In this post, I discuss the first category of the Airman’s Foundational Competencies. I try to explain what they are and why anyone should care. We’re approaching the end of the fiscal year. Though the Air Force has also shifted officers to a standardized close-out date for our Officer Performance Reports that locks evaluations intoContinue reading “September 2022: Airman’s Foundational Competencies – 1st of 4”
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August 2022: Relationships
I’m a bit behind for this August post, but hey, it happens… I’m thinking I’ll just write on developing professional relationships. This topic came to mind for a couple of reasons. The first reason has to do with my monthly leadership development sessions. The topic was “Interpersonal Relationships” and focused on developing relationships for professionalContinue reading “August 2022: Relationships”
July 2022: Time Management
Recent months have had some interesting inch- and milestones for me! I had been working on a novel draft that I finished at the end of June. I hit my 5th complete year of active commissioned service at the beginning of June. I completed a year of monthly posts in May. I took and passedContinue reading “July 2022: Time Management”
June 2022: Listening and Communication
In this month’s post, I thought I would just touch on a few pointers about listening/ communication from my monthly Leadership topic discussion. — The following may seem obvious, but here were a few recommendations offered in the session: 1: Have something worth saying. You’re considering saying something. You want to communicate it, but wait!Continue reading “June 2022: Listening and Communication”
May 2022: Everything Everywhere All At Once
This month, I had the distinct pleasure of watching the topic movie, Everything Everywhere All At Once …and it was an incredible cinematic experience. The movie is rated R, but besides that fact, I think I would encourage anyone within the appropriate audience demographic to watch it. I’ll do my best to avoid spoilers asContinue reading “May 2022: Everything Everywhere All At Once”
April 2022: A Reflection
A Reflection I ended up getting way off schedule with my writing over the past month or so. Instead of trying to write this month’s post on my intended topic – which I actually do have quite a bit of stuff to think about before writing that – I think I’d rather cover some thoughtsContinue reading “April 2022: A Reflection”
March 2022: Habit Building
Here we are at the end of another month. I had my 31st birthday this March, reminding me of so many different things: I’ve been a legal adult for so long. I’m just a few years short of having been an adult longer than I’ve been a child, regardless of how I feel about myContinue reading “March 2022: Habit Building”
February 2022: Self-Awareness
Back at it again, I come to you with my second post of this year 2022. I’m not sure if this comes later as a matter of tiredness from other activities or the need to summon whatever mixture of discipline and motivation to push through this month’s writing – or maybe it’s a desire toContinue reading “February 2022: Self-Awareness”
Social – Beyond the Flight
In this post, I just want to touch on my social experience at the Squadron and Wing levels. Quite frankly, that was “very little.” I believe that over the course of the 5.5 weeks spent at Maxwell AFB, I only intentionally took the time to interact with officers outside of my flight maybe twice. OnceContinue reading “Social – Beyond the Flight”
Social – Flight
This post will be less structured, more free-form/ flow of consciousness. The flight is essentially the classroom-filling unit at SOS, so for those unfamiliar that might happen across this post, you can simply consider the term “flight” as a typical classroom cohort or team. Flight C-41 consisted of 13 individuals, all but one of whomContinue reading “Social – Flight”
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