I’ve always prided myself on my communication skills. I’ve always felt confident that I could string the right words together to get a point across. In fact, I’ve been able to get through a lot of difficult situations by capturing the essence of a problem and possible solutions through narrative. Several years ago, as a …
Tag: reflection
Embrace Imperfections
I’ve done some dumb things in my life. Like convincing a friend that we should swim down a local river so that we could collect all the jewelry and other precious things people had lost… …or when I challenged the same friend to kayak on Lake Michigan in March during a storm. …and I can’t …
The Power of Reflective Practice
There’s a myth I’d like to dispel, and that is we don’t automatically learn from our mistakes. Wow, right? Simply making a mistake doesn’t suddenly impart a new set of knowledge or skill that will serve us in the future. If that were the case, I’d undoubtedly be ski jumping in the Olympics, not waiting …