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February 24, 2007

Learn How to Succeed by Thinking like a Genius

You don’t have to be a certified genius to think like one.

When you learn how to think like a genius, you’ll soon reap the kind of rewards that used to be exclusive for people ten times more creative and smarter than you.

Start Thinking Out of the Box

Don’t allow yourself to be limited and restricted by traditions and conventions!

You should always tell yourself that you can do something that’s not expected. Although people who think out of the box are usually those with definite artistic talents, working in a regular office doesn’t mean you can’t let your creative juices flow. Just persist in proving your critics wrong and you’ll stay on the right track.

Have a Strong Dose of Confidence in Yourself

Geniuses aren’t all arrogant or conceited, but they do have a healthy dose of self-confidence. They know what they want, they know what they can do, and they know what they should do. They don’t let anything stop them from reaching their goals if they know they deserve it.

Have a Realistic Goal

At the same time, geniuses are smart enough not to reach for the moon – figuratively speaking, that is.

All their goals are SMART – specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound. Their goals may not be smart for others, but they definitely believe that it’s smart for them, and in most cases, that’s all that counts.

Maximize the Power of Visualization

Many people wonder how geniuses were able to create or invent such wonderful products or services. The answer to this is simple: they have powerful visualization skills. They can picture in their minds what they wish to happen in the future. As time passes by, the picture becomes clearer and sharper until it becomes reality.

If you want to succeed in life, you need to think like a genius and that includes being able to see in your mind where you want to be in the future.

Use Self-Affirmation

Reminding yourself about your goals, talents, skills, and abilities will strengthen your resolve in achieving your goals. Geniuses are smart enough to recognize the importance of motivation and inspiration and the role it plays in one’s life. If you wish to be as successful as most geniuses are, you need to remind yourself constantly that you deserve and are capable of obtaining such success.

Don’t Be Afraid to Take Risks

Geniuses are rarely afraid to take risks because they know that taking risks is usually the only way for people to make new discoveries and take advantage of new opportunities. Of course, being willing to take risks doesn’t mean you should take all sorts of risks without thinking the matter completely.

Use both facts and intuition to analyze if the risk you’re about to take is sensible.

Don’t Stop Asking

Lastly, it’s important that you don’t stop asking questions. Geniuses are the way they are because they’re eager to learn things all the time. If you want to find out the same things they know, you need to question incessantly about everything.

Learning how to think like a genius and making a conscious effort to do so at all times will not only give you the rewards you desire but also cause you to become one yourself in time. Nothing in this world is impossible and that’s something only geniuses understand and believe in!


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February 15, 2007

The Value of Educational Videos in Jumpstarting Cognitive Faculties

With the countless learning video titles in the local market alone, picking one that is best for your child can be quite a dilemma. You need a good combination of upbeat songs and colorful images to stimulate your tot's natural curiosity. Most of all, you need a video that effectively enhances their social, cognitive, and early literacy skills.

Elements of an Effective Video

Fun learning videos address children's developmental needs and match their varied learning styles. Interaction between the viewer and the characters is crucial. By having characters speak directly to their young audiences, like the way Steve and Joe in Blue's Clues do, children pick up social cues that will help them mature into respectful and responsible adults.

Music is another key element in learning videos. Learning concepts are easier to grasp for your children when they come in the form of a happy tune. Because kids learn fastest from birth to three years old, providing a visual and auditory feast is the best way to stimulate young and active minds.

Videos also address the fact that children have very limited attention spans. This poses the question, though, of whether the video reinforces having a short attention span or helps the child develop focus and attention to the task.

Watching With Value

Experts agree that while many television programs and videos can be effective learning tools, parents are still their children's best teachers. Learning videos should only serve as a means to make communication of concepts easier between parents and their children. Learning videos are effective only when parents are involved.

What educational videos do for kids' cognitive faculties is priceless. They introduce new ideas to them and promote a high level of recall. They also make difficult concepts and ideas seem more real to children, thereby stimulating not just their creativity and imagination, but also their ability to make decisions and choices.

Not only that, kids learn that there are different kinds of people in the world and there are different kinds of ways to respond to and deal with each of them.

Learning videos contribute greatly to a child's development. It is important to note, however, that viewing time should also be limited. Children need as much physical exercise after stretching their brain cells. It is very easy to be tempted to let the time extend from a few minutes to an hour. As a responsible parent, you should call it quits when you notice the balance tilting.


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December 23, 2006

Avoiding Distractions at Work

Nowadays, there is no room for incompetence. You have to work productively and properly for you to get anywhere. There are a couple of things you have to get done to impress your boss. You have to compete with numerous deadlines just to keep your job. Break eye contact with the core of your job and you are bound to be homeless.

 

For you to be able to work effectively, you have to focus. You need to concentrate on getting things done, instead of concentrating on things that are not even related to your job. Focus and concentration are the key factors to working with fine results.

