Communication – Personal Development – Business

OK – here we go! In my pre-op meeting today, the nurse reminded us that the more knowledge you have, the more quickly you will recover from knee replacement surgery. But I was thinking, doesn’t that have a broader application? I was given pre-op exercises that I’ve been doing for over 3 months. My doctor gave me knowledge, I took action so know the future will be better. That is life in a nutshell.

Here is the problem. There are many people who have knowledge, they just don’t take action. Continue to challenge yourself to take risk, and most importantly do something. Nothing will happen without your active participation. So what will you do?

Tags: health, life long learning, outcomes by Marsha
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I am always pleased to see how many people invest in themselves and their own learning. My resources are available at many of the speaking venues. Recently, out of a group of approximately 450, more than 60% took home my full package of books, DVD’s and CD’s. They made the choice to invest in themselves.

Here are some of my guiding principles when it comes to my own learning.

1.      Always have a book. Keep it with you so when you have down time you can fill these precious minutes with more than just reading The National Enquirer. Right now, I’m reading (for the second time) People are Idiots and I can prove it by Larry Winget.

Tags: ability, life long learning by Marsha
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I spoke to a wonderful group of about 300 people from the Food Services Industry yesterday. The topic was Is Your Networking Working? — and includes  face-to-face networking and Social (Internet) networking.  These were high level people and the room was filled.  Here’s what I know.  Successful people never stop learning.

One woman approached me prior to the meeting and said, “Now this isn’t going to be simple networking is it?”  I told her “no” but leave any time if it is not what you are looking for.  She was there the entire session. She took personal responsibility for her learning.

Tags: accountability, life long learning, personal responsibility by Marsha
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