Getting the most from a course

Learn how to avoid overcomplicating your studies and truly deepen your understanding by adopting a simplified, enlightened approach instead of overthinking like a midwit. This lesson guides you th...

Taking more than one course at a time? Roughly a third of your time on learning, and the rest on applying it. If you have an hour a week for a course, that is about 20 minutes of watching or reading and about 40 minutes of doing something with it. The watching gives you insight and direction. Your business changes in the other 40 minutes. Two courses at once is usually plenty. And if a course genuinely builds on another one of mine, take that one first -- otherwise, order does not matter much.

A place to keep track of the courses you are taking -- mine and other people's. One row per course: where it lives, what you thought of it, and where you got to. Make your own copy first (File → Make a copy), then it is yours to edit. Useful if you are the sort of person who buys more courses than you finish, or who can never remember which platform a course was on. If that is not you, skip this one. Click here for the Course Tracker Template

When you make a copy of one of my Google templates, the copy lands in your own Google Drive. The quickest way back to your copy is the "Recent" section in the left sidebar -- it will be near the top, with the same name as the original. Once you have found your copy, drag it into a folder you will remember, so you are not hunting through Recent every time. Click here to go to your Google Drive "recent" section Do not use Google Docs? Make your copy anyway, then use File → Download and pick the format you want -- Word, PDF, plain text, or Excel for the spreadsheets. Everything I have built works fine once downloaded, and printing works too.