Week 2 Thing 4 (Posting and Tracking)

My blog is posted and I have begun the process of recording my progress in the Tracking Log. Looking forward to next week's assignment!

Week 2 Thing 3 (Setting Up a Blog)

Setting up a blog wasn't a totally foreign experience as I had learned to do this in preparation for putting together the new Orientation program. It's so interesting to read the blogs of other participants. You get a really good sense of the talent that we have here at CCPL. I especially think this is true of some of the younger staff. I don't want to sound like a dinosaur (which most likely I am...) but the younger staff see things in a totally different way from those of us who are baby boomers. I'm not saying that one is better than the other - just different. Blogging is fun - sometimes I'm surprised at what comes up in my mind to blog about. The challenge for me is to focus and then end the blog rather that record all the seemingly endless (and random) thoughts that come to the surface of my mind.

Week 1 Thing 2 (The 7 1/2 Habits)

I notice that in a lot of the blogs other learners choose Habit 7/12 as their easiest habit. But Play doesn't always come easy for me. Not that I don't like to play - I do. But it's not always my first choice - I suffer from the affliction of taking things too seriously. Probably what comes easiest for me is to accept responsibility in my own learning. I have always valued learning new things and I get easily bored if I don't have something new to look forward to. So this experience should keep me vastly entertained!

Probably the hardest habit for me is number 3: seeing problems as an opportunity to learn. When you tend to take things too seriously, then problems seem more like an albatross around your neck that you want to get rid of as soon as you possibly can. I have gotten better at this - they say you mellow as you age ;-) but it's still an area I need to work (or maybe play) on.