Below is a segment from my former University of Phoenix blog. I have since rolled the blog into my main blog for posterity.
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This week... Man, oh man. This week has been rough.
The first week had a novelty to it that kept me motivated. When Thursday came along, I took the day off as a congratulatory gift to myself for getting through week 1. Then came Monday, and I was still on the mental vacation. I ran in a 5k race on Sunday and had a root canal done Monday, so my soreness (and medication) completely killed any motivation to work, leaving all of my major stuff to do for the home stretch of the week.
This is not how to plan, people. :)
I'm admitting it here and now to the group that I was exhausted. And the assignments kept on coming in. At least they seemed to. And that brings me to my point for this week's Learning Summary:
Plan ahead of time, break things up into easily-workable chunks, and for goodness' sake, do something...even if it's a little bit... every day. This week has been a week of all-nighters (both for the office work and for my UoP work). Had I planned anything, I could have avoided the last-minute pile up.
I got a great deal more out of this week's reading than I did last week. Just reading the word "team" last week even one more time was going to push me over the edge :) But conflict resolution? Oh yea. I'm all about it! Before I started page 217 of the Tools for Teams text, I was mentally trying to categorize the important factors about conflicts and conflict resolution. As I read, I found that Thompson, et al. were covering my thoughts in a more thorough form. Looking back, it was more of a "review session" than a new reading assignment.
I realize this may seem naïve to many of you, but this is a new concept for me. And I'm tickled as hell to realize that I discovered this on my own.
It took a lot of pressure and a lot of tight squeezes to get the work done this week, but I was determined not to let myself or my group down. I am pleased with the results and am more familiar now with how things work.
One thing's for sure: I'll be ready for next week.
...after another 5k on Saturday. :)
Posted by admin at June 5, 2003 03:13 PM