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To Keep on Earning, Keep on Learning By Michelle L. Casto, M.Ed.

Success in the modern world takes more than just information and
knowledge. You must apply what you know to real life situations
and you must be open to learning, un-learning, and re-learning.
With the rapid advancement of technology, fluctuating economy
and societal and corporate changes, you must adopt a learning
mindset in order to succeed. Indeed, the key to lifelong earning
is lifelong learning.

As you embark on this lifelong learning path, strive to always
be a student. Open yourself to new ideas, information, concepts
and be adaptable—there are essential for the new world of
work. Some benefits of becoming a lifelong learner are:
increased self confidence when approaching new tasks or ideas
persistence in pursuing goals better decision-making and problem
solving skills the ability to be a career strategist improved
time management and organizational skills the ability to change
with the times greater personal satisfaction higher pay and
employment opportunities.

To become a student of life, start by finding out how you learn
best. There are three ways people learn: auditory (hearing),
visual (seeing), and kinesthetic (doing). If you are not sure
which type you are, ask yourself, “How do I like to be given
directions?” If you are an auditory learner, you prefer to be
told how to get there. If you are a visual learner, you prefer
to be shown how to get there. If you are a kinesthetic learner,
you prefer to actually drive there yourself.

Another important aspect to learning is whether you are left or
right-brained dominant. Left-brain dominant people are good with
logic, analysis, math, language, and writing. Right-brain
dominant people are good with imagination, colors, graphics,
music and rhythm. Of course we have the capacity for both; and
when we are able to tap into both sides of the brain, we are
using our brain’s full potential.

Many famous people used their whole brain. For example, Leonardo
Da Vinci was an artist and innovator. He sketched helicopters
hundreds of years ago because he was fascinated by mechanics. He
also used his knowledge of how the human body stands and moves
to create extraordinary, lifelike paintings.

Strive to use your whole brain when studying, working and
interacting with others. Also, be selective with what you feed
your brain. As the computer saying goes, “garbage in, garbage
out.” The same holds true for what programs your brain is using.
Therefore, only input positive, healthy and educational
programs. Keep in mind that your thoughts, along with your
ability to add, change, and discard them, is what essentially
makes up your mind.

An ancient Chinese proverb says it best, “To gain knowledge, add
things every day. To gain wisdom, remove things every day.” Just
like a computer needs to delete files and information that are
no longer useful, you have to discard information that no longer
serves you. Knowing what is important to know, as well as what
needs to go, will ensure that you have plenty of space left for
learning the next new thing.

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We rush to and from work or other activities. Appointments and
commitments fill our daily hours and we fall into bed exhausted
but find sleep hard to come. Our nerves are tensed because there
is so much more to do and so little time. Tempers flare and the
news media calls it “road rage” or “domestic violence.” Our
children feel stress at an early age and many of our older adult
population never get to find and enjoy their “golden years.”

Exactly what is happening to our daily lives to cause all this
unprecedented hyperactivity and tenseness? We certainly have
advanced in knowledge and ability from the previous generations,
but we still feel a nagging feeling to find the real truth.
There are enough entertainment toys to fill our homes with
noise, recorded laughter, and music to anesthesize our minds
into a temporary respite from our worries and our fears. We want
to leave our children a legacy of peace around the world, yet we
nit pick each other into a frenzy of hurt feelings and
lashbacks. There is definitely something wrong and even science,
as it progresses forward with new discoveries and insights,
can’t seem to be able to quiet our hearts, and fill our souls
with peace and tranquility.

No, science and technology can’t do it. Your co-workers and
friends can’t achieve it for you. You’re it. Just you - you’re
the only one who can put the brakes on this run-away activity
cycle and the desperate attempt at everyone and everything
around you to pull and tug in different directions and to leave
you frazzled and dazed. Your family can’t even put up your “stop
signs.” You’re definitely it. Only you can halt the super
activity cycle and enjoy quiet moments and refreshing
mini-vacations from the world and all its splendor. You say you
can’t find a moment’s peace, and that there are
responsibilities. Then learn response-ability. There’s a big
difference here. Response-ability is you being able to handle
day to day traffic of family, friends, work and play. It is the
capacity to control the flow of traffic because you are in
control. Constructing stop signs in your life, and enabling the
cool waters of stepping back and stepping out of the frenzy to
ease your fevered brow and calm the tumultuous waters of your
heart. It, in essence, means taking back control of your life.
It is giving yourself permission to stop, look around, enjoy the
scenery, listen to the sound of nothing, and return to the
highway of existence a better person and one who has developed
the innate ability to know when enough is enough. It is
mastering response-ability.

So gather up your tools, and supplies and begin constructing
those stop signs where and when you need them. You’re the
manager, the superintendent of the road of your life. Use your
authority to become aware and to stop before life pushes just a
little too hard. Take your responsibilities and handle them with
response-ability. You would be surprised how much easier traffic
flows and those annoying minor mishaps just don’t happen as
often and they don’t turn into major traffic jams. ENJOY!
©Arleen M. Kaptur 2002 July

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