TRAINING & EDUCATION Four Key Principles


The preceding two thousand words may well be a little impractical to recall on a day-to-day basis, so here are four key principles that might stand you in good stead:


1 Never be


afraid to let it be known you do not know something, whilst in the process of actively pursuing and identifying what the goals actually are.


2


Ask open- minded


questions of yourself and others, in a bid to seek answers from sources you have rigorously determined to be credible.


3


Formulate and record a plan then implement reasoned action


with clear considered intent, before evaluating the outcomes.


4


Relentlessly and habitually repeat


1 through 3


Adhere to the above in enough areas, such as fertiliser programmes, wetting agent programmes, renovation programmes, pest and disease management programmes


and ecology programmes. Then integrate them into one document where they each inform one another’s content and you will be left with? ...


... a best practice, INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT PLAN Closing Thoughts


If all of the above you have just read seems broadly reasonable and agreeable, whilst simultaneously confusing, confounding, or even overwhelming. The truth of how to go about actually achieving it all, is an answer so staggeringly simple we often allow our brain to talk ourselves out of it. So with our thoughts towards the Four Key Principles...


Just make a start. Be consistent and the rest will happen almost by accident.


As a species, change can often make us uncomfortable, we enjoy the comfort of certainty and routine. Change, particularly change which feels fast paced, can be paralysing. We second guess outcomes; how do we know which direction to move in? Will it be the correct decision? Will something else then change? However, we forget that, both from a philosophical and practical point of view, if there was one fundamental truth or law of existence, it is this.


Change is inevitable, universal and necessary for every facet of our existence. Taken back to the ultimate extreme; without those first infinitesimally minute changes, in the nanoseconds after the big bang, which created this universe, there is nothing. Nature is change.


Of course, that fact does not necessarily make the experience of change feel any more comfortable in practice as we go about experiencing it in our lives. How we experience change is of course like anything, a matter of perception. Which leads to this thought;


When we feel change as challenge and discomfort it reminds us we are in that moment presented with an opportunity to grow and improve; at life. Surely that is the purpose of a skilful existence?


Embracing that fact and engaging with that challenge requires us to slow down, slowing down to take time.


Doing so is not failure, it is a necessary truth.


Slowing down does not mean stopping, we can still maintain momentum, it is just that deliberately slowing down and taking time to think, to plan, to learn, to engage with the unknown, are all cognitive processes required when faced with a challenge or a bend in the road. It simply means evaluating a necessary change in direction, to give ourselves opportunity to avoid the hedgerow. 


just make a start.


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