The 7/3 Journey
Sharing thoughts on life, leadership, and learning to live in your potential
Worth Every Step: Reflections on My Doctoral Journey
4,599 Days
Four Thousand Five Hundred Ninety-Nine Days
It took me exactly 4,599 days from the day I embarked on my first attempt at a Doctor of Philosophy degree to the moment I completed my Doctor of Education degree. Nearly 12 and a half years—a period marked not just by academic pursuit but…
Reflections on Self-care and REST
Our society is built around a mentally, emotionally, and physically unhealthy premise that we need to be working, hustling, and grinding in order to live. That we only deserve to rest when our jobs are completed. But whose subjective opinion determines when the work is done?
On Boundaries and the HARD PASS
HARD PASS.
I’ve used this phrase over the last few years in my lexicon, mostly in jest during comical moments with friends and family when talking about things that I really don’t want to do… or eat. And trust me, there are a LOT of things I don’t want to do or eat. We’ll save my pickiness for another post.
Hope, light, love, and peace
The truth is, I’m not the same person I was a week ago…a year ago…before the pandemic wreaked havoc on the world.
I meannn… I was a cheerleader.
I can’t remember the first time I realized I wanted to be a cheerleader. It might have been the time my parents took us to an East Carolina University game when we lived in North Carolina. I was around seven years old at the time. It might have been noticing the cheerleaders on the sidelines while my dad was watching sports on TV. I just remember that it became a “thing” for me for many years to come, just short of an obsession.
TWO DATES
There are two dates on the calendar that have taught me the most about life. And it’s not that other dates don’t have meaning. But these two dates… sometimes they come in loud and hard and challenge me not to break. Other times, they sneak up on me with barely a whisper and shake me to my core.