Monday, 30 August 2021

#Will-before-#Skill #Coaching-directly-addresses-facilitates-awareness-observation-#Will

Coaching for #Will - before - then - #Skill(s)

Poh-Sun Goh

31 August 2021, 0512am, Singapore Time

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/07/willskills.html



#ProfessionalCoaching #Coaching #Training #Credentialing #ICF

https://coachingfederation.org/credentials-and-standards 

https://coachingfederation.org/experience-requirements

https://becomea.coach/earn-a-credential/

https://coachingfederation.org/credentials-and-standards/acc-paths

https://coachingfederation.org/coach-knowledge-assessment

https://coachingfederation.org/core-competencies

https://coachingfederation.org/ethics/code-of-ethics

https://apps.coachingfederation.org/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?webcode=TPSS



https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/06/coachingagreement-draft-version-12.html

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/06/coachingconversionno1.html

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/07/preparation-for-coachingconversations.html

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/06/whycoaching-valueproposition-impact.html

🔄

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/08/will-before-skill-coaching-directly.html

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/08/dynamic-balance-work-rest.html

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/08/somaticcoaching-adopt-posture-frame.html

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/08/organisationalsomaticpractice.html

https://theexecutivehappinesscoach.com/about/

Saturday, 28 August 2021

#TravelLight-to-#TravelFar #SustainablePractice



#TravelLight-to-#TravelFar. Poh-Sun Goh, 29 August 2021, 0400am, Singapore Time


#DynamicBalance #FlameOn-but-don't-#BurnOut #JustEnough #OneStepAtATime #StepByStep #Cumulative #Stacking #ObserveRespectBiologicalCycles #DayNight #WorkRest #RestWork #RestToWork #DownTime-to-allow-#UpTime #OffSeason-to-support-#OnSeason #WeekEnd-to-support-#WeekBeginning #FlipTheScript #RestFirst-then-#Engage #(en)Joy! Poh-Sun Goh, 28 August 2021, 0523am, Singapore Time


#Less-Is-#More #TravelLight #JustEnough #CarryLess-to-travel-#Further-and-#Longer !  Poh-Sun Goh, 28 August 2021, 0536am,Singapore Time


#Build-#Slack-#Deliberately-#intoDay-#Week-#Month-#Year; #StayLoose-#ToFunction-Consistently-At-#Peak - Poh-Sun Goh, 28 August 2021, 0602am, Singapore Time

Monday, 23 August 2021

#Travel #Wandering-in-Wonder to #Change-#Enlarge-#Frame-of-Reference

#Travel #Broadens-the-Mind

#Enlarges-our(my)-#Frame-of-Reference

#Schedule-this-#Travel on #Regular, #Daily, #Weekly basis

#Time-outs

#Re-Create

Poh-Sun Goh, 24 August 2021, 0800am, Singapore Time 

#SomaticCoaching #Adopt-the-#Posture #Frame-#Performance

#Will-before-#Skill

#GetSet-#Adopt-the-#Posture

#Breath(e)

#Focus-#Awareness-#Thinking-#Language-#CheckIn-#EmotionalState-#Body-#Posture (#BEL and #OARs)

- simply - and do regularly practice this - until this is a reflex, and habit - sitting (more) upright, standing (tall) - grounded, yet open and flexible - choosing to be resolute when required - basically observe and 'listen' first

- and - take a (one or more) deep (this does not have to be obvious or visible) breath - before - speaking (or acting/action)

Poh-Sun Goh, 24 August 2021, 0711am, Singapore Time

Sunday, 22 August 2021

#Coaching-for-#FacultyDevelopment #Coaching-#Teachers #Coaching-Learners #Coaching-#LifelongLearners

In the lead up to #AMEE2021 am #SwitchingFocus #Coaching-to-#FacultyDevelopment @ #AMEE2021 for 8 days - by adding/changing my frame of reference/thinking/emotional-center/somatics (BEL) to - #Coaching-for-#FacultyDevelopment, #Coaching-for-#Teaching, #Coaching-for-#MedEd-#Scholars, #Coaching-#Teachers, #Coaching-#Learners, #Coaching-#LifeLongLearners - through #Awareness, #Action, and #Adaptability/Adapting - or #Observation-#Awareness-of-#Result(s) (OARs). Poh-Sun Goh, 23 August 2021, 0408am, Singapore Time









