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Courses in PC Support

If we didn’t have a regular deluge of knowledgeable network and computer support workers, commerce in the UK (and around the world) would inevitably be drawn to a standstill. There is an on-going requirement for technically able people to support systems and users alike. Our requirement for better skilled and qualified individuals multiplies, as human beings become significantly more beholden to PC’s in these modern times. Continue reading

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Why Is Goal Planning And Targeting Important To Success In Study?

No great accomplishment has ever been achieved without planning. When Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Mount Everest, he wasn’t out for a stroll and all of a sudden found himself at the summit! To make a change to your life you have to plan to make the change or it won’t happen. Continue reading

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Self-Help & Focus Create Success with Six Minutes To Success

Our first discussion on deciding if self-improvement was worth the effort or not, left many a bit discouraged. Using Bob Proctor’s Six Minutes to Success as a starting point, we will continue our discussion. Continue reading

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Why ‘I Know’ Are The Two Most Destructive Words To Learning.

How many times do frustrated parents correct their kids, only to be told ‘I know that’ by their half-listening offspring? Every mum and dad in that position knows the message hasn’t got through; the child obviously neither knows nor cares, and nothing of value has been learned. Continue reading

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The Advantages of Music Education

Years ago, music education was respected as a required course in the public schools starting at elementary and running through middle school levels. Nowadays, music is not considered as important as science, mathematics, English, History, and other classes. Since music is not considered important by many schools, it is considered an outside activity where students can study privately with teachers by paying a fee for the lessons. Continue reading

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Brain Training – The Smart Resolution

Although historians trace the origin of New Year’s resolutions to the ancient Babylonians, the most apt historical symbol for the tradition is probably the Roman god Janus, his two faces looking back over past events and forward to the future. Where have we come from and where would we like to go. With an exciting new leap forward in the capabilities of brain training programs over the past year, this is the perfect time to make brain exercise our New Year’s resolution. Continue reading

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To Retain What You’re Learning, What’s The Best Structured Way ?

Having a structured study programme makes all the difference to the amount and degree of knowledge we can retain. The order of study is vital for long-term retention. Stepped, incremental education establishes frames of reference to build on and add knowledge to. By learning the basics and fundamental principles first, students can build on this stable foundation. Understanding why something works the way it does helps to frame meaning into what you learn. Continue reading

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What Prevents Most People From Having More Than An Average Life?

This question isn’t a new one; for as long as people have lived on earth, it’s been around. Many great philosophers throughout history have spent time looking at what holds us back – at that part of our psyche that stops us from achieving a great life. Continue reading

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