Comments on: Learning Changes Us… or Does It? http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/2010/02/learning-changes-us-or-does-it/ Exploring possibilities, asking questions, discovering life day by day. Sat, 27 Aug 2011 05:36:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Katie http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/2010/02/learning-changes-us-or-does-it/comment-page-1/#comment-10241 Katie Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:30:44 +0000 http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/?p=1322#comment-10241 Hello Barb: I've just been introduced to your blog, as we are taking an LVS online class together. As many of the comments have been geared towards, I feel the problem is, that were all in a warm bed. There are very few people who are willing to take the chance or leap to challenge themselves into doing new things. I have also been to motivational seminars and like most, you leave feeling wonderful, happy, in awe. The challenge is to react on those feelings and change in your daily life, what you came out of the seminar with. Some of it is fear, fear of failure, even if it is just to yourself. What if I do this and it doesn't work, or I don't feel better, or no one notices? Getting back to being in a warm bed.....people are comfortable with whom they have become, it works for them so why change it. Look forward to chatting in class with you. Katie Hello Barb:
I’ve just been introduced to your blog, as we are taking an LVS online class together. As many of the comments have been geared towards, I feel the problem is, that were all in a warm bed. There are very few people who are willing to take the chance or leap to challenge themselves into doing new things. I have also been to motivational seminars and like most, you leave feeling wonderful, happy, in awe. The challenge is to react on those feelings and change in your daily life, what you came out of the seminar with. Some of it is fear, fear of failure, even if it is just to yourself. What if I do this and it doesn’t work, or I don’t feel better, or no one notices? Getting back to being in a warm bed…..people are comfortable with whom they have become, it works for them so why change it.
Look forward to chatting in class with you.
Katie

]]> By: Grandma Kc http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/2010/02/learning-changes-us-or-does-it/comment-page-1/#comment-10237 Grandma Kc Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:08:36 +0000 http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/?p=1322#comment-10237 Hi Barb, This was very thought provoking. At the end of each year I find myself becoming very introspective, it usually ends up bringing me down and making me wonder how it is I have managed to waste so many years. I finally figured out that I had spent the last few years trying to learn to much - not to much but about to many different things. I was just spreading myself to thin and not getting anywhere. So this year I have made some very definite plans and I am implementing what I learn. I have focus. Thanks for keeping me on track! Kc .-= Grandma Kc´s last blog ..<a href="http://amaraland.com/memories/last-plane-out/" rel="nofollow">Last Plane Out</a> =-. Hi Barb,

This was very thought provoking. At the end of each year I find myself becoming very introspective, it usually ends up bringing me down and making me wonder how it is I have managed to waste so many years. I finally figured out that I had spent the last few years trying to learn to much – not to much but about to many different things. I was just spreading myself to thin and not getting anywhere. So this year I have made some very definite plans and I am implementing what I learn. I have focus. Thanks for keeping me on track! Kc
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]]> By: Phil - Less Ordinary Living http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/2010/02/learning-changes-us-or-does-it/comment-page-1/#comment-10228 Phil - Less Ordinary Living Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:43:34 +0000 http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/?p=1322#comment-10228 Barb - Thanks for bringing out a fundamental truth. Learning isn't purely the act of finding and taking in information. Information only becomes useful once it is applied. It takes experimentation and practice to make a change and be better. As a coach, I spend my life trying out ideas and sticking with them to see how they impact my life. I love finding the learning in a different way of approaching something. When things work, I encourage my clients to try them too. This always means a concerted effort at trying something over a period of time, reviewing the change, analyzing, correcting and then working out what next. Living this way is an adventure and a joy. Keep spreading the word! Phil .-= Phil - Less Ordinary Living´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LessOrdinaryLiving/~3/hqKmdKUIdzc/" rel="nofollow">How to Start</a> =-. Barb -

Thanks for bringing out a fundamental truth. Learning isn’t purely the act of finding and taking in information. Information only becomes useful once it is applied. It takes experimentation and practice to make a change and be better. As a coach, I spend my life trying out ideas and sticking with them to see how they impact my life. I love finding the learning in a different way of approaching something. When things work, I encourage my clients to try them too. This always means a concerted effort at trying something over a period of time, reviewing the change, analyzing, correcting and then working out what next. Living this way is an adventure and a joy. Keep spreading the word!

Phil
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]]> By: Barbara Hartsook http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/2010/02/learning-changes-us-or-does-it/comment-page-1/#comment-10192 Barbara Hartsook Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:57:30 +0000 http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/?p=1322#comment-10192 Well-said, Walter. And as some others have shown me, the actions can be changes in attitude, an expanding of thought and insight, both of which will ultimately change what we do and how we do it. Thank you! Well-said, Walter. And as some others have shown me, the actions can be changes in attitude, an expanding of thought and insight, both of which will ultimately change what we do and how we do it. Thank you!

