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FROM THE EDITOR
Your Personal
Enrichment
Schedule for
IF YOU HAVEN'T done so already, try being proactive with your plans for growth in 2022.
This might sound like a variation on the traditional New Year's resolutions, and perhaps
it is, but it seems that, too often, we squeeze in our learning and improvement as an
afterthought when we have a bit of time to kill or when we're up against the wall to fill
in our CPE hours.
We start the new year, busy
season takes hold, then we make
some time to relax in the summer,
we get busy in the fall again and
prepare for family gatherings, and
the year-end approaches and we're
back to the start of another cycle.
Instead, how about taking some
time right now to think about how
you want to better yourself in the
next year, and then actually schedule
that education intentionally?
Your plans can take several forms.
■ Stay on top of legislation, standards,
and other developments that
impact the work you do regularly.
This can take the form of reading
certain publications and following
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at tending conferences, and
connecting with your state and
national professional societies and
organizations.
■ Learn new skills to improve or
expand the services you offer to
clients. Whether you take classes
online or in person, or use self-study
programs, or even intern yourself
to a mentor, it's never too late to
expand your skillset so that you can
do your job, or even your life, better.
■ Read to add to your knowledge.
Schedule real time for regular reading
- books, magazines, newsletters,
websites - whatever sources you
prefer. If you don't set aside time
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to procrastinate and then never get
around to it.
■ Share knowledge with others.
Plan frequent meetings with your
friends and colleagues and learn
from each other. Practice what you
have learned.
If you start now, you can lay out
your self-improvement schedule for
2022 and actually get this schedule
on your calendar. Make a list of
what you want to learn in the year
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that information can be found,
and then create your educational
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set aside time each week for your
learning activities.
Next, think about how you plan
to use your new knowledge. Will
you change the services you offer
to clients? If so, plan for how and
when that will happen and add
implementation steps to your calendar.
Will you expand your group of
personal contacts to include those
from whom you can learn? If that's
your plan, decide who that will
include and how you will alter your
relationships with these people.
Picture yourself a year from
now, looking back on the past year
and looking forward to a future that
includes your new-found knowledge.
You can make the choices right now
for how and in what ways you will
improve and take the steps to make
those choices a reality.
Meanwhile, the staff at CPA
Practice Advisor wishes all of you a
happy and safe holiday season. ■
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