My new learning journey

Today was my first work day after having a study day.  I did feel a bit like I had missed a day and had to catch up on that whole missed day.  After I had talked to myself a bit, talked to a very helpful colleague and worked through a mindfulness track from here  https://www.anxietycanada.com/   I felt a bit better.  So what is the so what from this?  I actually knew that I didn’t have to ‘make up’ the day because it was built into my timetable and into my plan.  I had also put an ‘out of office’ message on my email so people knew why I wasn’t replying straight away.   My brain needed to be convinced of that.  Stupid brain!  In order to still my brain I also made a list and stuck to it.   I wasn’t able to access the spoken relaxation as the website has changed since I last used it.  Luckily they now have a free app that I downloaded.  I had a wee giggle when it told me I was now relaxed and another colleague’s phone went off.  Not very relaxing at all!   My colleague also recommended

I am now trying to breathe.  I have just spent half an hour and a whole pile of energy turning this picture around.   I saved it the right way round on my computer but when it came to inserting it into myPortfolio, it was upside down.  I found the image and found how to rotate it but missed one vital part, the HUGE and very obvious (now!) button that says SAVE CHANGES.  Sigh...

As part of returning to study, I had some questions around how to best record my reflections.  We also had to provide artefacts and set learning goals! And stay in the yellow zone.  And use digital technology.  And learn myPortfolio.  Add manage our study day.  And keep up with study.  And have a life.  How is the best way for me to do this?  I do enjoy writing and have found a blog useful in the past, so here goes! My plan, loosely in my head, was to work my way through the reading part and then tackle how to make this work with the Domain 1 Assignment.  It rapidly became clear that I needed to put that to the side and start the myPortfolio Domain 1 page.  I had started it last Saturday in order to just start my journey and make my head happier (Wellbeing goal started - tick!).  This is what I started with: This was the beginning of my journey to get started and I felt a bit better.  I had set myself a goal of two hours and in that time I read the Introduction and made a star