Category Archives: The Things I’ve Recently Learned

The Things I’ve learned: blog:
I am a note taker. I will often go to presentations at the library and takes notes on a presentation. This has provided the additional benefit that I can often post my notes on some of my blogs such as Rock Soup. Well this month at work we received some ‘advance your career’ training. I was reminded that my company hosts a lot of educational material. I thought I would start taking some of these courses and take notes. So thus I’m creating this page: What I’ve learned today, to share with you my notes and thus it become a win-win situation where we both learn something new.
Enjoy my entries and hopefully by posting my notes, It’ll motivate me to continue in learning new things and taking more notes. I take notes to remember the information I learned and it provides an opportunity for me to access it later.
Enjoy:

A way to organize my tax information for easy access: 3/6/12

The following suggestions might be obvious to some; but, I didn’t make this discovery until in recent years. Usually when it came to doing my taxes I would type things up each year and then use a calculator to add … Continue reading

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Logistics: Compensate for Weaknesses and Build to Your Strengths (2/28/12)

Today’s discussion touches on ways I compensate for weakness or work to a strength. Let me give some specific examples. Monday I told my story “Balloon Head” at the story teller’s festival hosted by the Weber state, (http://community.weber.edu/storytelling/). The story … Continue reading

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Virtues of the Full Day Project (2/21/12)

I have heard some wonderful advice about how to do big projects. Often I hear handling big projects in small steps. I often find this suggestion very useful. I am often a bit of a procrastinator and doing something small … Continue reading

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Making Do. (2/14/12)

Okay this might be a little different for you. Throughout my life I have had to kind of watch my pennies. (Who hasn’t) but as a result I do not spend money on artsy little containers for storage. I have … Continue reading

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