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Quick Tapping Guide – EFT. How to Spend the First Hour of Your Day. How to Spend the First Hour of Your Day. What’s the first thing you think about when you wake up? Going back to bed? Coffee? How about doing something amazing for yourself or for someone else? Become the CEO of Your Own Brain in Six Easy Steps. 10 Things Extraordinary People Say Every Day.

They're small things... but each has the power to dramatically change someone's day. Including yours. Getty in Share Please Login to Connect Your Account with Evernote Want to make a huge difference in someone's life? You're in charge but that doesn't mean you're smarter, savvier, or more insightful than everyone else. While taking the time to explain your decisions opens those decisions up to discussion or criticism, it also opens up your decisions to improvement. Authority can make you "right," but collaboration makes everyone right--and makes everyone pull together. I once came up with what I thought was an awesome plan to improve overall productivity by moving a crew to a different shift on an open production line. In practice it wasn't. So a few weeks later I met with the crew and said, "I know you didn't think this would work, and you were right.

I felt terrible. It turns out I was wrong about that, too. When you're wrong, say you're wrong. No one gets enough praise. Say you're sorry. Sponsors Seen as Crucial for Women’s Career Advancement. But it’s simply not enough for a woman to put her self-doubt aside, grab hold of ambition and aim for the top, as Ms.

Sponsors Seen as Crucial for Women’s Career Advancement

Sandberg advises. A woman needs someone to lean in with her. That’s according to recent research by the Center for Talent Innovation, an organization I founded that focuses on advancing women and minorities. To get ahead, women need to acquire a sponsor — a powerfully positioned champion — to help them escape the “marzipan layer,” that sticky middle slice of management where so many driven and talented women languish. Our two-year study, which sampled some 12,000 men and women in white-collar occupations across the United States and Britain, shows how sponsorship — unlike mentorship, its weaker cousin — makes a measurable difference in career progress. Mentorship, let’s be clear, is a relatively loose relationship. Sponsors advocate on their protégés’ behalf, connecting them to important players and assignments. Ms. Natural compounds in dark chocolate found to increase calmness. Peace Prayer for Awakened Citizens.

Peace Prayer for Awakened Citizens Shine your light upon your community and point the way to the powerful new reality we all desire.

Peace Prayer for Awakened Citizens

Quick Tapping Guide – EFT. 3 Clever Ways to Tame Your Mind Chatter. A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.

3 Clever Ways to Tame Your Mind Chatter

~Buddha The human mind has being described as the most powerful system there ever is. It is the engine house of the human body. And whatever you and I become, do or aspire to be – is prompted by the consciousness of the things we have in our minds. So, the mind dictates our every activities. That said, it’s been reported that we have about 65,000 of these thought suggestions flowing in and through our minds daily.

When the mind runs along each and every day like this, without order, we tend to loose our motivation and the joys of living. Patti Smith’s Advice to Young Creative People. Study: How Yoga Alters Genes - Lindsay Abrams. RelaxingMusic/Flickr PROBLEM: The flight or fight response -- the natural response to stress -- essentially puts the nervous system in overdrive.

Study: How Yoga Alters Genes - Lindsay Abrams

So it's no surprise that its opposite state, known as the relaxation response to stress, is associated with feeling good, in a general sense. People are able to evoke the relaxation response by repeating a yoga pose, prayer, or mantra while disregarding other thoughts, and it's been shown to protect against psychological disorders like anxiety and depression as well as physical conditions like hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and types of cancer that are exacerbated by stress. METHODOLOGY: Researchers at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Subjects trained 26 adults with no prior experience in this type of meditation for eight weeks.

They practiced deep breathing, repeated mantras, and learned to ignore intrusive thoughts. Music Can Enhance Brainpower During Sleep : Mental Health. Update Date: Apr 13, 2013 11:41 AM EDT According to researchers, country music fans are hardworking, reggae fans are laidback, punk fans are creative and aggressive and indie fans have low self-esteem.

Music Can Enhance Brainpower During Sleep : Mental Health

(Photo : Pixabay) Music can be considered an integral part in most people's lives, helping them express their feelings and connect with their minds. Studies have even shown that music has several benefits for mental health, particularly memory and performance. Previous research revealed that certain types of music could improve performance on a test while other research suggested that music could improve one's attention span.

The research team, headed by Dr.