expanding-horizons

Finding Your Path – Part 2

Posted by fhendrick on Sep 24, 2010 in Blog, College | 0 comments

Okay – so you’ve got a boatload of new challenges this year, whether you’re a senior in high school working out what’s next or a freshman in college.

Here’s what I’d like you to do:

1. Make a worry list. Sketch out a quick list of the challenges you’re facing – the ones that have you stumped, lost or stuck.
2. Hide it. Put your list aside where you can’t see it for the moment.
3. Create a gentle space. Plan a half hour that you can have all to yourself, a time when you’re free to think and imagine.  Create a space that encourages you to expand into your thoughts.  Maybe it’s a park bench, maybe it’s the breakfast room.  You might curl up on the sofa with your laptop, or it might be more your style to go to a really nice book store to choose the perfect journal, a place of honor for the thoughts that you will place in it.
4. Dare to imagine. Begin a post entitled, “Ideal Day.”  This will help you create a larger context.

Finding the Path That Is *Your* Path

Posted by fhendrick on Sep 21, 2010 in Blog, College | 0 comments

“If the path before you is clear,” said Joseph Campbell, “you’re probably on someone else’s.”

Whether the next steps you’re struggling with have to do with your classes, your major, your parents or a significant relationship, you may not be able to see beyond the very next brick in the path.  Life can’t come with a map because each life, each person is different.  This article is about helping you as you choose each step on your own path.  It’s about having the courage to celebrate your own unique journey.

Take a Chance Anyway

Posted by fhendrick on Aug 30, 2010 in Blog, College | 0 comments

Check out this great post in the New York Times  by Rebecca Reddicliff.  Reddicliff, who is going into her sophomore year, advises freshmen to “Put Yourself Out There and Do Something Crazy.”   If you’re on the fence about whether to plunge into the adventure of college life or just tuck yourself away in your dorm room with a pizza, this is food for thought.

Reddicliff is in good company with her recommendation.  The advice to “do something crazy” was expressed in entirely different words by Eleanor Roosevelt when she said, “You must do the things you think you cannot do.”  That means