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The Power Of
Self-Learning
Dear Friend,
allow me to paint you a picture:
there was a time when people needing knowledge
did have to physically
move in a Book Store or in a Library, and I also did that!
There was a time
when the Internet simply
didn't exist!
Whatever
the matter, I was forced to waste a lot of my precious time to
find the
right information for myself,
in order to improve my job position
or
even to bring me to success!
I spent about 25
years of my life learning and experimenting things always by myself. The last 10 years I made of
course massive use of the Net.
My domains and
interests are in the the
following areas: economics, business
management,
career
advice, finance, on line trading, information technology, databases, electronics, sciences, energy, consumer rights and so on.
But now what's
happened to Knowledge? It's
everywhere; it's
on the Net! Everybody can take it instantly, but Are You Sure To Know
exactly What You Need and, most important of all, How to Exploit it in
the best manner?
Benefits of Self
Learning:
- Better career opportunities, that means: more income
and more
time for yourself (because you can earn much money in less time)!
- Better consumer knowingness, that means: saving money
on your expenses
and more quality purchases!
- Better health information, that means: less disease risks!
- Better environment behaviour, that means: more sustainable
economy!
All together these 4 factors means: Best Quality of Life!
Lets'
Make The Internet Work For Us!
Improve your Knowledge,
improve your Life!
Dr.Maurizio
Cucchiara
Business Consultant & Educator
Take You By
The Hand and Show You The Power of
Self-Learning.
www.mc2elearning.com
maurizio.cucchiara@mc2elearning.com
About me
Visit my Blog: Improve Your Knowledge
You Will Find 818 articles (march 2007) in 13
sections:
Most
learning has
always been independent but not most formal
education. Now e-learning
is emancipating learners who
want formal education, on
their own terms.
Although
no one disputes the contribution of teachers
and fellow learners,
formal learning has been
possible by learners working
independently
since Sir Isaac Pittman began teaching
shorthand by postal
correspondance in 1840.
Independent
learners have long been
ignored by classroom instructors and professors who
prefer to believe
that they are necessary for learning.
Independent
learning requires: Simple,
reliable tools. Independent learners
need to be able to take e-learning
on their own, without the support of an IT department. Tools for
individuals and small groups. Independent learners must be able to
spontaneously create and engage in learning
events.
Independent
certification of learning.
Independent learners
crave valid assesments
that are independent of how
learning was accomplished.
Personal
finance is the application of the principles of finance to the monetary
decisions of an individual or family unit.
It
addresses the ways in which individuals or families obtain, budget,
save and
spend monetary resources over
time, taking into account
various financial risks and future life events.
Components of
personal finance might include checking and savings accounts, credit
cards and consumer loans,
investments
in the stock market, retirement
plans, social security
benefits, and income tax
management.
Personal
financial
decisions may involve paying for education,
financing durable goods
such as real estate and cars,
buying insurance, e.g. health
and
property insurance, investing and saving for retirement.
A key
component of personal finance
is financial planning, a
dynamic process
that requires regular monitoring and reevaluation. In general, it has
five steps.
Who
doesn't dream of owning their very own business? However most states
have licensing requirements for certain types of businesses and you
should check with your local government offices to see if your specific
business
needs a license.
Examples of businesses requiring
licensing include Barbers, Attorneys,
Doctors, Dentists, Contractors, Insurance Brokers, Opticians,
Veterinarians. Though self
employment can be one of the
scariest things you can do, it can also be one of the more exciting and
profitable moves of your life.
However
You need a solid economics knowledge if
you really want to start your
small business
or to manage your self-employed new activity.
A
person who has never made a systematic study of economics is
handicapped in even thinking about national issues; he is like a deaf
man trying to appreciate a symphony: give him a hearing aid, and he may
still lack talent, but at least he has a fighting chance of sensing hat
music really is.
In
a time of rapid change, you can't even be sure what choices will be in
existence in the future, let alone which has the best match far your
particular attributes.
Career
Planning and Change.
One
of the major problems confronting the neophyte career/life planning
professional is the pace at which the occupational
world is now
changing.
