Showing posts with label thinking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thinking. Show all posts

Monday, 12 July 2010

Reflection - a vice?

We say stop, listen, reflect, measure up, act, for if we don’t how can we move forward in a focused and clear way and become better at our craft and living...



But have you found that sometimes our reflections are negative? They stop us in our track, they slow us down; they take our minds away from simple solutions; they distract and can distort our views. We start comparing our craft or ourselves to others and start seeing only our flaws...These moments of doubt or fear on our very being take great courage to overcome. They should provoke us to action, but how many of us get bogged down in our own vanity; our fears rise to the surface, masking our expressive selves. Isn’t it a paradox that at times I feel we value ourselves too highly that it stops us from living our passions, our desires our dreams but in actual fact the vanity manifests itself into a low self-worth breathing giant...I certainly am one of those individuals who needs to stop thinking and jump in to the activities that bring me great enjoyment and satisfaction...i shall keep moving...

Monday, 13 July 2009

Thinking vs doing

Maybe I should start by blogging my thoughts…what will I call my blog? I deliberately called it Ania in action to motivate me to action! Action of what sort? I’m a busy teacher right? All teachers are full of action, forever meeting deadlines and churning out reports, marking and preparing lessons. And we still try to squeeze all our personal activities to fit into a day. So yes, I am action woman :P…today I was told I was super woman, not quite sure why...I should’ve asked for clarification…
So here I am thinking and not doing…the purpose of this blog was to record all my ‘doings’. But which doings are these? After all I teach, I prepare worksheets, interactive whiteboard activities, displays…anything worth recording?…hmmmm not so sure….and then there’s my personal development and interests. So just what do I do that’s worth recording? I guess time will tell.



So full circle and I’m back to thinking… maybe I need a thinking blog and I need a doing blog
~ Ania's THINKING blog ~ and ~ Ania's DOING Blog ~ It has been suggested to me that all should go into one as it will be easier to maintain and work on one blog. Therefore, if I heed advice it will be a mishmash but maybe that’s who I am right? A mishmash - Ania’s thinking doing mishmash blog…