Comments on: Passion http://becomingdoctorjones.com/2009/08/12/passion/ Dissertations, Graduate School, & Professionalization Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:09:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: becomingdoctorjones http://becomingdoctorjones.com/2009/08/12/passion/#comment-156 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:20:17 +0000 http://becomingdoctorjones.com/?p=263#comment-156 Good one! That’s so important to remember at moments of low output.

]]> By: becomingdoctorjones http://becomingdoctorjones.com/2009/08/12/passion/#comment-154 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:16:54 +0000 http://becomingdoctorjones.com/?p=263#comment-154 Cordelia!

“You can have the life you want” is such a good one. I miss you & can’t wait to be back in California.

No biking for me, yet, just yoga, walking, & running. I’ve got to keep up the D & E through Sunday of this week to reach my goal, but I think it’s possible.

I’m thrilled you are done with the GRE! I’m convinced that you’ve chosen a great path and can’t wait for your next steps!

]]> By: Cordelia http://becomingdoctorjones.com/2009/08/12/passion/#comment-153 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:47:14 +0000 http://becomingdoctorjones.com/?p=263#comment-153 How about, “You can have the life you want”? That one popped up in a silly magazine article (god bless silly magazines!) a a few months ago – so simple, with no attribution – and kept my head above water through the GRE (big milestone for me) and one week later, two weeks in Southeast Asia!
After the GRE, to further catalyze the manifesting of the life I want, I celebrated with friends over the city’s best fish tacos. (I cannot forgive myself for not bringing you and the Future-Mister-Doc there when you visited! Come again!)
You’re always an inspiration, Doc. Keep up the good writing and…did you try pedaling around Austin yet as part of your 21 days (okay, now it’s September)? Since I introduced a daily bike commute 5 days a week, plus ancillary weekend activity riding and random hiking…I’ve kicked the dreaded “D*” word mostly to the sidelines and have been able to focus on Le Life Transition plan to get back to graduate school. Sometimes I feel like I get to pick up where you left off [e.g., college], so thanks for the honor of following such a smart and awesome cookie! <3

*my D is the one that starts in blue and ends in all black[ness], not the Dissertation

]]> By: Rebecca http://becomingdoctorjones.com/2009/08/12/passion/#comment-145 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:29:52 +0000 http://becomingdoctorjones.com/?p=263#comment-145 This post made me laugh out loud, twice! I totally agree about contradictory quote-able quotes. One that has helped me most recently–I’m paraphrasing here– was from Timothy Ferriss’s “Four Hour Work Week” — interest and energy are cyclical. I am trying to find ways to make this work *for* me and my goals instead of against me. Especially the long-term goals.

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