Our session today was an hour of listening skills and intellectual empathy. Work accomplished in the area of trust and relationships... Ethical and moral questions discussed...
Alexa listened to two stories told on the Moth Hour. These are real stories from real people. It is on the radio each week. They also have live events. I asked Alexa if she might want to do one and get 'exposure.' She thought she was not good at storytelling, but after reminding her of two really great true stories that she detailed to me, she changed her mind a bit. The first story created a sad tone, but was exceedingly good and interesting, making a point that might help listeners in a family relationship. The second was told by an actress Alexa recognized. I may follow up on her doing this herself if she is interested!
Alexa is working on a "vision board" from which she explained each entry to me this morning. She continued to find items to add as we began our discussion. Remembering that there is a great example of (and explanations concerning) the outcome of vision boards in the documentary of "The Secret", I found it online for us to watch and discuss. In the documentary, it is emphasized that if you want positive things to come into your experience, you must affirm these things and try to feel positive and good in order to attract them. This culminated in heart-to-heart communication over various things that need peaceful resolution.
Alexa and I had a good discussion today regarding her possible new part in an upcoming film. We discussed the characters, their relationships, and their origins in comic books -- the turning of Sherlock Holmes' character into a female role -- and Alexa's part in relation to that. We talked about how women's rights, roles, and opportunities have so vastly changed over the last century.
Today we returned to the Covey online site that we worked on last week for productivity. We discussed Alexa's strongest score from that assessment which was high energy toward important goals, and the lowest score that was on "big rocks" -- meaning that you purposefully and consciously prioritize in order of importance and plan for a week at a time when possible. After that we watched a Covey video on how to develop one's "inner circle" -- the strategies for working with others according to their strengths and weaknesses, and making a difference in areas of one's life over which there can be a measure of control. This, rather than wasting time on what they call the "outer" circle of influence where you can't do anything, such as world-wide pollution or a huge government decision.
Alexa and i perused Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People at https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits.html online. We read about productivity and the idea of ordering everyday things in consideration of Importance to non-importance, urgent to not demanding. Alexa thoughtfully selected one of the six options of their "360 Degree" assessments -- the one on "Productivity." The results were printed on four pages that show on a graph how she spends her time in quadrants of important or urgent or not necessary, etc. She had a fairly high score of 80. Next there are resources that are to be read that should improve that score, and the opportunity built in for reassessment with the improved results right next to the first attempt. Other than this, we had a good conversation and Alexa is comfortable enough to confide in me and listen to my encouraging and empathetic responses that usually help and comfort her.
