Habit 2 - Accept reponsibility for your own learning
If you didn't want to go any where in life and not keep on learning this habit would be pretty easy to ignore. We are bombarded with information and a natural curiosity in life for how, why, where, what for etc in our daily lives. So even as baby in the womb before we are born, we are already learning. Then we learn to talk and bombard our parents with the questions like 'why' ; 'what for' ; 'what's that' ; 'how come' etc ; then we learn to read and write and for the rest of our lives we challenge ourselves to learn new skills and learn something new and unexpected every day.
In our own personal or work lives learning enhaces who are as a person and makes us more confident in our quest for answers. Just learning one new thing a day can make you a better person.
“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” Lloyd Alexander
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Habit 3 - View problems as challenges
To accept a problem as a challenge can sometimes seem as though there is is brick wall in front of your pathway with no way around it (and sometimes feel like banging your head on this wall may seem like it would be good idea, when the problem seems impossible!!). Yes, it is a great feeling when you finally overcome the challenge because you know you have achieved something and probably learnt something new in the process. Whether it is work or at home challenging myself to overcome problems as they arise and not put them of for another day/time is often difficult for me, but once the task is complete I often wonder what I was worried about - the problem wasn't as bad as I though it would be. One new challenge for the week is enough and yes this blog has certainly been a good challenge for the week.
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...”
Ralph Waldo Emerson 