Remembering and Reusing your learned old skills

 Reeves Point of View, “Still Growing Up” series, part 47:  Remembering and Reusing your learned old skills

One of the dangers of getting older is the usage of skills.  As we get older, we tend to use a certain set of skills on a consistent basis.   However, other skills we have tend to either be unused or forgotten altogether.

And it happens without you realizing it.

How many of us have been asked to do something NOW that we used to be able to do back THEN?  What is our first response?  Do we try to remember it?  Do we try to relearn it?  Do we try to reuse it??  More than likely, we probably found some way to pass off the responsibility to someone else or we politely told someone that we don’t DO those things anymore.

But before you ‘pass off’ those opportunities, try them.  Try tapping back into those ‘old’ skills that you once used.  You may be surprised at how much you remember.  You may be surprised by how much you can still do.   

Most importantly, by remembering and reusing these old learned skills, you may spark a part of your brain to do other things.  You may remember an old feeling of what it was like to use a different skill set.  

So, the next time someone asks you about a skill that you haven’t used in years, take the time to put that skill back into practice.  You never know.  You may find inspiration in a way you didn’t expect.