Riding A Transition Wave

What skills or lessons have you learned recently?
Jet Pack Prompt 12/16/25


“Transitions in life can offer opportunities for discovery.” (Robbie Shelly)

I’d like to combine the words skills and lessons as one unified entity in this blog. Let’s consider then that I’ve chosen some previously learned skills that I’ve decided to seek improvement on recently while lessons follow-up as personal conclusions I’ve determined about the success of such transitional efforts. Know as well that these desired changes during this busy holiday season have been strictly targeted toward enhancing my quality of life at home while I’ve uncharacteristically chosen to not be traveling. So here we go below with three examples.

SKILL #1 – SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

I’ve taken a greater interest in the challenging pursuit of my Duolingo Spanish lessons in a more two way conversational way with friends and strangers. That means paying more attention to key words I know best that I hear and feel confident enough to respond with an appropriate phrase of my own.

LESSON #1 – I will do anything I can to slow the conversation down to give me more time to process the listening information . Say it to me 3-4 times if needed.

SKILL #2 – BIKE ROUTE ADAPTATIONS

At our new condo community, there’s heavy restrictions as to where I can actually ride my bike. That means repeating a set route each day for exercise rather than riding around freely for the joy of sightseeing adventure. As such, measurement of time spent pedaling and distance traveled from home capture my attention more for such strictly workout purposes

LESSON #2 – There’s little sense in just pedaling non stop to work up a sweat. Thus I need to take more time to just sit on a park bench or picnic table to rest quietly during this routine to gain more enjoyment of this hobby.

SKILL #3 – JET PACK BLOGGING

I notice a shift in the subjects of my blog beyond just travel. So I’m using Jet Pack topic prompts daily more to generate 1st person self reflections.

LESSON #3 – I observe my blog readership has expanded this past month in response to my more diverse selection of topics other than travel. My blogs also take less time to write with less emphasis on copy/paste thoughts from my notes app along with fewer photographic enhancements.