Learning Strategy (2)
So let's look at the Five Principles for Success in a little more detail to be sure we fully understand them and what they are going to do for us.
1. Know your outcome
Before embarking on a particular course of action it's a good idea to know what you want the final outcome to be. Ask yourself - what's my outcome for this, what do I want?
If the outcome is something that will happen some time in the future rather than in the present it can also be good to keep a written record of what outcome you wanted - and why.
2. Take positive action
The best way to get the outcome you want is to take positive action and go through the steps required to get it. Rarely do we get something we want without putting in some effort up-front.
You may be using this website with a specific outcome in mind - enhancing your communication and inter-personal skills, beating a fear of flying, easily changing your diet to include more healthy foods and ditch the bad foods for example.
If you don't have an outcome for using this website, take some positive action and choose an outcome and then take some more positive action and write it down (we generally make stronger commitments, even if only to ourselves, to things we put down in writing).
3. Have sensory awareness to know if you are being effective
Ever found yourself enthusiastically sharing everything you know about something that you're really interested in only to find that when you look around to find out why the other person has stopped responding either their eyes have glazed over, they've fallen asleep or, worse still, they've left the room and you've been talking to yourself for the past 15 minutes?
Your five senses, (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Olfactory and Gustatory), are there for a very good reason - they provide exquisite feedback to allow you to gauge if your actions are producing useful results - or not. Learn to use them well.