Everyone should have the same opportunity to learn and achieve their ambitions in life, in their communities and at work.
Because our business is to look at what works and what doesn’t in learning, skills and employment, we have direct experience of the “wrongs to be righted”. And we have the evidence to back up our recommendations.
That’s why, as well as delivering Adult Learners’ Week (now in its 24th year), we campaign, lobby and advocate on behalf of learners of all kinds, especially those at most disadvantage.
In the recent years, we have campaigned to:
So if you develop policy, inform opinion or develop learning and skills practice, or if you just care about learning, we want to challenge your thinking, engage you in debate, and encourage you to advocate alongside us, so that everyone can benefit from lifelong learning.
Because our business is to look at what works and what doesn’t in learning, skills and employment, we have direct experience of the “wrongs to be righted”. And we have the evidence to back up our recommendations.
That’s why, as well as delivering Adult Learners’ Week (now in its 24th year), we campaign, lobby and advocate on behalf of learners of all kinds, especially those at most disadvantage.
In the recent years, we have campaigned to:
- Highlight the unintended impact of 24+ Advanced Learning Loans for apprenticeships
- Gain support for an Apprentice Charter that would benefit apprentices and employers
- Support people in low pay to progress in their careers
- Help marginalised learners to access better opportunities through the Equality, Diversity and Innovation Fund
- Help adults improve their literacy and discover a love of reading, through our continued support for Quick Reads
- Help adults improve their numeracy with the Maths Everywhere App
- Deliver Community Learning Champions – supporting volunteers who help adults to learn
- Help people plan for a longer working life through our Mid-life Career Review
- Reach deprived and marginalized learners, through our management of the Community Learning Innovation Fund
- Encourage schools to use the Pupil Premium for family learning – something we know has a dramatic impact on children’s and parents’ learning
- Ensure Trainee ships are available to older learners link to the following news story on the new website please
- Raise awareness of the needs of both young adult carers and care leavers
So if you develop policy, inform opinion or develop learning and skills practice, or if you just care about learning, we want to challenge your thinking, engage you in debate, and encourage you to advocate alongside us, so that everyone can benefit from lifelong learning.
Implement Your Chosen Coping Strategies
Stress is common in our everyday lives. For the purposes of improving overall productivity and lowering stress, it is important to manage your time effectively, plan your day, and prioritize task demands. At the same time, it is highly beneficial, and recommended that you work on developing and have various coping strategies available to you; their regular use will help keep stress levels down. If you are currently feeling overwhelmed by this process, you may consider setting up a consultation with a licensed mental health clinician.- See more at: http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/articles/first-things-first#sthash.w1KwoDKY.dpuf
Now,
I don't doubt the necessity of planning out one's day in advance. If we
are to be productive, we must consider what needs to get done and how
we're going to do it.
Rather, it's how we think about and approach our tasks, duties, and responsibilities - and the level of significance that we ascribe to their completion which can cause some of us considerable anxiety. Ultimately we may forget to do things, choose to ignore our responsibilities, or do them in a haphazard fashion. Even worse, we can become clinically depressed.
In order to remain healthy, we should always consider the importance and value of our priorities. In our personal and professional lives, however, many of us want to accomplish multiple goals at once. Often times, we don't care to work toward them in an incremental or step-wise fashion.
- See more at: http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/articles/first-things-first#sthash.w1KwoDKY.dpuf
Rather, it's how we think about and approach our tasks, duties, and responsibilities - and the level of significance that we ascribe to their completion which can cause some of us considerable anxiety. Ultimately we may forget to do things, choose to ignore our responsibilities, or do them in a haphazard fashion. Even worse, we can become clinically depressed.
In order to remain healthy, we should always consider the importance and value of our priorities. In our personal and professional lives, however, many of us want to accomplish multiple goals at once. Often times, we don't care to work toward them in an incremental or step-wise fashion.
- See more at: http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/articles/first-things-first#sthash.w1KwoDKY.dpuf
Now,
I don't doubt the necessity of planning out one's day in advance. If we
are to be productive, we must consider what needs to get done and how
we're going to do it.
