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How To Keep Your Mind Sharp, Improve Your Memory And Iq, ...

Everyone has seen or heard of someone with a photographic memory. We have also seen or know people afflicted with alzheimers, dementia, and low IQ's. Why do some people have such memory power and others either never have it or are stripped of it by disease and neglect.Studies have shown that 50% of brain power and function is genetic, and 50% is environment derived. What that means is that, yes. . .

Success Tip #51 - Make Your Goals S.M.A.R.T.

Well, another Thanksgiving is under your belt. Are you ready to focus on the New Year? The clock on the wall says it’s time to come up with the ideas and plans that will help make next year even more successful than this one.Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day is the ideal time to explore all of your possibilities, make your choices and set your goals.When you set your goals for the coming . . .

Creative Solutions Using 'What If?'

For the most creative solutions you need to get your mind looking in new directions. One of the most systematic ways to do this, is with a list of words, primarily adjectives, to create "what if?" scenarios. The process starts with the question, "what if it was..." and then you insert a word from the list. "It" in the question is the problem you're working on, or the current solution or situati. . .

It’s Not Your Call!

There is one action that we take towards others that irritates everyone. That action is sticking our noses where they do not belong. To explain it better this happens when we give unsolicited and unnecessary advice. It also happens when people try to find out about the others person’s private life. Another form is by dropping a hint to the other person that states your awareness of their perso. . .

Three Common Deadly Mistakes Made In Interviews

Since no two interviews are alike, it is difficult to beprepared for what lies ahead, but you can focus on yourpresentation skills, which may be even more important than whatyou have to say. Three areas of performance, which should beconsidered dangerous and deadly, are worth spending some timethinking about before your next interview.1. Poor non-verbal communication imageIt's about demonstrati. . .

Teaming Up Either at School or Work to Lose Weight

Teaming up either at school or work to lose weight may be one of the best ways to accomplish your diet goals according to a study published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. The study followed a group of friends who buddied up in an effort to lose weight as well as several individuals with the same goals. At the end of the study, researchers found that people who buddied up . . .

Attitude of Gratitude

It’s easy to be grateful for the good things that happen. That’s automatic.But if we want real progress in our lives, we don’t get to stop there. We are where we are, loaded with possibilities, because of everything that has happened to us – not just the events that look positive on the surface. Losing our jobs freed us up for the better ones. The despair of crushing debt forced us to learn. . .

How to Open Yourself Up to Receive Greater Monetary Success

There are countless books, tapes and seminars devoted to harnessing the desire to make more money. By and large they all have something worthwhile to say and are invariably written and delivered to get you fired up and leave you inspired. However, once the books have been closed and the voices become lost in the hustle and bustle of daily life, the messages and insights that hit you so deep at . . .

Become Comfortable with the Uncomfortable

I’m continually learning something new and whilst I love it (particularly if it involves reading and research) actually getting down to the ‘doing’ bit has produced some interesting and uncomfortable feelings on the odd occasion. It’s the feeling of physical discomfort, not to mention a little frustration, tears, ranting and/or raving. The physical pain I experienced during the writing of my . . .

Self Forgiving is Essential for Healing

In the waiting room in my clinic, there is a poster that says “Self Forgiving is Essential for Healing”. A patient once asked me what it means and why I put it up there.There are two main reasons why I put the poster up.Firstly, I want my patients to realise that some physical illnesses are just manifestations of unresolved emotions and conflicts. Most times, these unresolved emotions have to d. . .

De-junk Your Mind

Can’t sleep? Can’t think straight? Too tired to function?Trying to focus on your workload but can’t? It’s time to gain control and de-junk your mind!In this day and age, it’s all too easy to be overwhelmed by the pressures of day to day living. Have a good look around you. Recognise those strained and tense expressions. Everybody is juggling their workloads, many people are tired, irritable and. . .

Recognizing Drama Kings and Queens in Your Life

We all have drama kings and queens in our lives. You know who they are! These are the people that enjoy creating drama or chaos. They thrive on stirring up conflict, adding fuel to the fire. They are in our families, they are in our friendships and they are in our workplaces. These are people that seek excitement and attention by playing the lead role in drama or what I like to call ‘me-ism.’ H. . .

