Reflecting

Yesterday, in our PACE tutorial, we were discussing reflecting. Whether it be on our University work, or friends, or relationships, it struck me that everyone had completely different ways of reflecting. I assumed, naively, that the way I had been doing it was the only way and had had no contact with other methods. Some chose to write down their thoughts, others found talking things out worked best for them.

The challenge we now have, is to experiement with these differing way to find the most effective method to improve our work. To be honest, I don't think that my reflections were anything like as useful as the new types we looked at. I was definitely not honest enough with myself about how I could improve and tried to just ignore the problems.

So, I have started to change my ways! It is quite hard to harshly look at every bit of work and every presentation and not say, powerpoint broke. It was actually my lack of planning that led to powerpoint not putting the slides up. I'm also finding this very difficult in team work, but for other reasons. I tend to solely concentrate on what I could have done that let the team down, rather than what could we have planned that could have stopped any errors in the first place.

It will be a tuff but interesting journey for me to see where I am excelling and where I could really improve but it is most definitely a neccessary one.