Here is a good question for you to think about: If someone was going to write a report about the thoughts going through your mind, what would they say?
I ask you this because it is the number one question that you need to be asking yourself on a regular basis if you are going to experience freedom in your life. What are your thoughts all about?
I have found that the thoughts people entertain are the root causes of stress and what prevents them from experiencing all the freedom that they should have and deserve. People simply spend their time thinking about the wrong things. Here is what I mean:
You can either be thinking about the past, present or future.
Most people spend close to half their Read More...
If you have taken our Memory Training Workshop, you learned about the Mental File Folder System. With this system, you use the technique of File – Image – Glue to remember information and instantly recall it later.
Similar to a filing cabinet, if you have an organized system for storing information, retrieving it later is simple.
First you need a FILE. Then you turn the information you want to remember into an IMAGE. Last, using vivid action and emotion, you GLUE the information to your file.
The first filing Read More...
Man, there were some great entries for this contest - I especially enjoyed the ones where people are quoting me 
! This was tough to pick just three out of all the really great ways people start their day, but here goes:
1st Place and winner of an Expect Success Book (filled with positive quotes) is Marty P (#42), for its sheer thoroughness:
First thing I do is my 7 morning questions (got these Read More...
Focus is one of the most important day-to-day tasks that top performers, or those that want to be top performers, have to understand to reach their goals.
What is Focus?
I have personally heard many stories and application of focus and will share of few examples with you.
Gary Ryan Blair, The Goals Guy, is one of the foremost experts on the concepts of goal setting. He says that the word FOCUS stands for:
Follow
One
Course
Until
Successful
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Nido Qubein taught me that there are fundamentally two kinds of people. There are those who wake up and say “Ooooh, good morning God!” Then there are those who say “Oh, good god…morning.” Which are you?
During the day, there are 2 times that your brain is most receptive to “programming”. One of these times is as soon as you wake up (the other is before you go to bed.)
Whether it is conscious or unconscious, the first few thoughts you have when you wake up will set the tone for the rest of your day. Spoken out loud they can be even more powerful.
So, how do you start your day? Do you say something positive (either to yourself or out loud) or are you grumbling about having to get up?
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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...
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...
On a day-by-day basis, are you fully committed to doing your absolute best that day?
Do you wake up in the morning and decide, “I’m going for it today. I’m going to give it everything I’ve got.”
You might be wondering why I am asking you this question. Here is why it is such an important question to ask:
The world rewards only the people who are fully, fully engaged in what they are doing. The level of commitment, energy and focus that is required for professional success, is incredibly high. And it is not on a gradient, it is either or. It operates very similar to a pot of water.
You can heat up a pot of water to 211 degrees. And do you know what you get? You get hot water! But you Read More...
In this article, I will prove to you that you are worth at least $5,000,000 – but before I get to that, let me lay some ground work, starting with the emotional barriers to growth.
There are four emotional barriers that prevent us from achieving growth in our lives. They are:.
1. Accepting 100% responsibility for your life.
2. Taking massive, and immediate, decisive action.
3. Willingness to look foolish.
4. Beginning with incorrect premises.
Today I wanted to talk about the last one on this list – beginning with incorrect premises.
So, what do I mean by an incorrect premise? An incorrect premise is a belief you hold, something that you honestly believe to be Read More...
If you believe that accelerated loss of your mental acuity is inevitable with age, and that the loss of your competitive edge is certain to accompany that memory loss, you’re not alone. But you are wrong. Age does have some effect on memory, but it’s not an especially significant factor. Nonetheless, people tend to use their age as an excuse for poor or weakened performance.
In fact, the opposite is true: For most people in business, the prime earning years are their 40s and 50s because they have invaluable maturity and experience. However, sometimes people in middle age enter a very self-defeating cycle, doubting themselves and losing confidence in their abilities.
Be Like Read More...
