Meet our new lovebird, Kelly, for kelly green. She is only 3 months old.
Kelly is learning new things, like any new baby.
She is still exploring and testing climbing.

Learning takes 3 stages:

First, you need to have KNOWLEDGE.
You might say you have learned something
because you have read something.
But that is all you have - knowledge. That is not enough.
Just having knowledge doesn’t mean you can do it.
Kelly has the knowledge that she can climb with her beak and feet.

Second, you need to turn the knowledge into a SKILL.
You have to do something with the knowledge.
Kelly found an artificial tree in a wicker basket.
She had to figure out the parts of the wicker basket that intertwine
and where she could grasp it to climb up to the tree.

Third, you have to turn the skill into a HABIT.
You can do this by repeating the skill over and over.
Kelly is still working on this. Everyday we let her out,
and she goes over to the wicker basket to climb to the tree. She studies the intertwined wicker.
One day she will climb fast when she knows what to grab.
(I cannot get a picture because her green color hides her in the tree.)

Here’s another example. Think of learning the times table.
When you go to the store,
you don’t think 3 items at $5 each is $5 + $5 + $5.
You know 3 x 5 =15.
It comes to you quickkly and automatically – that is a habit.
This is true learning, when you use the knowledge automatically.

What are you learning for 2010? Have you chosen something new to learn how to do? If not, you will get what you always get, the same result.

One of my key goals for 2010 is to create learning products – how to manuals. To help you learn new things. To help you save time by being more efficient.

Based on the survey, some of you like to read, and some like to listen.
So we are starting with 2 reading products and then some webinars.
The Take Action File is going through a revision and is almost complete.
It will be ready in March.

If you have piles in your IN BOX, physical or email,
you are going to want this. It is going to organize your IN BOX.
Wouldn’t that be nice!

As they say in the movies ….coming very soon.

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