Wow! I am not even sure how to express the abundance of emotion I feel as I watch everyone's videos . I am feeling blessed and full of gratitude to all of the IHC team members that took on video assignments for the recent challenge - 7 days in the life of the IHC and to everyone that participated in the challenge. Many of the videos have been very creative and all have been inspiring and full of so much wonderful and relevant information and instruction. I'm not sure how many students participated in the challenge, but I do know the value of this project is unmeasurable. Thank you, thank you to our IHC team for your time, your efforts and your hard work in helping to make this project a reality!
There are times when my creativity surprises me. It is surprising how one little idea can become a project like 7 Days in the Life of the IHC. The challenge started out as wanting to inspire others to generate some healthy and positive habits. From there it started to grow and after talking to Todai Ferris to get some help with organization and her challenge building experience, more and more pieces started coming together. After talking with her I realized I could also involve other team members to help with bonus challenges and videos. One of my favorite aspects of the challenge has been the videos. I built in some basic parameters for the videos, but really wanted things to evolve organically so I stepped back from too much direction and couldn't be happier with the results.
A project like this contains many hidden layers. There are all the videos with valuable information, the tracking sheets to record your success and learn the value of knowing where you are and what you are doing and accomplishing, working towards goals each day, helping students and parents to understand more about the IHC, introducing some of our team members, and providing tools to help create healthy habits just to name a few. And I think it also helps to bring us closer together as a team. We become more unified working towards a common goal.
If I hadn't stepped outside of my comfort zone to take on this project and ask for help, this challenge would not have taken place. There were definitely a few times when I thought OMG, what have I gotten myself into? I often don't follow through with some of my creative ideas because I am unsure of how to get started and usually see more roadblocks than ways forward. I have learned that we all have our talents and gifts. I don't need to be able to do it all. I can take those ideas and dreams and involve others to help organize and make them a reality.
Thank you Todai Ferris for all your input and assistance and thank you to an amazing team. Loved, loved, loved the videos and so happy to have student participation!
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