July 21, 2009

25 Tips to Make You Smarter (Scientifically Proven)

Today’s Top Tips comes from www.psychologydegree.net.  They have done the research and have proven (and some surprising) ways to make yourself smarter.

Enjoy and Be Free!

What You Can Do

These activities all offer ways to improve your cognitive abilities, so pick up a crossword puzzle, drink some water, and listen to some music to make yourself smarter.

  1. Watch specific types of TV shows.
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June 24, 2009

Spring Cleaning for Your Brain

Filed under: Personal Freedom — Tags: , , , , , , , — Tom Weber @ 6:00 am

How many times have you felt completely overwhelmed in your life? If you are anything like most people, that answer is too many times to count. So today, I am going to show you how to do one simple thing. Make space. That’s it, make space. And we are going to make space in the place you need it the most, inside.

We live in a fast paced world. Most of us are juggling five million things throughout our day. As a result, our brain becomes cluttered like our office or our desk. Do you know the feeling you get when your office or home become overwhelmed with papers, piles, lists, contracts to sign, junk mail, dirty laundry, dirty dishes and it reaches the point where you finally say “That’s it! Read More...

May 8, 2009

My Stroke of Insight – Jill Bolte Taylor Ph.D.



Meet neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.

In 1996, while researching the brain at Harvard, she suffered a hemorrhagic stroke. She lost language, movement and her relationship with reality.  But what Dr. Bolte gained was even more profound. 

Over the next 11 years she was able to completely heal her brain Read More...

May 28, 2008

Memory Training Shown to Turn Up Brainpower – NY Times

m.gifA recent article in the New York Times reported that training your memory, specifically your working memory, leads to increased brainpower.

Read the article from the New York Times

Are you looking to increase your brainpower?
Enroll in the Memory Training Workshop.

Memory Training Shown to Turn Up Brainpower
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April 24, 2008

Believe and You Can Achieve

Blaine HalversonAs a speaker, I often hear people express their disbelief in developing new skills or achieving some goal. It happens for two reasons:

1. Either the person doesn’t believe something is possible or
2. They don’t believe they can do it.

In this blog post I want to dispel these two self doubting trains of thought and introduce two new ways of approaching these issues to that you can achieve your dreams, no matter how big they are.

Believe it is Possible

At times in history, common sense Read More...

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