Growth Begins with Awareness
As I shared in my inaugural post, growth never stops. It simply changes shape. One of the ways I have found myself growing over the last month and a half has been mentally and emotionally. Let me ask you a question: How often do you check in with yourself mentally? Emotionally? When I was in college, I served on the Residence Life team as a Resident Assistant. Each year, RAs would gather for training, where we learned how to lead, respond to crises, and support the students living in our residence halls. During my first year as an RA, I was introduced to a concept called checking your gauges . We were encouraged to regularly assess five areas of our lives: Physical Mental Emotional Spiritual Intellectual Think about the dashboard of a car. Your vehicle has gauges that tell you how much fuel remains, how fast you are traveling, the engine temperature, and whether something requires attention. Your life is no different. We all have gauges. The challenge is that many of us keep moving wit...