"The lessons learned for using Technology Enhanced Learning during the COVID-19 pandemic"
Symposium, August 27-31, 2021
(Hybrid AMEE 2021)

Title: The lessons learned for using Technology Enhanced Learning during the COVID-19 pandemic
Presenters: J Sandars, D Fernandes, PS Goh, R Patel
Date: Sunday 29th August 2021
Time (UK): 1000-1130 (start/end)



Chair - John Sandars

Poh Sun - lessons about development - would include use of social media but also scholarship

John - lessons about implementation - complex socio-cultural systems and the challenge of rapid change

Rakesh - lessons about online clinical skills teaching

Dario Fernandes from Brazil - lessons from a LMIC perspective


Sandars, J., Correia, R., Dankbaar, M., de Jong, P., Goh, P.S., Hege, I., Masters, K., Oh, S.Y., Patel, R., Premkumar, K., Webb, A., Pusic, M. (2020). 'Twelve tips for rapidly migrating to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic'. MedEdPublish, 9, [1], 82, https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2020.000082.1 https://www.mededpublish.org/manuscripts/3068

Goh P.S, Sandars J. (2020) 'A vision of the use of technology in medical education after the COVID-19 pandemic', MedEdPublish, 9, [1], 49, https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2020.000049.1 https://www.mededpublish.org/manuscripts/2943

'Technology will eventually seamlessly integrate even further into our clinical and teaching practice. Our role as educators will be to envision, plan, guide, support and oversee this process, expanding and deepening our role as teachers, instructors, content creators, curators, guides and coaches’ - Goh, PS. Medical Educator Roles of the Future. Med.Sci.Educ. 30, 5–7 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-020-01086-w https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40670-020-01086-w

https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2017/09/sotl-in-meded.html

#Dynamic-#Balance #Work-#Rest

"While jobs are sustenance, careers are altars upon which all else is sacrificed." - Cassady Rosenblum, 'Work is a False Idol', NYTimes, 22 August 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/22/opinion/lying-flat-work-rest.html (accessed 23 August 2021)


"I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down

into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,

how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,

which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?"

—Mary Oliver 

https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/all-poems/item/poetry-180-133/the-summer-day/ (accessed 22 August 2021)


"Atelic activities are done for their own sake, not in order to achieve a particular end." - https://medium.com/swlh/telic-vs-atelic-activities-and-the-meaning-of-life-abf5ac035599


Hacking the life hack: To find what’s most meaningful to us, we have to learn which things to neglect. by Mia Levitin, August 18, 2021, Financial Times, https://www.ft.com/content/f85bb484-7433-46c4-80e1-4c97d50440ce (accessed 22 August 2021)


"#'Work'(less), #'Earn'(more), #Enjoy(more)" - Poh-Sun Goh, 23 August 2021, 0812am, Singapore Time

[note: aim is for Work to not feel like 'Work'; and note that what is 'Earned' includes a sense of satisfaction, joy and happiness; from being good, doing good, giving back, and adding value] - Poh-Sun Goh, 23 August 2021, 0818am, Singapore Time

Reflection on re-reading, again, Chapter 11, from The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More with Less" by Richard Koch, first edition, 1998, A Currency Book, published by Doubleday

quote from above book (Chapter 11) - "Most of us don't work out what we want. And most of us end up with lopsided lives as a result" - Richard Koch


"at the end of a (your, my) life, at the funeral, we can (visibly) see and feel the final accounting of a (your, my) life - by who comes (turns up, attends the funeral), what is said (and written) .. or unsaid, who and what is left behind ... these four observations, and outcomes are basically it (all there is) in the final accounting of a (your, my) life ... so be good, and do good ..." - Poh-Sun Goh, 22 August 2021, 0858am (first expressed when conversing with my cousin when I delivered the eulogy for my father in 2018; my uncle then passed away one week later; and most recently recalled at the funeral/cremation of the father of a very close a friend on Friday)

