Demento

Insanity in a nutshell is a person who repeats the same action over and over again expecting a different outcome or something like that.

Last term for my personal professional development one assignment, I had concluded that I should add on to my work bi-weekly, that I should create my own deadlines that were at least a week before the real deadlines and that I should talk less; out of those three, I have managed to talk less, so thankfully studying about and applying the Gibbs reflective cycle had not gone to waste.

Realistically, I have not developed much, in fact I feel as though I may have gone the opposite direction. I have addressed this issue in an earlier blog post and have discovered that this reverse-development could be attributed to the fact that I have gotten disinterested in the supposed repetitiveness of the course. Yet I feel that really is not a good excuse for ennui.

Perhaps next year I will try and view essay writing as a sort of race or life and death situation? Anything to help with the lack of motivation that I am experiencing now that seems to get worse each year.

This may be a cause for concern when I complete my education and seek employment, but hopefully if I keep record of my personal professional development, I will be able to deconstruct my mind and manage the insanity better, or at least come to a sort of compromise.

I must really point out though, however silly it might sound to say that I have achieved a goal by ‘talking less’, doing so had improved communication between the people I work with; it did not make everyone else more vocal as I had expected but it has lessened the stress. I can confidently say that by using the Gibbs reflective cycle I was able to find an issue that may have seemed like nothing at all and change it to improve similar situations.