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Body Language is Critical to Success By H.Bernard Wechsler March 12 2012 Body Language is Your Competitive Advantage The right Questions lead you to winning solutions 1. Visual Image: Do you look like an expert? Don’t we all expect arnlawyer, doctor, professor, computer-nerd, teenager, to dress and look the part? When they don’t, we mentally question their credentials. 2. Eye-Contact: it is a subconscious, hereditary force. If I cannot see your eyes, you are sneaky, and dangerous. Eye-contact is the basis folks rndecide to trust you, or not. More is better than less.

Are Affirmations Worth Doing? A poll of our graduates including 81% of corporate executives and 89% ofrncollege students absolutely hate daily rituals. They do not make a habit of daily prayer nor reciting positive statements to program their mind. Our research indicates there are very powerful benefits and results tornconsistent repetition of affirmations. Like what? Money, creativity, health, and improved relationships. Affirmations appear to counterbalance daily chronic stress. So what?

The real-time operating system is designed to support executions of programs within strict time limits. The real-time system requires the correct results within the specified time period. The correctness of the program's result is totally dependent on the completion of the job within the specified period. Many real-time systems are embedded in specialized devices, such as microwave ovens, washing machines, digital cameras, cellular telephones. For example, human brain works o

William James, professor at Harvard, (1842-1910d), at the turn ofnthe 20th century, is an American psychology icon. He has morenquotes attributed to him than Mark Twain. A century later hisnphilosophy of "act-as-if", stands up under fMRI (functional MagneticnResonance Imagery), as a valuable ...

Can Self-Talk Implement Success or Failure? When you were a little kid, you probably talked out loud to yourself. Maybe you had an invisible playmate. Perfectly normal. Today you hold internal dialogues, but they are silent. A survey of scientists indicates it is common to ask questions and discuss possibilities between yourself, you, and your shadow. We test our ideas internally, even before make written or word processing notes. Problem/Solution is a standard format.

Are There Five Streams of Consciousness That Run Us? You probably know Home sapiens come with a switchboard between our left and right brain to process new sensory information. Remember its name and you win arnprize – Corpus Callosum (Latin for firm body). You and I hold conferences and Q&A sessions with one or more of our five (5) Section Chiefs in order to problem-solve make important decisions, reading and thinking.

After your Move off and Stop lesson you can now safely and smoothly pull away from a parked position, completing your 6 point mirror checks before you do so, accellerate down the road, change into 2nd gear and bring the car to a safe stop at the side of the road. The next module you are likely to come across is Left Turns. You may have heard of the Pull and Push method of steering. Although since 2011 this way of steering has no longer been a neccesity for the driving test, i

What’s The One-Change You Can Make to Improve Motivation-to Win? If you want people to take action, be induced and incentivize, do this one thing. This applies to a physical goal like finishing a game successfully. Most of us quit in the middle of effort because we get distracted or bored. This single-change applies to improving the results of sales and marketing people. It also works to keep folks from deleting (75% quit before the end) while waiting for a download. If you are interested in persuasion, influence or convincing (including lawyersr

Who Needs a Boot Camp (basic-training) For Learning & Critical Thinking? Neuroscientists estimate about 83% of students and 76% of executives are missing the link between knowing and doing. It is called the “critical-thinking” step. Use-it-or-lose-it. My Pop used to say, “Something for nothing? Nix it, kid.”

“Brainiacs Say: Inspiration Attracts Your Goals” • 1. “Michael, want to start every day like a Brainiac?” • 2. “Pop, Is it quick & easy, I’m still recovering from the weekend?” • 3. “You already know HOW to do it. It just arranging the steps into a strategy that wins you your goals. OK?” • 4. “If I fall asleep, don’t embarrass me, right?” • 5. “When you get interested in learning more, your brain goes into Beta brainwaves of alertness & arousal, and you cannot drift off. Please answer this.

