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Manage using the Memletic Approach

The Memletic Approach provides you with an overall strategy for achieving your learning goals. This strategy helps you plan and start your goal, track progress, and keep you going in the right direction. The Memletic Approach also helps remind you to enjoy the journey as much as reaching the goal. When you use this strategy, you can be confident you have a much stronger likelihood of success.

Over the previous four chapters I've covered much detail about the various ways you can accelerate your learning. In this chapter, we step back from specific learning methods to cover an overall strategy for running your learning program. The Memletic Approach helps you plan and manage your learning activities.

The following diagram shows the steps of the Memletic Approach:

As you can see, the four steps of the Memletic Approach are as follows:

• Target. Choose and clarify your goal.
• Plan. Decide your approach to achieve the goal.
• Track progress. Track your progress along the way.
• Do it for life. Enjoy both the journey and the goal.

You usually work through these activities in the order listed, however you may also work across two or more at the same time. For example, you may go back and clarify your goals further once you have done some planning. You may also alter your plan once you start learning.

How much planning and managing you do for any activity varies according to the size and importance of the goal. The Memletic Approach is no different. The activities I suggest in here are mainly relevant if you are targeting an effortful learning goal. If you are planning a longer-term goal, such as gaining a university diploma or a commercial flight license, I suggest you spend more time planning and managing your activities. If you are simply doing a course in public speaking, you may not need to spend as long in this part of Memletics.

A good guideline to start with is to spend about ten percent of your overall effort on these planning and managing activities. You will likely need to spend more time on these activities at the beginning of your journey, with less time towards the end.