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Begin as you mean to continue
Monday, January 5th, 2009 11:41 amBuenos Dias, mi Amigos!
One way I mean to go on is by adding to my ability to communicate in Spanish. I'm back at work with Rosetta Stone as of this weekend. My goal is 30 minutes daily, plus doing my best to learn from local interaction.
Today we've begun making plans for some inland travel, a little sightseeing. This manifests me speaking up for what I want, choosing to take action, being proactive instead of reactive (or lazy) about how I spend my time while we're here.
Today I signed up for another year at Diana's Grove. If you know the Grove, I hope you're signed up for 2009, or that you'll visit their website www.dianasgrove.com and take a look at the story for this year and then sign up. If you don't know the Grove, ditto. Some of the most welcoming space and land, some of the most loving community, some of the very best leadership-development, group-process, and personal-growth work I've ever seen (and I've seen some great stuff).
Some years I've done almost all the homework. Last year I did almost none. But still, the work calls me forward into being my best Self, more and more often, in the world.
Planning for the year ahead, I find I'm choosing to spend more time in focused study and a bit less in 'hanging out' -- this is good, I think, but may sometimes be messy. And the calendar still has only 365 days so I will be well-served by being mindful about my choices.
And then there's the current project. I find myself writing a student handbook from scratch. So here's an invitation to comment: If you're in school, or if you remember that experience, I'd love to know what DIDN'T work about the student handbook? What did you look for that wasn't in it, and where were you able to find that info instead? What was in it but, still, useless because it assumed you knew something you didn't?
Not that I expect to produce the perfect student handbook. Just it'd be nice to not reinvent the worst deficiencies.
One way I mean to go on is by adding to my ability to communicate in Spanish. I'm back at work with Rosetta Stone as of this weekend. My goal is 30 minutes daily, plus doing my best to learn from local interaction.
Today we've begun making plans for some inland travel, a little sightseeing. This manifests me speaking up for what I want, choosing to take action, being proactive instead of reactive (or lazy) about how I spend my time while we're here.
Today I signed up for another year at Diana's Grove. If you know the Grove, I hope you're signed up for 2009, or that you'll visit their website www.dianasgrove.com and take a look at the story for this year and then sign up. If you don't know the Grove, ditto. Some of the most welcoming space and land, some of the most loving community, some of the very best leadership-development, group-process, and personal-growth work I've ever seen (and I've seen some great stuff).
Some years I've done almost all the homework. Last year I did almost none. But still, the work calls me forward into being my best Self, more and more often, in the world.
Planning for the year ahead, I find I'm choosing to spend more time in focused study and a bit less in 'hanging out' -- this is good, I think, but may sometimes be messy. And the calendar still has only 365 days so I will be well-served by being mindful about my choices.
And then there's the current project. I find myself writing a student handbook from scratch. So here's an invitation to comment: If you're in school, or if you remember that experience, I'd love to know what DIDN'T work about the student handbook? What did you look for that wasn't in it, and where were you able to find that info instead? What was in it but, still, useless because it assumed you knew something you didn't?
Not that I expect to produce the perfect student handbook. Just it'd be nice to not reinvent the worst deficiencies.