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What would you do if you found yourself with an extra hour a day? Would you get a jump on the next day's projects? Would you use it to work on that never-ending honey-do list? Would you use that extra hour to ensure you would have an extra hour every day to make yourself invaluable to your employer, your spouse, or your community? Whether you are a stay-at-home mom or a CEO, chances are if you are "at least at certain times during the year" required to do extensive reading for your job.

“Affirmations Change Your Brain?” • “Wait. Are you saying that ordinary, dumb words, repeated in a sing-song fashion, can change my thoughts and emotions? Sounds ridiculous to me”, said Stephanie. • “More incredible, the latest scientific research at Carnegie-Mellon University, and published in the jou al, PLOS ONE, says these “dumb” words, repeated like a parrot, can boost your problem-solving skills. Our experience is “affirmations” can improve your results up to 80%.” • “Tell me more.”

Many people do not believe they have the ability to read faster because if they had, they already would be reading faster. And, they've gotten so many years of proof (like taking their current age and subtracting 4 to 6 years) and that read in the same way --- yes for years! Not only is it a well established behavior pattern, but you also firmly believe that that's normal for you. And they also believe that if they try to read faster, they'll lose comprehension. Yes, too many people believe that by reading faster they'll lose their level of comprehension.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- • The 14 Pound Skunk vs the 500 Pound Black Bear • 1. “Daddy tell me a story.” “I’m tired, and your mother hates my stories.” “But I won’t tell her, and the story will make you feel wide-awake. It can be a short story.” • 2. “In the woods lived a tiny, black and white skunker, with her two pups. Every morning MaryAnn, the 14-lb. skunker, left her cave to go shopping at Walmart’s to feed her family.

Three (3) Strategies to Attract Wealth 1. Bagha 2. Positioning 3. Rhythm For Money-Magnet You and I are skeptics, and that means we disbelieve most of what we hear and read, unless we are presented with proof. We consider ourselves followers of Cause-And-Effect, not superstition, right? This is plain common-sense. Einstein said, ‘Common-sense is the accumulation of our prejudices for the first eighteen years of our lives.’ But common-sense is better than believing nonsense, and being a fool. We are and remain practical folks, skeptics.

“True-or-False Research Improves Your Memory 73%.” • 1. True or False: “It’s what you KNOW, not what you ‘Show’.” • 2. True or False: “At-Work: YOU are ‘underestimated’ by the HR department.” • 3. True or False: “Getting-Excited is better than “Calming- Down” for school and career success.” • 4. True or False: “Anxiety hurts your grades on Tests.” • 5. True or False: “Your own spoken words powerfully affect your Mind’s activities.” • 6. True or False: “300-million-meters is ‘different’ than 186 thousand miles per second.”

How to Think Quickly And Why It Makes You Happier If you know this – you are one-in-two-million. What? If you are feeling depressed (discouraged, disheartened or distressed), you own a tool that works 100% of the time to extinguish the four Ds within 10-seconds. If you pay attention and practice, you may dissolve your distress permanently. Answer If you can put a fake smile on your puss and keep it there for up to ten-seconds, you cannot continue to feel Depressed (discouraged, disheartened or distressed).r

“Could You use tested & proven Headlines to 2x your Closes?” • 1. Me: “Affiliates need more than Clicks, they must produce closes on buyers’ Credit Cards, right?” • 2. You: “What if I not an affiliate? Am I wasting my time learning about Headlines that pull?” • 3. Me: “None of us was born an affiliate. We make a conscious decision to be in a “work-at-home’ business. • My experience is that if you follow a system, just like a MacDonald’s (but a lot cheaper), you can earn up to $40Krnannually in your Part-Time business. • 4. You: “Guaranteed? A sure-thing?”

“Is Mindset (attitude) 51% of Your Daily Success?” • 1. “Want Three-Proven-Tips on Who You Can Trust & Follow to Double Your Income in 2014?” • 2. “Do You Look, Speak, & Act Like A Professional Expert?” • 3. “Who Has More HOPE, Successful folks or Strugglers?” • 4. “Are You a Skeptic About Doubling your 2014 Income?” • 5. “Waiting for a Guarantee to Double your income for 2014?” • 6. “Is Online success More than ‘Point-Click-&-Collect’ the Money?” • 7. “Do You Want ‘Tricks-Tips-&-Short-cuts? Forgettaboutit”

