Visualizing My Experience 📸
Now you might be wondering what I could possibly write about an old, overused charger with a squiggly USB cable. You might be right, if you have your doubts, but this is not about the charger entirely. In fact, it is rather the story connected to it which is far more interesting.
These images take me back to the time when we got our second project work assignment at the Amal Academy fellowship and we had to fix stuff around ourselves in an attempt to lead without authority. Soon I remembered that my 2 year old cousin would often pull out the charging cable and try to nibble its pin while it was still connected to the socket. I tried to fix that problem by sticking a magnet to the backside of my bedside table and attaching a ballpoint pen’s spring to one end of the lead so it would attract to the magnet. That way the lead would not be within my cousin’s sight or reach and I could safely charge my phone! However, that plan did not work as I had expected since the only magnet I had was a small spherical ball and no amount of glue was able to stick it to a flat surface without falling and so my quest continued.
After completing the activity, we better understood its purpose and realised that we too could become leaders by starting to take responsibility for our everyday lives. The online course and live sessions also helped motivate us to take hold of our personal responsibilities as an essential prerequisite to leading others.
In the first two weeks of the fellowship, there was a high morale among both our facilitators and the fellows themselves, as we were getting to know each other by sharing our life maps, professional goals and our personal ones too during online sessions and projects. We were strengthening our connections with each other as batchmates and getting to discover ourselves better as well.
Over the course of this fellowship I was able to notice, especially when I tabulated my goals and then later on converted them into SMART goals, that my goals were not as far-fetched as I originally thought them to be. All they really needed to be achievable, was a foolproof action plan. I was also extremely happy when my goals table was awarded with the most thoughtful project work award!
