120 Ways to Boost Your Brain Power Here are 120 things you can do starting today to help you think faster, improve memory, comprehend information better and unleash your brain’s full potential. Solve puzzles and brainteasers.Cultivate ambidexterity. Use your non-dominant hand to brush your teeth, comb your hair or use the mouse. Write with both hands simultaneously. Switch hands for knife and fork.Embrace ambiguity. Readers’ Contributions Dance! Contribute your own tip! There are many, many ways to keep our brains sharp. Dale Carnegie's Top 10 Tips for Improving Your Social Skills Image by kalandrakas. “The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. “Who was Dale Carnegie?” He wrote a little book called “How to Win Friends and Influence People”. Carnegie then continued to write more books and to create courses on how to interact with people, on how to make friends and on how to gain influence. In this article I’ll explore 10 of my favourite tips from Dale Carnegie. 1. “If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.” Emotions work backwards too. 2. “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.” This is so key. The body language and the voice tonality is a bit like the rest of the iceberg, the great mass below the tip of the words we use. 3. “Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.” Now these things may not be easy to avoid all together. 4. 5. 6. 7.
The Personal Leadership Insight Experts top ^ {*style:<b> </b>*} Conferences are the opportunity to celebrate the success of the past year, set goals and initiatives for the future, and inspire and motivate your students and staff. Our conference keynotes are customized to fit your specific needs and the targeted goals of your conference. Presentation topics include: The Student Impact Model The Student Impact Model keynote and/or workshop is designed to help your students understand four key principles to making an impact in your home, peer group, school and community: Influence, Spirit, Class and Legacy. Leaders in Gear This presentation is built around the content in Rhett's new leadership book, Leaders in Gear . The book covers 300 leadership strategies, has 60 chapters and has three main sections: personal leadership, team leadership and presentation skills. How to Get, Keep and Advance in a Great Job This presentation highlights the critical skills necessary to turn a successful school experience into a successful career.
breathe. | zen habits #53 – How to detect bullshit By Scott Berkun, August 9, 2006 Everyone lies: it’s just a question of how, when and why. From the relationship saving “yes, you do look thin in those pants” to the improbable “your table will be ready in 5 minutes”, manipulating the truth is part of the human condition. Accept it now. I’m positive that given our irrational nature and difficultly accepting tough truths, we’re collectively better off with some of our deceptions. They buffer us from each other (and from ourselves), avoid unnecessary conflicts, and keep the wonderful confusion of our psychologies tucked away from those who don’t care. But lies, serious lies, should not be encouraged as they destroy trust, the binding force in all relationships. Why people BS: a primer The first lie in the Western canon comes from the same joyful tome as the first murders, wars and plagues: the Old Testament. Please note that in this tale nearly everyone lied. People lie for three reasons; the first is to protect themselves. BS detection
Building Personal Strength Motivation: How To Get It And Maintain It with 33 Tips This post is available in audio format. Being motivated is a wonderful state of your being. In that state your body leverages huge amounts of energy. 1. Learning to ignore is a fantastic lesson. 2. And avoid it. 3. Watch comedies, read comics. 4. Do you remember when you had the first major success of your life? 5. This is one the easiest and simplest way to summon motivation. 6. You can’t be motivated if you work in an environment which does not represent you. 7. Like in other people success stories. 8. You will get bored if you work on the same projects for too long. 9. If you work constantly you will make some progress, that’s a rule. 10. With your friends or family. 11. Naysayers, pessimists, braggers they all are sucking up your energy. 12. Most of the time that translates to actually write down your goals, you already have them clear in your mind. 13. Once you finished some task, reward yourself. 14. As part of the game. 15. 16. Impersonate people. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.
5 Kick-Ass Reasons to Give a Genuine Compliment, and How to Do It “A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.” Victor Hugo “Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.” Mark Twain Compliments. Some are sincere. Some like to get them. And from time to time I think to myself that there is too few of them. Negative observations about reality are plentiful. So, here are 5 compelling reasons why it’s a good choice to use more genuine compliments in your day to day life. You can make someone’s day. Now, here are three tips for sharpening your compliment giving skills. The compliment has to be genuine. Otherwise you are just trying to take something from the one you are complimenting. A compliment delivered with positive words but with a body language and voice tonality – the two most important parts of interpersonal communication – that aren’t saying the same thing may often not go over so well. What you feel when you deliver the compliment will come through. Image by *Zara (license).
Life Passion Coaching How to Mediate in the Stressful World of Art and Graduate School A hard thing to do sometimes is to relieve your stress into a place outside of the safe haven within you. It may seem that giving your thoughts and your stresses a physicality may make them more real, and therefore make you more vulnerable. Usually the opposite is true. Meditation has many meanings and purposes. One of these purposes is to tuned down the volume of the chaotic thoughts that rush through your head and the worries that consume you. Take any loose sheet of paper, a pen, sit down comfortably, and start writing. Don't be afraid to write too much. Write down anything that comes to mind, anything that is constantly on your mind, stresses with relationships, schoolwork, or other, and really... anything. Write the things that you appreciate in life as well. Think of the stresses that you write to be leaving your body. These writings will hopefully feel relieving.
SARCASM IN RELATIONSHIPS Sarcasm – a mocking or ironic remark (American Heritage Dictionary) Irony – the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning (American Heritage Dictionary) Sarcasm is a large component of social interaction and conversation. Sarcasm is an indirect form of speech intentionally used to produce a particular dramatic effect on the listener (McDonald, 1999, p. 486). Many people relate sarcasm to irony, but there is a big difference between the two. The subject of sarcasm is complex because many factors are involved. Negative sarcasm, where positively worded utterances convey negative attitudes, is used frequently in everyday language. Sarcastic remarks, like this, are usually accompanied by exaggeration, and intensifiers may be used on the words that state the opposite of how one truly feels. Sarcasm has been found to be “morphologically simpler and more flexible to use than direct forms” (McDonald, 1999, 487). People have different views of sarcasm in relation to humor.
3 Ways to Give Yourself a Raise Ultimately your success as a web developer or designer will depend on this one thing: Your ability to make sufficient returns on your investments. In other words, whether or not you are able to make enough money to support yourself, pay your bills, feed your family, etc. with the amount of time you put into your work. This is also known as ROI, Return On Investment. You should regularly evaluate your ROI and take steps to increase it. Below are 3 ways that you can increase your Return On Investment and effectively give yourself a raise. These methods can allow you to spend less time on your work AND make more money at the same time. 1. Web designers and developers can easily fall into the trap of wanting each project to be bigger and better than the last. Let’s face it, one thing that makes great developers is that we are lazy — we are always looking for shortcuts or ways to automate things! Don’t get me wrong. Instead of always pushing the limits, try finding a nice groove. 2. 3.