Many of the specific career-related programs that
college freshmen and technical-school
students enter into today may no
longer offer good employment
prospects or long-range career
potent by
the time they obtain their degrees.
Vocational choice stable conditions is a simple mat of selecting the
occupation that
best fits your interests and skills. But how do
you know what occupation your interests suggest when the future is so
uncertain?
Some of the best articles in this section are covering these
topics: Career advice , how
to obtain job interview advice,
job search, employee rights,
self-employments
ideas.
How
self-learning and
patience can help you to absorb all the information
needed to preserve your PC and
to develop programs.
My passion and my
patience allowed me to convert self-learning
and continuing education
about computer technology and telecommunications
to new income sources. One day I finally
renounced to both
hardware maintenance supplier and accounting software supplier,
reducing our fiirm fixed costs.
In
the same time I started to give advice and counseling to our customers
and to other small firms in the small business database design and
development. I develop programs in Visual Basic,
Access and ASP languages, but only for me and
my organisation.
In 1999 I've
registered my first internet domain, www.mc2.it, still working, and in
2001 I started to produce my 3 self-made CBT (Computer-Based
Trainings) now available on line in Italian.
I'm
still doing upholding my 6 computers,
updating all the database and
software
needed for my business and all
the html, javascript, active
server pages code for my websites.
I've reached all this
Knowledge and skills by me as independent
learner and self-learner,
but
I've decided only in the 2005 to concentrate on Information Marketing
Business on the Web.
Some sub-section: How-to build your own PC,
articles about Lap top computers, software shopping.
All we need to do is pay attention to
what the Internet really is.
It's not hard. The Net isn't rocket
science.
It
isn't even 6th grade science fair, when you get right down to it. We
can end the tragedy of Repetitive Mistake Syndrome in our lifetimes -
and save a few trillion dollars' worth of dumb decisions - if we can
just remember one simple fact: the Net is a world of ends.
You're at one end, and everybody and everything else are at the other
ends.
Sure,
that's a feel-good statement about everyone having value on the Net,
etc. But it's also the basic rock-solid fact about the Net's technical
architecture. And the Internet's value
is founded in its technical
architecture.
Fortunately, the true nature of the Internet isn't
hard to understand. In fact, just a fistful of statements stands
between Repetitive Mistake Syndrome and Enlightenment?
The Internet isn't a thing.
It's an agreement.
"Hot" topics: How to open online account, Internet service provider,
Blogging business,
Buying online,
Movie sites, Online communities,
Internet and security,
Music downloading
websites.
Self-Publishing
is the publishing of books or other media (web content, articles,
tutorials,
for examples) by those who have written them.
In the traditional
model, the publisher maintains
a degree of editorial control over the
content, and
ordinarily makes choices about the design of the book-the
layout of the text, the appearance of the cover, the bookbinding, the
quality of the paper, and so on. Then, the publisher pays a printer for
the initial press run, usually at least several thousand copies.
The self-publishing model
involves fewer entities. Perhaps most often,
there are two-the author, and
the printer. The author pays for the
initial press run, which is often small, and stores the books, perhaps
in a home or studio.
In
many cases the author sells the book
directly to readers and other end
customers, or may perhaps sell it to or offer it on consignment through
retail stores.
Understanding
and using basic principles provides an anchor of sanity when trading in
a crazy world. In the broad
category of "trading the markets,"
there are basically three types of
trading: discretionary, technical, and system-based.
lt's important that you understand the difference between them, which
is not always clear. I've met many people who believe they are system
traders when they are actually technical
traders, and vice versa. I
have known and taught many traders,
and have observed that there are
four distinct stages of trader
education: discretionary trader,
technical trader,
system trader,
and complete system trader.
All
successful traders have gone
through them. It is almost impossible to
be a successful system trader
without going through all of these
stages. Every trader
usually starts out as a discretionary
trader. The amount of money lost
generally determines how long it takes the individual to start using
technical indicators to make trading
decisions. Eventually, as
even employing technical indicators
fails to move the trader into
profitability,
the trader moves into the third stage and starts to
write systems based on
quantifiable data.
