Do you want to earn more money and be more successful?

It may sound shallow at first, but it's not if you're wise with your money and succeeding at worthwhile and commendable things!

Take your next step to success here by beginning your journey on the Accelerated Learning Roadmap for Success!

Here’s how it works:

1.       Make yourself a daily reminder, like an Accelerated Learning business card or a sticky note on your bathroom mirror, to read and start acting on one topic per day.

2.       Complete the free portion of the roadmap to help yourself get a better paying job!

3.       Use $15/month of the extra money from your better paying job to access and complete the advanced segments of the Accelerated Learning Roadmap for Success to make even more money and become even more successful at building yourself a fulfilling future!

As an Accelerated Learning customer, you should be making more money than you spend throughout your roadmap journey because you complete the free portion of this roadmap to get a better paying job, then spend just a small part of your income increase to access the premium portion of the Accelerated Learning Roadmap for Success.

The most important thing you need to do to succeed on this roadmap is make a reminder that you will see at a good time every day to visit www.accelearnate.com and read the next post. Most of the posts are only two pages long. You should only plan to do one post per day to pace yourself and not burn out. Also, only advancing through the roadmap at one post per day gives you time to reflect on what you read each day and how to best adopt each post’s recommendations in your life. Concepts from these posts should come in handy for you over and over again, and you should quickly see clear benefits from using these concepts!

Within your first month on the roadmap, you should be ready to apply for a better paying job. Expect landing the better paying job to take a few months, as this is normal. Use this time to learn more about the work you are applying for, including identifying your first certification that will help you be more in-demand and make more money. Look for resources at your local library or used books that you can use to learn for little or no cost. The Accelerated Learning Roadmap for Success will help you navigate these steps with a specific example!

The next step in the roadmap: Getting Started on the Accelerated Learning Roadmap for Success

Write Down Your Ideas

How many times have you had a good idea come to mind only for you to forget what it was when you had time to act on it? Like trying to recall the details of a dream you had last night as it slips away from your mind, you struggle to recall what the idea was. Sometimes it comes back, and sometimes it gets lost and you end up moving on without it. Most of the time this isn’t a big deal, but some of these lost ideas could have turned into great opportunities if only you could remember them.

To avoid being foiled by forgetting again, get in the habit of noting ideas like this right away in a place where you’ll come back to them later, whether that be on a device, in a notebook, or on a board. Be sure to note your ideas with enough specific details to be able to reconstruct your thoughts later, as hardly anything is more annoying than looking at a note you wrote earlier and not recalling what it was about. This post goes over three important points to consider about writing down your ideas:

-            High upside and low downside of recording “aha” moments as you have them

-            Use the cost of forgetting and the opportunity of recalling an idea as motivations

-            Writing down ideas can spur further thoughts to make your solution more complete

High upside and low downside

We all come up with great ideas when we’re doing things like taking a shower, going for a walk, or other times when we have a chance to unplug from immediate distractions. Unfortunately, those great ideas often hit us at a moment when we can’t act on them right away. And if we don’t make a note about the idea and just wait until a good time to act, we often don’t remember the idea quite well enough to take advantage of it. But when we write down an idea descriptively enough to easily recall it when reviewing the note later, it becomes much easier to finish writing the details and putting that great idea into action at the right time. A small amount of effort to stop and write down the idea when it comes to mind often leads to a much faster and better implementation of the idea when you have an opportunity to do it! You don’t have to waste extra time later trying to jog your memory about the idea or settling for a less good solution when it’s time to act because you can’t quite recall key details thought of earlier.

Cost of forgetting and opportunity of recalling as motivations

To motivate yourself to adopt the habit of writing ideas down in enough detail as they come to mind, think back to a time that you lost a good idea. A good idea thought of right before falling asleep usually isn’t remembered the next morning or ever again after that. How much extra time did you have to spend solving a problem that could have been solved faster if you had written down your idea instead of assuming you would remember it in the morning?

Another way to motivate yourself into this habit is to remember times when you have written an idea and it helped you act on the idea more successfully later. Maybe on Saturday morning, you thought of a great idea for a work or school task to complete on Monday and because you wrote a descriptive reminder of the idea when you thought of it, you were able to complete the task on Monday morning in 30 minutes instead of the two hours you were initially expecting that work to take.

Spur further thoughts to make your solution more complete

When a great idea hits you in a flash, it’s usually just a starting point and not everything you need to make the idea successful. Often, you need to run with the idea and figure out additional details or overcome some obstacles to make your great idea a reality. The need to figure out these details usually becomes evident as you start to think more about your initial idea. Luckily, writing down your initial idea not only brings the need for these details to mind, but also might make it easier to have further epiphanies about how to best complete those details or overcome obstacles blocking your larger idea. It will feel like you’re coming up with one good idea after another to help accomplish what you’re ultimately trying to do, and it feels great when lots of good ideas start clicking rapidly! Writing down ideas at the time you have them not only helps you to better recall those ideas later, but it also facilitates thinking through the implications of those ideas and figuring out all the specific steps needed to implement the ideas successfully.

