My Talents Badge

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 Things I am good at:

  1. Maths

  2. Codebreaking

  3. Listening

  4. Gardening

  5. Teaching


Things I could improve on:

  1. Planning for work

  2. Home organisation

  3. Time management

  4. Spending time with friends

  5. Morse Code knowledge.


Use one of your talents to help others

  • Helped friends and family with their gardens.

  • Showed J how to use Blogger.

  • Made a spreadsheet for S. to be used as a To Do list. Really liked it so made a copy for myself which is still evolving.

  • Showed a colleague how to make a simple geometric creation so they could teach it.


Choose another talent and share it

  • Share geometric creations on Insta with patreon community. This is done monthly after the patreon course I take part in #samiramianpatreon








Choose an improvement and pursue SMART targets over three months.

  • Morse Code (from April 2022) See table below.

 

Choose another improvement and read a book/ app/ take a class to help you.

  • Read 'Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. This was a fascinating book, turning the usual rules of time management around and making manageable suggestions for the everyday person!


Actively be vocal praising family & friends.

  • Ongoing!


Green highlight means completed.

Specific

Measurable

Achievable

Relevant

Time Bound

Learn Morse Alphabet

Use Google Morse app and make no mistakes.

Yes! Mostly done - just need to crack Q.

Yes

By 12th May 2022

Learn Morse Numbers

As above.

Very easy!

Yes

By 5th May 2022

Learn 3 punctuation marks

As above.

Yes, but more difficult. Practice regularly.

Yes

By 30th May 2022

Create flashcards to help recall

Yes. Flashcards will be made!

Easily.

Yes

By 5th May 2022

Write a coded message in Morse

Yes. A coded message will be created and given to Cipher Club to decode.

Yes. Need to come up with a message and encode it. By hand.

Yes.

By 15th June 2022

Translate a messages from written Morse.

Yes. Decode messages from online puzzles and set by friends.

Yes especially when I have learned punctuation.

Yes

By 30th May 2022

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