For today’s Top 10 Tuesday, we wanted to share a list of the top 10 brain games to keep your mind sharp.

It is always good to take a break from your normal routine and challenge your brain. These games also teach you about how your brain works.

Top 10 Brain Games:

1.  The Stroop Test - The Stroop test is used in neuropsychological evaluations to measure mental vitality and flexibility, since performing well requires strong attention and self-regulation capability.

2.   Basketball Attention Experiment – This experiment shows that Read More...

Many studies today show that as we age we tend to focus our education, training, and learning on topics that we are already familiar with and subjects that pertain to our current career.

While that is all fine and good, what ends up happening is that the majority of the population stops researching and learning about completely new subjects and skill-sets.

The mind is a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it becomes. Well, let me give you an analogy to explain what is happening to that muscle for anyone who stops learning new things, and only learns deeper levels of subjects they already know about.

It would be like somebody who wants to stay in shape physically, and they knew one Read More...

Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough talks about the value of education.

He sites Milton Friedman, the famous economist, who said the most powerful motivating force is self-interest. He took this a step further and also said it is also our interest in our children and grandchildren. The overriding riding theme behind this Read More...

This past weekend my wife and kids were off on a little vacation, so I knew I’d have the entire weekend, Friday afternoon through Sunday evening, at my disposal. So what do you imagine I did? That’s right, I got to spend the weekend working on my yard! And I must say, I enjoyed it immensely. The experience was both necessary and cathartic, and I took some lessons from it that I thought you might find useful.

1. Something to look Forward to is Great for Your Attitude

This weekend had been set up about 6 weeks ago. So I knew for quite some time that this weekend was happening, and though a weekend of landscaping may not sound like your ideal way to spend a couple free days, I Read More...

September is the month that kids are heading back to school. For those of us who are not in formal school, how do we insure that we are continually learning?

Henry Ford said, “Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” How can we do this?

I will share with you three ways we can be proactive about the learning process, even without being in formal classrooms or universities.

1. Read

Reading 5 minutes a day will do you a world of good. If you only read ten books in your field per year, in four years, you will have read more information than most graduate students have in your area. You’ll be a little master of Read More...

If you are seeking happiness, then notice who around you seems to be happy all day? That’s right – kids!

Laughter is a natural thing with kids. If you spend some time playing with them, it is easy to get infected with their happy smiles. While there are moments that kids get upset, you find that you can learn a thing or two from them about forgetting their anger just as quickly. It is also possible that you start to remember a time when you used to be a kid and how life seemed so easy and without worries.

Here are 7 ways that you can learn from kids on how to happy:

1. Living in the Present

Kids have a wonderful way of living one moment at a time. Their feelings are often based on events as they Read More...

In this talk featured at the TED Convention, career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t. Traditional rewards and incentives do not work and often do harm.

Dan has studied the science of human motivation, specifically the dynamics of external and internal Read More...

With students returning to the classroom this month, we wanted to focus this month’s contest around education.

Education is the cornerstone to professional success and if you continue to invest in education over the course of a lifetime, constantly improving your skills, the heights you will reach personally and professionally are limitless.

So, the question to answer for this month’s contest is:

What is the most important concept you learned in school and why?

This could be anything that you learned in grades K-12. It could be a particular subject that has served you in adulthood, a life’s lesson a teacher taught you or a kernel of knowledge that has Read More...

When you get what you want in your struggles for self
And the world makes you king for a day,
Just go to a mirror and look at yourself
And see what that man has to say.

For it isn’t your father or mother or wife
Whose judgment upon you must pass,
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one staring back from the glass.

Some people might think you’re a straight-shooting chum
And call you a wonderful guy.
But the man in the glass says you’re only a bum
If you can’t look him straight in the eye.

He’s the fellow to please, never mind all the rest
For he’s with you clear to the end
And you’ve passed your most Read More...

Last month we asked the question, “What is your biggest obstacle towards hitting your goals and how do you overcome it?” The single thread that ran through most of the response we received where, in one way or another, we can be both the problem and the solution to the challenges we face. Fascinating.

Now for the winners!

First Place and winner of The New Dynamics of Goal Setting CD set by Dennis Waitley is response #8, Lynn Cagle, with the answer:

The biggest obstacle to making any of my goals is….. ME!  To overcome, I must Read More...