I am pleased that this month I can truly relate to our theme of continuing education. Having had a first career that lasted over 10 years in the educational field—and actually having the opportunity to return to it on several occasions by teaching at Michigan State University and as a dean at Lansing Community College—I believe I realize even more than some the value of continuing education.

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That’s why I am proud to chair the Keep Learning committee which drives home the message that, if people don’t get a degree and then continue to keep learning, they will earn far less than those who do so. As a matter of fact, one of the things we did early was show students a one million dollar bill, helping them visualize the statistic that a person who has a degree will earn a million dollars more in a lifetime than someone without a degree. It illustrated the importance of getting an education and continuing to gain additional knowledge.

Even for those who aren’t entrepreneurs or small business people in charge of their own destiny, there is the category of intrapreneur, those whose creativity and innovation come through for the benefit of the company for which they work. People can only maintain these qualities through continually learning.

I know there are many who have been schooled in some fashion in this regard, and in many ways we all do continue to learn just by being active in our environment. It is important that the formal learning process continues. If you grew up in a Joe and Dorothy household as I did, you would have been given that message in many different ways.  Basically, it has been ingrained in me that the way to success is to continually study, analyze, and hypothesize the situations in which I live and do business so I can come up with the best solution to foster success.

It is a pretty simple equation: The more you learn + the more you pay attention = the more likely you are to succeed. 

In this month’s issue, readers will find there is plenty of opportunity for fostering success through organizations and educational centers providing continuing education, helping afford us the opportunity to better foster our individual success. We hope you find this issue rewarding and informative. Thanks to all those represented; we are sorry that each month we cannot include every local example of our chosen topic. We do work diligently to find a representative group for each issue, but unfortunately we must to stay within our page limitations. It is a testimony to the rich variety of businesses exemplifying each topic that we are unable to include all.

Thank you for being part of this great community; enjoy and have a prosperous month.

Chris Holman

		Chris Holman Publisher

 

 

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