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How to Get 300 Hours of Education a Year

Karyn Greenstreet

I made an amazing discovery last month. Like you, I’m a busy business owner. Yet I need to continually learn new marketing techniques and new business ideas in order to maintain my expertise in my field.

Where was I going to find time to do all that reading, listening, and studying???

As with most successful projects, lifelong learning is about two things: structure and discipline.

If you took six hours a week to learn something new (read a book, listen to an audio program, take a watch a video tutorial, take a class), you’d have completed 312 hours of learning new material a year.

That’s equivalent to over SIX college-level courses.

To be be known as an expert, you must be willing to invest six hours a week to “sharpening the saw” of your knowledge.

The way I do it is this: I’m taking off every Friday for the next year, to read, take classes, learn. From 9:00 – 3:00, I’ll read a book to read, listen to an audio program on MP3, watch video lessons, read websites, or take classes.

  • A colleague of mine uses her treadmill time to listen to audios.
  • Another colleague signs up for one class a month, each and every month of the year.
  • One of my clients takes a weekly trip to the library (“The only place I can find some quiet!” he says) and reads a book for a few hours.
  • A client told me she starts each morning with one hour of reading a business book or watching a business-related video tutorial, six days a week.

You can do this, too. Maybe you take one hour a day as your Learning Time. Maybe you schedule one day per week. It doesn’t matter how you do it, as long as you schedule the time into your calendar and religiously adhere to your learning schedule.

When you think “300 hours” it’s overwhelming.

When you think “1 hour a day” it’s empowering!

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  1. Meggin McIntosh

    August 16, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    You are so right, Karen. In this time of being able to learn anytime, anywhere…we must invest in ourselves. I listened to one of your excellent teleseminars yesterday while I was doing some household things that needed to be done, but that certainly didn’t need my full attention.

    Excellent. I’m going to put this out on FB & Twitter.

    Meggin

  2. Karyn Greenstreet

    August 17, 2009 at 8:13 am

    You’re right, Meggin. We can find time to listen to an audio or read a few pages in a book. Sometimes I’ll take 10 minutes in the morning while breakfast is cooking to read a chapter in a book…starts my day right!

    Warmly,
    Karyn

  3. Karim

    August 28, 2009 at 2:16 am

    Good one on how to get 300 hours of education a year and it helps a lot.

    Thanks,
    Karim

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