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Have you ever looked at your life from a swimmer's 🏊viewpoint😎 Here on this day, I couldn't wait to get my stuff ready and juggle my way through to the stream to try something new. I had always wanted to learn how to swim, my interest included watching swimming sports and activities both national and international not necessarily for the competition though but drawn to the techniques they employ for the balance needed to flex through waters. That's fascinating, too, and the idea of being underneath the water was an experience I looked forward to with the right training and guidance. Fortunately, I found someone who offered to teach, and at the time, I was less busy, given that where we camped had a little stream nearer. I took off in the company of my sister and some friends and got to where I'll be learning one of my life's best learns. Here are some essential strokes that got me inspired while training in swimming and researching: 💦Body Awareness: To navigate the water, a swimmer must have a keen sense of their body's position. 💘You can't afford to stay ignorant about yourself. 🥇In life, self-awareness is your lifeguard. Recognize your strengths and weaknesses and adjust your course accordingly. 💦Embrace the Deep End: Don't be afraid to dive into the unknown. Sometimes, the current can propel you further than you imagined. Stepping outside your comfort zone is where growth happens. 💘Challenges can be intimidating, but they also present opportunities. 🥇See challenges as opportunities to learn, adapt, and potentially reach your goals even faster. 💦Embrace the Water: A skilled swimmer feels comfortable in the water. 💘You won't be comfortable at all times, but it doesn't have to define you. 🥇Challenges and setbacks are unavoidable, but they don't have to drown you. Learn to navigate discomfort, and you'll find the strength to emerge even stronger. (Check out more in the comments section as you share your experiences and contributions) We all face challenges in life that can leave us feeling like we're drowning in deep water. But when we open our hearts to see life from a positive viewpoint, we can navigate through obstacles and reach our goals. Have I physically perfected all my swimming techniques? Not totally. I've not been swimming, but I'm grateful for the valuable lessons it taught me. These techniques involve grit and resilience to conquer life's unforeseen circumstances. 🥇Champions aren't born in calm waters. They're forged in the storms. (You remember what it's like to have an egg fertilised in the womb, right). Take a deep breath, refine your strokes, and propel yourself towards success. This is Idiyakke Udosen, I use my #For_Every_New_Day series to walk you through your professional growth journey. Follow for more of this amazing content. I got ya🥰 #foreverynewday #Day_12
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👉How to encourage children to love to swim🏊♀️ (from: today’s Parents) Part 1: “I show Mommy my swimming. I can do it myself!” exclaimed four-year-old Braedon, midway through one of our swimming lessons. When he showed off his slightly uncoordinated paddle across the pool, both mom and son had ear-to-ear grins. For many of the families I have worked with as a swim instructor, the excitement of a child’s first solo swim is on par with his first steps. While lessons are certainly helpful, there are many things you can do to teach your kids basic swimming skills, water safety and a love for all things aquatic. Read on to learn five simple, fun activities to help your child take those first independent strokes in the water. These activities can help teach children as young as 18 months how to swim. It’s a great way to introduce swimming skills in stages. So grab your towels and let’s go! 1. Talk to the fishies Practise talking to pretend fishies by getting your child to blow bubbles in the water. Then ask him to put his ear in the water to listen to the pretend response. Skill: Breath control, which is the first step in teaching your child to swim independently. Accidentally swallowing water can be a frightening setback, so make sure you encourage him to submerge his face and blow bubbles to increase his comfort level in the water. Tip: Make sure when you submerge your face and blow bubbles, you come up with a smile on your face. Your little one will be more apt to try this if he sees how much fun you have while doing it! 2. Catch the fishies Sit next to your child on the steps of the shallow end, or stand facing each other if the pool is shallow enough (water should ideally be at your child’s waist to chest), and ask your little one to try to catch fishies with his hands. Ask him to perform a front-crawl-like arm stroke by reaching his arms up in the air, plunging them into the water, and then pulling the water toward himself, as if there were lots of fishies in the pool that he is pulling toward his body. This will get him used to the arm action necessary to start swimming on his own. Sing a song together while he strokes (I like “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”) and at the end of the song, ask him how many fishies he caught. Then have him throw them back in the water and make a big splash! Repeat the song and try to catch more fishies. Skill: Developing a fast, strong arm motion. Tip: Make sure your child is performing this activity with his fingers together, so the fishies don’t escape between his fingers. This will help with his propulsion when he starts swimming on his own. Tobe continue… WaveLift Inc: Making Pools Safer and Easier to Enjoy! —- 💧WaveLift Inc. | movable pool floors 📧[email protected] 📌 www.wavelift.ca | Fb: https://lnkd.in/gK5bY3JD Add: 564596 Karnroad Beachville, ON N0J 1A0 Canada
