I’ve written before in this work about ‘milestones’, and how it’s important to set markers in our practice: to consider how we celebrate and count the steps we take across a landscape. Learning and change can be so subtle that it’s only through conscious effort we see it happen at all, and yet do do all change and adapt constantly.
Journaling, blogging, a diary, these things provide a written record of change: i frequently look back at things i wrote five or six years ago and am embarrassed by what i thought and how clumsily i expressed it. At time, it seems like someone else wrote it. It’s odd, because at the time is was probably my most insightful thought.
But that enforced humility is a good thing too: to be reminded of our imperfection. To be reminded that what we see as ‘whole’ may be itself incomplete.
Use your sixty seconds today to consider where your markers are: where are you able the see the change in yourself?
Is it through written records, through legacy work, through the eyes of others, through reflection alone? On a journey, it’s easy to look forward, as though all that matters is the destination, but reflective practice would encourage us to use the journey itself as part of our learning. To spend time looking around us, and at least part of it looking behind.
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