From the course: Time Management Tips

Getting the most from learning opportunities

From the course: Time Management Tips

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Getting the most from learning opportunities

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- Ever attended a great conference, but just came away feeling overloaded? Even watching a course like this where you're getting lots of ideas and it's just too much for you to take action on? This is a significant problem, because I believe that the shorter the distance between you learning something and taking action on it, the more successful you'll become. This is why, before I give any speech to an audience, I recommend that people don't take notes about what I say, but take action. What do I mean by that? First of all, I recommend that you listen for actions while you're learning. The question you want to ask yourself is, what can I do about what I'm learning? You can take notes on the wonderful things that a speaker says to you; however, what's more important are the wonderful things that you say to you. Those moments when you say, I should do something about that, those are the things that are most important for you to write down. Second, as you're taking notes, you want to highlight actions. As you're going through the presentation, writing down the notes, anytime an action comes to mind, put a big open box next to that note, put a star around it, highlight it. Do anything you need to do to draw attention to the fact that here is something I need to do about what I learned. Number three is process those actions. After the conference, as you're looking through the notes, you want to look for those highlighted called out actions. In my course, Time Management Fundamentals, I talk about what, when, where processing, but in short, it's deciding what the next step is, when it will be done and where its home is, which leads to the fourth step, just simply take action. When you process something, you decide what's a date and a time that I'm going to do something about it, and you put it on your calendar. So, when that time arrives on your calendar, just do it, simply take any action about what you learned. When you do that it helps solidify the teaching that you heard in your mind, and this will help you continually move forward. Knowledge is power, but doing something about that knowledge is even more powerful.

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