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6 Steps to Accelerate
Your Way To Success
Have you noticed the pace of
change accelerating around you?
During that change, did you find yourself stressing to try to keep up? Have
you been witness to the nature of how work is changing? Are the lines between
work and personal life become blurred for you? Have the jobs around you in your
organization been disappearing? If any of these things have been happening
around you, you need to continue reading and discover the map to your own
survival.
Brian Tracy, author of Maximum Achievement, says, “Today’s
greatest source of wealth is between your ears.” In other words, your single most
precious source of your own wealth is your brain power. However, amazingly,
most stressed out business professionals rarely consider their own brain power.
Validate this for yourself. Ask ten colleagues you know if they consider themselves
creative and brilliant. Chances are few will say yes to that question.
Eighty-two percent of children entering the school system think of themselves
as creative learners. Amazingly, by the time they finish high school that
figure drops to 18%. What happens? Do people become “dumber” with more
education? Again, consider your own self as a case in point. How easily do you engage all areas of
your brain when trying to learn something? If you experience frustration, what
do you tell yourself? Do you know how to construct a learning session for
yourself to fully engage all areas of the brain and thus learn more efficiently
and productively?
There has been much call for
the corporate world to become “learning organizations,” where the rate of
adaptation of the workforce is on a never ending path. Unfortunately very few
organizations have done this well. The ones that do tend to dominate in their
industries. But what do the successful learning organizations do that others
fail to accomplish? For one, they are dedicated to their employees’ lifelong
learning and personal growth.
Ok, so you say your
organization is not one of these success stories. So what? An organization is a
collection of individuals. You are one of those. How dedicated are you to your lifelong
learning and growth? If you’re reading this, you probably are dedicated to your
own self-improvement and growth. But have you learned to powerfully unlock your
brain’s full capacity as a lifelong habit? In an ever increasing complicated
world, we all need to boost our brain’s power. There is a map that you can
follow:
- Motivating
your mind – ouch! When you are
trying to learn, how motivated and excited are you? Included in this step
is activating all four quadrants of the brain. Certain kinds of music can
help stimulate the brain into an active and awake state. Most importantly,
without this motivation, you are not ready to learn.
- Acquiring
the information – do you know
what your preferred mode of taking in information is? If you set up your
acquisition accordingly, your comprehension will be better and more
efficient. The Mindex Thinking Style Instrument can help
you better understand your preferred modes.
- Searching
out meaning – this means making
the information important to you personally. It implies integrating the
information to a much deeper level within ourselves. In my work as a live
trainer, rarely do I see this happen by itself in the learners. We have
become a passive vessel for information, often to our own detriment. Most
people do not think critically about the information they are being
blasted with. Thinking deeper requires energy. Our though energy is a
precious resource.
- Triggering
the memory – implies that you
actively bring the information back in a productive manner. Again, too
often adults have become very passive in their learning. Unless there is a
stress activator associated with the learning, such as a certification
exam, or need to implement a new process, mental rehearsal is often
perceived as “another thing to do.” Then when the learner has trouble
recalling the information 2 weeks later, s/he berates him/herself for
forgetting. Our Memory
Aerobics program covers everything you need to know about creating
memory.
- Exhibiting
what you know – this means a
mental dress rehearsal is a must if you want be sure of your learning.
Additionally, look for new opportunities to apply what you are learning as
soon as you can.
- Reflecting
on how you’ve learned – this
final step assures that you are mastering your own learning process.
Unfortunately, our cultural ways do not reinforce this behavior.
Reflection is perceived to require going off to a cave somewhere and spend
endless hours. The truth is that this step may only require a few brief
moments, perhaps only seconds, but it is essential to your mastery. Ask yourself: how is learning this
task going? How could it have gone better? What’s the significance of this
for me? These questions will help you really know how you, as an
individual brain, learns. It will create a path
to your own personal mastery of learning anything.
Productive Learning Systems, Inc. uses accelerated learning techniques in all of its
live training programs. We believe that is why our clients have such a high
degree of satisfaction with the results they get. Although it requires more
original thinking in the design of the program, we are dedicated to the result.
If you are interested in learning more about accelerated
learning Click
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