10 Desriptors of Today's College Student: #1, They Feel Special

Instead of writing one long post, I decided to include these 10 descriptors of today's college student over 10 days. This resource is taken from Dr. Tim Emore at Growing Leaders.

1. They feel special.

Movies, government focus, and parents have all made this generation believe they are vital to our future. Most of them feel good about themselves. In fact, they’re often preoccupied with themselves; some surveys found a contradictory self-assessment—they are happy with their lives but they worry a lot about themselves and their future. Their self-consumed lives can be alarming. On Mother’s Day 2006, USA Today carried an article on what young people were giving their moms for her special day. Thousands had decided to give themselves something, in honor of their mother. The gifts ranged from getting a haircut, to putting money in their own bank account, to cleaning up their apartment. And the mothers were pleased with those gifts. Their children played such a central role in their own happiness, that mother’s felt great about the vicarious gift.

Test Your Traveler IQ

This was tough! I hope you do better than me!

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Ezra Lee

Quote of the Day

Holy simplicity is an unchanging will in the pursuit of a changeless good...Simplicity, in fact, is properly the will fundamentally turned toward God, asking of the Lord only one thing, seeking it with fervor, with no ambition to multiply itself by becoming dispersed in this world. Simplicity is also, in the conduct of life, the true humility which has the virtue of attaching more importance to the evidence of the conscience than to reputation."

- William of St. Thierry
(for the "one thing", read Psalm 84)

Getting Back on Track

I'm working out again and it feels good, I think. The thing is I have something motivating me beside just wanting to work out and lose weight. Since my decision to join the National Guard last January, I have to meet height and weight requirements and pass the PT (physical training test). I'm not obese by any stretch, but I am really, really out of shape! Here's where I need to be and where I am:

Goal Weight: 175
Current Weight: 195

To gain the maximum score of 300 on the Army's PT test (why settle for less), I have to do this:
73 push-ups in 2 minutes
76 sit-ups in 2 minutes
13:36 in the 2-mile run.

It has become painfully obvious that I need the most work on push-ups. Of course, the less I weigh, the less I have to push-up! So, I am working on that!

Ezra at 8 Weeks

Quote of the Day

I'm reading Transformational Coaching by Dr. Joseph Umidi for one of my classes at Regent. So far, I have not been disappointed! It has revved up my heart's engine. We'll see what I can do with that. Here's a quote:

"The disciplines of deep subterranean listening coupled with powerful penetrating questioning and catalyzed metaphors, will become the cross-cultural tool kits for post-modern transformational coaches."

Trinity 101

Here's a site that helps explain the TRINITY

The Spring Semester

Monday begins my second full semester at Regent University. I'm taking:

• Church History and Renewal 1
• New Testament 1: Jesus and the Gospels
• Foundations of Ministry Coaching

In addition to these courses, I am in my second semester of Clinical Pastoral Education at West Virginia University Hospital. I finished the fall semester pretty good with a 3.86. I made a B+ in a class. Oh, well!

Mini-Me

They say the resemblance is uncanny. What say you?