I Learn for Life with Rosie

08/08/2025

Learning changes your mind — literally.

And not just what you know, but how you feel.

When you’re actively learning, you’re not just growing knowledge. You’re growing:

🌱 Wellbeing – Learning brings a sense of progress and purpose. It boosts motivation, energy, and joy.

🛡 Resilience – New skills and insights help you bounce back faster and face challenges with confidence.

🌊 Stress Relief – Focused learning offers a break from overwhelm. It gives your mind something constructive to hold onto.

🫁 Anxiety Reduction – When you learn how things work — including yourself — the unknown becomes less scary.

💡 Self-belief – Learning proves you can adapt. You can grow. You can shape your future.

💫 But here’s where it gets even more powerful:

Learning creates ripple effects.

When you grow, everyone around you benefits:

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Your children watch you model curiosity and courage.
🤝 Your coworkers feel your energy and problem-solving skills.
❤️ Your relationships shift when you better understand your patterns, emotions, and values.
🌍 Your community becomes stronger as more people engage with life intentionally.

Learning doesn’t stop with you — it starts with you. And it expands outward.

Learning isn’t just for school. It’s for life.

And when you do it with intention, it becomes one of the most powerful tools for mental health and connection you’ll ever use.

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Disclaimer: Written by Rosie reviewed & edited by AI

01/08/2025

Learning feels like…

It feels like:
A sudden click of understanding
The discomfort of not knowing...yet
Hope that you’re growing, even when it’s messy
The focus that sharpens when you find meaning
Confusion, courage, then clarity
A return to yourself

Learning doesn’t always feel “good”, but it’s always powerful.
Because every time you learn, you expand the way you see, think, act… and live.

It’s not just what you know.
It’s who you become.

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What does learning feel like for you right now?

Tag someone who inspires your learning journey.

18/07/2025

Learning isn’t just memorising facts or sitting in a classroom.

Learning is how we grow.

It’s how we adapt to change, make sense of our world, and become more us over time.

At its core, learning is a process of transformation, of stretching the way we think, feel, and act.

Learning can feel like:
– Confusion… followed by clarity.
– Trying… and failing… and trying again.
– An “aha” moment that lights up your mind and body.
– Doubt turning into direction.
– A new way of seeing the same old thing.

Sometimes it feels exciting. Other times, it’s uncomfortable, like outgrowing a pair of shoes you didn’t even realise were too tight.

But it’s always movement.

And the moment you notice yourself handling something differently, with more calm, more insight, more skill, that’s learning.

What has learning felt like for you lately?

28/05/2025

If you’ve ever felt like you should “have it all figured out by now”…

Let this be your reminder:

You are not late.
You are not behind.
You’re exactly on time for your own life.

This space is for the curiously-minded, growth orientated, lifelong learners.

Welcome back. 🌱

26/05/2025

I created I Learn for Life because I realised how much I had to unlearn and reframe as an adult.

How to set boundaries.
How to sit with discomfort.
How to feel emotions without drowning in them.
How to be human in a world that doesn’t teach us how.

This page is a place to explore all that and more—together.

Let’s talk about what really matters, even if we didn’t learn it in school.
That’s the kind of learning that lasts for life.

21/05/2025

19/05/2025

26/09/2022

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23/09/2022

🧐 Spotlight on:

THE ACHIEVEMENT vs. EFFORT DILEMMA

There is a lot of focus on praising effort (determination, grit, perseverance) over achievement (marks, grades, certificates) as a means to develop resilience and support the mental wellbeing of young people.

It makes sense in many ways, because we have a lot of control over the effort we exert when learning and not as much over our achievement.

I was talking to a parent the other day who was disappointed that her child hadn't achieved a merit award at school. Especially because 'she tries so hard and is a good kid'. She was upset that more 'disruptive children' were receiving recognition from the teacher when, from her (and her child's) perspective, there were others more deserving.

Disappointment and lack of achievement is always going to be the case! I know people who have auditioned for roles on Broadway, gone for a job promotion, tried out for a soccer team, and they just didn't succeed, even though they were each highly skilled and competent!

The positive impact for the kids who don't 'get in' is, they develop superior resilience, grit, perseverance and determination compared to kids who are constantly recognised for achievements.

Yes, it is disappointing when we don't get external recognition but the constant focus on attainment turns out to be detrimental to our mental health.

You hear people say 'once I get XYZ I will be happy or content or fulfilled' but it is never enough and once you attain XYZ how long does the feeling last until you need to substitute it with another XYZ to feel happy again.

Highly achievement focussed individuals often turn out to be very unfulfilled adults, always wanting the next best thing and forgetting to enjoy the present moment.

It is important that we teach our children (and ourselves) to apply effort for internal motivators and celebrate that effort (especially when they fail!)

This is more important than celebrating achievement of awards (if you do get an award, it's the effort that should be recognised and celebrated over the certificate itself).

It is all well and good to say focus on effort, but it is undermined by the mean-ends assessment approach of schooling and the attainment of marks to get into University (ATAR). There are significant mental health impacts on young people with such a high focus on attainment and achievement.

What's the solution? Apart from a complete systemic educational re-design?

Focus on the development of values with your young people. These include learning, growth, change, kindness. Values will always help you to move forward when you don't achieve what you initially set out to achieve.

What values you do talk about with your child? Comment below as I would love to add to the list

Here are some examples: honesty, kindness, empathy, adventure, diversity, freedom, learning, growth, advancement, knowledge, challenge, ambition, reliability, service, order, commitment

P.S. On a personal note I know how difficult it can be to focus on effort over achievement. A few weeks ago my 6 year old was working with a group of developmental paediatricians and throughout the training was asking "Did I get it right, do I get a treat?!"

21/09/2022

Ever find yourself dwelling over things that happened in the past?