The Importance of Having A Winning Mindset
What she was looking for has to do with the outcomesThe Light Code Review of anything new and unusual that she tried. She quickly realizes that her first choice in solutions wasn't that far off from her normal behavior, thus it makes sense she did not engender results that were much different either. Laughing, she remembers a woman she had interviewed who had some really unique perspectives on these challenges. Emboldened by her partial successes she decides to try a completely different tact next time but realizes she doesn't know enough about how that woman actually put their ideas into practice. Women B is now in a perfect place to start a second cycle of action research by discovering how the women she interviewed pulled off her ideas.
Woman C. has grown tired of going to womens' groups. One or two are quite attractive and she will likely visit them again. The people involved felt a warm and friendly, and their activities were interesting. Her growing dissatisfaction though is that while she could fill out her retirement time by joining groups like this, they would not allow her to continue to contribute to her community in a way she found worthwhile. Like her counterparts, woman C. organizes her notes and looks for patterns that she has not seen before.
She realizes that all the groups were focused on one activity and that she sees her life as having multidimensional. What is she going to do with her political life? How is she going to continue to learn? What new things will intrigue her? She needs something more. Woman C. is also ready for a new round of action research, celebrating that she has found some activities she can look forward to, but realizing that building a solid retirement life takes a lot more than one foray out into the world of discovery, measurable action, and reflection.