This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Speed Reading .Speed Reading is a reading technique that allows for the assimilation of several words or phrases at a glance. Ed Caldwell is The Official Guide to Speed Reading . Remember Everything You Read: The Evelyn Wood 7-Day Speed Reading & Learning Program, by Stanley D. Frank, is a valuable resource for people interested in Speed Reading Tips , and it is available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble . n Now y

Want a Fast-System to Add 34% to Your Memory & IQ?” • 1. Me: “I bet you’re a skeptic and contrarian like me. Do you ask for proof and evidence before you believe?” • 2. You: “Sure, my mama said not to ‘believe’ strangers. My Pop said, “Hold on to your wallet & checkbook or they’ll be ‘gone-with-the-wind.” • 3. Me: These two baby-easy, valuable strategies to add 34% to your memory are based on the following recent scientific research:

• “What So Great About an Affirmation?” • My Law/Psych professor asked and answered his own Question. • “First, it creates an attitude, mood, & belief because it is not just words, but a statement aligned with feelings of awe. • Second, it connects in our brain with the Perisylvian Cortex, PreFrontal Cortex, and the Limbic System. That’srnboth the left and right brain, reason & analysis, together with emotion & feelings. • Third, if you repeat the Affirmation as little as three (3) times daily, for three-days, it programs your mind like ar

“Science Finally “Gets” Meditation, Do You?” • 1. “Have you tested “mindfulness-meditation”? You seem to know that you hate it, and it’s a waste of time.” • 2. “Sure, a dozen times, and it gives me a headache, and seems like it’s a way to take a nap when you should be working.” • 3. The University of Califo ia, Davis, Johns-Hopkins School of Medicine, and the jou al, Health Psychology, (March 28, 2013), say meditation reduces the stress hormone, Cortisol. That a serious physical indication of its usefulness.

Didja Know Emotional Verbs We Read Affect Our Judgment? So What How important is persuading, influencing and convincing folks to your career and relationships? For me it hits 99% because we are social animals and work with others or present what we accomplish to others. Get this: seeing someone or an audience Smile, Laugh or Frown triggers the muscles in our own face to duplicate their emotional expression. How Come Fact: Facial expressions are genetically hardwired in our brain. They activate NonConsciously without our conscious imput.

What E.W. Whispered in My Ear For Your Benefit I was sitting in my freshman contracts law class when a drone from the administration office walked in the room. He whispered something to the instructor who pointed at me and wiggled his finger to follow the administrative assistant. My stomach rumbled because I was certain it was not a notification of being chosen Freshman of the Year.

“13-Secret Headlines to Get a Click – not a Delete” • 1. Urgency: “For real: you SNOOZE, you lose.” • 2. Question: “What’s the ‘Path-of-Least-Resistance?” Answer: Habit. It can double your income in 2014. • 3. Command: “Double your income starting this Month.” • 4. Teaser: “If you’re not Doubling your annual income, You’re not in business. It’s just a Hobby.” • 5. List: “Five Baby-Easy Tips to Double Your Income.” • 6. Intriguing Offer: “Do you know an immediate way to Double your income in 2014?”

“Want to be YOU at age 93? New Research Offers Proof.” • 1. Me: Important news: “University of Texas, Dallas, 10.21.13, lead author, Denise Park, in jou al, Psychological Science offers verified evidence you can avoid Dementia and even Alzheimer’s as a Senior. • You are going to live to 95, if you avoid being run-down by a City bus. Problem: 50% of Seniors over 80 have Alz or other forms of ‘dementia’. Wanna avoid it?” • 2. You: “Sure, but will the solution be complicated, time- consuming and annoying?”

Speed reading is the subject everybody heard about. Speed reading is not a miracle; this is a necessary habit nowadays for everyone. Why the most of us cannot read at high speed? The reason is evident; the most of people have wrong reading habits. nnLet’s look at simplified model of reading. nnThe text information passes some stages of processing.n1.The visual analyzer gains the information from the page. Reader gets a part of text, that is analyzed by visual analyzer chann

Imagine you are a parent of a 9 year old girl, a 13 year old boy, and a 19 year old. You know that their futures depend upon their ability to read and assimilate information, putting it into memory and into use. What are you going to do? You can double, and even triple reading speed, improve your test-taking ability, your memory and recall and develop many other success skills. Live courses for all three kids could cost upwards from $500, some courses are $675 per person.

