Commit To Lifelong Learning

The following is from The Goal Wizard Show Episode 028. It has been adapted for publication HERE.


Definition from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition:


"Learning: Knowledge or skill acquired by instruction or study."


Education in the classroom isn't enough


We are living in a fast-paced world with knowledge accelerating to the point where obsolescence becomes faster and faster. What was valid, say, in technology 18 months ago, is obsolete now. Now college education does help, but isn't necessarily necessary. Famous example, of course, is Bill Gates who dropped out of Harvard to eventually found MicroSoft.


I strongly recommend that you read at least 2 hours a day in your chosen field. If you can do more, great, but at least 2 hours.


Build a library, use a library


My own library is the first thing people notice when they enter my apartment. Most other homes have a large television that commands attention, but I have books. Books I have acquired from The Thrift Store. What I don't have in terms of books that have been recently published, I turn to the Public Library. If you don't have one, at the very least, get a Library Card. Most libraries it is free, others you pay a very nominal fee of one or two dollars.


Audio and video programs


I have a collection of DVDs, CDs and MP3s on personal development. Instead of music on my MP3 player, I have dozens of audio programs I listen to as I walk to work. If you have a car, listen to personal development/success programs instead of music. If someone is riding with you, turn off the CD player/radio entirely and focus instead on having a conversation with the people in your car.


Lifelong


Learn not only from books and other media, but from personal life experience. Learn from your family, friends, co-workers. They have much to teach you, if you're willing. That ancient Chinese maxim applies: "When the student is ready, the teacher appears."


So make the World your Classroom.


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Tim


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Be Interested Instead of Interesting

(This Post is based on The Goal Wizard Show Episode 029 originally broadcast on June 12, 2012. It has been slightly modified for publication HERE.)


There is nothing new in this concept. 75 years ago in 1937 Dale Carnegie presented it in his classic book How to Win Friends and Influence People. And it still holds true to-day.


Engage others. In conversations, pay attention to what is being said, both in the words being used and in body language as well. Be there in the present moment. Try not to "tune out" the other person, i.e. rehearsing in your mind what you're going to say next. Ask questions to connect, not interrogate. And don't play "me too." People love to talk about their favourite subject...themselves! Push your ego aside if you can.


That is not to say do not endeavour to stand out from the crowd if you're in business for yourself; then you want to be interesting, and always remember that it is SERVICE that matters most. Zig Ziglar said it best when he said "You can get what you want if you help enough people get what they want."


So get out there and make it happen.


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