Saturday, 14 August 2021

#MindScience #MentalHealth #MentalFitness #Awareness #Training #CapacityBuilding

https://www.nuhs.edu.sg/research/NUHS-Centres-of-Excellence/Pages/Mind-Science-Centre.aspx

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/mps-call-for-more-mental-health-support-amid-reports-of-issues-arising-from-covid

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/helping-youth-improve-mental-health-amid-rising-pressures

https://www.mindline.sg/landing

“You’re pushed, pushed, pushed and pushed to the limit, all the time,” - quoted in A New Must-Have for TV and Movie Shoots: Therapists: Working on set can be challenging. In Britain, many productions are hiring trained counselors to help casts and crew cope. By Alex Marshall in The New York Times, August 12, 2021 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/arts/television/therapists.html [accessed on 15 August 2021]. 

#FutureWork #WEF #AI #Augmented(Human)Intelligence

https://www.straitstimes.com/life/future-work-what-jobs-will-we-see-by-2025

https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-future-of-jobs-report-2020

https://www.futurelearn.com/info/blog/careers/7-skills-employers-of-the-future-will-be-looking-for 

https://www2.deloitte.com/xe/en/insights/focus/technology-and-the-future-of-work/tech-leaders-reimagining-work-workforce-workplace.html

https://www.ey.com/en_sg/workforce/how-do-we-keep-the-human-touch-in-the-digital-age-


https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/not-possible-to-bubble-wrap-sporeans-from-foreign-competition-especially-with

https://www.pmo.gov.sg/Newsroom/DPM-Heng-Swee-Keat-at-the-NUS115-Distinguished-Speaker-Series


IPS-Nathan Lectures by Mr Ravi Menon — Lecture I: "The Four Horsemen"

PS-Nathan Lectures by Mr Ravi Menon — Lecture II: "An Innovative Economy"

https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/how-singapore-can-sharpen-its-innovative-edge

IPS-Nathan Lectures by Mr Ravi Menon — Lecture III: "An Inclusive Society"

IPS-Nathan Lectures by Mr Ravi Menon — Lecture IV: "An Inspiring Nation"

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/broaden-and-enhance-meritocracy-to-give-sporeans-hope-and-opportunity-mas-chief


Lee Kuan Yew's Last National Day Rally (YouTube)

National Day Rally speeches: The most iconic moments from Singapore's PMs (YouTube)

Friday, 13 August 2021

#Living(Well) #Well-#Be(ing) #AppliedOntology #Awareness-#Action-#Adaptable

#Living(Well) #Well-#Be(ing) #AppliedOntology #Awareness-#Action-#Adaptable

Poh-Sun Goh

14 August 2021, 0511am, Singapore Time

#Well-#Be(ing)

#BEL(s) 

- #Body - #Rest-#'Work' [#Paid #Work is an #Occupation, a #Profession; #'Unpaid' #Work or what we pay for, is paid for (in #Attention #Time #Effort) is a #Hobby, #PassionProject, what we #Volunteer for, #VolunteerToDo]

- #Emotion - #Rest-#Engage-#Unplug [#Detach - #Periodically - before - #ReEngaging - #PluggingIn - after #Re-#Charging]

- #Language - #Thinking - #Perspective - #Choice

As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_a_Man_Thinketh



https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/08/lifejourney-lifemeaning-lifebalance.html

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/08/innerengineering-approachingtopic.html

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/08/theblankpage-startingeachday-thepause.html
















#Coach(ing) - by - really - 'seeing' and 'hearing' - someone (else). #ReallySeeSomeone(else) #ReallyHearSomeone(else) #ReallyBe(there)PresentForSomeone(else). Poh-Sun Goh, 23 July 2021, 0323am, Singapore Time


#EmbodiedListening #CoachingBy(Just)Listening - Poh-Sun Goh, 23 July 2021, 0315am - over the last week, had 'coaching conversations' - #3-minute-Micro-Coaching, hour-long, and almost two-hour long sessions with multiple clinicians, at different stages of their careers (early, early to mid, mid career) - by essentially 'just listening', and paradoxically offering less or 'no' advice with mid-career colleagues - interestingly (the more junior, the more the listening - interventions (questions - open, re-framing what was heard, observations; suggestions and practice tips offered) spectrum was tilted toward interventions, and with more senior colleagues, tilted significantly toward 'just listening' - this is supported by published literature.



