Day #107

Swimming

I have been a terrible swimmer all my adult life: clawing my way through the water and inhaling a fair proportion of it. To rectify this, i have started taking swimming lessons, considerably later in life than you may expect.

Inevitably this has led me to confront the truly terrible nature of my technique, as the instructor demonstrates the correct approach. And as expected, i have fallen into a familiar routine of learning.

None of what she shows me is complicated: i can get my feet moving right, but i forget to do my arms properly, so i correct them, but then my feet get away from me. On rare occasions both my feet and hands do well, but i forget to breathe, and splutter to a halt.

It takes time, and practice, for it to fall into place: that experience, of connection, of flow, is at the heart of much learning. The point when the individual activity is subsumed into broader capability.

Use your sixty seconds today to consider this: are you elegant in your leadership, or are parts of it still disconnected. Are there moments when you forget to breathe?

And in any case, do you have the space to practice and rehearse, to join it all up?

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