 

Do Not Stare At Your Cute Co-worker

 

In every office floor is a beautiful co-worker. If that co-worker is female then she is probably wearing skimpy outfits and high heels that seem to be four inches high. If male, then he is bound to be wearing macho clothes with straight white teeth. TAKE YOUR EYES OFF THEM.

 

There is nothing they can do to make your job easier for you. In fact, they make your job even harder. Keeping your attention on them will make you lose your focus and concentration; and thus, you will end up becoming more panicky than usual.

 

Believe the "Dead" In Deadline

 

Not passing on the deadline is an absolute no-no. If your boss is an extremely fiery one, there is no way for you to predict what he or she might do to you.

 

The dead in deadline should be taken seriously. It indicates whether you are to lose you job or not. That is why you must focus on your deadlines and submit your proposals on or before the scheduled dates.

 

Concentration is the key factor to keeping your job when it comes to submitting on time. You have to concentrate on getting things done and not stray to other factors that are not even necessary for you to keep yourself paid.

 

Find A More Quiet Place to Work In

 

Working in an open area where others are also situated is quite a disadvantage. Sometimes, those who work beside or near your cubicle just can't stop bickering. If that is the case, then you know that you can never get any of your work done.

 

You should find somewhere else where you can work productively.

 

Conclusively, focus and concentration are, indeed, necessary for you to keep yourself from getting homeless. If you stray from the things that you must do, you will get sidetracked and your goals will then get out of hand. All you need to do is to focus on the things that you must concentrate on.


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December 04, 2006

Hypnotism. You are Getting Very Sleepy

You Are Getting Very Sleepy

 

 

The pocket watch swung lazily in front of her eyes. She could hear the deep voice in her ear, telling her to relax, that she was getting very sleepy. “Yes Master,” she replied.

 

Okay, stop right there! We’ve all seen the movies or television shows where people are hypnotized and begin behaving strangely and out of character. But that’s just not true. For starters, you are not anyone’s slave; you have absolute free will and you will not cluck like a chicken or bark like a dog, unless of course that’s something you’ve always wanted to do. Secondly, you are not put into a deep hypnotic sleep. Actually, you are very, very alert or hyper attentive.

 

Scientists still don’t fully understand exactly how hypnosis works, or why it’s possible with some people and not others. As the mind is such a mystery, it’s unlikely they’ll ever truly figure it out. They do know that it’s characterized by extreme suggestibility. Have you ever watched a movie, and become completely wrapped up in the emotions of the tale, to the extent that you forgot everything else, forgot time; you just lost yourself in the entertainment? Or perhaps you’ve just daydreamed, blocking out all other interruptions, sounds, or worries. Believe it or not, these instances are actually examples of self-hypnosis. Whether it’s a movie or daydreams, it feels absolutely real to you. The emotions are real. You feel anger, pain, fear, sadness, happiness. We’ve all been to tearjerkers, two hankie movies. According to Milton Erickson, premier hypnotism expert of the 20th century, people hypnotize themselves on a daily basis.

 

Think back to a time when you were a child, playing pretend with your friends. You knew in your mind that it was imaginary, but you played with the intensity of a child; it felt real. This is how hypnotism works and it makes you feel relaxed and uninhibited. In this state, you’re not worrying about anything. All doubts fly out the window, you’re free to do anything. When you’re wrapped up in a movie, essentially, you’ve escaped your worries, doubts and fears; all you think about is the film story. At this point, you are highly suggestible. Never fear though, a hypnotist cannot make you do anything you wouldn’t ordinarily do. Your good sense will prevail to keep you from embarrassing yourself or putting yourself into danger.

 

Here is where it gets a little more complicated. Now we’re talking your subconscious mind versus your conscious mind. Your conscious mind thinks over problems, helps you choose your words carefully, or helps you find lost items. However, it’s the subconscious mind working in the background along with the conscious mind. Everything you do automatically, like breathing, or small tasks that you do by rote. You don’t think about it, you just do it. Your conscious mind evaluates situations and relays the messages to your subconscious. While you’re awake, your conscious mind is at the forefront, making decisions, formulating plans, but when you go to sleep, your subconscious takes over. That’s why you dream; it’s your subconscious working out what happened during the day, rewriting events and sometimes solving problems you couldn’t work out while awake.

 

Hypnotism works much the same way. While under the influence of hypnosis, your conscious mind isn’t constantly filtering thoughts and impulses. The subconscious takes over. This is what makes hypnotism so useful for behavioral control. You can change the way you react to food, cigarettes or alcohol. You can stop procrastinating, learn to focus better, even take away the fear of public speaking by using hypnosis.

 

But have no fear; you can’t be hypnotized if you don’t want to be, and you won’t do something that’s potentially dangerous or embarrassing. Your conscious mind is still alert, just taking a back seat temporarily to the subconscious.

 

And now, please relax, and when you wake up, you will remember this article and want to reread it many times.

 

 


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