Stop This Excuse! "It's Been A While Since I have Been To School."

 Your Success and Development Within Yourself

We live in a vastly and rapidly changing world. New systems are being created on a daily basis- new applications, new ways of doing things. Every single day has its specific change to bring to our work, our way of living, ways of perceiving things, etc. Sometimes, it's not what you learned from school needed to help you out. Many people have developed a common excuse to justify their failures. Things like, "It's been a while since I have been to school; I didn't learn this from my school; this isn't aligned with the major I took at university..." are common reasons people use to defend their inability to accomplish something or take up a certain responsibility. This mindset doesn't only limit your productivity at work, but  also does your professional, intellectual and economic growth.

The purpose of this blog is to help you quit this mindset, extend your ability and open up new opportunities to serve you even more. This can be done through 3 simple ways.

1. Own Your Growth: It is not up to the school where you studied that you get all the  skills, knowledge or ability needed for you to achieve your full potential. It is not up to your workplace or employer to reach your level best. It's all up to you. This means you need to own this and take it as serious as your current job. You can firstly do this by identifying gaps in your skillsets, knowledge, and ability in comparison to what your current work requires, trends in your field, requirements for a next level you would wish to be promoted to, etc. From here, you will find a beginning point of what you need to learn. A detailed blog on how to own your professional growth will be published.
2. Be a Life-long Learner: After identifying gaps, you will need to cover them buy learning. You don't necessarily need someone to teach you- even though it can be necessary in some instances. Develop the culture and attitude of teaching yourself or learning on your own what you find important to know in your career. We have internet, again thanks to the vastly changing world we live today. Various topics, from marketing to client management, from business management to technology, from teaching to nursing are published online for anyone's access. Search online written, visualized, and audio-visual content that cover topics where you realized gaps, purposely learn from them, and you will finally find yourself doing things in ways you have never done before, accomplishing more than you used to do, etc.
3. Apply Your Learned Skills Daily: In order to internalize your learning, it is essentially important that you apply your newly learning in your daily work or life. This helps make the learning part of your life and unforgettable. You don't need to wait for long until you learn everything about the selected topic. This can lead to forgetting the starting points and rise complications when it comes to applying the learning. Incorporate the newly learned skills or knowledge in your daily work or social living. You may wonder what could be the case if the topic you're learning about is irrelevant to your current occupation! The truth is, you can still have ways to apply this learning. Let's say your job is solely interacting with people and has no part of dealing with data- meaning you don't need to use Excel while you chose to upskill yourself on this. In this case, you can apply your learning by using Excel to budget your income, record your expenses and do some calculations to make this a part of your real life.

Don't allow opportunities to go away from you just because something wasn't taught at your school, it's been a number of years since you have been at a college.... Own your growth and learn what it takes to achieve the next level, to move to your desired field of work. You can do it!!!