Please share your challenge for the course here with the group. We'd like to have you post for two reasons:
1) It will help us all to know what types of challenges/journeys our group is taking over these five weeks together.
2) Sherri and I would like to have a sense of what you are working on.
If you feel the content of your challenge is too sensitive for the blog, please share the general topic here and then send something more specific to Sherri and me by email. We don't need much in the way of details; just the general topic and a what breakthrough looks like for you.
My challange for this course is a professional goal that has definite personal implications. I have been working as a physical therapist for 7 years. My goal is to help physical therapists become more comfortable connecting with their patients in this rapid changing world of health care. A great deal of what I do in physical therapy is attempting to effectively communicate and understand what patients need and prescribe the best course of action for them to assist in making behavioral changes in their lives. Motivating behavioral change is a task that takes a level of connection and empowerment. Unfortuently in our profession once we are relased from school we don't have as many tools and resources avalable at our desposal to learn way to effectively communicate and help motivate change in others. Most of what is currently available out there are the clinical based continuing education courses that deal with the mechanics of what we do and not the art of how we care. My goal with this project is to create both an educational space (i.e live seminars, webinars, blog) as well as educational tools for physical therapists to help strengthen effective communication as well as learn ways to help with motivating positive behavioral changes amongst their patients in the fast consumer corporate setting of today's health care world.
ReplyDeletethat is really cool! i was certainly inspired reading your challenge statement. hope you get everything you want and more from the next few weeks of class :)
DeleteMy general challenge is figure out what My Work is.
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way! On the first assignment we had that asked "What is your work? (life's work, mission, purpose)" my exact response was
Delete"This is exactly what I am trying to figure out!!"
Good luck! :)
My challenge for this course is an intellectual achievement I would like dicovery the sources of creativity that is totally in our inner and how I could use properly all the knowledge given for innovation in the right environment business.
ReplyDeleteMy challenge for this course is to discover my creativity because i need to start to know how use this powerful tool, its very important for me to It is very important for me to be able to understand that I don't have intellectual boundaries only emotional barriers.One of my goals will be to learn how important it to listen my intuition and body language, don't feel scared when I have to make a decision and learning constantly how improve my life..
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DeleteMy challenge for this course is to gain tools to get rid of or learn how to better manage emotional barriers. Would like to go back to school & get another degree. I for sure know I don't have any intellectual/academic limitations, always been a good student with 2 degrees under my belt already. Emotional hurdles seem to deter my from being totally focused at this point in life. Emotional quotient being as important as Intelligence quotient, from this course I do hope to learn to better manage my emotional barriers/hurdles that seem to get me off track.
Deletei enrolled in this class to be embark on a journey of self discovery. I wanted to learn about myself, others and most importantly how I could apply my skillset, experience and education to helping others. I am a true believer that if you aren't willing to improve yourself then you cannot help others.
ReplyDeleteMy personality lends me to being a guardian (estj in myer briggs for those who are curious). I am deathly loyal to those I care about (family, friends, peers, colleagues) and want to help them, mentor them, grow them even if it means they will exceed me.
My challenge is
a) finding out how I can help others and sometimes, if i should at all
b) find out more about myself and
c) learn how to better deal and work with women since as an engineer I have limited opportunities to interact with other women.
thanks for reading!
The main personal and professional challenge and goal I look forward to working on throughout this course go hand in hand. I feel as though progressing towards this goal and ultimately conquering my challenge will contribute a lot in the way of my personal happiness and satisfaction. I am currently working as a full-time nanny and while I love this job and all of the skills and opportunities it has given me (moved from Boston to California with the awesome family, gained an increased independence, learned a lot about myself and my strengths, etc.), I would like to transition to a career and feel comfortable with doing so. This job has become my comfort zone because it is a job I am passionate about and one I am really good at, but I know there is more out there for me.
ReplyDeleteContinuous rejection from jobs after graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering left me feeling useless and unintelligent thanks to the VOJ. My personal challenge is thus to pull together my credentials and gain the confidence to put myself out there again. Similarly, my professional challenge is to utilize my skills, education, and this new found confidence, to find a career I am excited about and one that challenges me. For me, a breakthrough would be not feeling guilty transitioning from my nanny job to a career and ultimately giving myself the opportunity to reach my full potential!
My thoughts lately have been about how to provide a mechanism to improve/become a 'bridge' to minimize the technology gap in local communities/Costa Rica and assist the country thru developing jobs and social innovation.
ReplyDeleteRecently I learned, there is a community which is interested to know more about Silicon Valley's development success, they told me: 'how they want to be more creative on making new jobs/projects' (can we reapply the SV's learnings there?) I guess we are being 'watched' :)
I'm very excited about this, I'll keep working on it and I'm trusting there will be more to add to this story later :)
Thanks! :)
I have two choices in my life: the first one, maintain the status , continue to prepare the exam and I feel very tired probably I will fail and waste lots of time; the second one, enjoy the life, travel to many places and make friends.I don't know how to choose from.
ReplyDeleteMy most important Challenge for this course will be to move my businesses together to the next level of Success. You See, I've Completed all the rigorous leg work of opening our first office in D.C. and we received publication, marketing, radio spots and interviews, you tube videos of my work, and even a successful tour.
ReplyDeleteNow, Its time to receive our 1st Million Dollar Investor and grow my company national and globally in support of education for Foster Care Youth. as well as publishing my book of completing this task*
Thank You
My long term challenge is to discover my longing and match it with my professional work. My short term challenge is to make a choice to stay with my current company or leave for another opportunity. I am at a crossroads professionally. I have been with my current company for 14 years and this is where I have grown up professionally. It is a big corporate entertainment company where I have created strong ties and it feels like my family. Yet, my career growth is limited and I feel the system no longer supports how I want to work. I've lived in the SF Bay Area for 3 years now and have been exposed to other options for how I can work and I have connections here now that give me more choices. I feel ready to risk and leave and yet scared and worried to make a mistake and "fuck things up" for me and those who depend on me. Yet, there is a feeling and desire to explore, try something new, live bigger and outside my comfort zone. When I read the class description, I knew instinctively that I might find some answers here.
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