(Don’t Laugh) - Can Specific Words Change Your Body’s Behavior? The latest neuroscience research makes skeptics nervous. And you and I are both skeptics, right? The normal (standard) mind-body connection for interpersonal communication is? All information transfer between humans is managed by our five (5) senses. If I cannot see, hear, touch or feel it, smell or taste it – I don’t accept it. Now that’s standard science like cause-and-effect. Maybe not.

Over the last 40 years we have seen an explosion in the popularity of books and movies, all promoting the benefits of being positive. This is great advice and has worked wonders for thousands of people all over the world. It may be easy for the chosen, special few- but what about you?

“How You Can Read-&-Remember 300-pages-daily - Like JFK, LBJ, Nixon & Carter.” • 1. Bill Gates: “What I want? To be able to read, superfast!” • 2. Warren Buffet: “I’ve wasted ten (10) years reading slowly.” • 3. My partner, Evelyn Wood, the creator of Speed Reading, trained the White House Staffs of four U.S. Presidents. • 4. We signed an agreement with JFK, LBJ, Nixon & Carter - Not to Advertise that each of these four Presidents took our “SpeedReading” workshops.

What Are The Right Skills For Both Job Hunting And Career Promotions? Even though you are working or self-employed, we believe success is a life-long learning-game. Google: New York Times on 7.02.2010: Jobs Go Begging in The Hunt For the Right-Skills. So What, Who Cares, I am OK What are the Right-Skills anyway? Keep it simple – Simon. Basic skills means your can read and do arithmetic at a 9th grade level. Sure, it isrnharder than that TV show – Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, but the test for basic skills is not looking for a reinca ation of Al Einstein.

Samuel Langhorn Clemens (better known as Mark Twain) and Franklin Delano Roosevelt don't seem to have especially much in common except for the fact that they are both as American as apple pie – which, true to form, is actually a British concoction. Both have cool nicknames ("Mark Twain" and "FDR"), both died in the same month (April 21, 1910 and April 12, 1945) and both were members of the Masonic Order. The ball's in your court, Dan Brown. What the two gentlemen really had

What Is Your Competitive Advantage? Bank of America is repaying the U.S. Treasury its $45 billion TARP loan. What does TARP stand for? A recent survey found only 5% could define the Acronym (word from first letters of words) – Troubled Asset Relief Program. So what? Who cares? Is the ability to learn a power skill in our Knowledge Economy? Maybe more so than the 1920s when 50% of the U.S. economy was based on agriculture? B of A went to the equity market and raised $19.29 billion for this governmentrnpayoff, the rest they had in their piggy bank.

Chiasma Means The Opposite Side, But Who Cares? Wanna be in-the-know about a two-minute exercise to instantly wake up your learning skills and long-term memory? Wait. Dornyou have trouble getting invigorated and creative at 9 am? Do you suffer from the 2 pm blues when your brain is running on empty rnand half-asleep? Forget about a learning curve and six-months to master the complicated steps, this baby-easy exercise makes you feel like Superman on steroids. Insomnia A week ago we gave the secrets of Instant-Sleep to our readers. The knowledge

1. It’s relaxing. This is a dangerous myth because people expect meditation to be like slipping into a hot tub. When they experience discomfort they think it’s not working or they’re not doing it right and they give up. In fact, it’s often not relaxing, at least not ...

Teaching Phonology is integral to the course curriculum offered by any standard, accredited English teachers Training program; be it Online TEFL Course or in class TEFL Diploma. rnWhat is Phonology?rnSimply speaking Phonology is the study of how sounds are organized and used in natural languages and Phonetics deals with the production of speech sounds by humans, often without prior to knowledge of the language being spoken. For all English language learners it is imperative t

There is a cultural myth that is very prevalent these days is that video games negatively influence children by promoting violence and addictive behavior. Many people consider these games as unethical as they think that these games are violent in nature. Video games are often blamed anti-social, as blood sheds and violence are the subject matters of most of the video games. However, many psychologists, scientists and leading child experts believe that there are positive video

Can B-I-N-G-O Brainwash Homo sapiens? Have you noticed that newspapers and magazines are going belly-up? Statistics are very persuasive 1. More than 105 newspapers have crashed and burned in 2009. 2. Ten thousand jobs in jou alism have ceased and desisted in ’09. 3. National print ad sales have hemorrhaged up to 30%. Classified ads, the blood and heart of profits have shifted to Craig’s List. 4. Circulation has descended about 11% and dropping like a boulder. Where Are The Eyes Going Get this: 73% of U.S.