]]> By: Barbara Hartsook http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/2010/02/learning-changes-us-or-does-it/comment-page-1/#comment-10191 Barbara Hartsook Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:14:02 +0000 http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/?p=1322#comment-10191 Hi Janice... I'm delighted you popped over! I do understand the time-thing. Thanks for commenting on my paintings. :) Hi Janice… I’m delighted you popped over! I do understand the time-thing. Thanks for commenting on my paintings. :)

]]> By: Barbara Hartsook http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/2010/02/learning-changes-us-or-does-it/comment-page-1/#comment-10190 Barbara Hartsook Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:12:21 +0000 http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/?p=1322#comment-10190 Hi Patty. Wow -- yes, you are absolutely right. I am beginning to see, as you all stretch my thinking, that I have missed something. What I take away from an event is peculiar to me -- just let everyone else take what they need as well. I'm learning what some of those things are. Perhaps I'm not wrong -- just limited in my view. I'll change that. Thanks so much. Hi Patty.

Wow — yes, you are absolutely right. I am beginning to see, as you all stretch my thinking, that I have missed something. What I take away from an event is peculiar to me — just let everyone else take what they need as well. I’m learning what some of those things are.

Perhaps I’m not wrong — just limited in my view. I’ll change that.

Thanks so much.

]]> By: Barbara Hartsook http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/2010/02/learning-changes-us-or-does-it/comment-page-1/#comment-10189 Barbara Hartsook Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:05:42 +0000 http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/?p=1322#comment-10189 Hi Keith -- you've wrapped it up very well! Good points for a talk at a blogging conference. :) Thank you. :) Hi Keith — you’ve wrapped it up very well! Good points for a talk at a blogging conference. :)

Thank you. :)

]]> By: Barbara Hartsook http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/2010/02/learning-changes-us-or-does-it/comment-page-1/#comment-10188 Barbara Hartsook Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:02:04 +0000 http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/?p=1322#comment-10188 Hi Patricia. I appreciate your comments here more than you know. That's exactly what I'm talking about. We have dreams and goals to achieve those dreams -- no matter what they are, or how big they are. They are just something we feel called to do, or want to do, or need to do. New habits for achieving them can be minute! But with such big impact. Your 'happy' talk is awesome. Considering your take away from whatever you're doing is also awesome. A change in attitude or thinking causes a change in doing... P.S. I'm delighted to learn that Davina does metaphor workshops. Metaphor is where I live. :) Hi Patricia.

I appreciate your comments here more than you know. That’s exactly what I’m talking about. We have dreams and goals to achieve those dreams — no matter what they are, or how big they are. They are just something we feel called to do, or want to do, or need to do.

New habits for achieving them can be minute! But with such big impact. Your ‘happy’ talk is awesome.

Considering your take away from whatever you’re doing is also awesome.

A change in attitude or thinking causes a change in doing…

P.S. I’m delighted to learn that Davina does metaphor workshops. Metaphor is where I live. :)

]]> By: Walter http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/2010/02/learning-changes-us-or-does-it/comment-page-1/#comment-10180 Walter Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:19:19 +0000 http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/?p=1322#comment-10180 Everything is created twice, first in the mind, then in reality. The problem for most of us it that we are stuck with the first. We've learned many things, we pop some ideas but they only stay on our minds. Only by making some actions can we complete its creation. Sadly, few does. :-) Everything is created twice, first in the mind, then in reality. The problem for most of us it that we are stuck with the first. We’ve learned many things, we pop some ideas but they only stay on our minds. Only by making some actions can we complete its creation. Sadly, few does. :-)

]]> By: Barbara Hartsook http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/2010/02/learning-changes-us-or-does-it/comment-page-1/#comment-10176 Barbara Hartsook Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:47:53 +0000 http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/?p=1322#comment-10176 Hi Hilary. I love your response! Yes, you are absolutely right -- when we get back, those things left undone call to us and sometimes put us right back into our habits. I'll remember the 'get prepared ahead of time' suggestion. Know that when I come back, I'll need to have prepared a block of time to think, restructure, and implement. If indeed that's called for. The same holds true when I read a book on a topic I want to learn more about. Something must get shelved so I can practice what I'm learning. (That's how I can sometimes get discombobulated -- but it's such a good point!) Thank you! :) Hi Hilary. I love your response! Yes, you are absolutely right — when we get back, those things left undone call to us and sometimes put us right back into our habits.

I’ll remember the ‘get prepared ahead of time’ suggestion. Know that when I come back, I’ll need to have prepared a block of time to think, restructure, and implement. If indeed that’s called for.

The same holds true when I read a book on a topic I want to learn more about. Something must get shelved so I can practice what I’m learning. (That’s how I can sometimes get discombobulated — but it’s such a good point!)

Thank you! :)

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