Self-help
is the act of helping or improving yourself
without relying on anyone
else. The
Internet, and
the ever-expanding selection of commercial and information services it
offers, is an example of movement toward self-help on a grand scale.
The concept of self-help has
also found purchase, however, in more
expansive genres. For
many people, self-help has
become a way of saving cost especially in
legal settings, with self-help
services
available to help with routine
legal matters from filing wills to domestic processes to recording
property deeds.
The connotations of the phrase often apply
particularly to education, business, psychological or psychotherapeutic
nostrums, purveyed through the popular genre of the "self-help" books
and self-help personal development movements.
Some
advice about
all related topics on this website such as how-to find the
best stuff, how-to save money,
how-to improve
your learning skills,
how-to find a job,
and so on.
Keep in mind that on my opinion the best
advice is: experiment
yourself, experiment yourself, experiment yourself!
It's
time-consuming, I know, but it always works! The best I've ever learned
during both my professional and personal life are those that I've
personally experimented with.
If you follow whatever advice without experimenting your are wasting
your time!
This idea has worked for me during the last 25 years! (and still
working!)
There
is a enormous number of make money
self-declareted opportunities
on the
web but-as many already know-the major part of them are pure scam! The
big risk is to waste a great
quantity of your time and to lose your
money too!
Anyway,
I would not to appear so negative. I don't affirm that is not possible
to make money online (I do it with my websites) but if I have to give
you my advice, follow Brett
Krkosska's counseling on
www.homebiztools.com.
Based on my personal experience, I find his recommendations useful and
savvy: "Some Common Scams Pyramid
Schemes - A pyramid scheme grants anyone membership for a fee, without
giving something back of equal value. Not to be confused with
multi-level marketing, which requires the sale of products or services
from their members.
Chain Letters - A pyramid scheme. Illegal and they don't work. Envelope
Stuffing - Legal prosecution for participants becoming more common.
Craft Assembly - It's very hard to build a craft which meets their
"standards".
Fast Credit Repair - There is no fast way to repair credit. They teach
you how to lie.
This
doesn't mean that there are also many good opportunities on the Net.
Hot topics: Make money over internet,
Make money
with Google adsense,
Multiple streams
of income, Online business opportunities, Passive
income, Surveys make money,
Business
opportunities for women, Ad
revenue, Competitions online,
You can earn at home
in many ways.
For
those who are financially prudent,
savings is the amount of money that
is left over after personal expenses
have been met can be positive. For those tend to rely
on credit and loans to make ends meet, will have
negative savings.
Savings can be turned into further income through investing. Saving for
your goals
Once
you've established what your financial
goals and their time frames are,
you need to decide how you can accumulate the money to realize
them. Short of working around the clock, there are two possible
ways to increase your wealth: saving
and investing. You'll probably
want to do some of both.
Saving,
which means setting aside money
for the future, may be the hardest part
of financial planning, since
you'll have less to spend on your current
needs than you do now. But making regular additions to a savings
account is the surest way to move forward toward your goals.
Why
is to save energy so important
nowadays? Because both of energy
production increasing costs and
fast acceleration of world global
energy consumption.
I think that every self-learner should
be aware of this fact. It's important that everybody who approaches to
knowledge takes care of everyone's daily energy consumption.
Like Lester R.Brown has predicted, we are already living in a World
that has reached the Oil Peaks "Peak
oil is described as the point
where oil production stops
rising and begins its inevitable long-term
decline .
In the face of fast-growing demand, this means rising oil prices.
Few
countries are planning a reduction in their use of oil. Even though
peak oil may be imminent, most countries are counting on much higher
oil consumption in the decades ahead, building automobile
assembly
plants, roads, highways, parking lots, and suburban housing
developments as though cheap oil will last forever."
"Hot"
topics: Building materials recycled,
Gasoline prices,
Heating systems,
How to choose a high efficiency gas
furnace, How to consume less
energy
and live better, How to deal with
highest gas price, How to
increase
gas mileage, Natural gas
fireplaces, Pollution control
equipment, Solar
heating, Solar power
systems, Soundproofing
materials.
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