We have been warned for many decades not to smoke. Now the World Health Organization says that tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death in the world, surpassing heart disease for the first time. Five million people die of causes linked to tobacco use annually.
Medical research is providing additional warnings to smokers. A study in the publication Neurology reported that older adults who smoke face an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease. In addition, worse mental health was also more likely in persons who smoke than in non-smokers.
Most people know that smoking cigarettes can cause lung cancer. However, smoking is also a risk factor for Alzheimer’s 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.
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Has this ever happened to you? You are in someone’s office, or on the phone in your car, and you set up a meeting. By the time you get to your calendar to write it down, you cannot recall the time of the meeting? You have to call the person and look like you either did not really care about your meeting or that you are not very smart. Well, you do care, and you are smart, so how can we stop that from happening?
We will use the Mental File Folder System we teach at our Memory Training Workshop – all you need is a File, an Image and some Glue.
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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.
- Watch specific types of TV shows.
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Here is another question from one of our Memory Training Workshop graduates regarding having multiple to-do lists, for instance one for personal and one for business tasks.
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Dear Eric,
We own our own business and have dozens of request and/or tasks, both personal and business that we need to address each day. Our question is, what is the most efficient way to memorize this. i.e. do we attach business to-do’s to our body and also attach personal items to our body, or do we keep them separate? i.e. business to-do’s on our body file, and Read More...
Here is a question from one of our Memory Training Workshop graduates regarding the benefits of memorizing a grocery list vs. writing it down.
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Hi Eric,
Great class on Monday and Tuesday. We appreciated your time and patience. We were discussing the memory training and a question we were hoping you could answer.
What are the most optimal or efficient ways to use the memory training vs. actually writing items down on a piece of paper?
i.e. I go to the grocery store every two weeks. I run out of food items during the course of the week, so I Read More...
I recently received this email from a client that attending our Memory Training Workshop. He wanted to share how the techniques have been working for him 2 years after graduated from the workshop. If you have taken or are considering taking the Memory Training Workshop I think you will enjoy reading his comments.
We also offer complimentary memory trainings in cities around the country (check out this link for a video). If you are interested in having a memory trainer at Read More...
This week Eric Plantenberg hosted a WebEx follow-up conference call for graduates of our Boise, ID and Seattle, WA Memory Training Workshop.
Eric reviewed the workshop and answered questions regarding memory training from those on the call.
Watch and Listen to the Recording
If you have taken the memory training class, this call is a great review of the workshop. The call Read More...
If you would like to improve your memory, check out our live, 7 hour Memory Training Workshop offered across the country. You can also have a speaker to your office for a complimentary memory training meeting.
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Your palms begin to sweat and you avoid eye contact with someone you know is a client, but you just can’t remember his name.
Your heart sinks as you hang up the phone after a phone call with a furious prospect; you forgot Read More...
As a company that conducts Memory Training Workshops, we teach many techniques that will allow you to recall vast amounts of information short or long term. We train your brain to remember.
If you would like to add technology to your arsenal of tools to aid your memory, we found a great article on Tim Ferriss’ blog, The Four Hour Work Week, that gives an overview on how you can use these tools for organizing, note taking, scheduling and making a system that works for you.
But if your technology fails, remember a Read More...
