How I used online education to become a profitable entrepreneur
Elona Lopari
Help Purpose Led Service Based Companies Become Independent /0-10MM Revenue/ Fractional Service Provider/ Keynote Speaker/Multiple Times Best Selling Author /Award Winner/ Investor
So I wanted to share with you how I actually use the online education system or online education to become a profitable entrepreneur. This is actually behind my mission with my platform called The Life School where I realized that we all know traditional education has some flaws, and is not really evolving with where the world is going. There are also a lot of gaps between what we are taught there, and what are the new skills that we need to learn moving forward so that we can have a fulfilling life, business career, relationships, health, all those important areas to us as entrepreneurs.
One of the things that I always say, with traditional education, comparing it to the online education world is the fact that moving up the traditional education ladder, so to speak, just like the corporate ladder I was part of for many years, the focus is on theory by learning a lot around the different topics and subjects that we are used to, but really missing the practical side of things or putting all the theory into practice. This is where I saw this big gap get filled by the online education world, whether it's the investment in mentorships, whether the is the investment in different training programs, whether it's simply consuming content in all our social media channels like YouTube Tiktok.
Whatever method is it that we learn today, I've realized that one of the most important parts that I have personally used and I want to share with you is to learn around themes. So rather than sitting down and learning everything I need to?know regarding a certain skill in one sitting breaking it down. For example, let's say that's a topic that I want to focus on is learning how to market my business, focusing on themes around this topic to start with is helpful.
The other thing is to hold space and be patient with yourself to test and reflect which is a very important part in the learning process . Anything that's new that we're trying to learn, while giving yourself enough patience to test things and to make mistakes is crucial. We have to let things marinate or process within you before you make a judgement around whether something is working or not working out for you.
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Usually the result that we want is within the 50 or six times that we have tested something that for the time being is not really giving us the result that we're looking for. So it's the success is really behind all the times that you are testing and learning.
Other important aspect is on all the times that you are reflecting back on what you have learned from that process. Reflection is also another very important part I've learned in my personal journey, because in the reflection moments, is where we take the lessons out of our experience. So unless we intentionally reflect back on things, then we're just moving way too fast. And we are not really taking the time to retrieve the lessons. So that, you know, we can take those and we can share them with others in order to make better informed decisions next time around. So that those reflections can really serve us in our lives, as well.
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1 年well said . Need to be learning daily