A time to learn.

My LifeOS Growth Score is 7*.

While there’s still capacity, and always more opportunities to learn, last week included four milestone moments in my personal development.?

I qualified as a coach and mentor, a job I’ve done, whilst training, for three years. I passed The EMCC Global Individual Accreditation at the Practitioner level, after attending a diploma programme with?Catalyst 14 .?

“The EIA is an internationally recognised award that demonstrates that an individual practising as a professional mentor/coach has the appropriate level of knowledge and the ability to apply it effectively in their practice.”

The training took 18 months, with over three years and hundreds of hours of coaching practice. What is most satisfying is that I know the diploma I’ve completed was the gateway to a lifetime of learning opportunities for me as a coach, in whatever setting lies ahead.?

I didn’t have time to absorb this accomplishment - and I will - before diving into a?Level Two Open Water Coaching certification.?

In three sunkissed days with world champion and Olympian Keri-Anne Payne, I learnt how to adapt my coaching skills to safe swimming and cold water exposure. Whilst I’m not going to be a dedicated open water coach, it’s useful to add another string to the bow, and further assurance for my combined breathwork and cold exposure classes. I was also exposed to how other people learn and the intensity of a three-day course, something I run myself as a Master Oxygen Advantage instructor.?

Towelled off and dry, I then spent two days volunteering at the?Health Optimisation Summit ?at the Islington Design Centre. In exchange for 8 hours of work, managing the door of the main stage, I had the opportunity to join a team, received a free access-all-areas pass and was fed good food.?

My attendance had been suggested by fellow Master Instructor,?Mike Meyer .

in a conversation about health span; he’d told me to make my way to HOS, a Mecca for biohackers.?

While I’m still absorbing what I learnt, I know I experienced a wide spectrum of human behaviour, in a Petri dish of health. Curiosity, pleasure, paranoia, awe, and, sadly, anger, most of which was directed at me, blocking the door to the staged knowledge. I left shaken with a bottle of ketone IQ?.

I’m coming up for air.?

Flashback to the week before; I’m sitting across the table from a great friend.

“I haven’t learnt anything for ages, I feel my brain needs something to stimulate it” he said.?

“What are you interested in??

“I dunno really.”?

“Come on, what piqued your interest recently?”

“Bitcoin. Blockchain maybe. Yeh, Blockchain and logistics. I might be interested in that. I don’t really know what it is.”

“Where could you start? What's the simplest step you could take to begin to answer that question?”

“I dunno, where would you start?”?

“Buy a subscription to Wired. That’ll take you 5 minutes. Then search Eventbrite and find a?‘what is blockchain?’? event and attend it, preferably with a mate with a similar curiosity.”?

“I doubt I have a mate who’d come to something like that.”?

Late notice I know, here’s the first step; all you have to do to learn something new is take it.?

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