Rather, it's how we think about and approach our tasks, duties, and responsibilities - and the level of significance that we ascribe to their completion which can cause some of us considerable anxiety. Ultimately we may forget to do things, choose to ignore our responsibilities, or do them in a haphazard fashion. Even worse, we can become clinically depressed.
In order to remain healthy, we should always consider the importance and value of our priorities. In our personal and professional lives, however, many of us want to accomplish multiple goals at once. Often times, we don't care to work toward them in an incremental or step-wise fashion.
- See more at: http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/articles/first-things-first#sthash.w1KwoDKY.dpuf
Rather, it's how we think about and approach our tasks, duties, and responsibilities - and the level of significance that we ascribe to their completion which can cause some of us considerable anxiety. Ultimately we may forget to do things, choose to ignore our responsibilities, or do them in a haphazard fashion. Even worse, we can become clinically depressed.
In order to remain healthy, we should always consider the importance and value of our priorities. In our personal and professional lives, however, many of us want to accomplish multiple goals at once. Often times, we don't care to work toward them in an incremental or step-wise fashion.
- See more at: http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/articles/first-things-first#sthash.w1KwoDKY.dpuf
First Things First: A Mindful Approach to Choosing Our Priorities at Home and Work
Now,
I don't doubt the necessity of planning out one's day in advance. If we
are to be productive, we must consider what needs to get done and how
we're going to do it.Rather, it's how we think about and approach our tasks, duties, and responsibilities - and the level of significance that we ascribe to their completion which can cause some of us considerable anxiety. Ultimately we may forget to do things, choose to ignore our responsibilities, or do them in a haphazard fashion. Even worse, we can become clinically depressed.
In order to remain healthy, we should always consider the importance and value of our priorities. In our personal and professional lives, however, many of us want to accomplish multiple goals at once. Often times, we don't care to work toward them in an incremental or step-wise fashion.
Self-Imposed Stress From "Taking On Too Much"
For these reasons, try to think about what you're doing and why. Ask such questions as "Is it really important that this gets done now or can it wait?" Essentially we must be more mindful of our own thought processes. This is a very deliberate and intentional practice requiring substantial mental focus. We need to know and be more connected with our ideas, expectations, and intentions, particularly those that will advance us toward our goals.Thinking in a more purposeful manner will decrease your experience of stress. Specifically, it relaxes you, allows you to be more flexible / revise goals as necessary, and decreases anxiety.
Prioritize And Plan Your Day
- Know yourself well! Specifically, understand your strengths and weaknesses, including your unique work habits.
- In all situations, time will dictate what happens next. You will improve your efficiency if you know which tasks you can fit into the time that is left over once all the major tasks have been completed.
- Obviously, larger tasks will have to be broken down into smaller tasks. For example, you might not have enough time today to write the report that is due next Tuesday, but you can use the next 20 minutes to write the introduction while waiting for a meeting to start.
- Doing smaller, less significant tasks first (i.e., to lower your anxiety), is okay, and in many cases desirable. But do them quickly and without interfering with the important tasks. The important tasks are the ones that will have serious ramifications if you do not finish them.
- This is similar to the fourth point: Procrastination is the practice of putting off your more important tasks until later, while completing the less important or more pleasurable tasks first. To some extent procrastination is normal, even healthy as a coping mechanism to deal with anxiety about deadlines. But, it can decrease productivity, in addition to driving up your sense of anxiety, resulting in stress, even feelings of guilt.
- Compartmentalize your efforts. By that I mean that you should try to keep various assignments and issues separate from each other. Isolated and focus only on those details necessary to complete a task. Concentrate on the task before you, and don't let your mind wander, i.e., thinking about what you have to do next. Learn to say "no" to anything that doesn't deserve your immediate focus or time. By not allowing yourself to be derailed by non-essential thoughts or details, you will greatly increase your overall accuracy and cut down on the time needed to complete assignments or home-related chores and activities.
- Multi-task whenever necessary, provided the other activities don't diminish your ability to focus or return your attention to the task before you.
