Getting into a rhythm

So, the good news it’s gone over well. People are intrigued by my point of view. They seem curious in the aspects I had hoped they would be. Which means, it’s time for the next paper. I’m thrilled that I’m feeling more confident, however I realized that there is so much more that needs exploring, and explaining. It’s so helpful to get the feedback that helps me decide where to start. Why do I think this or that? In which article might I have found that insight, or was it my own conclusion?
The position paper was, in a way, a wonderful failure. Not done in time, each of my arguments did not have clear or direct lines of rebuttal, and I wasn’t sure it needed to be written at all. After editing it to the appropriate amount of words for a policy advice, I found myself advocating for a study to be established. In the presentation, I started to see how this might be a worthy focus for the next 25 years of my life. I find out my final grade on the 6th!
Not to say that this would start this week, far from it, as I prepare for another round of studies – this time focused on my established career path. What do I hope to attain from a Strategic Communications Management Professional (SCMP) designation? Ideally, this global standard will help my clients see me as an established, credible, and powerful choice to solve their marketing challenges.
How does this designation help me with this current line of study and learning? Well, I had discussed my coaching practice that I’m building, earlier in this series. The idea of being able to extract consistently authentic self-expression, and use it as a qualifying measure in a long-term study would help to establish a wider variety of non-tangible markers in cognitive behaviours. These data-derived markers could help to chart the affect of mindfulness-based stress-reduction practices. It can help to align doctors when treating chronic conditions and supporting at-risk populations.
In “resilience: Why things bounce back” by Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy, they examine scenarios where similar factors were addressed successfully or not, and the differences that may have made the difference. I used to view sustainability as one of my brand values, until they clarified something that was holding me back:
“More seriously, sustainability suffers in two respects: First, the entire notion that the goal should be to find a single equilibrium point runs counter to the way many natural systems actually work – the goal ought to be healthy dynamism, not a dipped-in amber stasis. Second, sustainability offers few practical prescriptions for contending with disruptions precisely at the moment we are thinking them. Resilience-thinking, on the other hand, can provide a broader, more dynamic, and more relevant set of ideas, tools, and approaches. As volatility continues to hold sway, resilience-thinking may soon come to augment or supplement the sustainability regime altogether.”
More than this, my studies and practice help me to stay on top of my personal health. I was able to skip rope today for the first time in over a year. If not longer…because when was the last you jumped rope for the fun of it?? It took me 30min to skip for 10min. Still, worth it. The muscles are definitely tightened up and are functioning within a much better musculature framework. I even threw 25 jabs with each arm to test the obliques, after skipping, with not too much pain. Wait till tomorrow :)
So, the first place to start is what I base everything in my tools and practice on. The premise that time is not a linear construct.
