This little girl knows how to start out her day on a positive note!

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How do you start your morning?

Be Free!

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Here is one of the 15 strategies we teach at our Reading Smart Speed Reading Workshop.  You will be amazed at how fast you can read a magazine cover to cover with this technique! 

Enjoy and Be Free!
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Using Skipping as a Reading Strategy

Using skipping as a reading strategy means to selectively choose which parts to read and which to leave out, based on your purpose and responsibility.

Your purpose and responsibility should answer these questions: “WHY Read More...

FastCompany.com posted an article and video earlier this month on how to accomplish what you set out to do each day.  Enjoy!

A to-do list is a fundamental tool for getting things done: it helps you plan your Read More...

A few months ago I wrote an article on how to remember phone extensions and had great feedback that it worked for many graduates of the Memory Training Workshop.  However, some of you asked, “Leah, what do I do if the extension is longer?” So in this article I am going to give two examples of three and four digit extensions.

There are two options for longer extensions, one is pretty basic and the other is a bit more advanced. We’ll start Read More...

Listen to Roger’s Radio Interview (4 minutes)

Memory Training expert, Roger Seip, has trained thousands of people across the country on how to develop a more powerful memory.  He was interviewed on WIBA in Madison, WI and shares some insights on how to improve your working memory. 

A study by Rutgers University proved that improving your working memory will make you smarter.  The fact is, you are not born with a good or bad memory.  Learning to improve your memory is a skill that anyone can Read More...

What change can we effect? What’s the difference we want to make in the world?

Mahatma Gandhi believed that we must be the change we want to see in the world. Here are some things to think about how to do just that …

1. Know that all significant change throughout history has occurred because of the courage and commitment of individuals.
Not because of nations, armies, governments and certainly not committees decided on change. People like Joan of Ark, Albert Einstein, Clara Barton, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison and Rosa Parks. They might not have done it alone, but they were, Read More...

It is officially spring and that means many things to many people. One thing that is certain is that farmers are getting ready to plant. Whatever your background or upbringing, the example of a farmer about to start planting has relevance to you, and offers lessons to improve your business and life.

Now if you did not grow up in a rural area, you probably don’t know what that entails. You may think that as soon as its warm, farmers start up their tractors, pour seeds in the planter, and take off across the field. But it is a little more complicated than that. Let me explain.

Before a field is ready to be sown full of seeds, there is preparation that is critical to the final results. In the winter the Read More...

How do you explain when others are able to achieve something that defies all of the assumptions? There is a pattern. As it turns out, all of the great leaders and organizations in the world act, think and communicate in the exact same way.

Simion calls it the “Golden Circle” and it centers on the question of “Why,” as in what is your purpose, cause or belief. It is a powerful model for inspirational leadership.

His examples range from Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers. Read More...

I had the privilege a few weeks ago of watching the most dominant team in recent sports memory- possibly the most dominant team in college sports history- play for the National Championship.

College women’s basketball may not be the gigantic national TV event that the men’s tournament is, but it’s the arena of the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team. If you haven’t paid attention to this team, you may want to.

In the last two years, this team is 78-0. That’s right, they’ve won seventy eight games in a row, including 2 National Championships…and their SMALLEST margin of victory over that stretch was a win by “only” 12 points.

To put this in perspective, it’s the second longest Read More...

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It seems as I am getting older, there are more and more demands on my time. Keeping an organized schedule is essential to making sure commitments are honored and I show up at the right time and place for myself and the folks who are counting on me. Staying on track with personal and professional goals, projects around the house, day-to-day errands, things I’d like to be doing, etc. Perhaps you can relate?

Over the past few months, I’ve had moments of of sheer excitement and energy stemming from these activities. And I’ve had a few moments of feeling scattered and stressed from my perceived weight Read More...