- Know which assignments require more attention to detail and which do not. This might be difficult if you are a perfectionist, but you will save much time, while freeing yourself up to complete other items on your list.
- Be able to recognize when your anxiety or stress level is going up. Have a plan for how you will decompress.
- When you get home from work, give yourself permission to switch gears between work and family mode. Try to be present and mindful of the fact that you're at home. You can remind yourself that whatever it is that your mind keeps drifting back to regarding work can wait until tomorrow. Also, remind yourself how continually thinking about work while you're at home can have serious health consequences for your physical and emotional functioning.
Implement Your Chosen Coping Strategies
Stress is common in our everyday lives. For the purposes of improving overall productivity and lowering stress, it is important to manage your time effectively, plan your day, and prioritize task demands. At the same time, it is highly beneficial, and recommended that you work on developing and have various coping strategies available to you; their regular use will help keep stress levels down. If you are currently feeling overwhelmed by this process, you may consider setting up a consultation with a licensed mental health clinician.First Things First: A Mindful Approach to Choosing Our Priorities at Home and Work
Now,
I don't doubt the necessity of planning out one's day in advance. If we
are to be productive, we must consider what needs to get done and how
we're going to do it.Rather, it's how we think about and approach our tasks, duties, and responsibilities - and the level of significance that we ascribe to their completion which can cause some of us considerable anxiety. Ultimately we may forget to do things, choose to ignore our responsibilities, or do them in a haphazard fashion. Even worse, we can become clinically depressed.
In order to remain healthy, we should always consider the importance and value of our priorities. In our personal and professional lives, however, many of us want to accomplish multiple goals at once. Often times, we don't care to work toward them in an incremental or step-wise fashion.
Self-Imposed Stress From "Taking On Too Much"
For these reasons, try to think about what you're doing and why. Ask such questions as "Is it really important that this gets done now or can it wait?" Essentially we must be more mindful of our own thought processes. This is a very deliberate and intentional practice requiring substantial mental focus. We need to know and be more connected with our ideas, expectations, and intentions, particularly those that will advance us toward our goals.Thinking in a more purposeful manner will decrease your experience of stress. Specifically, it relaxes you, allows you to be more flexible / revise goals as necessary, and decreases anxiety.
Prioritize And Plan Your Day
- Know yourself well! Specifically, understand your strengths and weaknesses, including your unique work habits.
- In all situations, time will dictate what happens next. You will improve your efficiency if you know which tasks you can fit into the time that is left over once all the major tasks have been completed.
- Obviously, larger tasks will have to be broken down into smaller tasks. For example, you might not have enough time today to write the report that is due next Tuesday, but you can use the next 20 minutes to write the introduction while waiting for a meeting to start.
- Doing smaller, less significant tasks first (i.e., to lower your anxiety), is okay, and in many cases desirable. But do them quickly and without interfering with the important tasks. The important tasks are the ones that will have serious ramifications if you do not finish them.
- This is similar to the fourth point: Procrastination is the practice of putting off your more important tasks until later, while completing the less important or more pleasurable tasks first. To some extent procrastination is normal, even healthy as a coping mechanism to deal with anxiety about deadlines. But, it can decrease productivity, in addition to driving up your sense of anxiety, resulting in stress, even feelings of guilt.
- Compartmentalize your efforts. By that I mean that you should try to keep various assignments and issues separate from each other. Isolated and focus only on those details necessary to complete a task. Concentrate on the task before you, and don't let your mind wander, i.e., thinking about what you have to do next. Learn to say "no" to anything that doesn't deserve your immediate focus or time. By not allowing yourself to be derailed by non-essential thoughts or details, you will greatly increase your overall accuracy and cut down on the time needed to complete assignments or home-related chores and activities.
- Multi-task whenever necessary, provided the other activities don't diminish your ability to focus or return your attention to the task before you.
- Know which assignments require more attention to detail and which do not. This might be difficult if you are a perfectionist, but you will save much time, while freeing yourself up to complete other items on your list.
- Be able to recognize when your anxiety or stress level is going up. Have a plan for how you will decompress.