Be Like Jane and Learn What It Is To Meditate

Meditation changes Jane’s life in ways she never expected – starting with the meditation part! Just like many people today, Jane lived the typical American Life. She endlessly chased the dream of having the perfect husband, the perfect job, driving the perfect car, and perfect children so that she could be happy. Although she constantly fell short of her expectations, Jane pushed and prodded. . .

How to Get Away From It All Without Going Anywhere

So many people when they have returned from taking a trip say, "I need a vacation from my vacation." This usually occurs if there is a lot of travel involved in the holiday or if people have over-scheduled their activities to take advantage of the wealth of tourist attractions at their destination. So, apart from reinstating your healthy eating and sleeping habits, how do you get some rest, r. . .

Do You Have a Habit Hard To Break?

If You have a habit hard to break it means that you're currently lacking control over a certain behavior or set of behaviors in a type of situation. The first question that comes to my mind is: How do we really create a habit - bad or good? A habit is not created the first time we do it. The clue here is repetition; we create a habit by repeating it. And the more we repeat it the more resis. . .

We Are The Web: The Field And What It Means

I grew up in Hong Kong at a time when amahs( servants) were commonplace in most households. We had an amah who cooked, an amah who did the laundry and ironing, an amah who looked after the children. My Amah was a middle-aged lady who lost her daughter several years before she found work at our house. She was a simple woman, quiet, stoic except when she talked about her little girl. In a fervent. . .

The Power of Voice: Speaking from the Body

We are all familiar with the power of intention and the energy of thought. Just as important, if not more so, is the power of voice—the momentum that emerges in our voice when thought is aligned with belief and belief with the body.How do we speak? Does our voice sound high-pitched and nasal because it is coming from our throat and not from our belly? When thought merges with body, the voice . . .

Know Your Career Goals

What are your career goals? This is probably the most important question you can ask and very few people can actually answer it. It's amazing and a bit of a paradox that most of us career people spend so much time with career planning and working toward goals that we hardly can specify. In the starting phase of a career, things don't always seem like a big deal; in fact they are pretty easy. M. . .

The Power of Goal Setting

Goal setting is a tool to use to have more fun in life. Life is perfect as it is. It is perfectly itself, whole and complete, lacking nothing. That may seem like a funny way to begin an essay on goal setting. "If my life is fine the way it is," you may think, "why bother with setting goals?" This question betrays a rather desperate attitude toward goal setting, don't you think? It assumes that . . .

The Long Arm of the Law of Attraction

The law of attraction gives simple directions to fine tune your life. When you were about 18 months old, you probably conducted research on the law of gravity. Again and again, you dropped things from your high chair to see if they'd fall to the floor every time. You found that things didn't stay where you put them. They always flew to the ground. These early experiments were essential to the p. . .

In Favor of A Positive Attitude

What's the big deal about a positive attitude? You've heard of how-to articles, but this is a why-to article. Why is it so important to develop the ability to choose a positive attitude , no matter what? We Westerners have a tendency to worship the brain. Note that I didn't say the mind, but the brain. We confuse the two. When I speak of the mind, I'm speaking of our own piece of the mind of Go. . .

Mapping Your Own Spiritual Journey

Here's an important installment in the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, as adapted from Joseph Campbell. It's a wonderful story of humanity's spiritual journey. The Knights and their King were challenged to find the Grail in the midst of the woods that grew outside the borders of Camelot. This mission sounded easy enough, except that when they all rode into the woods as . . .

Quality of Life

A new hobby can improve your quality of life. Think of it. A hobby is a recreational or leisure activity outside of you career or work place. It is something YOU are interested in, some YOU want to pursue. Would it not improve your quality of life to do the things that you enjoy? You should not be selfish in pursuing what you want, what you want can actually benefit others around you as we. . .

Wealthy and Creative – How to apply Gratitude and Attract...

This cozy long weekend always reinforces the beauty of giving thanks. I have a lot to be thankful for.Writing to all of you has been a great source of joy. I love hearing from you and connecting with you on a daily basis. It is a wonderful way for me to begin creating my day. Thank you.One of my favorite writers, Wallace D. Wattles, has some fabulous reasons as to why gratitude is a key ingred. . .

Making a Hard-boiled Egg -- A Challenge

"This isn't a hard-boiled egg!" my wife complained."Not too loud, Sweety. Your mama might hear us," I answered back quietly.Like every man of the house, I do the cooking once in a while. This is now my second attempt so I'm puzzled (mind you I'm a Certified House Chef) and disappointed why I can't even cook a dumb egg. My eggs are cracked with some of the white out into the water. After removin. . .

