Overall guidelines to keep you focused and "underwhelmed!"

• Treat this training like school, or your job-- work regular hours-
  • Over taxing your brain with marathons day after day will get you nowhere and burn out fast--thus the clock!
  • If you have a day job: create a schedule for yourself, set aside a few hours a night, or set aside certain nights of the week, or weekend time.
  • If your days are free, set aside normal 9-5 kind of thing--with breaks!
• Anything you read, read through first with no pens, or not notes.
  • Second time through take notes.
• Vocabulary is the exception to that rule!
  • Comprehension cannot happen without learning the terms!
  • Use one section of the spiral notebook and devote it to jotting vocabulary terms down as you run into them.
  • If the definition is embedded in the text, or has a blue link, take the time to write the definition down.
  • If not, just jot the word down leave space for a definition.
  • If the definition has an unfamiliar word, trust me it will, people forget newbies do not know these terms, jot it down!
  • Before reading the second time through, go to Help> WApedia Definition Database. It is the WA resource for definitions!
• Print Judiciously, but don't be afraid to print a long resource if it will help you!
  • In the spiral notebook, use another section to write the names of resources you THINK might be good.
  • Note the website address, the specific tutorial title, and authors name or the forum post, category, authors name and date
  • Once you have looked at a few resources, go back and choose the best one to keep close at hand.
• Keep your brain, heart and soul fed
  • Take breaks!
  • Eat- treat yourself!
  • You will need the caffeine! or sugar...
  • Back ground music has been proven to improve concentration.
    • Keep it a level where you can just barely hear it.
    • Keep it no words, listening to words while reading different words send conflicting messages.
    • If reviewing or poking around, or creating something, words can be OK.
  • Do not overdo it, take time off, go outside, take a day or two away, read a mystery, clean the house--Trust me your soul needs fed this way!

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