Thriving In Five – Or Less, Part II of III
Thriving In Five – Or Less, Part II of III
By Monette Benoit, All Rights Reserved.
Part I: Why thrive in five? Why thrive with less?
I believe the majority of individuals in the court reporting profession think of the number ‘five’ as a take, a 5-minute take.
Thriving in five? Yes.
Thriving in less than five? Yes, this relates, too.
Recently, I read that the average person thinks 50,000+ thoughts a day.
I smiled immediately thinking (adding to my average number of thoughts that day) that court reporters must have many more than 50,000 thoughts a day.
Our tenacious personalities, our “word” work and our “word” schooling, in my opinion, would add up to many more than the average person, yes? …
Part II: Is steno a new language? Yes. Do we learn new skills every day? Oh, yes.
Do we learn new words each day?
Yes, each and every day.
And that thrive in five mindset is a frequent flier program in our court reporting world.
We do earn frequent flier points and note skill advancement once we decide to focus on this concept.
The mindset is doable and assists us to measure our progress and our goals. It is.
Often I may ask where a court reporter is (spending time) advancing their skills?
Many professionals share that they practice after a full work day, “At home in my office.”
I may ask students, “Where do you attend school?”
A common answer, “Online in my room alone.” Hm.
I ask court reporting students, CART provider, captioners, and court reporters, “What time do you practice?”
Answer, “Late at night after work.” “I am tired every day.”
I ask, “Can you practice when you are not tired or during the day?”
“No.” (One word.)
Yet when I probe and gently prod, without a word limit, there are moments, events, where we define, with focus, thrive in five.
I asked a person recently about goals and self-created times.
The answer, “Not in the mood recently.”
(I almost giggled; the person who said those words then howled with laughter.)
Court reporters and court reporting students are very forthcoming about what is really unfolding in their world.
Tests written in five minutes involve a fine, developed efficient focus.
We know what is expected.
We know the score we need to pass.
We know the boundaries, the scoring of a 5-minute test and the perfection for work.
We then simply shorten the distance between what is expected and where we (you) truly are with our (your) skills.
Part I of III is posted July 13, 2012, on Monette’s Musings at www.monettebenoit.com and www.CRRbooks.com
Part II of III is posted July 31, 2012, on Monette’s Musings at www.monettebenoit.com and www.CRRbooks.com
Part III of III is posted August 8, 2012, on Monette’s Musings at www.monettebenoit.com and www.CRRbooks.com
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