How to Build a Daily Learning Routine

Bill Gates once said, “you don’t really start getting old until you stop learning.” This is true and you should continue to learn with a learning routine.

Learning is one of those activities that many people feel is unnecessary once you graduate from school (either high school or college).

But learning is very important for self-growth and many successful people continue to learn until the day they die.

But learning a new skill or subject can be difficult if you have a job that you have to attend to and/or children you have to take care of.

That’s why when you are picking a subject, you have to pick something that you’ll be excited to learn because you are going to dedicate your free time to mastering this new skill or topic.

Now here’s the hard question: How can you figure out what you should be learning?

Well, what do you like to do? What is something productive that you enjoy doing and would want to continually improve at? What activity do you want to master?

This is the thing that you need to learn, but I’ll talk more about how to find your passion in detail another time.

What Should You Learn?

Okay, now that you’ve figured out what excites you, you need to find the time to learn and practice this new activity of yours.

You could start by using some of your spare time at work or at home to learn. You don’t need to make these long sessions like a class that you would take at a school.

But it should be long enough that you are able to learn, think, and apply what you have just learned.

For example, I started to take an online copywriting class a couple of weeks ago.

Since it’s a self-directed class, I had to figure out when was the best time for me to learn.

So I decided to learn it every night (I’m a night owl), a few hours before bed. I found that about 1 hour per session was enough for me to learn and practice copywriting.

But how long you want your learning sessions to be will depend on you. But try to aim for at least 30 minutes.

Now that you know how long you want the sessions to be, you have to find a time in the day where you will routinely learn.

This is the most effective way of mastering a new skill as making these sessions a routine will ensure that you are learning and practicing on a consistent basis.

So here’s how you create a daily learning routine, according to an article from The Spruce.

How to Create a Daily Learning Schedule

The first thing this article, “5 Steps to Create a Personalized Daily Routine”, says to do is make a list of everything you need to get done on a daily basis.

These could be tasks from home and from work. But don’t worry about being organized with this list as it is just a brain dump.

The second thing you have to do is structure your day.

So for this list, you have to figure out what type of person you are.

Are you a morning person or are you a night owl? Also, how busy are you during these times of the day?

You need to figure these out because the time that you will learn every day will be based on your answers.

If you are a morning person but are super busy during that time of day, then maybe you shouldn’t do your learning in the morning.

Maybe you should do it another time, like in the evening. You may have to shorten the time that you relax, but you are substituting that time with something that is productive and fun.

Once you figure out which time is best for you to learn, follow this routine for 30 days.

But be flexible. Sometimes things will come up and you will miss a session or two, but just remember to do it at a later time.

As long as you follow your routine for the majority of the 30 days, then that’s a win.

After the period is up, reassess it.

Did it work for you? Is that learning slot a good time for you? If so, continue it.

If not, create a new routine and try it out. Just keep adjusting it until it works for you.

Final Thoughts

So that’s how you make learning a routine.

Did this article help you out? And what will you be learning and trying to master?

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