figured there should be a flower here

OK--this isn't related to Tech Trek 2.0, but any blog named Flowerspot ought to have flowers. A couple of shot of the newest bed we dug and planted this year.

IM

I have a Meebo account and for quite a while I was very good about logging in and chatting. Well, it's been weeks now since I was on. I'm surprised they even recognized my account name.

It's a great way to keep in touch and to catch people for short bits. We even had some of the Web 2.0 meetings this way, although that was a much bigger challenge! (There's that word again.)

Seems like the 7 1/2 habits should have covered repetition and (ugh) discipline. I'd like to say that I will log on every work day now, but I know that until The Big Read is over, I'll likely fall back into my I'm too busy mode... meantime I just IM'd a co-worker from a previous job. Now that's a great way to use IM!

Lifelong learning

OK, confession time. My hardest habit, often, is Habit 4: Have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner. Of course it depends on what I'm trying to learn, but some things feel too hard to even attempt, don't they? I mean I can figure out to start a blog, but can't imagine that I would ever be able to learn to draw. Never got past stick figures. I've read that anyone can learn to draw, and maybe that's so, but I suspect that's where the confidence factor comes in.
The good news is that confidence can be built. I would have never dreamed a year ago that I could learn some of the things these quests are built around, so maybe there's hope?

Easiest habit? Habit 3: View problems as challenges. Something that's come with working in libraries for so long. I had a boss that used to say, " I have an opportunity for you." Code for, here's a hard one. I used to laugh and hate hearing that, but I came to see that he was right. It does help to try to see things that way, even though that's often the biggest part of the challenge, isn't it?