Life of E's

When you serve as a student's formal or informal advisor, you make a difference in his/her life. To be able to serve well – and not put yourself over the edge in terms of time and energy invested, here are five ways to save yourself time, energy, and stress when advising. Have forms that you [...]

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Depending on your particular institution, advising of students may be a small portion or a significant part of your responsibilities. Adapt the following five tips to fit your situation so that advising is a productive experience for you and your students. Request that students come to their appointments with a list of questions to which [...]

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Are you a math teacher?  Are you a parent of a child or teen who is taking a mathematics course?  If yes to either question, then I’m sure you’ve seen students struggle with word problems.  It’s so frustrating to watch and we want so badly to help them. A perennial complaint of mathematics teachers is [...]

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If you still have a parent who is alive, I encourage you to read this article and take what I’m writing to heart. I’m at a point where I have already lost my father and my mother, due to dementia, is pretty much gone. So, I wish I had read (and heeded) an article like [...]

Tags: family, friends, loss, parents, questions

Write down a problem that you have been trying to deal with (or that you’ve ignored) in your business. I’ll wait. OK. I’ll assume you have that written down. Now, change the wording of that problem into a question. I’ll wait. OK. I will assume that you now have a great question posed. You want [...]

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Regardless of how old you are, you may have already lost a parent. And, chances are that if you haven’t, it won’t be too long before you are faced with that loss. My mother is currently in a nursing home and is not doing too great – nor will there be much significant improvement before [...]

Tags: aging, nursing home, parents, questions, too late

You are your business. You are your profession. You are your best representative. However you want to think about it, in nearly every profession, you need to be out there ‘selling’ yourself, regardless of whether you’re in sales or not. Networking may be very natural to you – or not so much. If you are [...]

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Recently when consulting/coaching with a Life of E’s member, I framed these questions for her to consider.  See if answering them will be helpful to you, too. What do you want? What are you willing to do or go through to get there? What will you have to give up? What will you gain? Is [...]

Tags: change, choices, Coaching, decisions, growth, life satisfaction, questions