There has been so many new insights and learnings in my life within within the last few weeks, that I would be inspired to continue this discussion as public journal of my personal journey of learning to learn.
I got the urge while following the Journal of Ideal Mindset by Betsemes and PhotoReading Journal by LivingSuccess. Now it feels that there is just perfect momentum to do this. Earlier I described my family connection to Juggling, there is also many relatives in our family who are singers in one way or the other.
Music has always been close to my heart and for quite long period I was a lead singer in school rock band. Just recently after more than 15 years brake, we have started to play ones more just for fun. What I have noticed is that today I'm much better singer and also able to pronounce the lyrics better.
About ten years ago I had problems with my voice and had to find something else to do on the field of music. I decided to learn how to play classical contrabass and succeeded so well that within 4 years I had learned how to play from notes and got my self to local sinfony orchestra.
After few years of playing and working on my real profession I was so broken as can be, for practicing more than 4 hours a day after the work everyday. I had a decision to made and it was to focus on my work and to start developing my self as human. This was the time when I bought first self-help book and it was the Best Thing I've ever Done. Later I found Centerpointe and they introduced me to LearningStrategies. And now I'm here 
I recently answered to the Buiding Excellence - The Learning Individual questionary and got my Learning and Productivity Style Profile.
This was realy and eye opener, it revealed that I'm more visual picture learner, more tactile kinesthetic learner, more verbal kinesthetic learner. I have only slight preference to auditory learning and no preference to visual text.
It was realy grate to have this information like this, basically it all make sense now. It will also give extremely good basis for my learning strategy. I just re-listened the Effective Listening sessions from the Four Powers For Greateness. I wanted to do this because recently I got idea of mindmapping the coaching sessions of the PLC's. This would also help me to start mindmapping the books as activation.
Usualy when I listen the coaching sessions it's all clear for me, but later it's still a bit difficult to recall the messages and specialy to integrate the learning to my everyday life.
It has been interesting that usualy while discussing about the particular issue with someone else, I suddenly remember the whole thing. Now after knowing my personal learning profile it's all clear what makes this happen.
The next session I have with Concistent Achievement is IPM and I'll mindmap the coaching session while listening. After mind mapping the coaching sessions of the PLC's I can integrate the information visualy. I believe that this will help me to know much better when to use which paraliminal session, it will help me to know better my self. There is enourmas information already in the coaching sessions of the PLC's.
I believe also that it's crucial for me to form the visual images of my learnings because my emotional preferencess are internaly motivated, less conforming and I prefer less structure. I intepret it so that I have strong preference to do it my way. My psychological preference is global integrated thinker and information processor, I believe it's the reason why I tend to form big picture before action.
I hope it's ok that I'll write this journal here for while, it's much more powerful to write it here compared to my own personal notes.
Thanks
[This message has been edited by Eric_G (edited January 18, 2004).]