Speed Reading 101 So I'm at a party and someone asks me what I do. If you're like me, you could say many things! But when I choose to say "I teach speed reading," the reactions vary though the most common is something like "Wow, I could really use that! Can you tell me how to do it?!" So I've gotten pretty good at condensing down the content of my books and 20 years of experience into a very short synopsis.

Double Your Influence And Ability to Persuade? When we ask college students and corporate executives if they know about the power of Influence, students strike out, while up to 74% rnof executives name a book called Influence: the psychology of persuasion. What’s It All About Alfie Picture training little girls going door-to-door selling Girl Scout cookies. Fund-raising even for a worthy cause is a pain in the fundament.

“Can Imagination Change Your Reality – See & Hear?” • 1. Michael, (my youngest son), “Which is more powerful, which do you trust more, “Imagination”, or your experiences?” • 2. “No question, what I see, hear, & feel,” Mike shot back. • 3. “Remember this: your three most powerful learning tools (senses) are V-A-K, Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic. • 4. Kinesthetic Learning includes tactile, touch, feelings & emotions. Tasting & smelling are a distant four & five. Get this: when you take notes with a pen or type, you activate V-A-K.

“Before You Can Learn & Remember, Two-Brain Signals.” • 1. Me: “Did you know your evolutionary brain hates change? It considers it a threat. Learning is included.” • 2. You: “So what? Is there a solution to being a great learner?” • 3. Me: “Yes, and it’s quick and easy. But you have to know it, and then implement it before each learning session.” • 4. You: “How long does it take, and is it permanent?” • 5. Me: “One-minute each to install in your nervous system, and lasts for 90-minutes.” • 6. You: “That’s all, 90-minutes. So it’s not a permanent fix.”

“How do Your Ideas create Money-Dinero-Wealth?” • 1. Me: “Your words attract your tribe. People who hunger & thirst to be in Alignment with your goals, desires, & intentions. Call it: Target, Ends & Objectives.” • 2. You: “OK, but I need examples of the ‘right’ words.” • 3. Me: “The #1 power word is NOT ‘Free’ or ‘You’, it’s ‘Convenience’. Animal-Predators seek prey for survival. • Humans seek the Comfortable, to Fill-Our Needs, & Serve Our Purposes. It’s the cause for DELETE or CLICK-to-Read.

If You Can Fake a Smile For 17 Seconds, You Control How You Feel • 1. “It’s not what we don’t-know that does us in. It is what we ‘do’ know, that isn’t so, like facts, rules & principles.” • 2. If we all knew everything about “smiling & laughing”, why would the University of Kansas (7.30.12), Lund University (Sweden), 9.08, University of Maryland (Med School), 8.28.12,rn& Loma Linda University (Cal.) 4.10.08, continue to do research?

“What Makes one Graduate Wealthy, and the others ‘only’ Average?” • 1. Me: “This is new research, December, 2013, by experts at MIT and Harvard. They say stuff about education that is brand-new. This is relevant to parents who care about their kids’ future.” • 2. You: “Does it apply to adults too?” • 3. Me: “Yes, if they are willing to learn a new approach to making knowledge pay-off in their career. Interested?” • 4. You: “But no Theory or Philosophy, just practical stuff I can use to help my 6 and 9 year old kids, right?”

What is Laughter Yoga, And What’s In It for Me? Imagine a baby-easy exercise to feel good for no reason at all, and to improve your immune system. Science believes stress is the major cause of most diseases, and laughter stomps out stress. Key Element: your body cannot differentiate between make-believe, pretend, and FAKE laughter, and the genuine article. So what? You get the same physical and psychological benefits from phony laughing, as from watching a Broadway Comedy where the audience is falling in the aisle hysterically. But So What

Why Your Voice is King-Kong to Your Left & Right Brain, & Wins Your Present-Goals, & Influences Others to Follow Your Directions. 1. Your Tone (deep or high voice), and your Pitch (smooth or rough voice), is what often convinces people to follow your suggestions or not. We all luv the sound of a D-E-E-P and Smooth voice. • 2. We are all convinced that folks judge our arguments (suggestions & beliefs) based on our WORDS – what we say, our meaning. That’s statistically only 17% of our appeal. • 3. Please remember that 55% of how people judge us, is how wer

Is Our Brain in Conflict? No trick question – Professor Emmanuel Donchin, University of Illinois says, “99% of cognitive activity may be NonConscious.” Weird? Google it. His research stands for our Conscious (cognitive-thinking brain) is subordinate to ourr NonConscious brain by a country mile. Please follow me because it matters. We are talking about the difference between our Conscious (logical, reasoning, planning) Left-Hemisphere, and our spatial, pattern recognition, imaginingr Right-Hemisphere.

