flyingrose/self improvement

From the page: "I'm sometimes distracted by too many project ideas. When the ideas pile up, my productivity sinks because I keep thinking about them, and multitasking slows me down. To keep focused, I evolved a mind trick called The Pickle Jar that, despite its hokey name, actually works for me. It got me through my thesis, when writing was the last thing I felt like doing.

The Pickle Jar is an actual glass jar that once held pickles. Next to it is a square pad of paper, about 4 inches on the side. To get unrelated thoughts out of my mind, I write down a brief synopsis down, fold it twice, and put it into the Jar."

Steve writes some really exceptional articles on challenging issues. Here is one on using behavioral conditioning to improve how others treat you.

From the page: "On to dealing with difficult or irrational people: I certainly haven't been sheltered from such people, even though I've only been an "employee" for a total of six months of my life when I was in college. They're everywhere! I've still had to deal with irrational/abusive people in business deals, landlords, etc. But such people rarely get to me because of how I deal with them on two levels:"

The more scams you have heard of the less likely you are to fall for one. This page lists some of the more common "confidence tricks" - the origin of "cons" and "con-artist".

From the page: "Well-known confidence tricks - Other confidence tricks and techniques"

"we found more super-generous Baby Boomers: Marji Greenhut thought globally and acted locally: She applied the Jewish value of tzedakah to donations that shifted her native Maine away from a sweatshop economy and towards a local organic economy.

Lawyer Brad Seligman poured the proceeds from selling his law partnership into a nonprofit that supports class-action suits such as the historic Wal-Mart sex discrimination case.

Are you thinking, "I wish I could do what they've done, but I'm not rich"? You might be inspired, then, by Richard Semmler, a community college professor who donates over half his pay to Habitat for Humanity and scholarships. You don't have to be rich to be a bolder giver."

Someone just asked me is I was a photoreader and I had not heard that term before so I did what I always do when a new idea comes my way: I looked online.

The answer, in my case is, no although it would be a highly useful skill. I do know someone with a photographic memory who can repeat conversations from any length of time ago verbatim. Apparently a high percentage of very young children have that ability but lose it at some point.

What I do is "tune in" to that which has many names: intuition, the universe, God, Spirit - I do so wish more people would stop arguing about semantics and realize it doesn't matter what we call something if we're talking about the same something.

I know others who do this. A very good example is of pedigree analysis for Thoroughbred racehorses. Even with the advanced pedigree program I use tesiopower.com [tesiopower.com] ) which contains the pedigrees of most Thoroughbreds that ever lived, and with decades of knowledge of desirable genetic patterns, selecting racing prospects on pedigree by looking at each one would consume every waking moment between the day the catalogs come out and the sale.

After I known him a very long time, the best Thoroughbred pedigree analyst I ever met shared with me that he uses intuition to make a list of the best horses in any sale. That means even though he HAS the skills all pedigree analysts have he values and trusts his intuition above all else that he knows.

I highly recommend getting in tune with your "higher self" or "intuition" or "one-mind" or whatever YOU want to call it and the sooner the better.

From the page: "How to Process and Understand Materials 3 Times Faster than you do Right Now - With No Practice - Guaranteed - by Pete Bissonette

PhotoReading works on all reading material from magazines to reports to books, from light to highly technical

wayzata, mn. - "PhotoReading" is different from "regular reading"� and different from "speed reading". It is more a way to "process"� and "understand"� information than it is to "read" information. Because PhotoReading uses more of your mind, you can go through infor-mation more easily and with greater understanding.

It has been said we use less than 10% of our brain's capabilities. PhotoReading helps you tap into the other 90%. As a result the average person can "mentally photograph"� printed material at rates exceeding 25,000 words a minute. That's going through a book at one flip a second.

While you may view this as outrageous, everyone experiences these speeds in the seminar.

At these speeds you are able to PhotoRead a book in a matter of minutes, not hours. Because this is faster than you can possibly move your eyes across the lines of a page, you are not really reading. Rather, you are absorbing information directly into the storage areas of your brain, which leads to greater retention."

From the page: "Tools for creating ideas - Creative tools > Tools for individual use or to collaborate with other people."

Thanks Don. This is SO cool. How often are advertisements really cool? This one is because it will help you with yourself.

Put you name in and pick the issue that is challenging you most. Check out the "My New Job Scares Me" option. If you have a greater calling that one will fit.