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It is all just really in our heads? Ken Baum, author of Mind over Business: How to Unleash Your Business and Sales Success. I once was complaining that owning a business isn’t like when I was a government employee and I could just show up at work, do nothing (occasionally) and still get paid for… Continue Reading
The unexamined life is not worth living, Socrates Now that you’ve fired up the old memories and are able to go back recall your past, its time to figure out what to do with that information. You’ll need daily maintenance to stay on track (Henner 159) and you’ll need to do some analysis to figure… Continue Reading
Ready to go back to high school? Marilu Henner and her brother, Lorin Henner, have a great exercise to try out today to see where you’re at with your recall skills. In their book, Total Memory Makeover: Uncover Your Past, Take Charge of Your Future Marilu challenged her brother to list out his entire class schedule… Continue Reading
Many people say they don’t have a good memory, yet there are some events that we can recall vividly and in detail. Many times it just takes a trigger, such as a smell, or sight or song. You may even find that once you get to remembering one particular event, it will snowball and pretty… Continue Reading
“When you fear your past, you give it power,” says Marilu Henner in her book Total Memory Makeover: Uncover Your Past, Take Charge of Your Future. While this week we are talking about memory, what about those times when we don’t want to remember a particular event or incident? The unfortunate fact is that the event… Continue Reading
I’m pretty sure that if Dennis DeYoung and Tommy Shaw of the band Styx were writing Too much time on my hands today, they’d change the title to NOT enough time on my hands. Remember, when the song (and the band) was at its peak in popularity, we didn’t have email, Twitter, cell phones, Facebook,… Continue Reading
I’ve heard that you should give bad news first so here it comes. The Boston Marathon attack is not the last attack. Here’s even worse news, there are only so many security procedures that we can do to prevent the next attack. Was the Boston bombing a success? Certainly. Some common outcomes in terrorism include:… Continue Reading
Revisiting one of the greatest movies of all time (Top Gun) to snag the subject line, one of the best ways to get your brain and your life organized is the ability to stop yourself when you’re careening off the rails. It’s called impulse control and we all have it, but sometimes we need some… Continue Reading
Think of America’s first test pilots. The guys who had what Thomas Wolfe referred to as The Right Stuff. When the pilots talked of pushing the outside of the envelope (and then hauling it back in), they were referring to the flight envelope – a set of parameters in which the aircraft could safely operate. Test… Continue Reading
It’s amazing how many people THINK they have ADHD or ADD, when in reality, they are just overwhelmed by life today (Hammerness and Moore 4). We live in a society of instant gratification where we our attention is pulled in so many directions with so many demands on our time, we often feel like we… Continue Reading