Weed-wise, here are 2 more categories to consider:
2. WEEDS IN YOUR HEART: Have you isolated yourself and become hardened and cold in your relationships as a means to survival? A hardened heart will be manifested in your daily attitudes, words, and actions. It can distance you from important people and activities in your life.
Has your professional growth in teaching and research come to a standstill or regressed? Have you become rigid and resistant to interactions with colleagues and students? Are you toting around negative relationship baggage or harboring grudges, resentment, anger, or jealousy?
Remember, the objects of your harboring are happy and free; while your harboring may be making you miserable. STOP harboring! Let go of your harbor. Have you said to yourself: “I’ll succeed by myself by the hook or the crook? I don’t need anyone; I can do this by myself.”
3. WEEDS IN YOUR RELATIONSHIPS: Who are your professional friends and heroes? Are the colleagues with whom you hang “discouragers”? Are they the negative haunting voices of cynicism and pessimism? Their voices can be like chains around your neck or shackles around your legs that can drag you down? They can squelch your spirit to succeed and suck the life out of the efforts you have made. They are poison to your professional progress.
How is your weed list coming? Didn’t make it, huh? Trying to remember them? Well there’s more on the way with the last two categories.
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