Task 2a - Reflective Practice

So I have finally began to write a journal, I thought the best way I could do this was on a daily basis and to make it as simplistic and accessible as possible so I chose to download an app to my phone as that's never far away from me ! How we have travelled forward in technology - gone are the days of a journal or diary being pen to paper form !

To be very honest I find keeping a journal extremely difficult for many reasons - as a dance teacher I work very unsociable hours and so when I return home from  the studio it can be very late and all I really want to do is eat and fall asleep. So taking part in a journal entry at this point is a moment of huff and puff ! 

I also was never a diary keeper as a child or younger person so this is somewhat alien to me however said this when I have managed a journal entry of late it does encourage me to reflect on what I have wrote and indeed wonder could I have done that differently, or that was a positive day !

I do suppose I keep a form of a journal via my school Facebook page where I constantly update it with posts and pictures taken at classes allowing parents and followers to see what happens in class.

I consider myself to be a reasonably organised person who runs her daily life around lists of 'To dos' and if I dont achieve what I set out to do I feel like I've not had a productive day. I do think my journal up until now has been in my head in very safe compartment that I notate to and return to analyse. This happens mostly when I am out running with only my thoughts for company. So now I have to try and put those thoughts and moments into my journal.

I am very mindful when writing in the journal that I don't list every moment of my day as that would be just tedious for the reader and be of no learning relevance to me, but to try and mainly highlight what I think is relevant to a reader - obviously that is me in this case as in the future as I am hopefully going to learn from this task.