I’m learning right now that there isn’t a right answer for some things. (Particularly related to monitoring and evaluation tasks within project management.) There are better and worse ways, but, generally, not black and white “right or wrong” ways. Really? You mean, I just have to do it? And probably mess up? Because there isn’t a formula, or written procedure? Srsly? Yup.
And I’m being reminded that adults don’t have the answers. I am an adult now, and have been legally for 8 years. But there was still some college age “expectations” I could slide by under. Graduate school has raised the bar—you can’t get away with the same stuff (like not reading your assigned readings) by just wearing the college student label. Now I’m watching my dear friends get married, have children, and have more children. And they are still just like me- they haven’t magically received this adult instruction manual, or better yet, a lightning-bolt-word from God (At least that I know of!)
It’s just so different than I thought things were when I was a kid. I am the first-born, the rule-follower, the over-achiever, the do-it-right booooo-ya girl. And I’m finding that this doesn’t matter that much? That these constructs I’ve lived by are obsolete?
[CTRL+ALT+DEL]=Re-programming.
These two realizations are kind of complimentary paradigm shifts. Tectonic plates are breaking and re-connecting synapses in my brain. Pretty wacky. Pretty wonderful. So I’m sharing my mind-blowing process, as I try to gather up the pieces again. Has your mind been blown by something? Have you had to re-program? I’d love to hear about it.