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Quality Over Quantity. 🏆 Our CEO, Noah Zandan, shared a powerful lesson from his swimming career. Despite years of training and competing at a Division 1 school, he realized he focused too much on quantity over quality. "Garbage yardage" happens when practice becomes mindless laps instead of a focused, disciplined technique. This insight applies to our professional lives too: optimizing performance is more important than just clocking hours. A new NIH study supports this shift in perspective: https://lnkd.in/epH6Bzy2 Let's prioritize quality over quantity. #AIsalestraining #humanpotential #Salestraining
I often regret that I wasn't a better swimmer. I swam competitively for over a decade, including swimming for a Division 1 school for 4 years in college. But reflecting on my career, I don’t think I had the right mindset. Sure, I went to practice, often twice a day, and probably averaged at least 5 miles per day of “yardage.” But my mentality at the time was on quantity. The more training and the more distance you did in practice, the faster you could race. But not all yardage is equal. Some yardage is focused, disciplined practice, paying keen attention to technique and making the small changes that add up. And some yardage is simply clocking the laps on autopilot, getting sloppy with technique just to hit the interval and get the laps in. "Garbage yardage" Looking back on my swimming career, I wish that I would have focused more on quality. I don't blame my coaches, they were guiding us on what they had been taught to measure. Practice time and yardage is an easy metric, while practice quality is hard to measure. So they taught us that more training = better performance. But is high-volume, medium-intensity training really better than low-volume, very high-intensity training? Looking back on my swimming career, I regret not being more focused on speed and technique, replicating the competitive environment instead of the steady state of practice. Take 5 minutes after every practice to go “race pace with perfect technique” Interestingly, the world of swimming is catching onto this trend. There’s even a new NIH study about it: https://lnkd.in/epH6Bzy2 I’m trying to take this lesson into my professional life. Focus less on time in seat, and more on optimizing my performance. Because quantity always has an upper boundary and a point of diminishing returns. But quality scales in an altogether different way.
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I really enjoy swimming, and more specifically, open water swimming. I do open water events whenever I can, even on vacation. Today, I had the pleasure of watching the best open water swimmers in the world compete in the Marathon Swimming (10 km) event at the Paris Olympics, which took place on the Seine River. After watching the event, I went to train, and it is very common, while training, to think about topics related to my focus on helping companies get more results from their investments in digital product management and development. The comparison between marathon swimming athletes and companies undergoing digital transformation ended up happening quite naturally. The Preparation: • 🏊♂️ Marathon Swimming: Athletes train a lot, adjusting techniques and strengthening skills to compete in the challenging environment of the Seine River. • 💻 Digital Transformation: Companies invest in training people and updating systems and technologies, planning and continually adapting to the digital market. The Environment: • 🌊 Swimming Marathon: The Seine River has unpredictable currents and changing conditions, requiring constant adaptation. • 🌐 Digital Transformation: The digital environment is dynamic and unpredictable, with rapid changes in technology and consumer preferences, requiring rapid adaptation. The Competition •🏅 Swimming Marathon: Athletes compete against others and against the natural elements, in addition to their own limitations. • 📈 Digital Transformation: Companies face strong competition, needing to constantly innovate and overcome external and internal challenges. Resistance and Persistence: • 💪 Swimming Marathon: Requires physical and mental resistance, maintaining a steady pace and persisting despite difficulties. • 🔄 Digital Transformation: An ongoing process, requiring resistance and persistence to implement changes and overcome obstacles, with a constant effort to improve and innovate. The Goal: • 🏁 Swimming Marathon: Cross the finish line overcoming all challenges along the way. • 🎯 Digital Transformation: Integrate and optimize digital technology and processes, generating maximum value for customers and the company, with learning at each stage. Constant Evolution: • 🔝 Swimming Marathon: Athletes continue to train and improve their skills for future competitions, keeping up with new techniques and developments. • 🚀 Digital Transformation: Companies must be up to date with new concepts, tools and methodologies, continually innovating to remain competitive and thrive in the digital environment. Digital transformation is like a swimming marathon, like the one that took place today on the Seine River: a complex challenge that requires preparation, constant adaptation, endurance and a clear vision of the objectives. Successful companies prepare, adapt quickly, persevere and stay up to date with technological innovations. A commitment to continuous evolution is essential to achieving and maintaining success.