The Importance of Making Mistakes!

Huh? I know this could be the reaction of some of you that read the title of this article. They could also question, what is important about making mistakes? I usually try to avoid making them. Like many of you. But, I am going to explain the vital role that mistakes play in our lives. Think about it, whenever we make a mistake there is a repercussion (cause and effect). Therefore, this make u. . .

Creativity - How To Have More

To have more creativity, follow this two-step plan:1. Encourage creativity.2. Train your brain to be more creative.Start on both of these right now, and you can experience greater creativity today.Encourage your creativity and you'll increase your creativity. Of course, this is true of most things you want to see more of in your life. Encouragement can work wonders, but how do you encourage cre. . .

The Real Truth About Persistence and Success

If you really want to be successful, you probably spend a lot of time reading motivational books and articles. You want to know what qualities are required for success.When we read about the tools required to achieve success, very often we are told that if we really want to be successful, we must have persistence. Persistence is the quality of never giving up when we encounter challenges. Of. . .

Imaginary Friends - A Problem Solving Technique

Why imaginary friends? Because they may be smarter than you real friends. Well, at least they may give you better, more creative solutions to your problems.If you are like most people, your thinking is often best when you're interacting with a friend. You feed off of each other's ideas and help each other to clarify things. But what about times when you're alone, or you have no one you wish to . . .

Consequences -- Blessing Or Curse?

"Kung 'di madadaan sa santung-dasalan, idadaan sa santung-paspasan." This Filipino proverb translates to "If I can't make it in saintly way, I'll force my own fast way."People want to succeed either morally or otherwise. In the process, they turn either into saints or monsters.The people who follow the ethical way are building their foundation one step at a time using stones of impeccable quali. . .

Hey Friend, Are You Taking Out The Trash?

Taking out the trash is a chore that we do not look forward to. We do it on a regular basis to get rid of the garbage and junk in our home. We take the trash to the front curb or the rear alley way to be picked up and carried away – never to be thought of again.Most of us wouldn’t even think of allowing a bunch of smelly garbage and junk to build up in their home. However, many of us allow a. . .

Improve Your Self Confidence In 15 Minutes

I used to be frighteningly under confident in social situations. And although people who know me now would never believe I used to doubt myself so much I literally had to learn confidence until it became a natural part of me. I can tell you relaxed optimistic confidence is just, well so much more fun.Here I'll tell you about the things that made the most difference to my confidence levels...So. . .

Mindfulness and Addiction

There’s a fairly recent story from my life that I’ve come to call the “Angela’s butt story.” It’s a controversial tale, and its main character still doesn’t understand the remarkable significance of the experience as it applies to my life and attitudes.As a typically shallow person of my gender, I happened to take notice of a certain physical attribute of this female friend. It started innocent. . .

Discover Your Essence

“Know thyself” -SocratesI’m sitting in a crowded café. Straight ahead is a young couple, the woman staring intently at a computer screen, the man writing feverishly in a notebook. They work steadily, not looking up or speaking with each other. Ahead and to the right sits another couple. The young man sips from a large cup. He stares blankly ahead and then looks around aimlessly. The young woman. . .

The Easiest Way To Achieve Happiness

People always think that what they want is money, relationship, material possessions, but what they truly want is happiness. Wealth, health and relationship are just the rewards of being happy. Happiness is a state of vibration that is in harmony with the universe. As you have already known, the same frequency vibrations tend to attract each other, so the vibration of happiness is going to att. . .

Successful Living!

We all have 24 hours each day.No one have more, no one have less. What is then the difference for it is evident that others accomplish more than the rest?Respect of timeWe must realize that time is a limited commodity. Our time on earth is limited, our years are numbered. So we must be wise then to redeem our time.The desire to growYou can use all your time digging dirt or you could use some of. . .

Making Six Figures and Still Broke!

“Who wants to make a lot of money? And who wants to make a lot of money and be extremely happy?” This was the opening line of a free seminar that I recently attended in Atlanta, GA called the Millionaire Mind Intensive Weekend. The purpose of attending this seminar with my girlfriend was so I could help teach her about managing and investing money. I had on idea that this seminar would chan. . .

