I would like to gauge progress in my life not in terms of professional success, but in terms of my willingness of to be real and be seen. I think it is really easy to hide under a series of beliefs that ultimately go back towards how we should always be functioning differently than we really are. That said, my attitudes on this has changed dramatically over the past few years. I would like to gauge my own progress towards become more and more visible, flexible, risk-taking, and vulnerable.

My time at Socios en Salud has been has huge for me. I had my last “day of work in the office” there yesterday. The experience has been incredibly revealing personally and professionally, a huge step of many in the direction of global projects. It should be mentioned that working in Spanish for the first time is a huge, meaty, and often uncomfortable first. It requires enormous willingness and a nearly constant state of not understanding/learning. I am proud of my stepping out into it. Yesterday, during my final presentation I reviewed all 24 different activities I had done during my time at SES. It was humbling. I also wrote a script in Spanish that I hardly used. In addition to the fact that talking about yourself is not a particularly easy thing to do, it was off the cuff. It was out there. It was not perfect. It was honest, and I shared it.