Time is a Gift
As we end 2021, we’d like to first say thank you for taking the time to read and engage with the Strive to Thrive newsletter. We have enjoyed exploring various concepts of well-being, hearing about your well-being journeys, and highlighting the many well-being focused events and services happening throughout the Rowan community. Like many of you, we have been looking forward to the end of a long and sometimes challenging semester. We hope that over the course of this semester you have been able to reflect on your well-being, perhaps taken a step towards caring for yourself holistically, and given yourself a lot of credit for all that you’ve done. As we continue to work together as a community to share in the responsibility of creating an environment where everyone has the opportunity to thrive, we thank you for the work you have done to care for the Rowan community and challenge you to continue to seek ways to support, maintain, and promote well spaces.
One of the many things we’ve been reflecting on from a second year of the COVID-19 Pandemic, has been the value and meaning of time. Whether time was lost with loved ones, time gained in working from home, or the challenges and positives from added time with others in our homes, we have all adjusted to the changing times. How can lessons learned from the past 21 months make us rethink how we spend our time moving forward? How do we balance our time in our pursuits, daily obligations, challenges, life interruptions, and relationships? Are we able to take time to support our self-care? Do we take the time to pay attention when someone who we love is talking to us or are we multitasking with our minds elsewhere? Let’s commit to taking a moment of time for ourselves. When we connect in person with others over winter break, make an effort to exclude our devices and use the time to reconnect.
As 2022 approaches, remember that we have the opportunity to make choices related to our subjective well-being and happiness. We hope that you take healthy measures to react to planned and unplanned transitions as well as unexpected or expected tragedies. In addition we hope that you stay engaged and in the moment when life gives you triumphs and moments to cherish. Know that individuals in our community care for you and will continue to encourage you to pursue thriving and flourishing moments and are also available when you need support.
-Rowan Strive to Thrive Editing Team
Allie, Kevin, Katie & Melissa
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The idea is we'll save bits of time here and there, add it up, we will finally get to everything we want to do. But after studying how successful people spend their time and looking at their schedules hour by hour, I think this idea has it completely backward. We don't build the lives we want by saving time. We build the lives we want, and then time saves itself.
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The SHOP Food Pantry has food, coats, toiletries, and hygiene supplies and is open Mondays or Fridays 12 - 4 p.m. except 12/24 & 12/31. You can email to make an alternative appointment if needed. Bring your own bag.
The Fresh For All market will be open every Friday with the exception of Fridays 12/24 and 31.
The Student Government Association is hosting a cereal bar daily during the break so that folks can come and get a fresh bowl of cereal or oatmeal and milk. Visit the SGA Office Room 220 in the Chamberlain Student Center Monday - Friday mornings.
Campus Recreation has winter hours available at the Recreation Center and Fitness Center at Victoria St.
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I was teaching the same material, the same way, year after year. I didn't want to give up on a performance that was working. I had my act down. Even good habits can stand in the way of rethinking. There's a name for that too. It's called cognitive entrenchment, where you get stuck in the way you've always done things. Just thinking about rethinking made me defensive.
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SOCIAL EVENTS FOR STUDENTS |
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Stress Relief Night: Sunday, 12/26 - 8 p.m. - HPC Multi-Purpose Room
Come enjoy dinner, adult coloring, and take-home fidgets
11 a.m. - 2 p.m. @ Chamberlain Student Center Prof’s Place
Free Dinner & Profs Basketball v. NJCU @ Esby Gym - Wednesday, 1/5
Cheer Profs Basketball and enjoy a free dinner for students starting at 4:30pm.
Women’s game 5:30pm, Desserts offered between, & Men’s game 7:30pm
Make It, Take It Craft Night - Saturday, 1/8: 8 p.m. - HPC Multi-Purpose Room
Come enjoy dinner and air dry clay crafting - allows the creativity to be endless!
Chamberlain Student Center 116
Spa Kits - Saturday, 1/15: 8 p.m. - HPC Multi-Purpose Room
Dinner and individually wrapped and prepped take-home spa kits and crystals
Chamberlain Student Center Main Hallway
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-Dominic Price
It's a year like no other. It's a year when many of us haven't felt of much happiness or our happy days have been reduced to happy minutes and moments. And the uncertainty of the future has quite rightly weighed heavily on our minds. You should invest in taking control of your own happiness. Our future is not predetermined, is not written, and our future is not waiting for us.
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Virtual Recording from the Chronicle of Higher Education
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Monday, 1/17: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Chamberlain Student Center
This event provides opportunities for the Rowan community to celebrate the life and legacy of a true American visionary. The scholarship breakfast is at 9 a.m., with proceeds benefiting the William H. Myers Memorial Scholarships, furthering the University’s mission to provide an accessible, quality education at an affordable cost. The event features keynote speaker Tiffany Cross from the "The Cross Connection" on MSNBC. Costs to attend in-person is $75 and virtually is $25. Students are free.
The Day of Service volunteer check-in is at 10:30 a.m. for the 11 a.m. activities.
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-America Ferrera
I didn't get a lot of the jobs people were willing to see me for: the gang-banger's girlfriend, the sassy shoplifter, pregnant chola number two. These were the kinds of roles that existed for someone like me. Someone they looked at and saw as too brown, too fat, too poor, too unsophisticated. These roles were stereotypes and couldn't have been further from my own reality or from the roles I dreamt of playing.
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Financial dependency is when someone is dependent on a person, a job or a situation for money, and they feel trapped. People fall into two categories: dependent with choice and dependent without a choice. Someone is dependent with choice when they hand over their financial power and their participation. Someone that's dependent without a choice feels trapped because of their financial situation.
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Student Life recognizes that while most students who normally reside on campus leave housing between the fall and spring terms, there are some who remain in their campus residence halls or apartments due to a variety of reasons. For those who remain on campus over break, subscribe to an e-mail list for updates of campus activities at https://listmanager.rowan.edu/sympa/subscribe/breaktime.
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“The Strive to Thrive newsletter intends to bring you well-being ideas, tips, events, information and ways to connect through all dimensions of well-being (physical, social, emotional, purpose, community, and financial). We hope that this layout reminds you of all of the many ways to nourish, attend to, and elevate your well-being and the well-being of those around you.” |
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