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DEVELOPING CONSISTENCY: BEHAVIOURS INVOLVED

  Every single one of us has the potential to be so much more than we are, and throughout our lives, we stumble upon so many amazing ideas and take great initiatives for our growth and well-being, and we also go to great lengths to get started and get things going. So many great ideas and initiatives just get buried in the ground forever. So many people who have the potential to achieve so much never make it, only because of the  lack of consistency . We often have so many positive intentions and thoughts, and we often know what we “should” do to increase the quality of our lives. If only we could consistently follow some of our life’s callings, our lives might transform beyond our imagination. This can also lead to:- 1)       Self Doubt. Doubting our own ability to be consistent and ability to follow through, leading to people’s image of us being inconsistent. 2)       Self Image. This doubting impacts our self-image and self-esteem.  3)       Loss Of Trust. This leads

UNDERSTANDING MODERN LEARNING BEHAVIOURS

The first thing we need to do, is think differently about the word “learning” itself. Learning doesn’t just happen when we are trained or taught or study something – that’s definitely the traditional view of learning: sitting in a school classroom or university lecture hall or in a corporate training room or working through an online course on your computer.  Of course, training is important – but it’s not the only way we learn at work. Research shows that people use digital tools to learn in 4 different but interconnected ways: 1)       People learn through   Discovery  – that is by finding things out themselves (mostly on the Web) through searching or serendipitous browsing. We might also refer to this as  Informal Learning 2)       People learn by Interacting With Others (whether it be in their professional social networks (like Twitter or LinkedIn) or with their work colleagues. We can refer to that as  Social Learning. 3)       People learn from   from their Everyday Work

MENTAL/ BRAIN BANDWIDTH: PERCEPTION AND DISCERNMENT

Everything we do (thinking and doing) occupies some bandwidth. Some things occupy a little and others a lot. Examples of things that occupy a little, for most people, are walking, drumming your fingers, or tapping your foot, and things that we are expert at because we have done them often. Examples of things that occupy a lot are talking, listening to information, doing anything we have to concentrate hard on, doing things that we are not expert in because we have not done them before. Driving a car is a good way to envisage this. When we were learning to drive, we had to concentrate extremely hard . We would not have been able to hold a conversation while driving. Almost all our attention was involved in trying to drive. Now that we are an expert , we do not usually have to use so much of our attention. Of course, we still must use a fair amount, but we could also have a conversation while driving. But then, every now and then while we are driving along, something happens that mean