Our Research Office Ohana

Debbie Chris and our wonderful students:
Tsai-Yi from Taiwan, Tiffanie from Missouri, AJ from the Philippines, Debbie from Hong Kong 

I discovered about a month ago that NONE of the girls in our office (there are four) had ever seen Wizard of Oz!!!!!  What!!??  So Wednesday I came home early and cooked and cooked ha ha.  I cooked the food and I kind of cooked myself as I sweat in the hot kitchen.  We had a wonderful evening with dinner and a movie (W of Oz) and bonded with our office Ohana.  I will really miss AJ who is leaving for a semester.  (Internship in the Philippines.)

These beautiful BYU-H students are our SDR Ohana. (Strategic Research & Development) 

We adore them and wish AJ a most wonder internship in her homeland of the Philippians. 

See you in January dear AJ!

So about these guest intercepts (surveys) we do:

(Not only are they out of my comfort zone but they're into my misery zone!)

I’m not an old dog yet but I’m learning new tricks

They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. 

The older we get the more of a path/rut/comfort zone we carve out for ourselves.

We like it. This zone becomes normal life because it is comfortable.

To disrupt the comfort is uncomfortable.

I'm learning once again that

that which we do becomes comfortable and normal to us.

That which we don't do for a long time becomes uncomfortable. 

We all relate to that.

Every new task or assignment feels like a rush to our heart 

and a test to our brain.

Sometimes this is exciting when it is interesting to us or our passion.

So often it isn’t though and we don't want this at all.

As we study the brain we realize that this “new trick” is 
actually building brain connectivity and is very good for us! 

As I look at life I sometimes have to ignore my huge need for comfort

and instead say this to me "is this a good thing?"

If it is a good thing, then I just do it and soon it will become comfortable.

New tricks are very good for old dogs.  And me.