Risk

Today is International Women's Day and I have included a link from Maria Shriver. It is about women but it applies to all of us.  Let's each live to our potential!

http://mariashriver.com/blog/2013/03/every-woman-is-divine-film-jesse-dylan-maria-shriver-international-womens-day

This week has been one of great reflection in part due to a series of events in my personal life where I have taken and not taken risk. I have had several frustrations/errors in the academic environment  due to my own inabilities and multitasking when I should have been focused.  This reminded me of Dr. Gerstenblatt's comment on Monday about being present in the moment. How often are we disconnected from the moment and when that happens we make mistakes and yes, that can leave us feeling vulnerable. When I want to admit defeat and yet my greater survival instincts check in and says NO FIGHT!

And yes, I still feel vulnerable because my inadequacies are revealed and I have to sit with a professor and say...I feel defeated because I don't understand or I didn't submit something correctly and so that feels painful to have to say I am capable but incapable. And yes, I learn from those painful mistakes and they are lessons that I can vividly remember and grow from.

All of this also led me to then start thinking about Brene Brown's TED talk which if you have not ever heard it, you should or if you have, listen again. I have attached it. The willingness to do something that may or may not turn out. Being vulnerable. Living wholeheartedly. How does this message apply to my life personally, academically and globally. How will I be more vulnerable in my work at Martin Middle School? All I can say is I hope I will be and that my vulnerability will bring the connection that we long for as human beings and lives will be changed for the better.

http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html