Making It Happen: Finishing Your CTSM Portfolio: The more time, the stronger the commitment

Making It Happen: Encouragement for CTSM Candidates

The Trade Show Maven

The more time, the stronger the commitment

"We develop commitment to whatever we've spent time on:
the more time, the stronger the commitment."
—Nancy Anderson, Work with Passion

When you spend time in a daily practice it becomes second nature to you. What if you spent 10 minutes a day just thinking about your portfolio and writing down your thoughts? Not actually writing your portfolio, just thinking about it? I think you'll be surprised.

Like any practice, when you focus on it often enough you get into a rhythm, and you start to enjoy the process. At first, the thinking will be just that, thoughts jumping in and out of your mind, but after a few days, you begin to write down some really good thoughts, and that will lead to thoughts of how to organize your portfolio, what photos and illustrations your might use, and what words you might use to describe the event.

Give yourself a chance. Try spending ten minutes a day, thinking about your portfolio, and before you know it writing and organizing your CTSM portfolio will flow.

Gail Hernandez, Gold-Level CTSM
(aka The Trade Show Maven)