Guest Post: Resilience and Patience by Hilary Cluett
Guest Post: Resilience and Patience by Hilary Cluett
A short experience when I learned patience
Hi friends,
In an effort to widen our circle and learn from new voices and diverse viewpoints in the design field, I am inviting guests to share a post on topics that you will find valuable. Would you like to share a post on Low Fidelity? Hit reply and let’s talk.
Today’s guest post is from my friend Hilary Cluett. Hilary is a business English coach who uses AI, role play, and the Bubble Method to empower UX designers to design and deliver solutions everyone will easily understand. Hilary is the creator of the UX Vocabulary Club in which she introduces a new descriptive word through daily videos to help UX designers use words correctly.
Hilary has an inspiring story to share with us.
Resilience and Patience
by Hilary Cluett
A short experience when I learned patience
I step off the curb. Feeling off-balance, I try to steady myself, teetering back and forth.
“Geeze, move faster!” He said as he brushed by my shoulder and zoomed across the street.
I only have four lanes to cross, and the countdown clock has already started counting down the seconds I have left to reach my destination.
I keep going. One foot slowly in front of the other. I am focusing on balance and how my foot is below my ankle. My ankle is below my knee. My knee is below my hip. As I move these components of my body, I’m gaining distance on the pavement.
The clock is now the image of a hand, palm toward me, flashing red. Yet, I cannot stop now.
The drivers in their cars are staring at me. A couple honks their horn loudly, trying to push me out of the way with sound. I keep going because I’m close. I can make it.
Yes. I raise my right foot and step up onto the sidewalk. I lift my body, thoroughly exhausted from the ordeal of a simple crossing.
But now that I’m here, my journey has just begun.
Reader Exercise:
Learning to walk again after experiencing a catastrophic leg injury was an exquisite lesson in patience. I believe the backbone of resilience is patience because without it, what would hold you up? What would motivate you to accomplish your dreams, move past obstacles in your way, or my case, cross the road?
Was there a moment today where you had to exercise patience? Or is there a moment where you might have been more patient?
Please share your story with us!
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Contact Hilary
With AI, role play and the bubble method, I empower UX designers to deliver their design solutions so that everyone will understand. You can join our discussion using this hashtag, #bubblemethod.
My strength is in setting up systems to achieve streamlined production. I'm consistent, fast, and don't take failure too seriously. Although, this is something I work on daily and actively seek help to do. UX Designers inspire me, and I enjoy building a network and writing articles to help them advance their careers.
If this is interesting to you, and you want to improve how you deliver presentations and communicate in English, please message me on LinkedIn or send me an email. I cannot wait to show you what I mean!
You can learn more about Hilary on Twitter, LinkedIn, and on hilarycluett.com or email her directly at Hilary@hilarycluett.com
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Thank you, Rizwan, for a fun experience writing about my take on resilience!
And to answer my question:
Every day I try to be more patient with myself. I'm no master at this yet, but eventually, I might be.
Speaking of resilience, yesterday I received feedback on a recent project I completed. Overall it was great feedback with a few nudges on areas I could improve in. I used to get down and worry about the feedback and not living up to expectations I had for myself. Now I embrace the feedback and know that this is the secret sauce for becoming more aware of my skills and to be able to address the areas I need to in order to grow as a designer. The key part for me is to be resilient and use the feedback to learn from instead of feeling down because of it.