose and the time to dedicate to the project that has kept me busy for more than five years now. It is so close to completed.
I have felt that before, that feeling of being close to finished and then the target moves and there is more to do. I am concerned by this overwhelming dread that once I sit down to finish the edits to chapter two and seven and once I do one more read and edit through that some other issues will arise and the impending completion will once again escape from my grasp.
Fear of competion or NOT. Fear of SUCCESS of not. Either way it is not going to finish itself. Steps forward and back are part of the process. I know that. I also know that even though I have published other books this one is different. This one is important. I want it to be perfect.
Choosing not to work on it today doesn’t feel like an option I can comfotably accept repsonsibility for either. I have the power to choose. I can avoid or I can approach. Noone is forcing me. The consequences are clear though. I work on it and move it closer to completion or I don’t and feel frustrated for longer.
Is it time? Have I been away from it long enough to have the perspective I need to make the necessary edits? I don’t know.
All the books on writing say ‘JUST SHOW UP TO THE PAGE’ so here I go … jumping into the deep end of the pool….hoping I still know how to swim.
February 18, 2015
By now some of you will be able to tell that the SHARP as a Marble post was a repeat of the Making a SHIFT. I was testing out the new website drnancylove.com It is live and it is undergoing some adjustments as I figure out how to keep all of you informed and interested and move to the new site without disruption. The SHARP as a Marble was a test. And it proofed that I am not as SHARP today as I need to be to enter into the underground, mystifying world of the connected, interconnected “inter-web”
I have somehow acquired two Facebook pages, three twitter accounts and have connected the linked in account to both blog pages. Once all of them are coming from the same source and only once we can make this work seamlessly. For know it’s a little rough.
On the PULSE website we had a newsletter list that we wanted to integrate as well because the PULSE site was going into mothballs. I will be able to send newsletters from the drnancylove.com site to the loyal PULSE followers around the world. So the plan was based on my retiring and becoming a writer.
Plans change…. as you have heard me say …. they are just something to base change on.
More on that later….