September 9, 2009

3 Proactive Ways to Continue Learning

Filed under: Continuing Education — Tags: , , , — Leah Simpson @ 6:00 am

Leah SimpsonSeptember is the month that kids are heading back to school. For those of us who are not in formal school, how do we insure that we are continually learning?

Henry Ford said, “Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” How can we do this?

I will share with you three ways we can be proactive about the learning process, even without being in formal classrooms or universities.

1. Read

Reading 5 minutes a day will do you a world of good. If you only read ten books in your field per year, in four years, you will have read more information than most graduate students have in your area. You’ll be a little master of Read More...

September 3, 2009

Back to School Contest

David ShoupWith students returning to the classroom this month, we wanted to focus this month’s contest around education.

Education is the cornerstone to professional success and if you continue to invest in education over the course of a lifetime, constantly improving your skills, the heights you will reach personally and professionally are limitless.

So, the question to answer for this month’s contest is:

What is the most important concept you learned in school and why?

This could be anything that you learned in grades K-12. It could be a particular subject that has served you in adulthood, a life’s lesson a teacher taught you or a kernel of knowledge that has Read More...

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