I forgot to set time to learn this week…

Pluralsight Free Weekend - November 20-22

I’ve heard that so many times in my career.  Life sure is busy. You buy that fixer upper and you put all your free time into the biggest financial investment you’ve ever made. Or did you have kids!  Wow they can suck every minute of your time. I know so many of my professional friends who enjoy getting that development task or story done that they forget to learn. I might focus on how this doesn’t help you or your career in a different article but today I wanted to highlight to remember to make the time.

I know you want to learn, it’s just that life becomes busy and you forget. If you just need that little extra push or reminder here are a few ideas. Personally, I’m fortunate that I use two of the best online learning platforms around. These are the Pluralsight and LinkedIn Learning platforms. Both have great technical and programming courses.

 

Each of these platforms have very nice reminders as you login to the website. They both encourage you to become a continuous learner by setting weekly goals. Both are similar but Pluralsight has some additional unique features.  They give you badges as you complete different viewing streaks or length of time.     

Pluralsight:

LinkedIn Learning:


While I really like these goals, the biggest challenge with these types of reminders is you need to login to the website to see your status. If you’re already logging into the online learning platform, you’re ready to learn and didn’t forget. The next best reminder is some of the emails from the platforms.  Pluralsight will send you very nice Congratulation emails when you meet your goal for the week. LinkedIn Learning sends emails of new content and encouragement to complete your existing courses.

 Pluralsight                   

                                                      

LinkedIn Learning


The challenge with these reminders for learning is its email. While great, we all know we get too many emails already.  We typically just delete them and move on.

 What you really need is something that is in your face, all the time, giving you that nudge that prompts you that you need to make the time for learning.  Here is where Pluralsight really knocks it out of the park and utilizes the weekly reminders with a New widget directly on your phone. Since everyone can’t put down their phone for more than 5 minutes, you now have a constant reminder right into your face.  These widgets you update each week and give you the constant reminder we all need

Widgets for your phone  

  







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