Are you getting enough sleep?
Hah!
When someones asks, “How’d you sleep?”, what’s your answer?
Self-directed Learning
6 Strategies to Help Embrace Discomfort and Challenges
We all know that life is full of challenges we can’t control, and dealing with challenges and new learning can be uncomfortable. But why embrace discomfort and challenges? How is that different than just “sucking it up” and powering through? Embracing discomfort and challenge makes it easier to find the joy … Read more6 Strategies to Help Embrace Discomfort and Challenges
Master the Magical 15 Minutes
Do you need:
- A boost for your creative practice and confidence?
- A spark for your creativity?
- A tip for beginning to learn something new?
- A trick for getting unstuck?
- A method to postpone procrastination?
- A tool to help your kids with learning something difficult?
- A self-administered kick in the pants to just get on with a dreaded task?
Just last week Suzi Colpa and I were discussing these ideas with a group of women who attended our Tea and Tales event.
Seasons of a Self-directed Learning Journey
To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time to every purpose, under heaven….
This photo from 4 years ago turned up in my Facebook timeline this morning.
Learning to play ukulele, playing and singing with other people, has been a challenging and rewarding self-directed learning project for me. And there have been seasons – when I first started I was excitedly practicing every day and meeting with my mostly homeschool mom friends weekly with our matching blue dolphin ukes. We went to Uke Festivals and workshops. I was so excited I wrote a song and created a photo series I call Dr. Uke says…to show what songs I was working on and how I was feeling.
The group was evolved.
I started working on other projects and my mom’s illness progressed.
The season and my learning journey shifted.