Owner: Learn This URL:http://LearnThis.ca Join Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:17:19 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: A productivity site for self learning career, leadership and life improvement tips. Site statistics:Click here
Being Humble: What does that mean? 2008-03-07 07:15:42 Humility is not something that comes naturally to most, especially in today’s busy competitive society. Everyday, people see others taking advantage of a situation trying to get ahead or make themselves look good and it really doesn’t do anything for them. A humble person is someone who does not boast or try to [...] Read more:Humble
Book Review: Influencer 2008-03-04 07:15:02 Author: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, and Ron McMillan
From the authors of Crucial Conversations (another highly recommended book), Influencer is another brilliant guide book to day to day things that have a massive impact on people’s lives. This book in particular focuses on a specific set of strategies that anyone can use [...]
The Best Way to Learn is to Teach 2008-03-01 07:15:21 If it’s not already obvious by the new site title here at Learn This, I hope this site will be a resource for people to learn from. While I plan to publish a lot of articles on many topics (the planned queue is getting larger every day), I do this primarily to help others [...]
Book Review: The Goal 2008-02-27 07:15:18 Author: Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
This book had been on my list for well over a year and it was definitely worth finally getting to. I listened to this one on audio which I definitely recommend (even over the book). The reason I suggest this is because of the great production in [...]
A great way to Start and Finish Every Day 2008-02-24 07:15:00 I love being known for someone who is always happy and I constantly look for ways to further enhance the joy and happiness I experience in my life. I have 2 specific things that really help with this, one is a great way to start a day and the other, a great way to [...] Read more:Start
, Finish
Reach out beyond your comfort zone… 2008-02-20 07:15:53 Something I believe is truly valuable in life is to reach out to others, new ideas and new experiences. Many people tend to settle into their routines where they can keep change to a minimum and feel comfort
able in their lives. One major downside to this is that many people simply fall into a [...] Read more:Reach
, beyond
Book Review: Listening: The Forgotten Skill 2008-02-17 07:15:21 Author: Madelyn Burley-Allen
This book has a ton of great content and is a perfect how to guide book if you are willing to practice, change and learn better techniques in listening. The values of listening are explored from many roles, and the tools you acquire from this book help in many separate areas. [...] Read more:Listening
, Forgotten
10 Gifts that Mean More Than a Gift 2008-02-13 07:15:24 The world we live in unfortunately runs by a continual and destructive competition to acquire, have and get the best and most of what this material world has to offer. Usually all those things are temporary and never truly add much meaning to one’s life. Unfortunately, those are the things that are usually [...] Read more:Gifts
Preparing for your own performance review. 2008-02-10 07:15:23 I recently published a guest article on DamnGoodManager.com about doing performance review
s as a manager for your direct reports. I suspect I have a lot more readers here who are not managers but do need to prepare for their own performance reviews often. This post is about some tips on how to do [...]
Top 10 Free Productivity Software Tools (Windows - Desktop Utilities) 2008-02-06 07:10:03 This list includes free utilities and software for Windows
that I have used and believe are the best available. If you enjoy having free software on your desktop that can make you more productively, these are perfect for accomplishing that.
These tools are all applications for the desktop. This list doesn’t include any tools [...] Read more:Productivity
, Software
, Tools
, Desktop
, Utilities
12 Steps to Fast Track Your Career and Life Progress 2008-02-03 07:15:34 The title of this article saying this list is to “Fast Track
” isn’t really true. This list is to provide tips and behaviors to follow that will make a significant difference in how you perceive others, in how they perceive you and will help to make you more successful in your career and other [...] Read more:Career
Goal Setting: Completing and Closing 2008-01-31 07:15:04 Since your now reviewing your goals on a regular basis, the next step is to actually complete them and close them out. Completing
them at this point is simple, its a matter of keeping to the measure you set for that goal and since you’ve kept it up to date and accurate, the measure [...] Read more:Setting
, Goal Setting
Goal Setting: Tracking and Monitoring 2008-01-28 07:15:55 Tracking goals is an ongoing process, not a one time thing. This is the time when you are actively working on your goals and it is generally over some long period of time. During that time, its important that goals are not just forgotten. They need to be looked at on a [...] Read more:Setting
, Goal Setting
, Tracking
Goal Setting: Setting and Identifying 2008-01-24 07:15:24 Setting goals isn’t easy. Actually, settings great goals isn’t easy. And that is what you want, great goals. Great goals are goals you really desire, have some passion for and will be happy making progress to meet them. If a goal is more about just the end result and you are [...] Read more:Setting
, Goal Setting
Goal Setting: Introduction 2008-01-21 07:15:12 OK, I wrote recently about not setting any new year’s resolutions and that was really because resolutions are generally missed, forgotten, ignored and never adjusted. They are not written, planned or even thought about that clearly. They are VERY different from goals. So, I’m going to be exploring goals and goal setting, [...] Read more:Setting
, Goal Setting
, Introduction
Managing a healthy Life / Work balance. 2008-01-17 23:40:32 As a manager, I have to balance a lot of things in a given day at work. But to me, the most important thing I need to balance in my life is a healthy
home and work balance. So many people nowadays attach themselves to their work in all facets of their lives [...]