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Synchronised Swimming: The Art of Professional Service Delivery! 🏊♀️ Synchronised swimming: graceful, precise, and utterly captivating. It demands perfect timing, flawless execution and an unparalleled level of teamwork. Sound familiar? In an ideal world of Professional Services, your Business Analysts, Principal Consultants and Solution Architects are the synchronised swimmers of business solutions. They move in perfect harmony, each with their unique role but all contributing to a breathtaking performance ⭐. 📊 Your Business Analysts, the foundation of our team, possess a deep understanding of our clients’ business needs. Like synchronised swimmers mastering the basics, they provide the essential building blocks for success. 🚀 Principal Consultants, the choreographers of our solutions, bring strategic vision and leadership. They orchestrate the movements, ensuring every element aligns with the client's goals. Just as a synchronised swimming routine tells a story, our Principal Consultants craft compelling narratives for our clients. 💡Solution Architects, the technical virtuosos, execute the intricate details. Their expertise is the perfect execution of every move, every line of code, every configuration. Like the synchronised swimmers' perfect underwater ballet, they create solutions that are both elegant and effective. Together, they form a powerful team, delivering exceptional results. It's about more than just individual brilliance; it's about the synergy created when these talents combine. I have learned over the years that sometimes there is a confusion between these roles because when you are at the top of your craft you cannot be just good in one thing anymore, your skills start to overlap. This is why some organisations will only have one of the roles mentioned above but don’t be fooled by a role title, they will have a dominant skill set but be proficient in strategy or technical solutions too. So the edge you can give your team and customers is a very clear definition of what the role is covering and maybe when the size of the team is big enough start to create some different specialisations. We do not have all these functions in every Professional Services team but these are usually sitting at the top of their craft and lead by example the other consultants that form the team. With these senior roles well-defined and people carefully selected, it will be a step towards a high performing team 👥. Another thing that each of those high level consultants have in common with synchronise swimmers is that on the surface it looks all controlled and smooth but under the water there is a lot of effort being put in😆. How have you defined and retained your top talent in your PS team? Have you found a good way to clearly defined roles in your PS team? If yes, any good tips?
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I often regret that I wasn't a better swimmer. I swam competitively for over a decade, including swimming for a Division 1 school for 4 years in college. But reflecting on my career, I don’t think I had the right mindset. Sure, I went to practice, often twice a day, and probably averaged at least 5 miles per day of “yardage.” But my mentality at the time was on quantity. The more training and the more distance you did in practice, the faster you could race. But not all yardage is equal. Some yardage is focused, disciplined practice, paying keen attention to technique and making the small changes that add up. And some yardage is simply clocking the laps on autopilot, getting sloppy with technique just to hit the interval and get the laps in. "Garbage yardage" Looking back on my swimming career, I wish that I would have focused more on quality. I don't blame my coaches, they were guiding us on what they had been taught to measure. Practice time and yardage is an easy metric, while practice quality is hard to measure. So they taught us that more training = better performance. But is high-volume, medium-intensity training really better than low-volume, very high-intensity training? Looking back on my swimming career, I regret not being more focused on speed and technique, replicating the competitive environment instead of the steady state of practice. Take 5 minutes after every practice to go “race pace with perfect technique” Interestingly, the world of swimming is catching onto this trend. There’s even a new NIH study about it: https://lnkd.in/epH6Bzy2 I’m trying to take this lesson into my professional life. Focus less on time in seat, and more on optimizing my performance. Because quantity always has an upper boundary and a point of diminishing returns. But quality scales in an altogether different way.
