Establishing a Genius Hour Routine
For Genius Hour to be successful, you need to dedicate time to your passions. My goal is to spend about 2 hours per week over the next 7 weeks delving into boating. With work, household and parenting responsibilities, graduate coursework, and church responsibilities - that's tricky at best. Where will I find 2 hours of time in an already over-scheduled week to dedicate to something solely for enjoyment? Panic mode nearly kicked in just considering that. But, the rational side of my brain took over and said, "Just break it down, Lorene." 2 hours is only 120 minutes. Over the course of a week, that's a little less than 20 minutes per day. That's doable.It was about a week ago that I announced to my family that of my three interests, I was going to spend more time learning about boating. It was at that moment that I heard an audible, "Yes!" come from my husband who was in another room. Right then, he vowed to join me in my Genius Hour. Just another perk of this endeavor. My husband and I try to eke out about 10 minutes in the morning before I head to work where we touch base about what we have each investigated, share resources, or talk about the next steps in the process. In the evening, before going to bed, I spend about 10 minutes on my own reading, watching videos, investigating boat safety and operation training courses, or jotting down my thoughts and ideas. I am really excited to take a free online course about boat safety and operation. In the end, I will receive an official Boat US Certificate (which essentially means nothing, except peace of mind for me).
Choosing a Boat
For this week, my Genius Hour time was dedicated to investigating which of two different boats would best meet the needs of our family. After visiting the Chicago Boat Show and climbing aboard many boats, we narrowed our search down to two. Once we narrowed it down, back and forth we went for the rest of the day comparing features of the two boats. I watched the videos below of Randy Vance from "Boating" magazine review each of the two boats and read his article about the Chaparral in the November/December 2019 issue of "Boating". So, the list and chart gal that I am, I went at it again.
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Leave a comment below to let me know which you would choose and how you find time for your passions. I'm excited to reveal our choice and the next steps in my process in an upcoming post.
I love it! I am a big fan of boats all summer long myself. My daughter just finished her boating license as well! Way to go!
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome. My husband and I are thinking of having our daughter complete a course to get her license too.
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