The Difference Between Learning and Improving

I've been reading a ton of goal-setting and motivation books lately. I just haven't felt like I've been making much progress or seen the changes that I should. 

Success Magazine's Darren Hardy has a great article about how to actually improve from self-improvement materials:

There is a significant difference between learning and improving. The difference is results.

Have you ever been to a seminar, listened to an audio program or read a book that promised life transforming results in 90 days or less… and it didn’t happen?

It wasn’t that the material didn’t work; you didn’t do the work. It’s not what you learn; it’s what you do with what you learn. Doing has to follow learning.

Knowing what to do is not the same as doing what you know. There are a lot of people who read all the books (or blogs!) and go to all the seminars, but their life never improves. The world is filled with broke geniuses.

I will walk you through my process of how I turn learning into study and study into improvement/results.

Selection. I break my yearly goal achievement plans into four quarterly themes. In each quarter I focus on a particular area of my life or skill I want to improve (i.e. marriage, health, keynote speaking, interviewing, etc.).

I research online and reach out to my personal network for recommendations on the best resources for improving that discipline or skill.

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