Body Language is Critical to Success By H.Bernard Wechsler March 12 2012 Body Language is Your Competitive Advantage The right Questions lead you to winning solutions 1. Visual Image: Do you look like an expert? Don’t we all expect arnlawyer, doctor, professor, computer-nerd, teenager, to dress and look the part? When they don’t, we mentally question their credentials. 2. Eye-Contact: it is a subconscious, hereditary force. If I cannot see your eyes, you are sneaky, and dangerous. Eye-contact is the basis folks rndecide to trust you, or not. More is better than less.

“What’s The “GAP” in your lower-abdomen (sacral) area?” • 1. “I dunno, & I don’t care much, wait, should I?” • 2. “Would you like to access pleasure, knowledge, and be in the ‘mood’ for s-e-x, at your will? How about Acing exams, and retrieving long-term memories?” • 3. “Anything else, like making a million dollars by 12 noon? When it’s too good to be true…” • 4. “This GAP knowledge is ancient, maybe 3,000 years old. Here’s the trick, it is known by ‘few’, and implemented by ‘less’. Do we agree YOU do a mind-experiment and then judge?”

Orphans are a go-to favorite for some authors. Think Harry Potter or Cinderella. Or perhaps Charles Dicken’s Oliver Twist, the boy who never could get enough of that slop his caretakers called porridge. Then, there is Dicken’s Great Expectations in which an orphan named Pip who falls in love with the young girl of whom he is enlisted to be the playmate. Of course, there is also Dicken’s David Copperfield. Man, did that Dickens have a thing for orphaned characters or wha

The advancement of technology has enhanced our way of living in such a way that everything will be coming with options for everyone. People can shop with different options – walk thru, online, etc. They can book flights, schedule activities, basically every single task. Even learning has different options nowadays as compared to the homogenous classroom environment each of the old generation experienced before. Modern teaching methods are currently doing away with the same

Gmail is the most popular e-mail service provider all around the world. It should be noted that 80% of the people who use the e-mail service has a Google account. Most of them tend to use it to send and receive e-mails. Apart from sending and receiving e-mails people also use the Gmail service to use up the YouTube service, Google drive service, Googleplay store and Google+. But there is whole new world that your Gmail ID could take you to, apart from these ordinary services

Are you ready to take your life in a completely new direction? Going back to school as an adult can bring you a ton of benefits! Here are 8 of the best ones. Since you know that investing in your future is incredibly important, you've decided to go back to school as an adult. Congratulations on your decision. You've taken an important step in empowering your present and future self. You deserve to make the most of the opportunities available to you. Even if you've never atten

Eligible candidates for a particular post advertised, is usually in hundreds and sometimes even in thousands. Since eligibility is not the only criteria for sending in the application or finally being selected, candidates should understand the fact that they need to take care of plenty of other things, when applying for a particular post that is advertised. Although satisfying the eligibility criteria is important, they should start looking at other factors also. rnUnder the

Even one dose of morphine given to soldiers inhibits (blocks) the ability of the brain to form new memories for learning up to a thirty-days. But you are not a soldier,nso who cares? One dose of an opioid prescription drug can block your brain from strong memory and learning for up to a month. ...

The Secret strategy of Buzzing of The Bees We trained a NYC atto ey in Tripling (3x) his Speed Reading and Doubling his long-term memory. That was not what he emailed us about. One of the side-issues in the 12 hours of sessions includes a strategy called The Buzzing of The Bees. This is a simple strategy that most students and executives totally ignore. It was created by a French Psychologist called Emile` Coue` (pronounced Quay) in 1922. So What Please pay attention and see if you can mentally visualize this powerful procedure. But what is it for?

