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This is the time of year when we become reflective – literally looking back over the past 12 months, sometimes longer, and deciding whether our achievements are adequate, or need beefing up.   Some folk also look up their resolutions made last new year’s eve – mine were an interesting selection of travelling more, learning a new hobby, taking up a craft and maxing up my finances and investments.   Well, I managed to get to the next stage with my learning to play the piano.  Doing this with a tutor in person is more successful than online, but needs must . . . .    I can play a decent little tune or too and my sight reading is improving.  Check.  The knitting has come to fruition too.  I started again when poppies were needed for the Armistice events came round.  That reignited my enthusiasm and I found some great e-learning pages.   The financial online courses too have been extremely useful.  Check!

I have a habit of stopping work for a nice lunch break every day – I know my train of thought is actually better if left undisturbed, but that leads to me only managing an extra hour or two of work and then I find my eyes lose it and I’m fast asleep in no time.  So my mantra – take a proper break, do something completely different and relax.  I love looking at documentaries on my laptop, tending to catch up with some of the best and most informative during rest periods.  It’s amazing how much you can learn in just a short snatched half hour.  This can be the same with chunks of e-learning and online education courses.  If you want to study for a particular career move or to widen your job focused learning, online training courses are a fantastic way to achieve greater knowledge and qualifications.  There are some amazing options out there today.

Some learning envirnoments can be great fun.  Others are deathly boring.  I can remember one or two subject at school that were exactly the same – maths, sadly was not a barrel of laughs for me.  I struggled constantly.  Whether it was the delivery, or the fact I couldn’t keep up, I don’t know, but I was constantly petrified of not being able to do the mental arithmetic.  I could not manage those ‘problems’.  I think if the teacher had taken me aside and explained one to one, how each element worked, I would have quickly grasped the rest of it.  My daughter had a similar story – she hated maths.  When she wanted to take the QT tests for teacher training she panicked.  Until a neighbour showed her the fantastic government online tutoring to help candidates overcome these blocks.  Once she’d done a handful of the tests, there was no stopping her.