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Category Archives: Learning Tips
Make More Time: Deal with Distractions
A sure way to slow down your work and feel like there’s never enough time in the day is by being constantly distracted. If you’re serious about creating more time for what actually matters to you, try any or all … Continue reading
Increase Your Focus: Use a Timer
When you need to focus right now to get a task done, review information you’re learning, or practice a specific skill, using a timer is an enormously successful focusing strategy. Here’s how it works: STEP 1: Choose one task or … Continue reading
Ten Minute Virtuoso Tip: Take a Single Step Today
Goals, to-do lists, business plans, projects, dreams and desires. It can all seem overwhelming, getting what you truly want in life. Here’s a Ten Minute Virtuoso tip: Give yourself permission to take just one step toward your goal today. That’s … Continue reading
Make More Time: Use Visualizations
You can practice any skill without actually doing the skill itself. See, hear, and feel yourself doing the skill perfectly. If you can, also taste and smell the process. The more senses the better! Take mental control of any aspect … Continue reading
Make Learning Enjoyable for Best Results
Whether you’re learning information or mastering skills, how you go about learning is crucial to your success. I’m constantly hunting for new insights into the most efficient and effective ways to learn so I can share those insights with my … Continue reading
Focusing without Distraction
Cal Newport has a new book out titled Digital Minimalism. This book follows up on his previous book titled Deep Work. Both explore the concept that he calls “deep work” that is often referred to as “monotasking” by researchers and … Continue reading
Make More Time: Use Down Time
There are many times a day when a few “dead” minutes occur. This “down time” exists in everyone’s day, even yours! Yes, I know you’re busy. And, I also know that you have several times a day when you’re not … Continue reading
Increase Your Focus: Have No More than Three Goals
Here’s a sure way to remain unfocused and get nothing done: Have 10 or 12 goals when you sit down to concentrate on something. Whether you’re learning some information or working on a physical skill, that’s just too many things … Continue reading
Increase Your Focus: Have an Ending Time
Want to increase your focus? Always have an ending time for your activity. An ending time serves as a mini-deadline, and deadlines have a way of making us focus a lot more intently than we usually do. Plan your ending … Continue reading
Increase Your Focus: Restart
Even though research shows that people can’t focus intently on an activity for more than 17 – 20 minutes at a time, this research also shows that you can re-start what you’re doing and give your brain the chance to … Continue reading
