Workcation

Well, I had a “workcation” this past week. The week was filled with painting two rooms. This took a bit longer than expected. I had expected more efficiencies from doing two rooms at once than I actually saw. It certainly didn’t take twice as long, but longer than I had hoped.

Thus, between painting and keeping Hazel active (hey, a dog’s got to play), my week “off” certainly didn’t feel like it.

Hidden Potential

I did finish Adam Grant’s book “Hidden Potential”. It’s a generally quick and easy read. There wasn’t a ton of new information (learning styles, don’t exist, it’s OK to fail, etc) for me, but lots of good reminders. For example, I know that it’s OK to fail, and actually more productive, but I fail to implement that in my life (see what I did there). It was a great reminder for me to get out of my comfortable level and try things, fail at them and work on improving.

This is a good book to share with students and the younger people in your life. (*Nothing wrong with those older reading it too, it’s just like the adage that the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago.)