How to Learn Faster and Better

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You want to start a business and build it successfully to make more money.

Maybe you just want it as a part-time business to supplement your full-time job - or even some other kind of business or work you do.

Perhaps you dream of eventually being able to quit your job and work for yourself in your own business full time.

If you are like most people - you would really love to have some of that elusive "Passive Income" everybody keeps talking about too.

But how can you get from where you are in your work and in life to where you want to be in business and in life?

How can you do it?

Consider a Systematic Approach to Learning and Action Taking

You can wander all around the net - and through life too - just kind of stumbling from thing to thing and learning by trial and error and random discovery.

That's the approach often taken.

Or you can choose to be much more focused and intentional in your approach.

Here is how you can do that;

1. Gather Information - Once you have an idea of what you want, you need to clarify your vision and get it more precise. You do that by seeking out additional information needed to answer the questions you must formulate - and they all begin with "How can I..."

2. Choose Your Own Course - In part, that means to make your own intentional and considered decisions, and then choose both what you want to accomplish and how you will go about it. Here is where you take that vision and turn it into specific GOALS too. Then decide how you will get the additional resources and training and support you need. Figure out what you really want - and WHY - and focus like an obsession on that.

3. Begin Taking Consistent ACTION - Do something every day toward your goals. Break them all down and break them down again into individual tasks. That way you will not become confused and overwhelmed so easily - and it increases your own chances of success.

4. Track, Manage and Control - Your time, your energy, your money, and everything else - do it systematically using a planner and other task management systems and resources on a daily basis.

5. Assess and Adjust - You need to track your own progress and when things are working repeat them. When they are not - then adjust them as needed. You can also seek (and should!) outside help from other people. It can be a community such as WA, or a group, a consultant, coach, mentor - or some combination of them all.

6. Maintain Target Angle - To be successful in ANY business - you must always remember that you have to add VALUE. Look at all things from the perspective of your customers and clients - what do THEY want and how can you give it to them and make a fair profit in the process, while always providing value first over profit.

7. Ask for Help and Give Help Too - You and I, nor anyone else will ever know everything about anything - try as we might. That's truth and that is reality. Yet the tendency is to become somewhat arrogant internally and to think we do at times. That prevents us from seeking answers to questions we have and which we need to be asking. It stops us from learning effectively. That prevents improvement. So always guard against that. One example I will use personally is what I tell myself - and teach other truck drivers and owner-operators " Respect the truck and it will take care of you, disrespect it - and it will kill you". That is a hard cold truth in trucking too when operating tractor-trailers - but beyond that, the same concept applies to everything else too (though maybe not as likely to involve physical destruction). The point is to be confident - but remain alert and remind yourself at all times that there is always more to learn... Beyond all that, once you know enough to be able to render help to others, then do that too.

As people ask questions - or as you learn lessons yourself share your knowledge and experiences. Helping others will force you to seek out greater clarification and learning - and that will help them - but it will also help YOU even more in the process.

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Use the training that is here for you.

Build your profile first. Then follow some other members. Add a few every day, and they will follow you back too - some but not all.

When people follow you - then you should consider following them back too.

Also immediately start your training - start the first course and set yourself a schedule - then simply show up each day at the time you chose (and scheduled) for yourself - and do the work.

Finish each lesson - and do the work.

Complete the tasks - and be sure you are clear on what you are doing. If not then you can do a couple of things to get more clarity. One is to ASK QUESTIONS - and you have many ways here to do that which are all also explained in your training, including asking the community - or directly messaging your sponsor/coach - or any other member (once you are a Premium member).

You can and should also go back through the lessons more than once - you will pick up new info that you just overlooked the first time through it all. So repeat your training a couple of times or more as desired and any time as is needed in specific areas.

Put in the time and the effort.

I have trained thousands of people over the years. More than 4000 students have taken my courses on Udemy so far and more are enrolling each and every day. While I am honored and appreciative of each and every one of them too - that number pails in comparison to the number of people I have already trained in person eyeball to eyeball over the decades.

One thing I want you to know is that in all cases a few things that are required for you to be able to learn and apply anything that matters. The first is the right Mindset - followed by Action - and by Time.

Let me use trucking again as an example.

I can teach almost anyone how to drive a tractor-trailer in about four weeks. In fact, when I set up and ran my first class many years ago I taught my first 4 students in only two weeks - and they all passed the state licensure skills exam and received their CDL's.

But I had them training for 12 hours per day - and they worked extremely hard. too hard in fact, and I realized I had to bump out the training time to about 4 weeks which is sufficient for most people without making them feel like they were in military boot camp.

So the initial training takes time, and even then - as they were all taught - all that really does is gets them to the point of being able to get a CDL (commercial drivers license) and get a job where they will go back into another 2 to 12 weeks of additional Road Training with a trainer/mentor while they are actually out delivering real freight in the real world.

Even then...

When they finally leave their road trainer and get their own truck - training is NOT over!

It is just the BEGINING...

That means they must continue practicing and developing their skills - and that takes hundreds to even thousands of hours in the driver's seat and doing the work.

Most insurance companies will not consider a driver to be an experienced driver until they have 2 full years or more of driving experience. Why? Because on average - that is how long it takes most people to become proficient to a professional level...

These are just some things to think about - ponder and then decide if it makes sense to you or not. If it does, use it.

That's about it for this one, I'm off now to work on my next Udemy course which I will be launching soon.

Until next time, be safe and always remember;