Day 24–100 Days 100 Ways Being Visible
Learning to be playful and enjoy new experiences
“So for all of us, if a piece needs to be reflective or rambly or rant or short or long or anything, it’s all good, because it’s all part of the process.” Andy Taylor
My interpretation of this is that within this publication Andy has given me permission to rant or ramble, permission to write long copy or short copy, permission to be reflective or directive and permission to write anything within reason as long as it is part of the process. The process is to spend 100 Days documenting daily a self-improvement project that includes getting and sharing knowledge and learning every day.
Today I choose to start a rant, to speak to you as I might if we were sitting around a fire (it could be a campfire or a fire in the fireplace of a warm and well-appointed study) and had already consumed between us our first bottle of a robust Australian Shiraz wine.
I have been consciously on a self-improvement journey since I was 42; that's a 19-year journey so far. Before that, I thought I was uniquely flawed and that participating in any form of self-improvement would prove to all who knew me that I was a flawed human being and beyond redemption. I did not want to be found out. I must have had what is now known as a ‘fixed mindset’ and not believed that I could learn and develop in the areas that I assessed myself to be flawed.
I no longer think this way. I see the world and myself in very different ways. I now believe that almost anything can be learned. I certainly believe that leadership can be learned. I believe that we are all capable of far more than we think we are capable of and that there is solid scientific evidence to back up this assessment (e.g. Norman Doidge’s work on Brain Plasticity)
I also believe as someone said, “we can be anything but we cannot be everything”. (I could not find a source for this quote, so I am going with anonymous).
That’s it for the start of my rant. Tonight I am tired. I am planning to light the fire and open the wine again soon and hope you will join me.
I cannot know if you will learn anything from what I have shared unless I take the risk of sharing it. My words will trigger a reaction in you based at least as much on your history as on my words. How fascinating is that?
I invite you to share your response in the article reactions.
Progress
I have shared something about me and my journey in life. I am starting to experience some playfulness in my approach to writing. I’m having a new and slightly strange experience. I am interpreting my new experience as progress.
24/25/100 (Number of days goals met/ number of days into project/ 100)
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