Week 06: Contemplate
Module #6: Building A Life Portfolio (July 28 - Aug 3)
I. Essential Questions
- What is a life portfolio and its key components?
- How can we help learners (e.g. teachers, students, etc.) see the value of building experiences and engaging in learning opportunities that contribute to their life portfolio?
- Why is negotiating and pivoting so important to an entrepreneurial educator?
- How can we help our students develop a mindset whereby they constantly seek ways to enhance their own life portfolio?
- What do we mean by personal balance sheet?
II. Introduction to Building A Life Portfolio
Building a Life Portfolio is the direct result of ongoing self-exploration and internal/external alignment. As we seek Relevant Purpose, enhancing our external world Economic Unit of One and navigate between worlds, one will both consciously (through a life roadmap) and unconsciously be managing and building a Life Portfolio. In its simplest form, the portfolio looks at life in buckets, or columns or elements, and each of us needs to contemplate the extent to which we are filling these buckets or reinforcing these columns.
The buckets (or columns) include, but are not limited to financial, professional, intellectual, physical, emotional, mental, relational and spiritual. If one of these buckets is out of balance, or neglected, the entire portfolio gets out of alignment, leading to a potential bucket bankruptcy. The portfolio serves as both a reflective mirror, and a GPS system, providing us with guidance for filling an empty or evaporating bucket.
III. Key Terms
- Life Portfolio: Through ongoing self-exploration and internal/external alignment, a Life Portfolio is the managing of our life buckets in a number of realms that we find meaningful (e.g., financial, professional, intellectual, physical, emotional, mental, relational and spiritual); the portfolio is a reflective mirror that helps us highlight and evaluate our past and the need for future experiences, opportunities, and actions.
- Getting in The Game: The best way to understand and learn is to be an active participant in whatever endeavor you pursue. The best way to learn a game is to play it. Then you will learn your about yourself and your passion and aptitude. Getting into the game is the first step in Building a Life Portfolio and navigating into new worlds.
- Personal Balance Sheet: The measurement tool for building a life portfolio and creating a roadmap and GPS system for the next road traveled; A visual tool that assesses where our “buckets” may be overflowing or empty allowing us to make adjustments in our holistic lives.
- Externship: Any professional endeavor not directly aligned with your current world, an opportunity to self discover and learn about other worlds. In the case of an educator, this may be working in private industry for a defined period of time.
- Going Bankrupt: Any time one of your buckets is completely empty or worse, ignored.
- Navigating between Worlds: The act of traveling (figuratively and literally) into foreign worlds, where a bit of fear and discomfort may exist, leading to a greater understanding of risk, the ability to speak new languages, building networks, and mitigating personal and professional risk. The key ingredient to Building a Life Portfolio.
IV. Contemplate Course Videos
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