Episode 187 Build Yourself A Ladder To Succeed

This week we're thinking about the past and thinking about what we want to achieve in the future. We're looking at what has worked before in your learning journey, and what hasn't. Don't think of this as 'failure' and 'success' but rather useful information to help you improve how you learn in the future. As I say in the video, the most important thing you can learn about is yourself. Learn how you learn, what works for you and what doesn't work for you. This is the fastest way to improve your learning strategies and systems. But often we forget to look back, we do as much as we can, but we don't stop to think about WHY something did or didn't work. Sometimes it really had nothing to do with you: work was too busy, you had a baby; life happened! There's nothing you can do about that. But sometimes it is about us. Maybe the goal was too big, maybe we set ourselves too big of a task. For some people, for example, setting a goal of studying for an hour a day is easy for them to achieve, it's a low bar. But for others' one hour is far too much, and amid everything else in their lives it's an impossible ask, for them perhaps 10 minutes really is all they can manage. Again, it's not about judgement. It's about understanding yourself and your life and finding what works for you. And that might look different to anything you did in school or anything you might imagine. You might bring some strategies over from work, or you might hear a useful way to think about your learning in a TV drama. Whatever works! So take time this week to assess what happened before and learn from it. Then plan 2024 with more realistic goals, more achievable plans and strategies and systems that will support your learning rather than make you feel inadequate or lazy. Good luck! Vocabulary assessed - to evaluate or calculate the value or success of something achievable goals - goals that are accomplishable using realistic strategies, methods and time commitments. Vocabulary From The Blog It's a low bar - American English - the goal is too achievable, something is easy to accomplish. and amid everything else - between or amongst