- When you get home from work, give yourself permission to switch gears between work and family mode. Try to be present and mindful of the fact that you're at home. You can remind yourself that whatever it is that your mind keeps drifting back to regarding work can wait until tomorrow. Also, remind yourself how continually thinking about work while you're at home can have serious health consequences for your physical and emotional functioning.
Implement Your Chosen Coping Strategies
Stress is common in our everyday lives. For the purposes of improving overall productivity and lowering stress, it is important to manage your time effectively, plan your day, and prioritize task demands. At the same time, it is highly beneficial, and recommended that you work on developing and have various coping strategies available to you; their regular use will help keep stress levels down. If you are currently feeling overwhelmed by this process, you may consider setting up a consultation with a licensed mental health clinician.First Things First: A Mindful Approach to Choosing Our Priorities at Home and Work
Now,
I don't doubt the necessity of planning out one's day in advance. If we
are to be productive, we must consider what needs to get done and how
we're going to do it.Rather, it's how we think about and approach our tasks, duties, and responsibilities - and the level of significance that we ascribe to their completion which can cause some of us considerable anxiety. Ultimately we may forget to do things, choose to ignore our responsibilities, or do them in a haphazard fashion. Even worse, we can become clinically depressed.
In order to remain healthy, we should always consider the importance and value of our priorities. In our personal and professional lives, however, many of us want to accomplish multiple goals at once. Often times, we don't care to work toward them in an incremental or step-wise fashion.
Self-Imposed Stress From "Taking On Too Much"
For these reasons, try to think about what you're doing and why. Ask such questions as "Is it really important that this gets done now or can it wait?" Essentially we must be more mindful of our own thought processes. This is a very deliberate and intentional practice requiring substantial mental focus. We need to know and be more connected with our ideas, expectations, and intentions, particularly those that will advance us toward our goals.Thinking in a more purposeful manner will decrease your experience of stress. Specifically, it relaxes you, allows you to be more flexible / revise goals as necessary, and decreases anxiety.
Prioritize And Plan Your Day
- Know yourself well! Specifically, understand your strengths and weaknesses, including your unique work habits.
- In all situations, time will dictate what happens next. You will improve your efficiency if you know which tasks you can fit into the time that is left over once all the major tasks have been completed.
- Obviously, larger tasks will have to be broken down into smaller tasks. For example, you might not have enough time today to write the report that is due next Tuesday, but you can use the next 20 minutes to write the introduction while waiting for a meeting to start.
- Doing smaller, less significant tasks first (i.e., to lower your anxiety), is okay, and in many cases desirable. But do them quickly and without interfering with the important tasks. The important tasks are the ones that will have serious ramifications if you do not finish them.
- This is similar to the fourth point: Procrastination is the practice of putting off your more important tasks until later, while completing the less important or more pleasurable tasks first. To some extent procrastination is normal, even healthy as a coping mechanism to deal with anxiety about deadlines. But, it can decrease productivity, in addition to driving up your sense of anxiety, resulting in stress, even feelings of guilt.
- Compartmentalize your efforts. By that I mean that you should try to keep various assignments and issues separate from each other. Isolated and focus only on those details necessary to complete a task. Concentrate on the task before you, and don't let your mind wander, i.e., thinking about what you have to do next. Learn to say "no" to anything that doesn't deserve your immediate focus or time. By not allowing yourself to be derailed by non-essential thoughts or details, you will greatly increase your overall accuracy and cut down on the time needed to complete assignments or home-related chores and activities.
- Multi-task whenever necessary, provided the other activities don't diminish your ability to focus or return your attention to the task before you.
- Know which assignments require more attention to detail and which do not. This might be difficult if you are a perfectionist, but you will save much time, while freeing yourself up to complete other items on your list.
- Be able to recognize when your anxiety or stress level is going up. Have a plan for how you will decompress.
- When you get home from work, give yourself permission to switch gears between work and family mode. Try to be present and mindful of the fact that you're at home. You can remind yourself that whatever it is that your mind keeps drifting back to regarding work can wait until tomorrow. Also, remind yourself how continually thinking about work while you're at home can have serious health consequences for your physical and emotional functioning.
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