- First Month: Practice highlighting in a book or other documents you are reading using two different colored highlighters, one in each hand. This helps you feel what it's like to hold something in your opposite hand.
- Second Month: Practice, practice, practice.
- On a fresh sheet of lined wide-ruled notebook paper, write out the alphabet, the digits 0-9, and some important symbols (@, #, &, etc) with your dominant hand.
- Copy the line with your other hand twenty times. Work for accuracy and precision; this will require going slowly. Speed will come later.
- Do this once a day, every day, for one month.
- Third Month: Speed up the drill you started in the second month.
- Fourth Month: Keep up the drill but switch to college-ruled notebook paper, then move to plain paper without lines. Keep up the accuracy, precision, and speed, but with smaller-sized letters.
- Fifth Month: Start applying it.
- If you keep a journal, start writing in it with your other hand.
- When you jot down a note on a post-it note or scrap piece of paper, use your other hand.
- If you twirl a pencil, start twirling it with your other hand too.
- Sixth Month: Start doing homework and taking notes with your other hand.
- Seventh Month: Take an exam with your opposite hand. This could take some bravery, and might take a couple attempts. Don't fail an exam because you were illegible or couldn't write fast enough!
- Eighth Month: Use two pencils, a pen and a pencil, a pencil and a highlighter, etc at the same time. Work to seamlessly transition between the two.
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