Blog Posts Alone in My Car (on Digital Minimalism) Time to Get Serious About the Next Phase (of My Life) Loving the Crafty Side of My Network (on preferring to read about the lifelong learning pursuits of my personal network rather than anything to do with their actual work because it’s what they do outside […]
What Did Ya Miss in December?
Here’s my December posts you may have missed out on Nostalgia (a blog post on thinking about the past) Spaced Repetition in Learning (on the importance of repetition in order to learn something new) What I Learned About Myself – and About Learning – While Learning French Reflections of 2020 (2020 was a year where […]
The Costs of Learning Something New
You probably would have seen my rants and raves online about French. Don’t think I’ve lost the plot or something. If anything I’m letting off some steam usually because I think I should be at a level higher than where I’m at the moment. However, it’s all my fault of course. I’m more angry at […]
Time to Give Back To Your PLN
I don’t know about you but I felt that through the time of months of COVID isolation, I did more professional and personal development than I have ever done before. Not to make light of the situation that many find now find themselves in, I have mentioned that I am one of the lucky ones […]
Dedicate Time For Self-Driven Personal Learning At Work
One of the days that I look forward to at the company I work at Adopt and Embrace is that we have dedicated “Learning Days” every quarter set aside where the entire day is spent on self-driven learning. During Learning Days, we are free to spend the entire day learning what we want as long […]
The Expertise Economy – Book Club
Started the Expertise Economy by @kellylpalmer today with big thanks to @srjf for pointing me out to it. It’s my Christmas reading. So far, so good! pic.twitter.com/oRG8yRNDSy — Helen Blunden #AlwaysBeLearning🤔🧠🦉📚🥇 (@ActivateLearn) December 24, 2019 The following are my responses to Simon Fogg’s (@srjf) book club questions for The Expertise Economy by David Blake and […]
What We Can Learn from The Joker
Well if you haven’t seen this movie yet, what are you waiting for? Last night, my husband and I who love to go to the movies regularly watched this one and I was in awe. My husband is a huge Batman fan and keen collector of comic books, graphic novels and the movies. There isn’t […]
Experiment With Your Art
Yesterday I spent some time with my father in his work studio. Over the years, I have spent countless hours watching him work and usually, while he paints, he talks about what he’s doing and why. Before I know it, observation becomes a lesson. I have no idea why I haven’t picked up on this […]
Weekly Rapts
Welcome to Weekly Rapts Every week I come across some exceptional articles, books, videos, tweets and other stuff that captures my attention and inspires me to action which could be to write about a blog post; have a conversation about it with someone; create something from it; escape down a rabbit warren to learn more […]
Soul Searching
For a long time now, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and soul searching about my life. I’m not going to lie that going my own way as an independent consultant was one of the best things I’ve done but also one of the most incredibly painful and expensive wake-up calls. Admittedly, I failed. […]