#Life(Journey) #Life(Meaning) #Life(Balance) #(Enjoy)Journey - #Steps - #Destination(s)

"Life is not a rehearsal, but neither is it a performance." - Tim Harford, 13 August 2021, Financial Times [Going on holiday? Leave the ‘to do’ list at home]

"I’ve concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn’t dollars but the individual people whose lives I’ve touched." - Clayton Christensen, July-August 2010, Harvard Business Review [How Will You Measure Your Life?]

Michael Phelps - Think Small To Accomplish Big Things (YouTube)

#Negotiating - #Coaching #Compare-and-#Contrast #Coming-at-topic-practices-#Other-#Angles

Compare and Contrast - Coaching and Negotiating. Interesting exercise.

Whether 'coaching' or 'negotiating' - as process between 'people' - elements of a similar 'engagement process' (can) apply 

- Poh-Sun Goh, 13 August 2021, 0750pm, Singapore Time

https://programs.emeritus.org/lee-kuan-yew-school-of-public-policy-executive-education-nus/negotiation-strategies/

The art of negotiation: Six must-have strategies | London Business School (YouTube)

Thursday, 12 August 2021

#InnerEngineering #ApproachingTopic-Practice-from-#MultipleViewpoints

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Engineering:_A_Yogi%27s_Guide_to_Joy 

https://www.innerengineering.com

Fascinating read - basically applied 'ontological awareness' - in essence, we live in our 'body' and 'biology' - this book is another viewpoint/perspective on 'TAPOM' - from personal learning perspective, I find the more angles I am able to 'look at' and observe (any topic, process, activity), the deeper my understanding (of the topic, process or activity is), including ways to articulate, share, discuss, apply, and 'coach' - teach - train others. Poh-Sun Goh, 13 August 0120am, Singapore Time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaggi_Vasudev

Sadhguru on How To Never Get Angry or Bothered By People


“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ― Viktor E. Frankl


Wednesday, 11 August 2021

#Be(-coming) #em(-bodied)-#Practice-#Coach(ing)-#am-#Coach

#Be(-coming) #em(-bodied)-#Practice-#Coach(ing)-#am-#Coach

#Internalising-#Practice(s)-to-#Be(come)-#Coach

Poh-Sun Goh, 12 August 2021, 0542am


Tuesday, 10 August 2021

#Life(#Time) - #Distinctions

#Life(#Time) - #Distinctions

Necessary but corrosive: Lucy Kellaway on ambition (Financial Times, 9 August 2021)

Jenni Murray and Lucy Kellaway on starting over (Spotify podcast - Now I'm Grown Up series)


https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210805-how-to-escape-the-productivity-trap

Write (a book or paper), raise a child, plant a tree. Trick is to hand over the baton to next generation, or teammate … or network … or platform. - Poh-Sun Goh, 10 August 2021, 0757pm, Singapore Time


"It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways" - Richard Koch

The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More With Less by Richard Koch, First Edition, 1998, A Currency Book, Doubleday, New York.

https://www.nirandfar.com/vicious-distraction-cycle/

#Creating-#Awareness in #Coaching

#Creating-#Awareness in #Coaching

https://coachcampus.com/coach-portfolios/coaching-models/linda-hajduk-the-awareness/

https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-importance-of-self-awareness-in-workplace-coaching.html

https://coacharya.com/blog/awareness-coach-client/


ICF Core Competency #8: Creating Awareness (YouTube)

Updated ICF Core Competency 7: Evokes Awareness (YouTube)


Google image search 'creating awareness in coaching'


Language 'shapes' how we see the world, and observe ourselves. New and additional 'distinctions' offer us (me) new and additional ways of thinking, and most significantly new and additional 'possibilities for action', both within (ourselves) and without (in the world). - Poh-Sun Goh, 11 August 2021, 0224am, Singapore Time

Inspired by Foreword by Julio Olalla, in Language and the pursuit of Happiness by Chalmers Brothers, 2005 edition, New Possibilities Press, Naples, FL [see pages i-1 to i-4].

