Perpetual Development

This is Patrick. 

Patrick is my miracle, my “baby bean” as we called him when I finally stayed pregnant after several agonizing losses.  

He turned sweet 16 this past weekend and I couldn’t be more proud!  🎉

🍏Every day, this boy reminds me that life is about learning and that we are never ‘done’ developing.  

Developing and learning are about being in awe of the NEW and the FUN:

🌱 New music (80’s rock!)

🌱 New skills (enrolling in driver’s training)

🌱 New interests (CHOOSING to look up articles and videos about key WWII battles after History class)

Developing and learning are about being open to the TOUGH lessons:

🌱 Feeling discouraged by cruelty in the world, then getting clarity around personal values 

🌱 Making mistakes and falling hard - only to learn what habits work and don’t work

🌱 Putting yourself out there - and learning you CAN live through the sting of embarrassment

As adults working in organizations, we can forget that we never stop developing.   We start to regard development as something that happens during a one-off event vs. every moment.

❓Thinking back to my Patrick example, what can we learn from watching how our kids learn and develop? 

❓How do we transform organizational culture into one where we view development as something everyone works on all the time?