2 of 7/12 Things…One Easy, One Difficult

It’s hard to believe there are only seven habits of highly successfully people.  It seems like there should be more, but what do I know?  Anyhoo…after watching the tutorial about said habits, and gaining a better understanding of them, I decided to write about Habits 2 and 7.

Habit 2 – Accept responsibility for your own learning.  Duh!  This habit not only makes perfect sense to me, it is definitely the one that I find the easiest to succeed at. <sorry for the displaced preposition!>  It just so happens that I enjoy learning; so much so, I have attended a fair number of conferences and workshops over the past five years.  I think it is important to expand my knowledge base as often as possible.  “Idle hands” and all that good stuff.  Well, idle minds, in this case.  Lifelong learning isn’t just a catch phrase for me, it is extremely important.  As a famous person once said, “You’re only as smart as….”, wait, wrong quote.  Nevermind!

Habit 7 – Teach and mentor others  I actually love helping others; I get a sort of kick out of it. (I’m such a dork sometimes!)  However, in some instances, I find it quite difficult to teach people.  Especially if I’m teaching something that is completely foreign.  There are times when I have trouble getting people to listen to me.  I don’t know if people see me as too young, think I’m not smart, don’t trust that I know what I’m talking about, or a combination of the three.  And to be honest, I don’t really care.  I know what I know and that’s enough for me.  I have noticed that if I talk about certain things enough, people begin to listen, but for the most part they don’t.  I’m guessing I need to work on that.

Well, this has been a real slice…until next time.