Recently there’s been an interest in people wanting to know how to get more creative or be inspired to take charge of their own professional and personal development and learning. This is something that I love to share my own experience but rather than present any formulaic templates and plans for how you can do […]
Turning 50 & Learning New Things
Over my short holiday break, I had a lot of time to reflect on a lot of things. The reason for the holiday was that it was a celebration of my 50th birthday. Last year, my husband asked me what I wanted to do for this special birthday and at the time, I dabbled with […]
Reclaiming Attention and Focus
So a few days back I shared on Twitter that I’ve deleted all social media apps and direct messaging apps off my phone. Over the holidays in Hawaii, I had a lot of thinking time while lounging around on the balcony of my cabin on the cruise (as you do) and decided that my attention […]
How Do You Handle Distractions?
How do you handle distractions in the workplace? I work 3 days per week. It means I’ve to set boundaries during busy times to get thru client work. It means prioritising client/paid work first and ”going dark” for some hours during the day to get through what I need to get done. This post was […]
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning March 2019
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for March 2019. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day. It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]
Is Social Media Giving You Value?
Is social media giving you value? This is a question that has been floating around in my head this year. Ever since reducing my time on it, not because of anything as exotic as “digital detoxing” or anger over how our private data is used by companies like Facebook, I have started to question what […]
Slow Reading
I have been tweeting for a while about my need to slow down my mind because I felt scattered over the last year or so. It was my fault mainly because I struggled to keep up with doing all the things I felt I needed to do. I also had FOMO if I wasn’t on […]
What I’ve Been Reading This Week – Friday 29 March 2019
Some years ago, every week I listed what I was reading, learning, doing. I have no idea why I stopped – I guess life got in the way. This year, I’ve been remiss with my blog writing and I think it’s because I’ve been spending my time either (a) working or (b) doing other stuff […]
Musings on the Difficulty of Freelancing
Thread by @ActivateLearn: “I’m first to put up my hand to say that I experienced this during my freelancing days. Upping my price resulted in very little work; offerin […]” This blog post by Helen Blunden was written in Melbourne, Australia and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Subscribe To Activate My Learning […]
Experimenting with Dictation App Otter.AI
Thread by @ActivateLearn: “FAIL: Attempting to save time in front of a computer screen talking my blog posts into a dictation app so that I could copy and paste the te […]” This blog post by Helen Blunden was written in Melbourne, Australia and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Subscribe To Activate […]
How I’m Using Instagram as a Platform for Creativity and Experimentation
ffff Thread by @ActivateLearn: “A recent discussion with @bizaaron & today with a girlfriend who is an amateur film maker got me thinking about value of Instagram. I wa […]”
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning January 2019
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for January 2019. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day. It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning February 2019
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for February 2019. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day. It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]
Drawing as Thinking and Treasure Maps
This morning I sat down to go through my bookmarked tweets so that I could catch up with my reading and spent all of my time on the one tweet which was this one by @GiuliaForsythe… Got my reading list sorted for this weekend. The #LearningOrganization a Literature Review https://t.co/Db9nojNkqB #activatemylearning – currently now […]
Changing My Modus Operandi
This year I’ve changed my modus operandi. It seemed to have just happened of its own accord but I think my deep dive into classics and fiction reading, warm long summer days and my bullshit detector going on overdrive have something to do with it. Since starting the new year, I’ve decided to do things […]
Frank Lloyd Wright and Envy
Yesterday I was watching a Snap story from one of the people I follow on Snapchat and he was in Arizona at Taliesin West, the site of America’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright had his home and which is now a school of architecture. I’ve always been fascinated with architecture and at one stage […]
Lazy Sunday Afternoon
It’s warm. Sunny outside. Lying in bed for the last 5 or so hours, doing pretty much nothing at all. Daydreaming. Looking out to the tree outside the window. Leaves turning yellow. I sigh. Autumn and then winter is around the corner. In the other room, my husband is playing Simon & Garfunkel. I sing […]
Learning Through Making
On Friday, I headed over to my parents and walked into my father’s art studio to check out what he was up to. He had been watching YouTube videos on how to do book binding and was on a roll with creating these for himself. As an artist, he had a lot of loose leaf […]
What I Learned from Running OneNote Training
Thread by @ActivateLearn: “I’ve been running Training these last couple of days (and will be doing again today) for a client’s organisation and their employee […]” #OneNote Never Miss a Blog – Subscribe to Receive a Monthly Email Email Address First Name Last Name
Explaining the Value of Social Media to Those Who Don’t Understand It
Thread by @ActivateLearn: “Today was interesting. Breakthrough. I listened while she talked about herself & her own work 2 hours. Towards end, she asks “who’s Shaz […]”