Burnout and Purpose

In our society, something called burnout is a common phenomenon. Most of us wrongfully assume that burnout results from working too much, too long, or too hard. This isn’t true. Burnout comes not from a lack of time, but from a lack of purpose.Have you ever noticed that when you’re on fire with enthusiasm for something you want to accomplish, you’re able to do it ceaselessly for hours or days a. . .

If Knowledge is Power, Why Are Professors So Poor?

How many times have you heard the statement “knowledge is power”? How many times have you been told “you have to go to college to get a good job”? If that is the case, why aren’t the smartest people the richest or most powerful? Why don’t Mensa members fill all the highest slots in the government and run all the big companies? Why have some of the richest people in history been folks of moderat. . .

The Secret To Constant Improvement

Do you want your life to be getting better and better? I know, I know, that’s a silly question. I know I want my life to be steadily improving, and I suspect just about everyone else does too. What a lot of people don’t know, is that there is a very simple technique which makes that easy. The method is so easy to use and straightforward that this article will be rather short. It’s just that sim. . .

Managing Discouragement, Doubt and Depression

If I were to measure the success of my various attempts at accomplishing particular goals, I’d have to divide that success into two categories. One would be the actual results from the standpoint of the stated goal. The other would be the degree to which I was able to rise above any emotional resistance, whether or not I got what I set out to get. It may very well be that the real purpose of al. . .

Show Your Work

In seeking support, I have a concept I’ve often shared which has made a profound difference in how enthusiastically the support has been delivered. I call it showing your work. When we were in school taking a math test, the teacher would say, “Show your work.” We’d lose points for not showing our work, how we arrived at our answer, even if our answer was correct. The reason for this was that th. . .

Spiritual Side of Humor

The use of the two primary tools of witnessing and sharing, discussed in a previous article, is closely tied to one of our most precious commodities: a sense of humor. What is the quality we call a sense of humor and why is it so highly valued? Understanding the answer to that question will raise the level of desirability on those two fundamental tools and will hopefully make us want to cultiva. . .

The Blessing of the Lord Makes One Rich

Have you ever found yourself being super frustrated trying to do something and not getting anywhere? It seems no matter how hard you try it doesn't seem to work.Wherever there is an anointing on something for you to do, there should be an "ease" about it. I don't mean it should be easy, but there should be a sense of "simpleness."Here's a good example; a person may be in a job situation that th. . .

Who is Directing You?

Recently I had the opportunity to meet a long term mystic. During a lecture he was presenting on a mystic's role in society, he uttered the words "inner warrior," while looking directly at me. I had never met him and wondered if he knew I was the author of Mystic Warrior. His lecture was fascinating and I couldn't wait for a chance to speak to him without distraction.In accord with the universa. . .

The Path

In a previous article, I discussed the importance of finding what I called our “essence.”I described it as vital to our emotional and spiritual well-being to reach beyond the ego to a place of stillness and truth deep within our souls. As we embark on that journey, questions arise.What is it that we seek within? How do we seek? What will we find there? Is there a road map? Fortunately, there a. . .

How to Meditate

Try this. Close your eyes and try to quiet your mind. Do that now, for just a moment. Then return to the page.Did you notice that quieting your mind was no easy task? Usually, when I try this, I become anxious and agitated. That happens because, without the practice of dis-identifying ourselves from thought, we believe that we are our mind, so it has ultimate sway over our attention. If you fin. . .

Fear Of The Unknown And How You Can Defeat It

In most people there is a deeply seated fear that prevents us from taking control of our lives and shaping them to suit us. It is a fear that keeps us average, keeps us doing all the same things everybody else is doing, simply because it is the familiar thing to do.The fear of the unknown.You probably know that exact feeling I’m talking about. That flutter in your stomach, that vague discomfort. . .

Keys To Discovering Your Personal Mission

Purpose is what you’re created for. Mission is what you’re meant to do about it.Do I Have A Purpose?You’re not alone if you’re facing the question of why you are here and what you are supposed to do about it. In order to begin the process of unwrapping yourself and realizing some answers, you must begin with the assumption that you are here for a purpose, that you are not a result of happenstan. . .

7 Quick and EASY Steps On HOW You Can Use Self-Hypnosis T...

Has any of this happened to you?- Your boss ends your Monday with a stack of papers and instructions that you must submit this report in the next 48 hours or else...- Your significant other doesn't answer your calls when you need to get a hold of them the most- Your mother sends you Guilt-Tripping messages that you don't come and visit enough- Your landlord Completely ignores you when you tell . . .