Are you a Life Long Learner?

People who have more information have a tremendous advantage over those who don't. Brian Tracy said " If you want to earn more, learn more." Highly successful people know more. That's their edge. They undertake a program of lifelong learning, feeding a hunger for knowledge in their field that keeps them reading, researching and studying to become an absolute master at what they do.

You may think that it takes years to acquire the knowledge you would need to become super successful, but the truth is that you don't. If you dedicated between 30 and 60 minutes a day to learning- in five years you would have the equivalent of a college education!
Perhaps you feel that you are so busy, you couldn't possibly spend 30-60 minutes a day in learning.

Did you know that studies have indicated the average North American spends six hours a day watching television. If you are one of these 'average' people, by the time you are sixty, you will have spent fifteen years watching television. If you cut just one hour from your television time and spent that time learning - that would be 365 hours a year- which works out to be two months of extra time!

An excellent way to fit learning into a busy schedule is to use time spent on essential, but less productive activities. For example I like to use the time I spend in the car to receive personal mentoring from successful people such as Jack Canfield, Brian Tracy, or Tony Alessandra. I just pop an audio CD in the deck and listen as I drive to the grocery store, or on the way to a business appointment. Listening and learning at the same time as doing a household chore such as preparing dinner works well for me also. I always learn something new, even though I may have listened to a CD several times.

Audio Books are another way of learning that fits in with todays busy life style. Just upload one onto your MP3 player and take it with you wherever you go. Learn from other's experiences, and get renewed motivation, and hear it again and again