[alid]

Great question! Self-directed learning is the way of the future. I'm a big fan of Trello for breaking learning goals down into manageable blocks - create a board of your overall goal, then create a list of specific learning outcomes you can tick off as you go (kind of a mash-up of Steven Covey's 'begin with the end in mind' and SMART goals - specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timed). In my experience the foible of learning is distraction, so staying accountable to Trello keeps you on track. Perhaps it would also help to commit to teach someone else, to cement what you've learnt and to stay accountable to your goals; does anyone know of peer-to-peer learning networks like this?

[kriro]

I use Trello for my learning as well. I have a board called "Self Investment" that roughly corresponds to a mixture of SMART goals and other concepts. It's one of my two long term boards, the other being "Ideas".

Whatever tool you use it's a pretty good idea to keep your long term learning goals stored somewhere and get them out of your head (fairly standard idea in time-/selfmanagement)

Edit: I actually have a third "long term" board called "Books etc." where I store the titles of books that look interesting, interesting youtube videos, elearning courses etc. I'd kind of like to integrate that with the "Self Investment" board but haven't found a good way yet...open to suggestions.