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When SMART goals forget Wisdom I wanted to learn how to do a flip turn. And so, I set a SMART goal. I signed up for ten swimming lessons. My goal was specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. All of the things we want out of goal setting. And yet, I didn’t do it. The ten weeks ended and while I know the components of the flip turn, I still haven’t put them together. And I don’t regret it. Ten weeks would have been plenty of time to learn, execute, and practice a great flip turn. There wasn’t particularly any difficulty with my skill set or my mind set. I had a great teacher. (Shout out to Ginger!) The goal was relevant. I wanted to improve my pool swimming. I prefer open-water swimming, but living in New England, I end up swimming in a pool most of the time. A flip turn seemed like the thing “good” pool swimmers did. What I forgot was the largest purpose – the connection of that goal to my being-ness. When the lessons started, Ginger assessed my free-style – and there were many many improvements to be made. Free-style, which I did because it was “good” for me actually became something I enjoyed. All those tweaks made my form so much better. And with all those tweaks, my goals changed. I wanted to improve my swimming form. At the end of the ten weeks, I’ve learned so much – vast improvement of my free-style, meaningful tweaks to my backstroke and breast stroke, an understanding of bio-mechanics and how the same problem shows up in every stroke, a connection between my human body and how dolphins and fish move through the water – even how my life as a singer influences both my breathing and my kick-arm cycle rate. At the end, when there was still enough time to learn how to do the flip turn – mind you, we had spent time working on stream-lining and the underwater turn – I chose to learn the basics of butterfly. And I had so much fun doing that! My big purpose – to have more joy and fluency in the water, a place I already feel very much at home – was met ten-fold over. In fact, all the improvements to my swimming form made more difference to my pool enjoyment and my summer time open water swimming than merely learning the flip turn. I will return to lessons next winter and eventually I will have a working flip turn. If I had doggedly stuck to learning the flip turn, I would be able to do it. But I also wouldn’t have had as much joy and as much overall improvement in my swimming life. By connecting with the very biggest purpose of all – what do I want and need to swim with more ease and more joy – I let go of the SMART goal for the wise goal. This isn’t always the case, sometimes a SMART goal works just fine, but it is a reminder to make sure that there’s a connection beyond just the immediate relevancy to the larger sense of your life, your purpose. Perhaps we need to call it “B SMART” – with the B for Being-ness.
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Big Blue Swim just posted a great article on why you should get your baby swimming! Check out these tips below
Top 10 Benefits of Swim Lessons for Kids | Big Blue Swim School
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Before starting swim lessons, it's important to know what you are getting into. These 10 tips are important to remember
Swimming lessons save lives: What parents should know - Harvard Health
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Just keep Swimming: Some lessons and other stuff As an adult, learning to swim is no easy feat. It challenges everything you know and amplifies your anxieties. But along the way, I’ve picked up some valuable lessons that go way beyond the pool. (the last one is actually the most important) The Pool is There, the Water is There – It’s Your Reaction That Matters Much like in life, the pool and the water remain the same, but it’s how you react to them that makes all the difference. Learning not to panic and to take a deep breath (it helps you stay afloat, in this case 😅) has been crucial. These lessons are universally applicable: staying calm and composed is key in any challenging situation. And let's be honest, looking like a flailing octopus isn't going to help anyone. Overcoming Procrastination There were countless days when postponing my swimming sessions felt like the easiest option. Be it running late or feeling I didn’t have enough time, it was tempting to delay. Yet, even if only for 10 minutes or just taking a quick dip, showing up made a huge difference. The more you push yourself, even in small doses, the more comfortable you become over time. Persistence pays off. Resilience in the Face of Adversity It’s very easy to give up when things get tough. I recall moments when it felt particularly daunting, and it would have been so simple to stop. However, I've learnt that sometimes, despite your best efforts, things won't go as planned. It's crucial to keep moving forward. Put your head down and just swim. Be present in the moment. And remember, there's no shame in clinging to the side of the pool every now and then. You Can't Go At It Alone Perhaps the most important lesson of all is the value of having someone to cheer you on. You simply cannot do this alone. Even the smallest achievements, like just entering the deep side of the pool, feel monumental when someone acknowledges them with a “well done”. Their support means the world to me, and I simply couldn't have done this alone. And let's face it, nothing beats the feeling of being cheered on, even if your biggest accomplishment that day was not swallowing half the pool. And if all fails, just keep telling yourself, "At least I'm not doing a triathlon... yet!" 😂 #NeverTooLate
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