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Listening to your inner voice

Let’s talk about noise. Have you ever been watching TV and the static is so loud you can’t even follow the movie anymore? Or you’re trying to read a book and the sound from your neighbor’s lawn mower is too loud to focus. This noise can get you spun up, even agitated. Something ...

COLUMN: Do you know your purpose?

Purpose — do you have it, do you lack it, did you ever take a look at what you thought it was for you and then second guessed it? Purpose is a driving force. It gets people up in the morning, moving, on the productivity train not stopping anytime soon. Purpose is important and losing it ...

WVU Student Bell-Ringing

Ceremonies held for those who died in 2020-21 WVU Today Students, faculty, staff and members of the community gathered Monday in front of Oglebay Hall to honor West Virginia University students who have passed away.  For more than two decades, a ceremonial bell ringing has ...

COLUMN: Stretch, but don’t stretch yourself too thin

If you haven’t heard this today, you’re doing a great job. Our toughest critics are often ourselves — in fact, we will be the first  to tell ourselves all the negatives before getting to the positives. This is a message for all those trying something new, finishing their degree, ...

Flex mental muscles

Fergie said it best, “I be up in the gym just working on my fitness!” As we all should, but do we work on our mental fitness? Did you know on average every year in the U.S 18.1% (43.6 million) suffer from some form of mental illness (HealthyPeople.gov). I recently came across a great ...

Get out of your comfort zone

Do the words “new” or “change” frighten you? Maybe not even frighten you, but just words you do not care for because your life is good the way it is now? With that question in mind, is change a bad thing or a good thing? I know many people who like what they like and don’t like what ...