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At the end of the lab comes acknowledgement

This Project Lab ends next Monday.  All this month I've been thinking about acknowledgement, acknowledging what I've learned, what has happened, and who helped make it happen.  My monthly result was to write this testimonial for Amalia, the personal trainer who taught me so much about creating the spaciousness to exercise.  Lori took this photo of me doing the tree pose in front of her trees to send with the testimonial so Amalia could put it on her GrassIron website.  Liz told me on the listening calls that acknowledgement "makes you rich!"  Certainly it makes me feel satisfied, and, well, Liz, you're right: it makes me feel rich. 

One of the main things I learned in this lab is that if I'm stuck I should consider asking somebody for help, and I should maybe ask for it too!  But then after you get the help, and are no longer unstuck, and everything is flowing happily again, you can acknowledge what has happened.  Because we never really create the cool stuff by ourselves.  And after you've acknowledged the support you've been given, that's how you feel: rich.

Fieldbook in the works for the next lab

In the next lab we will have cool fieldbooks for keeping track of our projects between workshops.  The fieldbooks will have a section for the Project Designs, one for "Experiments" (Action Designs and Learning Logs), forms for taking notes during Pod Meetings and on the Listening Calls, and even a form for Information Interviews!  Also, the Project Lab fieldbook will be a handy size that fits into your pack or purse.  Thanks to the DIY Planner site for the ideas that spawned this great tool.

I'm already using some of these forms in "beta" during this lab.  Check it out:

More blogposts

I'd like to introduce you to Allen Chen, editor of the Austinist blog and my workshop instructor at THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF BLOGGING which Anna and I attended last weekend.  It was a very fun and informative workshop.

Since then, Anna has started the Journal of Non-Marketable Skills blog and I have taken Allen's advice and have committed to making more regular postings on this one.  Allen recommends three postings a week!  But we'll ease in - maybe one post per week?  So here's my post for this week!

Also, I am studying up on how you record audio and post it to your blog, because all of you just have to hear Connie reading her stories in her wonderful Scottish accent!!