It’s a New Year, and as humans are apt to do, we look back and take stock of the accomplishments and missed opportunities of the year past. There is one siren song that reaches out to most of us, “I wish I had taken time for myself.” This is either in the form of personal exploration or professional growth. Either way, there are times when we feel like failures because we have left ourselves, and our intellect, out in the cold. We put our learning journey on the back burner for another day.
It’s time to put your learning first. As learning professionals, not only do we owe it to ourselves to be committed to lifelong learning, but we owe it to our organizations. We cannot make use of the latest learning technologies and modalities if our mindset isn’t one of discovery and adventure. Our organizations depend on us to be up to date with the learning applications of the day. Are we letting them and ourselves down?
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