RW1 My year of being bold

In this bitesize ‘Related Work’, the first of the new year of 2021, I suggest using a theme for the new year and also connecting with your superordinate goals, your why, and to explore learning goals.Related work:Höchli, B., Brügger, A., & Messner, C. (2018). How Focusing on Superordinate Goals Motivates Broad, Long-Term Goal Pursuit: A Theoretical Perspective. Frontiers in psychology, 9, 1879. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01879Christian Swann, Simon Rosenbaum, Alex Lawrence, Stewart A. Vella, Desmond McEwan & Panteleimon Ekkekakis (2020) Updating goal-setting theory in physical activity promotion: a critical conceptual review, Health Psychology Review, DOI: 10.1080/17437199.2019.1706616TRANSCRIPT: CAL RelatedWork 1Jan 2021(00:05):Welcome to changing academic life I'm Geraldine Fitzpatrick. And this is a bite-size Related Work podcast where we pick up on a single idea from literature and experience that may provide some insights or tips that will help us change academic life for the better.(00:29):So welcome to the first related work bite-sized podcast. So you know that every academic paper has some section on related work or literature review section that draws out interesting other research that's relevant to the topic at hand so that we can imagine that the topic of our paper here is about changing academic life to be more sustainable and collaborative and effective. And so in these bite-sized podcasts I want to pick up on a research article or some evidence-based theme complemented by some personal anecdotes, as they make sense that might offer some insights to feed into this agenda of changing academic life. We might call, these are implications for design designing the academic life we want and need both individually and collectively and designing that change at personal levels at collective levels at institutional and structural levels.(01:31):So in this first related work, I want to pick up on the fact that it's the new year. And one of the things that we commonly hear about in the new is about making new year resolutions and good luck to you. If you're one of the small percentage of people that can make a resolution and keep it, I'm not, and there are various figures reported in the literature about, um, 10 to 40% of us or so who make new year's resolutions, don't, don't get, don't keep them in the longer term. And I think this gives our perfectionist selves just one more reason to beat up on ourselves when we fall short, because these resolutions often tend to be all or nothing type of goals. So resolutions might make more sense when they're focused and smart, the acronym specific, measurable, achievable, relevant time bound. But I think one of the big lessons for me from 2020 was just how little we can actually control. And we know that the world remains at this time, highly volatile and unpredictable, and so really uncontrollable. So what I'm going to try is having theme for the year and my theme for 2021 is about being the year of being bold(03:11):For me, this encapsulates the aspects about being brave, um, vulnerable, stepping up, even when I'm a little bit unsure putting myself out there because I have a tendency to not do that, to always be cautious to over-prepare or to be worried about failing. And so it will really be about being brave. And this is important for me as a theme against the broader backdrop of wanting to make a difference. And I know that sounds all very vague and aspirational, but I think I've mentioned on other podcasts that as I especially get to the pointy end of my career, and we have fixed...

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