Conclusion

Hopefully, these points have convinced you to adopt the habit of recording ideas when they occur to you, if you are not in a place where you can act on them right away. Writing down ideas does not take much time or effort or cost much of anything at all but rewards you with making action easier to take when an opportunity comes up. Remember how bad it feels when you forget an idea and how good it feels to easily act on an idea later because you wrote it down earlier and now remember clearly what to do. Also, think about how writing down an idea initially can spur more thoughts later as you consider the details of implementing your idea. This can be especially helpful if you want to write something that rhymes – you might think up a clever wording now that you won’t remember when you get home to work on it in three hours if you don’t write it down now. Sharing an example of my own, writing down an idea as soon as I had it is how I came up with the flow of It All Starts with Organization, which if not written down right away would have likely been forgotten.

Try adopting the habit of writing down good ideas you have now so you can act on them when you can and see the value of doing this for yourself!

Congratulations on completing the current General Success segment of the Accelerated Learning Roadmap for Success! Keep going with the next step on the roadmap, moving into the Career Building segment of the ALRS: Set Up a Job Seeker Account

Do It Now or Do It Later?

Have you ever had something you had to do that wasn’t clear at the time, so you put it off and put it off for weeks, only to find when you finally did the task that it was easy and only took five minutes to complete? Did you think to yourself that if you knew up front that it would be that easy, you would have done it right away? Do you ever end up missing opportunities because you put something off until it was too late? Maybe you missed an important submission deadline or allowed a subscription you thought of cancelling to auto-renew. Before you allow this behavior to squander another opportunity, read about the three points offered below to see if they can help you be sure to seize your future opportunities instead.

• Don’t default to inaction because the task is not totally clear

• Write out the task’s steps to identify what is needed and see how quick and simple the task really is

• Make a reminder of how weighty it gets to have several to-dos in the back of your mind

  • Writing down those things and specifying what you need to complete them can help you feel less overwhelmed and get tasks done much more promptly

  • Put this reminder in a place where you will come across it frequently

Don’t default to inaction

First, recognize that it’s normal to default to inaction when the steps to accomplish something aren’t totally clear in your mind; this lack of clarity could be called a psychological barrier to action. You have to acknowledge this tendency as the first step to overcoming it. If the task is simple and really just requires a few minutes of thought and productive action, acknowledge your inertia and just make the intentional decision to push through that inertia to get the task done. If the task requires more or you’re in a moment particularly devoid of motivation or energy, note the task on your to-do list so you don’t need to expend mental energy remembering to get to the task at the right date and time later.

Write out the task’s steps

If you saved your task for later or what to do isn’t obvious yet, try to write out the steps needed to complete the task. This will help you identify what is needed and will likely reveal the task to be simpler and less daunting than you first felt. In addition to what needs to be done step-by-step, note what resources you’ll need for each step. Resources might include estimating how much time, what tools or materials, or purchases are needed for each task step. By breaking the overall task into smaller, easier to accomplish pieces, the overall task will seem more doable. You will have more confidence and clarity about how to complete the overall task, lowering your psychological barrier to action. Using this technique can help you overcome the tendency to procrastinate on a task without even realizing you’re doing it. Think about the cost of lost opportunities from defaulting to procrastination on many tasks again and again over a long period of time!

Make a reminder

Another way to help yourself overcome this issue is to make a reminder where you will see it often (like a sticky note on your fridge or the bathroom mirror). Remember how weighty it feels to keep several tasks floating around in your mind because you’ve automatically put them off instead of getting them done or at least writing the steps to getting them done. The note could remind you of an opportunity to gain or an opportunity you’ve lost before by procrastinating too long, or you could consider this:

Time now > Time later, but Time now < Time later + Feeling less overwhelmed now

An hour of free time today might be more valuable than a not guaranteed hour of free time in the future, but could it be worth getting something done now so the task doesn’t loom over you annoyingly for the next two months until you finally get yourself to do it?

Conclusion

You can’t change the past, but you can use it to make your future pursuit of opportunities more successful. Keep in mind that it’s natural to put off something that’s uncertain or unclear; work deliberately to define a task to reduce its uncertainty or unclarity, and you will get more things accomplished more promptly and more easily than you imagined possible! If you have energy and time to focus right now, review your to do list immediately and identify the most urgent task to get done, write out the steps and what you need for the steps, and then try completing the first few steps…after getting those done, you probably will want to just keep going and get the whole task done!

And once you’ve seen how well this can work, be sure to take a moment to bask in the glory of your newly lowered psychological barrier to action!

The next step on the roadmap: Write Down Your Ideas