Lifelong Learning for Personal Success: Mental Strength Tip #177

Personal success is achieved through the disciplined execution of a fully established personal development plan which includes all levels of lifelong learning, both formal and informal.

This virtual personal coaching session is to assist you in your self-improvement, personal growth and personal development.

It is intended to create self-empowerment and inspire you to take action so that you can reach your personal goals and personal success.

I take a personal growth topic, in this case lifelong learning, and give an overview about it.  Then I’ll continue by asking a series of mental strength questions.  I’ll wrap-up with a summary and some final thoughts.

Take your time with this topic, carefully consider your responses to the questions and write them down.  Personal growth is not supposed to be easy, it takes courage to face yourself.  But when you develop the courage and mental strength to do actually this, you will be building confidence.

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Objective of this Mental Strength Tip on Lifelong Learning:

To persuade you that lifelong learning, both formal and informal, is one of the key factors to extraordinary personal success.

Let’s Get Started:

The issue that many individuals underachieve in their careers is because they just don’t appreciate how long it takes to achieve mastery in any field.

Extensive research in this area suggests that it requires about five to seven years of hard work for you to move to the top of your field and continued lifelong learning.

This means five to seven years of focused, concentrated, determined hard work on yourself to get better and better in the key result areas that are responsible for your personal development. And there are no short cuts.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Lifelong Learning:

• Do you believe in lifelong learning from your own experience and the experience of others?
• What form of self-education do you believe in and what forms do you feel are a waste of time?
• If lifelong learning and personal development are so powerful, why does only 5 percent of the population take advantage of it?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Lifelong Learning:

• Formal education is the only way to succeed.
• The more degrees you have the more money you’ll make.
• Personal development and self-help is for naive, uneducated people.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Lifelong Learning:

• Personal development is for everyone.
• When you stop learning you stop growing.
• Learning and growing are the keys to personal success.

Outrageous Questions about Lifelong Learning:

• If you invested more time educating yourself on a daily basis would you be more successful?
• If you had to produce evidence that you’re engaged in lifelong learning, could you?
• Why does 95% of the population ignore the power of lifelong learning?

Reflective Questions on Lifelong Learning:

If you were involved in lifelong learning would you feel happier?

If the average person reads on book per year what would happen if you read ten books per year?

What beliefs would you have to let of in order to increase the intensity of your personal development program?

Mental Strength Coaching on Lifelong Learning:

Below are 15 tips on how to keep lifelong learning active and create this mental strength behavior.

1)      Always have a book.

2)      Keep a “To-Learn” List

3)      Get More Intellectual Friends

4)      Guided Thinking

5)      Put it Into Practice

6)      Teach Others

7)      Clean Your Input

8)      Learn in Groups

9)      Unlearn Assumptions

10)  Find Jobs that Encourage Learning

11)  Start a Project

12)  Follow Your Intuition

13)  The Morning Fifteen

14)  Reap the Rewards

15)  Make it a Priority

Final Thought on Lifelong Learning:

Lifelong learning is the “ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated” pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons. Therefore, it not only enhances social inclusion, active citizenship, and personal development, but also self-sustainability, rather than competitiveness and employability.

Evolved from the term “life-long learners” created by Leslie Watkins and used by Professor Clint Taylor (CSULA) and Superintendent for the Temple City Unified School District’s mission statement in 1993, the term recognizes that learning is not confined to childhood or the classroom but takes place throughout life and in a range of situations.

During the last fifty years, constant scientific and technological innovation and change has had a profound effect on learning needs and styles. Learning can no longer be divided into a place and time to acquire knowledge (school) and a place and time to apply the knowledge acquired (the workplace). Instead, learning can be seen as something that takes place on an on-going basis from our daily interactions with others and with the world around us.

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