Wow how time flies! Over half the year is gone and you only have five more months until you accomplish your yearly goal. I bet you are excited with how much progress you have made and are energized by how well things are going. The rewards for attaining your goal are now clearer and more real than ever before.
Well, maybe you are in the other camp of people who are a little off-track and are slightly worried about how you will accomplish your goal. There seems to be too much work and not enough time. No matter what group you are in, you need to start doing one thing. You need to start visualizing yourself attaining your goal.
Last year one of my “big” goals was to finish a marathon Read More...
On July 21 and 22, my good friend and colleague Tom Weber, will be instructing the Reading Smart – Speed Reading Workshop in San Diego, CA at the Marriott Mission Valley Hotel.
(view other locations and dates around the county)
If you have not yet reserved your seat, please enroll today – space is Read More...
Here is a sampling of the testimonials that graduates gave of the San Diego, CA Memory Training Workshop that took place April 19 & 20, 2010.
After reading these, there is no doubt that the Memory Training Workshop can transform your life – both for professionals and students.
The next Memory Training Workshop scheduled in San Diego, CA is on October 27 and 28, 2010. Enroll online or call 888-233-0407. You can also view our Read More...
Want to learn how to remember names? Give presentations without notes? Instantly recall important information about your clients or materials for exams?
Freedom Personal Development’s Memory Workshop is coming to Anaheim, CA on May 11 and 12 and will teach you how to accomplish all of these things and more. In fact, the workshop comes with four learning guarantees:
After attending the memory training workshops, you are guaranteed to:
- Experience a 300% increase in your ability to recall information.
- Remember a list of 50 unrelated items forwards, backwards and in and out of order.
- Develop the ability to deliver presentations without Read More...
The question was, “What motivates you?”. Many great responses were given that discussed people’s belief on motivation, but not what directly motivated them.
If you were to break down motivation to it’s most basic elements, it is made up of two things, internal and external motives.
Internal motives are those things that come from within. Like a personal vision, dreams, aspirations and charity to name a few.
External motives are those things that come from outside of us. Things like financial issues, work requirements and people to name a few.
We all, in some combination, have motivation that is made up of these two things. In Read More...
Today, I want to review the 5 Levels of Self-Talk from Shad Helmstetter’s book, What to Say When you Talk To Yourself. Understanding the definition of each level will allow you to recognize what kind of thoughts you are having and how those can work for or against you. This will enable you to move onto higher level of self-talk which will lead you to a more effective and healthier mindset.
Level 1 of Self-Talk – Negative Acceptance
The first level of self-talk Read More...
Happy February! Last month, you hopefully spent some time planning your goals for the year. When you were dreaming and planning what you wanted to accomplish this year, you probably got pretty excited!
Now, in the second month of the year, the initial excitement and motivation you felt might have worn off. So, what do you do to keep yourself energized and motivated to reach your goals throughout the year?
Maybe you have a picture of your goal or you are planning to reward yourself as you reach mini millstones towards your larger goal. Whatever it is, we want to hear about it!
For the contest this month, tell us:
Hopefully you plan on learning something new this year that you can apply to your professional or personal life. The 4 Stages of Learning that I will discuss in this post will help you put your progress, and even growing pains, into prospective. I will use an analogy of scuba diving to illustrate the points in each stage.
Stage 1 – Unconscious Incompetence
Restated, this means you do not know what you do not know. For instance, when you were very young, you did not know scuba diving existed. All you knew was that if you did not hold your breath when you were underwater, you could drown.
Stage 2 – Conscious Incompetence
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2010, game on!!!!
If you were anything like me last month, you spent it wrapping up 2009 and working hard trying to figure what you wanted this new year to look like.
Actually, I spent a little bit of November contemplating 2010 as well. I had to set effective goals for the New Year, and to set effective goals, that is a lot of hard work. To set a goal properly, you need to figure out what you want to do and if it is meaningful to you, how to measure the goal, what timeframe you have to accomplish it and if the goal is realistic. After you get all that sorted out, you got to write it all down and review it. It seems like a lot of hard work, and it Read More...
I was recently thinking about self-talk and a former client of mine came to mind. Of all the hundreds, if not thousands of groups that I have spoken to the last couple of years, I would classify them as the most radical. Radical in a good way – the way that leads to success.
Before I was scheduled to speak at their morning meeting, the sales manager stood up infront of the group and yelled out a phrase that was echoed back to her. “I feel great! I believe! I am a winner! (and, even my favorite), It is a great day!”
Talk about a radical way to start your day!! How many people, let alone companies, can say they actually start their day with such positive programming? This type of Read More...
