Benefits of Learning
Have you ever worked at a job for awhile and then been asked to train someone else how to do your job? I have done this a few times and was amazed each time at how much I did that came so easily to me. I knew a lot about my everyday work and so there was much to teach.
But when I started the job, I was unsure and overwhelmed and afraid that I might not ‘get it’. That I might not be smart enough and what if I failed….
I think that happens with so many of us that we lose on opportunities to grow and some times it take us remembering what we have already learned to give us that push to try something new that might even make our future brighter.
For instance, I have a friend that wanted me to help her create a financial budget. I thought that this would be easy so I went to her home and sat at her computer, started up the application Excel and she provided information about her finances. Once we were done and I created the formula to add or subtract the data, I began to explain to her how to do this for herself.
Her face went blank and I could tell that she had no desire to learn how to continue on; she just wanted someone to do it for her now. She saw Excel as a bunch of rows and columns and nothing more. She did not see the opportunity to create more using a tool that was fairly easy to use while she had the aid of a teacher by her side to help her learn something new.
So basically, we ended up going back to printing out a sheet of paper with columns and rows and entered the data by hand. At the end she just added it all up with a calculator and we were done.
To sum it up (no pun intended), I think that we all need to first realize the gain of learning something new. How will it make my life easier if I spend the time now to try this new and unfamiliar thing? And rather than think what if I try and fail; how about what if I try this and it makes my life better.
What have you done lately in your horse business that you needed to learn something new in order to move you to a new level of improvement?
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