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/08/valueadd-ontologicalawareness.html

https://www.slideshare.net/dnrgohps/appliedontology-from-theory-to-practice


https://flowcoachinginstitute.com/blog/life-coaching-skill-development-creating-awareness-for-coaching-clients-with-the-johari-window/

https://www.coachcert.com/coachingblog/creating-awareness/

Sunday, 8 August 2021

#ValueAdd #OntologicalAwareness #OntologicalCoaching(Process) - #Reflection #Observation #Evidence [CoachingGuide#2 report]

TAPOM Coaching Guide #2 Report - in 'alternative format', by Poh-Sun Goh, 9 August 2021 @ 0610am

What is the value add of Ontological Awareness, and full(-on) engagement with the Ontological Training and Coaching process for me?

Simply put - Transformative.

Four hours of daily effort, 7 days a week, since April 2021 has been a joyful experience of self-(re)-discovery; integration of previous experience (learning, training, practice, reflection, observation, and feedback - both formal and informal, both professional (and-in) in personal multi-year passion projects); daily 'ah-ha'! moments; deep sense of satisfaction (from both the 'joy of learning', and 'happiness' experience(d) from informed practice), not least to mention observing (seeing, hearing, feeling and sensing) on daily basis 'new' effects, and better ones - incremental, cumulative, and exponentially building on previous 'work' (which honestly does not feel like work or effort at all). 

In gratitude.

and Joy.

Poh-Sun



etc.
above from blog archive


Writing a ‘book’, a series of open access online blogposts, to use a culinary analogy is to prepare a ‘buffet’ of content, and share ‘recipes’, for clients, and diners, to sample, nibble on, taste, and consume as and when they are ‘hungry’ or ‘thirsty’ for (whatever) full range of nourishing items on open access buffet spread. Poh- Sun Goh, 19 August 2021, 0700am, Singapore Time


https://www.samuelthomasdavies.com/book-summaries/self-help/atomic-habits/

Michael Jorden top 10 rules (for success) (YouTube)

1. Keep working hard 

2. Ignite the fire  

3. Be different 

4. Fail your way to success 

5. Have high expectations 

6. Be positive  

7. Be who you were born to be 

8. Have a vision 

9. Stop making excuses 

10. Practice

-- Michael Jorden (from Michael Jorden top 10 rules (for success) (YouTube)

Smile - Release | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video) (YouTube) 

In, Out.

Deep, Slow.

Calm, Ease.

Smile, Release.

Present Moment, Wonderful Moment.

-- Thich Nhat Hanh

Jason Wilson's Viral Pep Talk Video, Guiding Kids Through Martial Arts (YouTube)

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/07/tapomprogressreport1.html

#Coachability #Will #Skill

Can You Really Improve Your Emotional Intelligence? by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic (HBR, May 29, 2013)

Kretzschmar, I. (2010). Exploring Clients’ Readiness for Coaching. International journal of evidence based coaching and mentoring, 1-20. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Exploring-Clients%E2%80%99-Readiness-for-Coaching-Kretzschmar/35eeef1a9b6ba094c20957a5d2144898a275414a

http://www.takechargecounseling.org/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/How_Many_Therapists_Does_It_Take_To_Change_A_Lightbulb.331122841.htm

Saturday, 7 August 2021

#Applied-#80/20-#Principle #ChaosTheory #FeedbackLoops #FirstComeBestServed #CumulativeEffort #Compounding #NetworkEffects #Focus #LifeWork #Reich'sLaw #EdTech #MatthewEffect


Simply put - 'Use it, or lose it'. Applied neurobiology. The (physical, mental, and emotional) 'training effect'. Using a sporting analogy, as avid tennis fan, and from watching recent summer Olympics 2021, observing sub-par performances attributed to 'being rusty', 'out of practice', not being 'match-ready' ..... Poh-Sun Goh, 8 August 2021, 0549am, Singapore Time





"The 80/20 Principle asserts that a minority of causes, inputs, or effort usually leads to a majority of the results, outputs or rewards." - page 4, Chapter 1: Welcome to the 80/20 Principle. from The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More with Less. by Richard Koch. First edition, 1998. A Currency Book, Published by Doubleday, New York.

