Education

Now here's a subject I certainly know something about, although I have never really achieved any academic accolades. Heck I didn't even get a college degree after going in and out of 2 different schools over a period of 5 years. All I can tell you is that in order to become truly successful and continue to stay that way, your education should never end. Being an IT professional, I must continue to learn new skills every year just to keep up with the technology. One thing I've discovered along the way is that you need to become self-educated. There are many topics that really should be taught in schools but simply are not, or they get glossed over in a superfluous manner; Personal Finance comes to mind as a specific example.

Thank God for the internet and all of the information that we can get our hands on. The only problem with having so much information at our fingertips is that you have to sift through it with an eye for what's factual and what isn't. For topics that are widely discussed, you can read a ton of information and a core of truth develops and you can tell where the fringe information, that needs to be discarded, lies. The challenging part comes when you are researching areas that don't have a lot of published information. There isn't a wealth of information available to contrast it against, so you'll want to treat these subjects with a little more scrutiny.

We promote educational material and training curriculums at DreamOutfitters.com and I truly believe that the quality of education that we offer is quite honestly superlative. We belong to a community that is made up of the world's best and brightest online entrepreneurs and they have taken the time to build an educational system for continued learning in the field of internet marketing. It is literally impossible to find the wealth of information that you'll find within our community offered in any other single location. There are eBooks, videos, Podcasts, Webinars, along with well organized computer based training curriculums all arranged by topic for easy access. These courses teach the most vital information that you need to promote your own business ideas on the world wide web. There are courses on everything from internet marketing as we've discussed to sales, service and even legal to make sure that your business is run on the up and up.

There are also multiple brand new training opportunities presented live via conference calls and webinars each and every week. Everything from the very basic beginning methods to jump start your business to the super advanced what you might call "graduate level" courses that show time tested methods that have literally cost the trainers thousand of hours of their blood sweat and tears while they fine tuned their campaigns through a series of trials and tribulations. They share what they've learned with the entire community. As Jay Kubassek always says, "the rising tide, raises all boats." It feels really great to belong to such a community and I've learned so much in a short period of time.

The bottom line for today's post is that you must continue to be a student well after your formal education is completed. Daily reading, listening to audio programs, watching DVDs as well as attending lectures, sermons and seminars. This continual process of filling your mind with the latest and most effective "best practices" can literally save you hundreds and hundreds of hours wasted by stumbling through life by trial and error. Trial and error can be effective if you do not have any examples to follow. But why spend all of that time if someone else has already done it? Success leaves clues. Pick up on those clues and save yourself the trouble of the trial and error that has already been exerted in reaching those proven successful results. Study the people you most admire and you will find the golden nuggets of wisdom that they leave behind much like a trail of breadcrumbs leading the way to where they have already arrived. Don't be a follower, be a student.