{"id":4026,"date":"2013-04-29T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stumblingpast.wordpress.com\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2022-08-04T00:25:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T00:25:03","slug":"pause-reflect-and-share-a-busy-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/2013\/04\/29\/pause-reflect-and-share-a-busy-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Pause, Reflect and Share: A Busy April"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSCN3147<\/a>It is important to take time to regularly pause and reflect, however when we are busy we sometimes overlook this.\u00a0 Over the last month I lurched from deadline to deadline and forgot to take a step back periodically to assess how I was going.\u00a0 I hadn’t realised that I was becoming rather stressed, focussing on tasks I had not completed rather than what I had achieved. Then I decided to share with you what I have done over the last few weeks and in doing so regained my perspective.<\/p>\n

In March I started a course at TAFE<\/a>, Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, which will lead me to become a qualified workplace trainer.\u00a0 I have plenty of experience doing workplace training as part of various jobs over the years but increasingly employers are wanting people to be qualified.\u00a0 It was time to do the course in order to back up the experience.<\/p>\n

At the same time I was asked to conduct a workshop for historians for the Professional Historians Association of NSW which is scheduled for 18th May.\u00a0 It is titled Social Media for the Cautious Historian – the Basics<\/a>.\u00a0 Someone working in public relations asked me to provide them individual coaching to help them learn how to use twitter effectively for their work.\u00a0 I am also now one of the tweeters Professional Historians Association of NSW (@pha_nsw<\/a>) and look after the content management system for their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The workplace training course has been a lot more work than I had expected but it is good because I am designing the sessions I am delivering in real life using approved workplace training procedures and drawing on courses that are delivered by registered training organisations around the country.<\/p>\n

I have also been writing more blog posts than usual, but some of them have been on the blogs of other organisations.\u00a0 In the last few weeks I have written about:<\/p>\n

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  1. Open Access and Professional Historians<\/a> on the blog of the Professional Historians Association of NSW (16th April);<\/li>\n
  2. The Dream of a Century<\/a>: review of an exhibition of the work of Marion Mahony Griffin and Walter Burley Griffin, designers of the Australian national capital, Canberra (16th April) – published on this blog;<\/li>\n
  3. Histories of war written by Australian female authors<\/a> as part of my monthly overview of histories, biographies and memoirs for the Australian Women Writers’ Challenge (23rd April);<\/li>\n
  4. Book reviews, both war histories, ‘Our Schools and the War’<\/em><\/a>, by Rosalie Triolo (reviewed 23\/4\/2013) and Kitty’s War <\/em><\/a>by Janet Butler (reviewed 25\/4\/2013) on this blog.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Decorating my work – silver medal from Masters Australian National Swimming Championships.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    In the midst of this I swam in the National Championships of Masters Swimming Australia at in Sydney 17th – 20th April.\u00a0 The best place I achieved was 13th out of 20 but I had a great time chatting with friends and managed to get my personal best times for 100m and 200m freestyle.\u00a0 I’m getting faster as I get older – how good is that?\u00a0 To top it off I managed to be part of a relay team that won a silver medal for our age group!\u00a0 I was a late inclusion in a team with excellent swimmers.<\/p>\n

    Next month I will be conducting the workshop on basic social media skills for historians, two training sessions for my TAFE class on designing and developing complex text documents and continuing to deliver the individual continuing coaching sessions on twitter I started this month.\u00a0 Soon I will be visiting New Zealand for a few days and am looking forward to visiting their national museum, Te Papa<\/a>.\u00a0 Watch out for a review of it on this blog.\u00a0 The war histories I have read have assisted me with my research on World War I and I hope to give that some more attention during the month.<\/p>\n

    I also plan to attend the Sydney Writers’ Festival<\/a> towards the end of May.\u00a0 This means that I need to get through more books on my reading pile in the next couple of weeks because I’m sure to find an irresistible book at the Festival!<\/p>\n

    This post has helped me to feel calmer and at the same time take a step back and look at the big picture.\u00a0 I was becoming fixated on impending deadlines and consequently in danger of losing sight of my longer term goals.\u00a0 Now I can refocus and embark on what should be another productive month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Reflection should be an important element in our lives but sometimes we get so wound up in our lives that we forget to do this. This was happening to me so I thought I should pause, reflect on the hectic month that has been and share with you some of the things I have done. In doing so I share two blog posts that I have written for other organisations with you. I hope you enjoy reading them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[43,106,144,149,173,199],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Yvonne Perkins","author_link":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/author\/yvonne\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7135,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions\/7135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}