"The 80/20 Principle, like chaos theory, is based around the idea of nonlinearity ... A great deal of what happens is unimportant and can be disregarded ... Yet there are always a few forces that have an influence way beyond their numbers ... ... the 80/20 Principle can be explained by reference to the feedback loops identified by chaos theory ... whereby small initial influences can become greatly multiplied and produce highly unexpected results." - page 13, Chapter 1: Welcome to the 80/20 Principle. from The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More with Less. by Richard Koch. First edition, 1998. A Currency Book, Published by Doubleday, New York.













above first posted on

Thursday, 5 August 2021

#CoachingInsights #Working-#TogetherWithClient #Roles-Process[owned-by-Coach]-Outcomes[owned-by-Client]

#CoachingInsights 

#Working-#TogetherWithClient 

#Roles-Process[owned-by-Coach]-Outcomes[owned-by-Client]

Poh-Sun Goh

6 August 2021, 0512am, Singapore Time


#Coach+#Coachee-working#Together-in#Partnership-with-#EqualStatus

#Roles-#Coach-Owns-Process+#Coachee-(Personal/Personalised)Outcomes


Reflection-on[after, during, before]-action

Inspired by #OCC-No1 with Coach Jim Smith and group Tele-class with Jim same day


https://coachingfederation.org/core-competencies

https://coachingfederation.org/app/uploads/2021/02/Updated-ICF-Core-Competencies.pdf

https://coachingfederation.org/ethics/code-of-ethics

https://coachingfederation.org/ethics/ethics-resources

https://coachingfederation.org/interpretive-statements


https://becomea.coach/get-informed/

https://becomea.coach/coach-training/

https://becomea.coach/join-icf/

https://becomea.coach/earn-a-credential/

https://becomea.coach/get-involved/

[above process is similar to journey to 'professionalise' an(y) area of (professional) practice]

Sunday, 1 August 2021

#TheBlankPage - #StartingEachDay #thePause #theEmptySpace(s)-between-each-#Letter-#Word-and-#Sentence(s)

[Value of -] #TheBlankPage #TheEmptySpace #The(Intentional)Pause

#Take-a-#Breath [-#Before] (added 14 August 2021, 0522am, Singapore Time)

Poh-Sun Goh

2 August 2021, 0658am, Singapore Time


We start each day with an empty page. Each moment with a pause, a (consciously intentional or subconscious) moment, before writing, speaking, or taking action. The spaces between each letter, between each word, and sentence(s) allows each letter and word to be defined. Both the empty space(s), and what we fill these with, are significant and important. - Poh-Sun Goh, 2 August 2021, 0705am, Singapore Time


“To maintain the value of a good violin bow and keep it in optimum playing condition, it is very important never to tighten the bow hair too much and to always loosen the bow hair after each playing session.” https://www.corilon.com/us/library/practical-advice/the-violin-bow-practical-tips-on-care-rehair-and-maintenance 

[good advice (metaphor) for work-life balance too! - Poh-Sun Goh, 1st August 2021]

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/07/life-dynamicawareness-current-future.html

“The key to mastering the violin is in not allowing unwanted extra physical movements to occur as a knock-on effect or by-product of actions that are actually needed. This includes any unnecessary tension or overwork.” - https://www.thestrad.com/10-ways-to-avoid-tension-in-your-playing/21.article 

[complementary metaphor - apply just enough ‘tension’ or effort, (for the job/task-at-hand)no more, (and) no less - Poh-Sun Goh, 1st August 2021]


https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/life-lessons-from-seagull-arun-chitnis

https://dailystoic.com/stoicism-buddhism/