One of the most valuable mechanisms in the world is knowledge. Lots of things in our lives can be taken away from us.  One thing that no one can ever take away from us is the knowledge we have acquired. 

The more knowledge we have the more we realize that we have to learn.  In the age of the internet every day we have the ability to learn something new.  With this knowledge we can gain more momentum towards the goals we want to achieve.

How do we maintain positive movement? It’s very simple: by learning more and then doing what they have learned. We are distinguished by our ability to process information and put it to use.

There are three ways in which we interact with information, and each impacts positive movement.

1) Fight Knowledge by Allowing Ignorance to Continue

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Just because something has always been done a certain way doesn’t mean there is not a better, more efficient way of doing it.  The axiom, “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it,” is not meant as a way of getting ahead or moving us towards our goals but as a way to just get by.

What you don’t know can hurt you. Whenever people cease to learn or do not utilize the resources around them, decline swiftly follows them. This can be seen as, “we’ve always done it this way.” We have all seen organizations not willing to change and then fade away. 

Unless we make a concerted effort to gather new information, re-educate ourselves, and learn to utilize the resources around us, our organization and our life will suffer the negative movement of ignorance.

2) Disregard It by Tolerating Negligence

“Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves” ~ Owen Falham

The definition of negligence is the failure to take proper care in doing something, like knowledge .  We are to nourish our brain.  It is meant to learn new things.  There are studies that show that old dogs can indeed learn new tricks.  If we do not give the brain new ways of looking at things we can lose the ability to process information. 

There is ample evidence that the executives at Philip Morris clearly knew the health hazards of smoking, yet they chose not to warn customers about the harmful effects of their products. When we refuse to act on important information-either due to apathy or selfish reasons-then we are said to be negligent.

Allowing wrong perceptions to perpetuate or not allowing all to participate is wrong.  We know what the right thing to do is even if it is unpopular.  We should do the right thing or we are negligent and can lose significant momentum towards our goals.

3) Putting Knowledge into Action

 An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate advantage. ~ Jack Welch

We need to integrate what we have learned so that we can put it into actionable form.  This can be done by adding the things we have learned into our daily habits.  Or sharing what we have learned with others.  It’s about taking the great ideas we have learned and incorporating them into our day-to-day life.

A surefire source of positive movement is to make every effort to learn and to turn what we learn into action. Yes, learning can be a costly endeavor but not always, especially with our access to the internet.  It will cost time…but it is time well spent.  Not just for the organization at large but also for our personal life.  At the end of the day, we cannot afford to neglect the pursuit of knowledge. 

“The greatest gap in the world is the gap between knowing and doing.”  – John Maxwell

When we learn we are proclaiming our faith in the future, we admit that progress is possible. The truth is, knowledge is only useful if we do something with it.  Let’s use the resources around us to increase our understanding. By putting knowledge to work, actually doing something instead of just talking about what we are going to do, we will enjoy a surge of momentum towards our goals. 

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