Every single time I turned on the TV this past weekend, the BBC World news kept mentioning that the world is heading for a global economic meltdown. For most of us, this is definitely somewhat disconcerting. For the second time in my life, I experienced such economic recession. I think that the natural resolution for most people for next year is to know if hope lies ahead.
As we are trying to make next year our best year ever, personally, I think your time could be spent more effectively. In many ways, the next year may provide the greatest opportunities ever. The recession could be a blessing in disguise. I’ve looked back over my life and looked at how many events which were awful when they happen have lead me to really great things happening in my life.
So what can you do in the face of the recession next year? If you can’t still find a job, maybe this will be the opportunity to create your own job or follow your entrepreneurial passions. In our lives we go through inevitable boom and bust cycles. So, maybe it will be time to examine your life and use your interpersonal skills to create your next job. So, here’s my list of potential ideas:
1. Write down 10 ideas for businesses that you could start in a recession
2. Create a survival fund: 6 months of living expenses
3. Create a travel/vacation fund and get to a country that is cheap
4. Eliminate unnecessary expenses: Starbucks, eating out, malls, etc
5. Restart unfinished projects that could generate potential income
6. Write a business plan
7. Keep aware of the job market even when you have a job
8. Keep in touch with your network
9. Start a blog
10. Sell everything you don’t use or need on eBay
Happy New Year
Rony Delgarde
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Some Tips to Speed your Learning Habit!!
I spend a good portion of my time learning and I wish I could learn at a tremendously greater rate because I believe knowledge can be a competitive advantage. Knowledge is power; knowledge allows me to continue to thrive and hope. As a result, over the years I have studied how I can learn faster.
Some tips are:
1) By Repeating: Sometimes some of the things I need to learn are a little bit boring and I found the best way to learn them is through repetition. Space it over a bit of time for even better retention.
2) By Using multiple senses: I learn when I listen to an audio program or a visual object. I learn better when I listen to an audio program or a presentation and make notes.
3) By Taking a speed-reading course: I have found that the greatest source of knowledge is through reading so it only makes sense to use the tool of speed-reading. Some people say they don't want to speed-read because they enjoy reading. Trust me, speed-reading does not take out the enjoyment of reading. If anything, it enhances it because you can read more. Others do not want to speed-read because they feel their comprehension will decrease; however, it won't. Trust me your comprehension will actually increase if you speed-read.
Consider speed-reading to be one of the best long-term investments that you can make.
4) By Practicing learning: I have a belief that we have multiple areas and facets of our mind and we tend to not exercise many parts of it. As a result I tend to do exercises for my mind outside of the area that I normally study. For example, I am not naturally a musical person so if I would try to do something musical, that stretches my mind. For some people, it might be learning a foreign language or taking a new dance course.
5) By Exercising: I have read a lot on how to make a brain better and one of the repeated themes is to be healthy. The simplest of things is to create movement and exercise. This is everything from small passive movements to active engaged exercise. This is something I practice well.
6) By Eating right: Eat nutritious food so that it will fuel your brain.
7)By Sleeping right -- yes, I finally said it. In my college years I often slept less than 5 hours and I didn't mention a full-time job. I have now changed my mind and believe that a lack of sleep causes a lack of learning, lack of memory, lack of retention and it just is not healthy. Because I want to be so involved in the world, it often bothers me that I have to sleep and I am afraid that I will miss things. I am not purposing that people over-sleep and I think seven hours is adequate for most people; but I do believe cutting sleep to less than five or six hours on a consistent basis is a bad idea.
8) By Changing: I find that learning for me tends to max out after I have been absorbed in something for a period of time. The easiest way for me to get around this is to change something else. It doesn't mean that I can't start learning something different but I tend to lose my focus or interest, lose my learning energy after about 4 or 5 hours. (I might be ADD.)
9) By Having a learning plan: Like everything I do in life, having a plan helps me to move forward on things. There is no reason not to have a learning plan. What are the things that you want to learn, what are some tricks that will help you learn them?
10) By imitating: One of the easiest ways to learn is to copy what others do and how other people learn. Simply copying how other people do things is often enough to get things done.
Hope the article was a great help to you...
Merry Christmas
Rony Delgarde
Some tips are:
1) By Repeating: Sometimes some of the things I need to learn are a little bit boring and I found the best way to learn them is through repetition. Space it over a bit of time for even better retention.
2) By Using multiple senses: I learn when I listen to an audio program or a visual object. I learn better when I listen to an audio program or a presentation and make notes.
3) By Taking a speed-reading course: I have found that the greatest source of knowledge is through reading so it only makes sense to use the tool of speed-reading. Some people say they don't want to speed-read because they enjoy reading. Trust me, speed-reading does not take out the enjoyment of reading. If anything, it enhances it because you can read more. Others do not want to speed-read because they feel their comprehension will decrease; however, it won't. Trust me your comprehension will actually increase if you speed-read.
Consider speed-reading to be one of the best long-term investments that you can make.
4) By Practicing learning: I have a belief that we have multiple areas and facets of our mind and we tend to not exercise many parts of it. As a result I tend to do exercises for my mind outside of the area that I normally study. For example, I am not naturally a musical person so if I would try to do something musical, that stretches my mind. For some people, it might be learning a foreign language or taking a new dance course.
5) By Exercising: I have read a lot on how to make a brain better and one of the repeated themes is to be healthy. The simplest of things is to create movement and exercise. This is everything from small passive movements to active engaged exercise. This is something I practice well.
6) By Eating right: Eat nutritious food so that it will fuel your brain.
7)By Sleeping right -- yes, I finally said it. In my college years I often slept less than 5 hours and I didn't mention a full-time job. I have now changed my mind and believe that a lack of sleep causes a lack of learning, lack of memory, lack of retention and it just is not healthy. Because I want to be so involved in the world, it often bothers me that I have to sleep and I am afraid that I will miss things. I am not purposing that people over-sleep and I think seven hours is adequate for most people; but I do believe cutting sleep to less than five or six hours on a consistent basis is a bad idea.
8) By Changing: I find that learning for me tends to max out after I have been absorbed in something for a period of time. The easiest way for me to get around this is to change something else. It doesn't mean that I can't start learning something different but I tend to lose my focus or interest, lose my learning energy after about 4 or 5 hours. (I might be ADD.)
9) By Having a learning plan: Like everything I do in life, having a plan helps me to move forward on things. There is no reason not to have a learning plan. What are the things that you want to learn, what are some tricks that will help you learn them?
10) By imitating: One of the easiest ways to learn is to copy what others do and how other people learn. Simply copying how other people do things is often enough to get things done.
Hope the article was a great help to you...
Merry Christmas
Rony Delgarde
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