Before you are able to obtain a driver's license most states require you to earn a learner's permit. A learner's permit is a specific license given to someone who is just learning how to drive. While similar to a full driver's license it does have several restrictions including the required supervision of a licensed adult driver whenever you are driving. There is a test to receive a learner's permit that will check to see if you are prepared to be out on the road driving. Thi

Why Paying Attention Is The Only Thing When Vince Lombardi, star football coach was asked about winning in 1959, he said, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” So what? Reading is everything and it is also the only thing to learn Math and Science. Even Engineering and Computer-Science depend on reading to understand the problem and then attempt to solve it. It aint funny, but bear with me, “Our family was so poor when I was a kid, we couldn’t afford to PAY attention in school.” When you don’t pay attentionr

A high quality daycare center in Coquitlam is the one which is highly efficient in recognizing the different needs of infants and toddlers and in meeting them. From the structuring and layout of the premises to design the effective care giving programs, a high quality establishment takes care of everything,rnAs far as basic principles of care giving programs are concerned, modern daycare centers in Coquitlam consider the following: Every child is specialrnEach child is unique

Is Listening The Secret to Helping Others Improve Their Productivity? How many times do we want to talk things over with a Silent Partner, compared to hearing what he/she thinks or knows? Is silence Platinum, Golden or Silver? Neuroscientific research has proof. I heard – if you give a JackAss a Harvard education, all you end up with is a SmartAss.

How New Scientific Research Adds to Your Health And Longevity If you are like me about wild medical claims, you are a skeptic and contrarian and believe almost no authority or expert without proof. Sure there are breakthroughs, but the drug companies are the last one to believe. But then again there are exceptions to even the best rules. But what about stuff that sounds like good old common sense? Al Einstein said, “Common sense is just conventional wisdom with the prejudices we learned up to age 18.” So who do you believe? The Jou al of Applied Psychology, March 1, 2011

Reading Strategies For Kindergarten And First Grade: Teaching A 2 Year Old To Read You can make teaching your child to read a very easy process when you know how learning happens in the brain. It works the same way for young children as for adults but because all their learning is new; it is important for you to understand the process. Below I will explain the two main processes of learning and later on I will tell you how you can apply this to teaching your child to read. We

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Science Changed Its Mind About Reflexology, November, 2012 • 1. Both the American Medical Association and the National Cancer Institute have changed their mind about Reflexology. It’s an ancient form of foot-hand-ear manipulation (massage) that isrnmoving from Fringe-care to Standard (mainstream) cancer treatment. • 2. The important difference between religious thinking and scientific analysis is that Science likes the NEWEST research (done in 2012 is better than research in 1999).

How to be Outrageous And Win The Prize Called Mo… Do you delete 90% of your emails unread? Me too, because Clutter wastes my time and makes feel like a Mooch (patsy, jerk). What makes us stop to read the other unsolicited 10%? Curiosity, and the belief it may just give us Pleasure and help avoid Pain. A Bit of History We have been involved in teaching Speed Reading to students and executives since 1959. When the Internet went commercial October 25 1994, we were the one-and-only listing under Speed Reading.

This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Learning . Learning is the act of gaining knowledge through study, instruction or experience. Pat Wyman is the Official Guide to Learning . Learning Disabilities: From Identification to Intervention , by Jack M. Fletcher, G. Reid Lyon, Lynn S. Fuchs and Marcia A. Barnes, is a valuable resource for people interested in Adult Learning Disabilities and it is available through Amazon and Barnes and Noble . n Evidence b

Endurance is a virtue that we, as a Westernized society, place a great deal of worth in. To withstand intense pain, strife or just plain unpleasantness—or even muster up the strength to resist an endlessly tempting pint of Ben & Jerry’s Chubby Hubby—is to be respected, appreciated and at times, worshipped. History is littered with examples of those elevated super-humans who demonstrated the capacity to grin and bear it while turning the other cheek. Think Jesus, Mohamma

