How's your education coming along? I know you are probably out of school, but I hope you haven't stopped learning. 

When I think about the people I've known, who are most fully alive, invariably, it is those who have never stopped learning who come to mind. It is also those who have developed creative strategies to keep themselves from becoming stuck in a rut, no matter how comfortable that rut may seem. 

For example, I know a retired couple who felt that their evenings at home in front of the TV were becoming dull. So, they agreed to turn off the television every night for an hour and spent the time taking turns reading aloud to each other. They decided magazines and romance or detective novels were off limits, but everything else was open. They read some philosophy, some theology, and a great deal of biography. They really got into Churchill's history of World War II. After doing this every evening for a few weeks, they found that their powers of concentration had increased. Most evenings, they never turned the television set on at all. 

Many large organizations require some of their staff members to take a certain amount of continuing education every year. Many corporations help their employees pay for tuition. In these economic times, I know this may seem difficult, but is education a line item in your personal budget? If it isn't, should it be? With the proliferation of on-line courses, you don't even need to leave the house to learn something new.

Just because you are no longer in school, it doesn't mean that learning stops. I think I've probably learned more since I graduated! Education is a lifelong endeavor. If you are serious about personal growth, you will take time to nourish your intellect as well as your heart and soul.