Found a ted talk!:) enjoy:)

I believe this ted talk is very interesting…:) http://youtu.be/iCvmsMzlF7o

Connections through our lives…

Today Skype conference talk was very interesting, it was so exciting to connect with everyone who took part of it and see how everyone is coping with our studies. I have chosen to write about connection… Connection, which is all around us and always we bump into it one way or the other. Today at the morning session I have realised our topics connects not only due to our study structure but also due to the fact how everything is connected… If there is really not an other connection, but there will be surely one connection : YOU! As you are connecting to everything around your life….Let me explain it…

Sarah was saying how engaged she became with blogging and the way her feeling was changing over the time about writing a blog. Writing and sharing our thoughts online is clearly taking ownership of our thoughts which connects to take a responsibility on. Is it not what we do every day? Why are we still scared of it? I remember I was scared to write on my blog at the beginning but after a while it became a useful tool to start a conversation with others or/and to start a journey of my thoughts as when I write down my thoughts it will settle down and if someone comments on it maybe my thoughts will get deeper or that comment will bring up a different angle of a point of view, which will broaden my view as well. Like recently just happened to me while reading someone’s blog where she explained a situation at her class. One of her student told her she is scared of a movement which just clicked on a thought inside of me…. Although my research is not about a movement but the ultimate way to teach expressing emotions, Feeling scared is still one of the theme came up while analysing the collected data. These two totally different situation and the same theme made me think of the reasons behind feeling scared. I was going into my experiences as well… When did I feel scared? Did it change over the time? How did it changed? Why did it changed? Etc…etc… And there is the obvious answer popping up! The Unknown scares all of us… As Samantha said today feeling scared is a natural feeling and we need to accept to feel sometimes frightened… All of these so different situations still connect on this point…feeling scared of the Unknown! We are not self confident enough to face these situations without a fear as we are not entirely sure what exactly will happen! It takes self confidence to take ownership of our thoughts, it takes self confidence to take the risk what others will think about our way of thinking….because we tend to forget it matters less what is the actual product but how we traveled to that conclusion. Every voice matters as it will broaden not only our view but our environment’s views as well and if you have reasonable explanation of the journey to your conclusion, others will understand your conlusion with or without agreeing… But the point is not to agree with you, but to understand how you ended up where you are! Blogging is exactly that… Explaining our journey between our thoughts..analysing situations or thoughts which came up in our journey and shape our way of thinking…. Let’s not forget that even though we may end up at the same conclusion, most probably our journey was different… Also, our choices on our journey will open up new doors, new possibilities and even new (or let’s say more) questions…

Let’s go back to our reason to be scared….being confident! To be more confident we need to be brave to take risks as with practice we will gain confidence. Like we say practice makes perfect 🙂 so as we said today just do it! Start writing, or analysing or anything what you are scared of:) after you have done it once, the second time will be less scary and so on…:) the blogs and our reflective diary is our practice board:)

At the moment I am on that stage with my analyses for my research… I am taking a calculated risk to write as I know I will rewrite it so many more times and it will always get better and better…. But I have never done this type of analyses yet… Oh wait! I have done! At module 1 with the Aols! Wow…. An other connection…. At my Aols I had to analyse HOW have I learnt my skills. The most important point is on the journey there to make the reader understand my way to the point where I am at the moment! It’s like when you talking to your friends as a typical girly chat:) Don’t tell me you don’t analyse everything around you in your private life with your closest friends or at least in your own mind:) I definitely do:) I believe it’s in our GNA as women loves overthinking situations and talking about one thing for hours and hours (and you know very well we do not say the same things but we see the things always from different angles!) that is also analysing! So if I am doing it already for 27 years (that’s my age) than why on earth I am scared of it? Most probably you also know the answer… Because I have never done it in this concept! This will be my very first time and I am also a human and as it was said today, it’s a natural feeling to be scared of the Unknown!
To be scared of the Unknown is a natural feeling as being connected is a natural status. We – as human being – are always looking for connections around us… Even those situations or people we do not feel connected to are also being connected to us due to a moment when we came across them. At the centre of any connections is always us! Maybe things or people are connected to us not only in one way but from that moment we acknowledged something/someone we can point out at least one connection.

What are your thoughts about it? Let’s connect by sharing where did you connect to my blogpost:)