Keyboard shortcuts and the connections to personal growth and productivity

The other day, I was trying to show something to my coworker on his laptop and as he was doing a bunch of things on his laptop, I noticed that he was clicking his mouse into different menu options and doing things very manually. Things such as grouping items and ungrouping items together or copying the formatting in one cell or paragraph and pasting the formatting into another.

I know that when I first did this, I thought that there must be a better way — and I realized the magic of keyboard shortcuts.

Although this could be a post just about keyboard shortcuts, I thought what better way to help me remember these keyboard shortcuts then to mix them with ideas on one of my favourite subjects: personal growth and development. Keep on reading to see what I mean:

Ctrl + C / Ctrl + V — Copy paste

Copy pasta! It’s probably in everyone’s repertoire of keyboard shortcuts (and if not, I can’t imagine how painfully slow it must be to select text, right click on the text or select the menu option, copy it, and then again, right click / select the menu option and paste it.

But how does this idea apply to your personal growth and development? The idea here is to ‘copy’ the things that work in other areas of your life and then…