My First Post

NOTHING HAS BEEN EASY WITH THIS THING!!!!! It has been confusing from getting a new e-mail with yahoo which is out in never-never land and I don't know how to get rid of the thing. Another one was created with gmail which seems to be working for the present time. SO, I can not say at this time what has been easiest or hardest for now.

3/5/08 It has been a while since I started "This Thing!" And I have learned a lot but not everything I want to know. It has been difficult to move the pictures I wanted around and still is. I had trouble getting my comments to wrap around the pictures as well as the links. One link seems to want to duplicate itself and I am not sure why???? I am sure when I comment again within this post, there will be more difficulties down the road, but we are supposed to be "learners" I guess even at my age. Oh well!!!!

3/15/08 I'm back to update my easiest and hardest of the "7 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners." To date the easiest has been, like most of my co-workers, to 'Play.' The hardest has three running neck to neck in the race and they are: Habit 1: Begin with the end in mind (I have no idea where the end would be), Habit 5: Create your own learning toolbox (I feel I am so scatterbrained that the toolbox would be a jumbled up mass or mess if I even figured out what to put in the thing), and Habit 6: Use technology to your advantage (This technology may be easy for the younger generation, but I, as many others of the older generation, tend to get lost in the maze and sometimes have to get someone with a little expertise to lead me to where I want to go and back to where I started. Does this make any sense???)

The list of obstacles I face on learning range from procrastination (a biggie for me) to complete reluctance to tackle a problem until I can get a reasonable amount of energy and drive to deal with it. How to overcome those two obstacles usually involves taking (or making) a step to stop the procrastination. The complete reluctance usually involves uncertainty in the area of information and how to deal with it. Most of the time, one can overcome that obstacle if one can find someone who is or would be willing to help with the difficulty (whatever that may be). And that involves a lot more than just learning!