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Learning is an important aspect of life. It is a non-negotiable for anyone who wants to stay on top in their personal life and career. We all have the capacity to learn and improve, but many are yet to unlock the potential to learning well, as well as fast.  My Learning Experience Just last week, I was asked to prepare an Excel sheet to size some cables for some engineering project. After preparing the Excel sheet, the senior engineers were wowed! This was beyond their expectation! How did I prepare something that excellent, that could automatically calculate the size and give dynamic recommendation for the selection of any cable!  Was it something amazing to them? Yes. Was it anything special to me? Definitely not.  Two months prior, I new next to nothing on Excel. I didn't even know how to use the SUM function. During an intensive training programme, an external facilitator had trained us on Basics, Intermediate and Advanced Excel. This training was within a space of on...

Have you ever imagined a world without a calendar? (surprisingly, I have. It's a strange world to live in) Luckily for us, we have a calendar. I can look up the correct date, meet up with appointments and deadlines, and so on. Whichever way we use the calendar, There is only one truth about them. They help us measure. If you must succeed, then you need to embrace your calendar. But the calendar is more than just numbers. There are repetitive patterns in them. Patterns that reveal their purposes and patterns we can learn from. Let's look at those repetitive patterns and how it applies to our daily lives. Pattern Number One: There are 365 days in a year. We do not have different names for each day. Unfortunately, there are only seven names to go round. Seven names not sufficient for 365 days. The only strategy the calendar could adopt is to repeat each names 52 times. Purpose Number One: The calendar intends that we repeatedly perform certain behaviors on Mondays, Tues...

We all have goals that we’d like to reach. And, if we had the choice, we would prefer to reach them sooner rather than later. We want to get results now. We want to make plans, pursue them and achieve immediate results. My experience teaching younger children has taught me some life lessons. First, the power of patience. Second, the power of repetition. Third, the power of learning by portion. Esther is a little girl I teach. She's active and ready to learn but easily distracted. She was yet to master the use of letters to form words. Words that rhyme. My goal for her was to make her master two-lettered words in one week, three-lettered words in the second week, four-lettered words in the third week. All in three weeks. By the fourth week, she would begin to read texts written from two letters to four letters. I set these goals in high spirits. I thought within myself:  If I can achieve this - I'll count myself an effective teacher, besides her parents would be impressed th...

If you investigate the life of the 'successful people' around you, you'll discover ' all' of these three things about them : Passion, Motivation and Consistency. A brief insight into these three qualities will tell us how they use them. The Role of Passion You've probably gotten used to the phrase - 'have Passion.' The truth is you've got to have passion for whatever you set your mind to do. What Passion actually does is that it sets us on the path. It tells us what we should do. Many people stop at passion. They can see the track before them but don't seem to begin the journey. This is where Passion hands over the baton to Motivation. The role of Motivation We usually use words like - -I have passion for writing but there are so many writers out there. -I know within me that I can influence people with by words but I don't seem to have the courage. -I've got business ideas but I’m too old/too young/too inexperienced to exp...