“Why Instincts Can Compete With Our 21st Century Brain.” • 1. Mike (my teenager): “My Bio teacher says we are Cavemen living in the 21st Century. There’s a conflict going on between our ancient & modern brain. Huh?” • 2. Me (Pop): “On-the money. But here’s what it means to you. It’s the answer to “So-What?” - “Who-Cares?” You don’t have to remember this. • Modern humans are 10,000 years old. We started 2.6 million years ago from the Ape family. That’s the Paleolithic or Stone age. We are really Naked-Bipeds.

“Past Your PEAK? Easy way to add 36% to your IQ - fast.” • 1. Me: “We tested a baby-easy strategy that takes 5-minutes to add 36% to your long-term memory. Interested?” • 2. You: “Do you have to be a Brainiac to make it work? Could my teenager use it to ACE his grades and exams?” • 3. Me: “If she is motivated to learn and grow. It works just as easy for adults & executives in corporations. Anyone who is active in our Knowledge Economy benefits. Yes or no, and I’ll talk to someone else.” • 4. You: “Test this on who & where?”

Change Your Affirmation, Change Your Destiny “I AM experiencing a Benign (B-9) body and mind, and feeling better-and-better, on a daily basis infinitum.” If you repeat this affirmation (oath, testimonial) for five-minutes before falling asleep, and three-minutes on waking, you will change your rnbrain and nervous system. Say again? It is scientifically proven to work, Do What? Increase your longevity up to nine-years, and reduce the risk of senior dementia up to 50%. If it is a fact how come Affirmations are not used inr

“Numbers Do Not Stick In Your Mind – Pictures Do. Mark Twain “A picture is worth a thousand words,” is about 75% true. There are Power words that override the pictures because they are associated with our past experiences and emotions, and Fight-or-Flight. Bill Gates turned Microsoft away from Nerds Only, toward universal appeal by making Windows work by Icons (symbols, pictures). Point-and-click the icon and anyone can be computer literate, right?

Every student is required to learn difficult study material at some point or another during school or college. Speed reading has advantages in these areas as well as disadvantages. The student must learn how to incorporate his speed reading skills in a way that facilitates reading complicated ...

How To Teach A 5 Year Old To Read And Write: How To Teach A 6 Year Old Child To Read A baby can read starting from birth is the often heard claim. Well actually this it not quite strictly true. What this means is your baby can begin to learn to read by learning important pre-reading skills, all the pre-reading skills which are vital to learning and being able to read well later in life. These skills are able to be learned and developed right from birth because your baby's bra

Have you ever seen a true believe using a Dowser to find water or oil? What about a seemingly sane person using a pendulum to answer financial questions? Yes, like the ouija board. According to the skepdic.com and other famous revealers of truth,nthe messages are caused by unconsciously moving ...

There is a way to increase your bowling scores that - if you really want -- allows you to ascend to be a bowling champion. Sit down and relax a minute and try to visualize what you are about to read. It can change your bowling skills in just the 2 minutes it takes to read it.

Don't you just marvel at people at work who talk about the books they read and what they learned? You think, "Good for them, they've got time to read. . . but I don't." Yes, time is certainly a factor but what's one of the best ways to make time? Make a commitment to others and meet regularly. In other words, create a business book club! Being a member of a business book club is the easiest, most fun way to get you to read while infusing your brain with usable information.

“How to DOUBLE your Profits from a Work-AT-Home Business” 1. Superstar Licensees teach in multiple NICHES because they earn more income and get more referrals. Examples are: • 1. Elementary school kids 1st to 8th grade. • 2. High school: freshmen to seniors. • 3. College: Community Colleges & Four-Year Universities. 2. How to get into these schools: • A) Parent-Teachers Association. Attend meetings. • B) Guidance Counsellors: • C) Principals & Vice Principles • D) Offer a FREE Mini-Session in SpeedReading101 for parents and students by mailing sent by school.r

“Want to Know Some Weird Tips About a Healthy Body?” • 1. Me: “I’m a certified skeptic with a Master’s in Sarcasm cynicism & Contrarianism. But some weird stuff really…” • 2. You: “I don’t gotta believe it, right? OK.” • 3. Me: “My kids screamed bloody murder before getting an injection at the doctor. Solution: tell ‘em to cough out-loud simultaneously with the needle penetrating, and guess what? No Pain at all. It’s a masking effect.” • 4. You: “I can use that one for my kids.”

