If learning is the key to success, than accelerating your learning will accelerate your journey to personal and professional success. Here are five of my favourite “mini-tips” -fun(da)mental assumptions for making learning how to succeed fast, easy, and fun…
The word ‘savor’ comes from the Latin ‘sapere’, which means both ‘to taste” and ‘to be wise.’ As it is commonly used today, to savor something is to indulge in it – to taste it slowly and appreciate it deeply.
As described by Martin Seligman in his excellent book Authentic Happiness, there are essentially four kinds of savoring:
Reach into your purse or pocket and pull out some paper money – dollars, pounds, krona, yen, whatever you’ve got to hand…
Now try the following mini-experiment…
On September 1st, 1990, I taught my very first course to 15 people in a small classroom at the Camden College of English in Chalk Farm, London. Nearly twenty years and tens of thousands of students later, I realize that while much of what I had to say at the time was positive and useful, if I could go back and do it again today, there are only two things I would build my message around:
One of the issues that comes up most frequently with my coaching clients and indeed human beings in general is fear – and again, there are three levels at which fear and fearlessness can be usefully explored:
My friend Steve Chandler and I have just finished the first weekend of our Financially Fearless mastermind, and I was chatting with my teenage son about what the people on the course were learning. When I told him that in one exercise that lasted for just one hour, the 18 participants had made over $84,000 between them, he was gobsmacked.
