Category: Learning

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

A reader wants to know: “How can you fool your mind into positive thinking?” “How can I stop thinking of complaints and negative things?” There’s a Monty Python song that goes “Always look on the bright side of life” which…

Brendon Burchard

Brendon Burchard is the rare trainer capable of coupling personal growth with professional development, which is why Tony Robbins and the world’s top companies invite him to their stages. Below is a wide selection of Brendon’s presentations, all offering you…

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

To get started the millionaire mindset, here are some observations I’ve made from studying my friends and from reading about great wealth builders like Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. 1. A “normal” person is concerned with protecting his…

How to handle the fear of rejection?

Overcoming Rejection The salesman gets it at the door. The Dad from his child. The Husband from the wife. The employee from his boss. I get rejected. I hurt. Period. You too. It’s normal. But, we can get rejected, hurt…

How to tell anyone anything: Difficult Conversations

You will face difficult conversations throughout your life, but now you can learn how to cope with them. This book provides a framework and various strategies for achieving better outcomes from hard exchanges. You will learn: – Why understanding the…

Marketing Ideas

When I look for marketing ideas, I look in three directions: forward, backward, and sideways. Looking Forward. By this I mean brainstorming about what the market will want in the future. Forward thinking may be the most enjoyable form of…

How to become unstoppable?

Some people are interested in reaching their dreams and others are committed to reaching their dreams. The key to success in life is going from being interested to being committed. Once you are committed you will produce results. At the…

Do You Have What It Takes?

Starting a small business takes a lot of courage. But, as they say, courage doesn’t pay the bills. To be successful — to stay in business — you need more than courage. You need a combination of hard work, skill,…

Life Lessons From Burning Man

Reno, NV “Make no mistake… this is an exercise in radical self-reliance…” (Burning Man survival guide) Howdy… No, I’m not at Burning Man this year. Just couldn’t pull it off, because of random acts of viciousness and distraction ladled upon…

Simpleology

Simpleology 101 Review – Time Management Productivity If you believe that you’ve lost direction, if you are unclear what you want to achieve or you see so many steps in front of you but you are unsure what to prioritise…

Deeper Level of Intelligence

Most people use mostly their acquired knowledge and adopt a “take the bull by the horns” approach to tackle challenges and move up in the world. But a few use their inner intelligence to overcome challenges… According to Deepak Chopra,…

Minimum, Target, and Outrageous Goals

Raymond Aaron in his book “Double Your Income Doing What You Love” breaks life down into six pathways, and then sets out a simple but highly effective system for you to set goals in all six categories every month. Using…

Empowering Beliefs

Empowering Beliefs can free the mind of our limitations, and allow us to believe that new things are possible: they unlock the chains which hold us back and open our minds to all kinds of new possibilities. Remember the story…

Active Listening and Powerful Questions

The skill of powerful questioning is the tool that can help take your coaching to even greater heights. So, what exactly is a powerful question? Well, it is that question which stops you dead in your tracks. It is the…

The 80/20 Principle and the Good Life

Now you might have heard the story about the businessman on vacation. He was staring at the calm blue sea thinking about lunch. A small boat laden with large yellow fin tuna docked near the pretty Mexican village. A lone…

Does the curiosity kill the cat?

You may know hundreds of people. Yet how many are truly fascinating? I’ve often wondered about these men and women. What gives them that special indefinable quality that makes them so enjoyable to be around? Some will say its education,…

YouTube

YouTube and Social Media Trends Sometimes it pays to know a bit of history. Listen to this: The first video on YouTube was posted in April 2005. Since then, YouTube has grown exponentially. These days, 20 hours of video are…

5 Ways To Learn New Skills Quickly

It’s essential to learn new skills quickly in today’s information economy. Today, you are what you know. If you want to progress forwards in life, you need to learn new skills. But most adults resent learning. When was the last…

15 People Who Will Reinvent Your Future

Seeing the Light Scott Woolley Richard Friend’s supermolecules will give us paper-thin display screens–and much more. The Secrets of Scent Daniel Lyons Linda Buck maps the brain using her nose. Steely Dan Lea Goldman Daniel Branagan and his heroic metal.…

9 Invaluable Resources

What are some of your favorites or classic business and investing books? Here is a small list in my bookshelf that can accelerate your success. Contrarian Investment Strategies – The Next Generation (David Dreman): My colleague Louis Basenese mentioned this…

Future by Design

Future by Design shares the life and far-reaching vision of Jacque Fresco, considered by many to be a modern day Da Vinci. Peer to Einstein and Buckminster Fuller, Jacque is a self-taught futurist who describes himself most often as a…

How to Wake Up With a Natural High

Ever had days when getting out of bed was the last thing you wanted to do? I’ve had those days, too. I once thought that I needed to take supplements in order to wake up all energized and ready to…

Quantum Physics and Mind/Body Connections

The New Physics and readings from science: Quantum Physics has turned topsy turvy all of our cherished notions of how things work. In this world time can flow backwards with particles dying before they are born. Space is curved and…

Jumpstart Your Creativity

What Do You Want to Create? Perhaps the greatest myth about creativity is the idea that it’s a rare gift or genetic endowment possessed by only a few. We see an original painting, feel moved to our core by a…

How Do You Teach Someone Discernment?