Change the Way You Change Minds 2008-01-16 07:15:29 This is a chapter title of the book, “Influencer” by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler. So far, I love the book and how it focuses so much on behavior. The quote at this chapter is what I really wanted to share, which is:
There are three kinds of [...] Read more:Change
What is Mountain Unicycling? 2008-01-12 14:10:28 I get a lot of questions from people who have seen my profile online about mountain unicycling and ask what that is all about. So, I thought I’d talk a bit about what mountain unicycling is and what it means to me as well as some pictures and additional links about the sport.
First [...] Read more:Mountain
The story of stuff. 2008-01-08 09:34:15 I just came across this recently and was surprised I’d never seen it before. Its a great movie about where all the stuff
people have and buy actually comes from. Here is the description:
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The [...] Read more:story
Just stop doing it! 2008-01-06 07:20:10 Everyone wishes they had more time to do things in life. It is simply so short there are always things left undone or not accomplished. Wouldn’t it be nice to have all the time you need to do everything you ever wanted? Well, since that is not going to happen, I [...] Read more:doing
Being Humble: Action Steps to be More Humble 2008-03-10 08:15:20 If you missed it, jump back to Part 1 - Being Humble
: What does that mean?
Now that we’ve explored what it means to be humble and some of the attributes to recognize a humble person, this article has some specific actions anyone can learn to be more humble.
Thank Others
Make sure you take every opportunity you [...] Read more:Action
Being Humble: Why Bother Learning to be Humble? 2008-03-14 08:15:08 If you missed them, the previous 2 articles in this short series are
Part 1 - Being Humble
: What does that mean?
Part 2 - Being Humble: Action Steps to Be More Humble
This article is going to look at why someone would bother to learn to be humble. What are the advantages and reasons to being [...] Read more:Learning
Being Humble: Action Steps to be More Humble 2008-03-10 08:15:20 If you missed it, jump back to Part 1 - Being Humble
: What does that mean?
Now that we’ve explored what it means to be humble and some of the attributes to recognize a humble person, this article has some specific actions anyone can learn to be more humble.
Thank Others
Make sure you take every opportunity you [...] Read more:Action
Being Humble: What does that mean? 2008-03-07 07:15:42 Humility is not something that comes naturally to most, especially in today’s busy competitive society. Everyday, people see others taking advantage of a situation trying to get ahead or make themselves look good and it really doesn’t do anything for them. A humble person is someone who does not boast or try to [...] Read more:Humble
Book Review: Influencer 2008-03-04 07:15:02 Author: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, and Ron McMillan
From the authors of Crucial Conversations (another highly recommended book), Influencer is another brilliant guide book to day to day things that have a massive impact on people’s lives. This book in particular focuses on a specific set of strategies that anyone can use [...]
The Best Way to Learn is to Teach 2008-03-01 07:15:21 If it’s not already obvious by the new site title here at Learn This, I hope this site will be a resource for people to learn from. While I plan to publish a lot of articles on many topics (the planned queue is getting larger every day), I do this primarily to help others [...]
Book Review: The Goal 2008-02-27 07:15:18 Author: Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
This book had been on my list for well over a year and it was definitely worth finally getting to. I listened to this one on audio which I definitely recommend (even over the book). The reason I suggest this is because of the great production in [...]
A great way to Start and Finish Every Day 2008-02-24 07:15:00 I love being known for someone who is always happy and I constantly look for ways to further enhance the joy and happiness I experience in my life. I have 2 specific things that really help with this, one is a great way to start a day and the other, a great way to [...] Read more:Start
, Finish
Reach out beyond your comfort zone… 2008-02-20 07:15:53 Something I believe is truly valuable in life is to reach out to others, new ideas and new experiences. Many people tend to settle into their routines where they can keep change to a minimum and feel comfort
able in their lives. One major downside to this is that many people simply fall into a [...] Read more:Reach
, beyond
Book Review: Listening: The Forgotten Skill 2008-02-17 07:15:21 Author: Madelyn Burley-Allen
This book has a ton of great content and is a perfect how to guide book if you are willing to practice, change and learn better techniques in listening. The values of listening are explored from many roles, and the tools you acquire from this book help in many separate areas. [...] Read more:Listening
, Forgotten
Recommend Site To A Friend