How to Overcome Fear Of Change Does this make sense to you? Humans are wired as a species to haver Danger-Avoidance functions take precedence over our Pleasuring-Seeking functions. What does it mean? Fear overrides our desire for pleasure. Is it hard to believe 40-million Americans, according to the National Institute rnof Mental Health suffer from Anxiety Disorders – Panic Attacks? According to UCLA professor Michael Fanselow - “Fear is the most powerful emotion.” It spreads out to Fear of Failure, of looking stupid, criticism, and rnappearing incompetent.

Why You Should Not Read Einstein Time Magazine called Al one of the most important figures of the 20th Century. If you put up a prize of $10,000 to discover the only scientist the public knows byrnname – think about it for a second – yeah it’s Al. So what? Al said: “If “A” is a success in life, then “A” equals x+y+z. Work is “x”, play is “y’, and “z” is keeping your mouth shut.” Smart or what? Wait. Aside from other scientists (and not all of them), who can explain in plainr English what Al stands for? Who really knows the meaning of E=MC2? Forgettaboutit.

Can Brain Techniques Give You The Winning Edge? Do we agree that you and I are skeptics and need a lot of proof before we believe – anything? Experience has taught us to believe in Cause-And-Effect, right? But does science (neuroscience, really brain science) claim to have all the answers to how human think and act? Not yet. Should we keep an open mind on brain techniques that future research may prove to be valuable? Example: to be at your sharpest, using the most of your mind, raise your VIBRATIONS. What are vibrations and how do you raise them?

Why Resistance to Change is Painful We are not philosophers but like you – very practical folks. Half our job isrnholding workshops for executives at major corporations to train them in two-days to 3x their learning skills and 2x their long-term memory. What that means is these up-and-coming divisional VPs and heads of departments can read-and-remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time their peers can hardly finish one. Are these new skills beneficial for soon-to-be corporate rntop guns?

Why Kids Must Cheat in School When G.W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind law on January 8, 2002, he set the standard for test scores deciding the future for schools and students. Produce good test numbers or no government money. Deliver or perish was the message from Washington, D.C. Superintendents of school met with Principals, who held Town Halls with their Teachers, who gave an earful to students each-and-every-day.

Right now, when you look at a line of print, you focus straight at it. Sometimes your eyes feel like they get stuck. Maybe you even focus on every single word. You can read at least 20% faster by using this method: Instead of staring straight on the line, off-center your focus by looking ...

“Do You Rely on Medicines?” • 1. Me: “I sure do, when I get a headache, I run for the Aspirins. Indigestion calls for Alka Seltzer. My testimony your Honor, is that they work 100% of the time.” • 2. You: “So what, who-cares, and mainly, WIIFM, (What’s In It For Me?) Everyone runs for the medicine, doctor or hospital. So what’s new?” • 3. Me: “Expand home remedy medicines to Drugs proscribed by physicians, and we hit a wall called ther Placebo-Effect. Don’t get nervous, this ties in with SpeedReading101.org n

Have you witnessed a monumental shift in what is expected for you to succeed in your job/career and life compared to ten years ago? The line between job and personal life has become more blurred. With the recent economic chaos and tight job market all workers and business people are constantly complaining that there is no way to complete their work in a normal eight hour day. If you're like most, you have had to adapt tactics of survival in which you always feel rushed with more to-do and feeling near the brink of burn out.

How Critics Influence Behavior – And So Should You Half of the major theater critics said they liked Jersey Boys, while the other half called it 1970s corny. The NY Times gave it a moderate rave on November 7th 2005 and in the middle of June 2010 it is still a major hit on Broadway. George Orwell said, “We are all equal, but some of us are more equal than others.” NY Times is More equal than the other critics. Addams Family opened April 9, 2010 to lousy reviews. NY Times was begrudgingr

“Can you “Scientifically” Attract Money & Wealth or Is It Bull? My friend’s daughter was 21, and always complaining about the absence of money in her bank account. “Paycheck to paycheck, behind in the rent, & worse, always thinking of the “Lack” of funds. I hate my life, and I see “debt” 24/7.” • 1. Is it “science”, superstition, or “willpower” to believe there is a “strategy” (algorithm: step-by-step) to Attract money into your life? You decide.