I’m nearly done working through the competencies. I think I’m approaching them wrong, though, because I seem to be more focused on my general behavior than finding really specific examples…which really defeats the point of the competencies. I’m sure I’ll be going back through and reworking them with a little more thought.

Things are slowly emerging, though. Patterns and histories I’ve forgotten. It’s been kind of fun to reconnect with myself through something that wasn’t exactly designed to make me reconnect.

I’m also looking through The Artist’s Way with the intention of starting it after I get my competencies straightened out and start organizing them into a new resume. It’s supposed to help you find your lost inner creativity and push through artistic walls, but I’m finding that much of the advice and exercises are things I’ve put myself through in the last year or so on my own because it occurred to me on my own that they’d be useful.
I’m not sure how to deal with that.

The best part about working through all of this is that both together are providing a framework of sorts to start redesigning this website, something I’ve needed to do for a while. I’m learning who I am, what I am, and what’s important to me. That’s going to come in very handy when trying to make this site better reflect me.

Posted by Rebecca in Personal development