It is sad how often we try to determine our own value by how much we feel that we have accomplished. There are several problems with this assessment. First, we tend to focus on this evaluation most when we feel the least accomplished. When things have not worked out as hoped in our lives we [...]
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How Visitors Help You Enjoy Your Own City
The best time to enjoy your own city is when you are hosting visitors. The desire to show someone around and to help them enjoy their visit is a wonderful stimulus to explore what your surroundings have to offer. We typically take our own areas for granted while longing for what everywhere else has to [...]
Oxford: A Place That Inspires
Oxford, England is one of my favorite towns in the world. There are many reasons for this but one of them is because it inspires me to dream big. I love history and the first time I set foot in Oxford I was enamored with its intriguing past. Studying at a college that patterned its [...]
Why I Have a Blog
When I started the blog my idea was to create a journal that I could share publicly with anyone who happened to care. Along the way I have seen some additional strategic value for a blog, like the ability to promote causes that I believe in and to share significant life experiences and lessons. I [...]
What “JustAndy” Means
You have no idea how hard it is to find anything close to my name available to use as a web address. Andy Johnson is such a common name that no matter how creative you get somebody has already thought of it. When I was thinking hard about what to name my blog so that [...]
What I Write About
Although professional bloggers recommend topic-specific blogs I want to write about multiple subjects. This allows me to update one blog but requires structuring it to make it relevant to readers interested in specific topics. This is why there is a blog page and also specific topic pages that filter the articles by categories. Causes :: [...]
The Newly Updated JustAndyBlog.com
Ladies and gentlemen, I announce to you…the newly updated JustAndyBlog.com! Okay, I realize that this is probably not a big deal to most of you but after all the work I have put into this over the past 6 months, let me tell you, it is a big deal to me! If you have checked [...]
My One Year Photo-of-the-Day Blog
On July 1st I released a new “photo-of-the-day” blog on which I will be posting one picture per day for the upcoming year. Each month will have a different theme. The month of When I received the news that Jet Blue would not be offering their All You Can Jet Pass this year, I decided [...]
Wellbeing #3: An Engaging Career
The Gallup Organization has conducted research over the past fifty years and then assessed the results from across many different nations, languages, and life situations to determine what it takes for one to experience wellbeing. Discovering five common strands threaded through the many results they have released a book called Wellbeing to describe them. The [...]
The Journey to Wellbeing #2
There are certain points of pain that magnify our need for wellbeing. I think the one that impacts me the most is the social, which the book Wellbeing describes as “having strong relationships and love in your life.” I want to know that I am contributing to the lives of others, that I am a [...]