As another lover of projects, I think you’ll agree that Focus helps – it’s a Gallup StrengthsFinder label that I find much more useful than discipline :) They describe it this way:

“Where am I headed?” you ask yourself. You ask this question every day. Guided by this theme of Focus, you need a clear destination. Lacking one, your life and your work can quickly become frustrating. And so you set goals… Your Focus is powerful because it forces you to filter; you instinctively evaluate whether or not a particular action will help you move toward your goal.”

We are both Learners you and I, and so I too am grateful we are now in this together within our Ho‘ohana Community.

“”this is my new Ho‘omau coaching story on persistence and what happens when you don’t quit ”“ never count yourself out! Don’t listen to the background noise of observers who aren’t as engaged as you are: instead, listen to the voice in your own head urging you on.””¨—Summer Heroes

I love this! Listen to your own inner teacher, rather than those telling you that it won’t happen.

One of the ways I drive myself crazy, although you are helping me see this as a strength, is I think of thousands more projects than I can possibly to and feel so excited about them! Here you say…

“I absolutely adore project work and think of new projects constantly. I feel I bloom in pilot projects with value-aligned visions which allow for unspecified outcomes (“Begin with the End in Mind?” Only sometimes, and no longer a requirement). My sense of place, so defining an element in Managing with Aloha, has busted out and taken flight: I love working on stuff collaboratively, virtually and globally.”

You have helped me (and so many!) bust out of our places geographically, and spiritually. Thank you Rosa for thinking about your own learning, and attributes as a learner, in such powerful and descriptive ways.