Success is not an act; it is a slow process that involves growth, change and failure. It involves all aspects of your life, from how you manage your credit card bills to how to discipline your children. Here is a selection of free courses that cover all aspects of your life that you need to control in order to be successful. This list has all you need to know to be successful on a whole new level.
1. Work Smarter, Not Harder: Time Management for Personal & Professional Productivity
https://www.coursera.org/learn/work-smarter-not-harder
4-8 hours of videos, readings, and quizzes
Lots of people say that time is your most valuable resource. With this course at UC Irvine, you can learn how to use your time to make yourself more successful. This course covers personal and professional productivity, which is useful because a poor personal routine can undermine your efforts to be successful. Learn how to use your time more productively to reach a new level of success.Stick with this course to learn more about being a more productive person.
2. Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills
https://www.coursera.org/learn/negotiation-skills
8.5 hours of videos
Learn how to negotiate with a course from the University of Michigan. It teaches you how to work a negotiation to ensure you get the better deal. You will benefit from the tips, tricks and advice that have been gathered from studies into human behavior. It can help make you successful through teaching you how to negotiate your way into a better wage, mortgage, and into a better job. They work on the four steps to successful negotiation.
3. Love Your Money
Ongoing
In a joint venture with the University of Tennessee and FINRA, you can figure out how to achieve all the success you want by managing your money better. The course teaches you how to be successful with things such as building wealth, setting budgets, setting goals, debt, pensions and so much more. It runs through many of the money issues you are going to face throughout your life and teaches you how to handle them to ensure your future success. Take this course to improve the way you use your money throughout the rest of your lifetime.
4. Effective Altruism
https://www.coursera.org/learn/altruism
10-15 hours of videos and assignments
With Princeton University you can learn how give away your money more effectively. Sometimes you can do damage with the money you give away if you don’t check out the background of the organization you are giving to. In addition, many people squander there money on risky ventures with family and friends. This course teaches you how to avoid such traps and make practical and unsentimental decisions giving away money.Throughout a lifetime of giving, you deserve to know that the organizations you are giving to are ones that represent your values.
5. Psychology of Popularity
https://www.coursera.org/course/popularity
6 weeks of study at 1-2 hours per week
The key to success is often the ability to influence people, and with the University of North Carolina, you can learn how popularity works. You can discover the psychology behind popularity and how to use it. They feature the works of Steve Siebold, a famous public speaker, and with the help of the course, you may find how to capitalize on the predictable nature of popularity. While this type of popularity is different than the type worshiped in high school, popularity can be quite effective in your professional and personal life in making connections that are genuine.
6. Behavioral Economics in Action
https://www.edx.org/course/behavioural-economics-action-university-torontox-be101x
6 weeks with 4 – 5 hours per week
This is a course from the University of Toronto. The class gives practical ways to change how you behave in every aspect of life. For example, people in our time have been taught by the TV and media to spend money as soon as they get it. This is a behavior that you can change. The course gives you practical advice that you can use to change how you are programmed with regards to money and temptation. Master your mind, and you are one-step closer to success.
7. Personal & Family Financial Planning
https://www.coursera.org/course/uffinancialplanning
8 weeks of study for 5-7 hours per week
Success means being able to balance and manage your home life as well as your career. With the University of Florida, you can learn how to balance your home and work life and you can learn how to plan for a career. You no longer need to choose between having a family and having a career, with the help of this course you can have both. You can learn how to manage risk, work on your taxes and invest so that you have the money to fund your new family.
8. The Language and Tools of Financial Analysis
https://www.coursera.org/course/financialanalysis
4 weeks at 6 hours per week
With the University of Melbourne, you can learn how investors, analysts and CEOs make their decisions. It teaches you computer skills along with financial decision-making skills. Learn basic accounting principles and combine it all to figure out how to manage and use your money more effectively. You can measure the value of your investments and figure out where to put your money where it will work its hardest for you. It is a core lesson in the productivity of the money you invest. If you start today, your investments will pay off in the long-run.
9. Financial Markets
https://www.coursera.org/course/financialmarkets
8 weeks of study at 6-12 hours per week
With this course at Yale University, you can learn how the world markets work via guest speakers such as Hank Greenberg and Carl Icahn. You can learn the theory behind banking and the financial markets. They tie into everything from the rate you pay for your mortgage, to how much stock you should buy for the coming month. With this knowledge, you can make more informed decisions at home and in business. They even help you guess how the financial markets are going to change in the future.
10. Financial Evaluation and Strategy: Investments
https://www.coursera.org/course/investments
4 weeks of study at 4-6 hours per week
This is a very useful course you can take with the University of Illinois. It teaches key principles such as risk and return, optimization, and security pricing. It works well when trying to figure out your future investments, but it ties into hundreds of different aspects of your life, from how you make decisions about staff members to how you discipline your children. Learn how to look to the future and how you should invest in your own success and what risks you should take.
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