Confidence and Learning Confidence is an attribute in children which has to be built slowly over time, but can be knocked quickly. If in a day a child receives 50 positive comments and one negative, you can guarantee it will be the negative that they remember and which has the greatest impact. Why Children Lack Confidence For some children confidence comes more naturally than others, although the reason for this is difficult to pinpoint. One hypothesis suggests that summer ba

This world has taken entirely a new dimension since the advent of information technology. Information technology has permeated in our lives in a way that our life style before technology, just like fifteen years ago, sounds medieval and slow paced. Information technology has brought changes into every field of our lives and education is no exception. Innovation, which stems from good education and learning, has shaped up our world the way it is today. This, perhaps, has been

“Mentors, mediators, monitors, motivators and mobilizers,” that’s what the late Maggie Kuhn (of Gray Panthers fame) envisioned as the role of those who no longer hold full-time paying jobs. It’s a tall order. But thanks to millions of older adults already offering their time and expertise, and ...

True or False: “There Are Two-Strategies I Can Do At My Desk to Rejuvenate Me.” • 1. “You decide after you do a mind/body experiment.” • 2. “I like being the judge & jury.” • 3. “The first exercise is called “Friction” and changes your brainwaves (ElectroMagnetic Field), leading to a high better “vibrational frequency.” You expand the fixed boundaries of your “comfort-zone”. • 4. “Sounds too complicated. What’s your definition of my ”Comfort-Zone?”

Ever had problems with your telemarketing campaign ? Well, that is a constant if you think about it. We all know that it could be a real pain for us in lead generation if we meet a lot of bumps and delays along the way, affecting our sales pipeline and generation of B2B leads. One of these is the most usual reply that we can hear from prospects: ‘No’. Once we here that word (or its variants), we tend to instantly give up. But that should not be the case. We can turn such

Your Eyes Begin to “Age” After 30: Discover a New Baby-Easy Strategy To Improve Them – Permanently – Into your Nineties. • 1. NeuroScience: School teaches us to read one-word-at-a-time, while hearing the words in our mind. We reinforce it daily from age 6 to 30. • “So what?” • 2. We can never read faster than we can speak, but we do think five-times faster than we read. Result: you get bored easily. You let random (daydreaming) thoughts, distract & slow, both your learning & memory.

Like More Brain Memory Today? If you have a baby-easy strategy to deeply relax that requires 1-2 minutes maximum, you can improve your long-term memory up to 40%. That’s a lot and we know three ways. So what? Relaxation releases chronic stress and even adds to your mental health and longevity. Three Facts 1. Fact: deep relaxation helps you receive new information and improves your personal learning and memory skills. Improvement will aid your career and finances. 2. Fact: learning is based on long-term memory. Get this: learning is directly related to your attention-span.

If You Know How to Arouse Curiosity, You Win the Prize • 1. Science tests, everybody else – guesses without proof. If you want super success in school & your career, do the research. • 2. We tested ‘Subject Lines’, the email “message” we all use to decide if we Delete-or-Read. Ten-thousand decisions later we learned that “curiosity” is the moving-force. • 3. “Facts tell, while ‘curiosity’ sells.” In deciding to open or delete an email, the Subject Line causes us to lean-in and pay attention, or roll on to the next.

Learning to play an instrument can be a very engaging and rewarding experience for anyone that is interested in expanding their musical capabilities. Stringed instruments are sometimes harder for people to learn as they involve using both hands separately yet in unison in order to create the sounds that are intended. There is seldom anything regular about a violin lesson and the length of each lesson can vary, especially if the lesson is being taught to an entire group such a

The English language is being used everywhere. Just look around you see and hear it on television, it’s used in the business world from the blue-collar worker on up to the Presidents and CEO’s of major corporations. Students use it as they learn to read and write in the English language. The world is a small place and getting smaller and English is the language of the world, the global language of this new global community.nnWhen learning any new language, there are four