How many more choices do we have now than 10 years ago? No less than 100 times more, probably 1000 times more. 1000 times more people talking and sending out newsletters, and only you can decide who to pay attention…

Push Your Boundaries

“If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can.” by Tony Robbins Being in the comfort zone is the primary cause for laziness in most of the people. It is similar to the gravitational field. You got to do…

Creativity

Creativity: These are some other books on creativity that you might like. It is unlikely that you will learn new “techniques” because most of these have been covered in the required reading, but you might think you have because you…

Mark Joyner

Mark Joyner is a #1 best-selling author of over a dozen books translated in almost as many languages. He is widely recognized as one of the early pioneers of e-commerce, responsible for inventing, pioneering, and popularizing many of the technologies…

Beautiful Minds: Voyage into the Brain

Howard’s talents were discovered while he was counting peas. He was still a child when, while having lunch at his home in Bournemouth on the British South Coast, he started to complain badly that his brother Duncan “had two more…

Scarcity VS Abundance Mentality

“I believe in abundance, I desire abundance, I receive abundance.” Shakti Gawain Let’s revisit the three examples from the beginning of this article, to determine how behavior might change in these circumstances with an Abundance mentality. One who believes that…

Breakthrough Recommended Books

Breakthroughs! by P. Ranganath Nayak This is the story about the people and companies behind fourteen of the most successful 20th century commercial breakthroughs: the VCR, the Post-it note, ChemLawn, Tagamet, the Walkman, The CAT Scanner, the microwave oven, Toyota…

Stunning Pictures and Photos

50 (Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/04/28/really-stunning-pictures-and-photos/ 130 Creative Pictures http://acidcow.com/pics/2555-130-creative-photos-by-markku-landesmaki.html Animals http://animalphotos.info/a/ Funny angles http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/100-funny-photos-taken-at-unusual-angle-humor/ Surfing http://www.flickr.com/groups/immersion/discuss/72057594128773092/ Digg Stumble Upon Del.icio.us Buzz

Out-of-the-Box Brain

Let’s pretend that the diagram below belongs to you—that this is the shape of the all-important mindset that defines your general BrainMap Profile—and that it depicts how your brain thinks (even though it is only a sample of the many…

50 Regresive Goals

50. Stay focused. 49. Divide your time for each task in hand. 48. Analyze the outcome of your effort and decide accordingly how much time you need to spend. 47. Take a break. 46. Spend time with your loved ones.…

Experimental Creativity Thinking

“The Advanced Leadership Clinic by Srikumar S. Rao is a unique program designed for exceptionally talented executives actively looking for exponential improvement in performance. It will enable you to smash all previous achievement records and take you to new highs…

Getting Smart: 5 big trends about teens

Seeking meaning? Seeking connectedness? Looking to create a better world through social change? Does this sound like a mid-career manager suffering burnout? Surprise…it’s today’s teen. Why do Teens Matter? Teens matter because they are shaping the way the world will…

Efficient Decision Making

For people overwhelmed by choices…solutions for fast and confident decision makers. Small organizations tend to be more efficient than large ones because in a large group it is easier to separate decisions from their consequences. In general we make better…

5-Step Method to Come Up With Great Ideas

It was 1898. James Webb Young dropped out of school and started working for a book publisher. He was 12 years old. By the time he turned 22, he was advertising manager. In 1912, he joined the prestigious advertising agency…

Powerful Questions Can Have a Powerful Effect

Each individual will define excellence in a deeply personal way. Consider these five questions while envisioning the quality that you desire for your life and career: What would your vision of excellence look like if it had no restrictions, and…

Ultimate Cashmap Collection

talk about exactly what you will get today: 1)Traffic Through Backlinks, Content Distribution and Dynamic Linking Strategy & Action Cashmaps One of the fastest ways to drive a flood of people to your website is through search engine optimization (SEO)…

Methods to Learn Real Fast

The fastest way to learn ANYTHING Sure, there are seriously important things to learn in data structures, algorithms, and methodologies, but the fastest way to learn programming (the fastest way to learn ANYTHING) is to try to solve your own…

15 Questions to Improve Your Life Purpose

“Writing or reviewing a mission statement changes you because it forces you to think through your priorities deeply, carefully, and to align your behaviour with your beliefs” Stephen Covey 1. What makes you smile? (Activities, people, events, hobbies, projects, etc.)…