| Plenty! When we made the decision to be our own | | | | immediately to advance my business. Instead, it's sitting |
| bosses, we gave up the luxury of having our | | | | gathering cyber dust. Once I purchased a portable |
| employers sending us to us seminars, workshops or | | | | MP3 player, I had the freedom to listen, learn and apply. |
| conferences that help improve our skills and gain | | | | What a great difference it made.There is also a |
| knowledge related to our work. All this became our | | | | flipside to this. What if you're the one creating the |
| initiative. We have to look for and invest in our own | | | | content? For many of us the thought of sitting down to |
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| to learn can be quite a feat.On the other hand, it need | | | | we see it as moving a mountain. It's not that we don't |
| not be that way especially if you have a portable MP3 | | | | know how or it's hard to do but the thought of is |
| player. The Internet has opened up a whole new | | | | simply unpleasant. So how can your portable MP3 |
| learning avenue we can take advantage of, right from | | | | player come into play?Most portable MP3 players |
| the comfort of our own home offices. A majority of | | | | have a recording function. You can record as much as |
| courses online are in MP3 format or can be extracted | | | | you like limited to only the drive space of the player |
| to MP3. With the popularity of podcasts, teleseminars | | | | and a simple 128MB drive can store quite a bit of |
| and web conferences, you will find no shortage of | | | | audio. So, why not dictate? Record your thoughts or |
| audio learning material. In fact the opposite is true - you | | | | pretend you're talking to a friend on the phone about |
| may find yourself not having the opportunity to listen to | | | | your topic. Then have it transcribed. By doing so, not |
| all these great information. What an ironic twist of fate | | | | only are you making the most out of your time |
| huh?But this is where the portable MP3 player can | | | | because you can do so where ever you are. You also |
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| download MP3 files directly into your portable player | | | | your business.So if you're having a hard time |
| and begin to listen and learn while you do other tasks | | | | consuming your training material creating content or |
| away from the computer.I know this has helped me | | | | even writing your book, pick up a portable MP3 player. |
| tremendously. I used to have piles of MP3 files clogging | | | | They are so inexpensive these days you really have |
| up my computer hard drive. I'd download them, start to | | | | no excuse to start. It's time you moved on.Technology |
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| was frustrating because here was all this great | | | | teaches entreprenuers how to leverage readily |
| information at my fingertips that could be put to use | | | | available technology for their marketing. |