I’ve met many people who don’t know how to relax due to being stuck in living in the fast lane.  These people live the paradox of wanting to be highly productive all the time to please everyone [at once], yet often achieving the exact opposite.  That’s partly because regular relaxation is essential for a long life and personal effectiveness. Here are 8 techniques for relaxing physically that are used by the most successful and highest paid people.   Read the rest of this entry »

You need to stand back on a regular basis and analyze yourself, your life and your time usage.  You need to become a master of your time rather than a slave to continuing time pressures.    Read the rest of this entry »

If you travel by air, you know that when your plane takes off, the pilot tells all the passengers to stay in their seats with their seatbelts buckled.  At times during the flight the pilot will warn “We expect some turbulence for a few moments, so please stay buckled up.”  When you start any new lifestyle, job, business, or transition, you too will experience turbulence.    Read the rest of this entry »

One of the greatest success principles of all is the law of accumulation. This law dictates that everything great and worthwhile in human life is an accumulation of thousands of tiny efforts and sacrifices that nobody ever sees or appreciates.  Everything accumulates over time.  You have to put in many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.  It’s like a snowball.  A snowball starts very small, but it grows as it adds millions of tiny snowflakes and continues to grow as it gathers momentum.    Read the rest of this entry »

The NLP principle of forced efficiency dictates that there’s never enough time to do everything, but there’s always enough time to do the most important thing.  How does this work?   Read the rest of this entry »

Click here  to watch and listen to Sir Ken Robinson’s view.  I find it speaking volumes!  Do you agree with it?  Contact me to share your views.

Long to do lists are often a great challenge for many of us.  Most people feel demotivated and overwhelmed when they look at a list with more than 10 items on it.  The longer the list is, the more likely we are to focus on the simple tasks we can do the fastest.   We want to start things off quickly, many of us like immediate gratification for their efforts, and it makes the list look shorter.   So we find the easiest tasks to get us going.  We may have the intention to do some more complex tasks later in the day, but invariably we get sidetracked.   And by the end of the day the list looks just as daunting as it did at the beginning.  Sounds familiar?  So what’s the cure?   Read the rest of this entry »

• get grounded.  Putting your feet on the floor and feeling connected to the ground is invaluable for mental and emotional stability and concentration.  Try it barefooted and notice the difference.  If your legs feel uncomfortable, let the uncomfortable feeling go into the ground.  Especially ground yourself when sitting in classrooms / seminars / conferences, working in open-plan offices, working on computers for long periods of time, or working with any paperwork that requires precision, such as documents in government offices.
• clear your space and keep it clear.  Wherever you’re working, clear your space and always keep it clear so that the material you’re working with is the only thing you see directly in your visual field. Clear and tidy spaces have a very grounding and positive effect on the brain and enable better and sharper concentration.
• Discipline yourself to do one thing at a time.  We’re often and easily distracted by our thoughts, especially if we think prevalently in pictures, with one picture triggering another and another in rapid succession.   Keep a notebook nearby to write down secondary thoughts for action later and ask your brain to return to the primary topic you’re working on.  Being grounded will help you maintain this state.  And resolving to build this state as a habit will benefit you even more greatly in the long term!
• get out of negative emotions.  When you’re working at a desk / table / other flat surface, prop your reading / writing materials in such a way that they’ll be slanted, i.e. at an angle to the desk / table / flat surface.  This slanted angle will take your reading / writing material higher up into your visual field which is where your brain will process the content of the material visually and NOT kinesthetically.   This means that you’ll take yourself out of the emotions [kinesthetic processing] and will not be distracted by feelings of failure, hate of doing the task, overwhelm, or perceived inability to carry out the task.
• drink plenty of water throughout the day.  This may sound silly or obvious, yet 80% of the world’s population are dehydrated.   Dehydration is sneaky, because many of us don’t realize it is happening until the feedback from the body is too strong and unpleasant.  Dehydration is also responsible for our cells falling apart because the outer layer of a cell is formed by Omega 3 and Omega 3 needs water to remain elastic and resilient.   Dehydration is the direct result of us not being able to hold mental pictures still which results in poor concentration and inability to memorize.  Most people with learning difficulties are constantly dehydrated!   So now that you know, beware and act preventively!

Contact me for more tips and helpful strategiesfor unlearning difficulties.

Showing someone a picture is visual teaching.  If you tell a story about a fairy, every person listening to the story will make different pictures of the fairy.  This is visual learning.  When you’re teaching a fact, such as the shape of Canada, your learners need to see this.  But if you tell them exactly what their fairy should look like, you’re stiffling their creativity.   Read the rest of this entry »

One of the greatest challenges teachers face is that when they can’t see what a learner is visualizing, there’s nothing for them to mark / evaluate.  When visualization skills surpass a learner’s written or artistic abilities, your only way to find out what a learner is seeing in his/her imagination is to ask.  You may  be amazed at how immensely creative this person’s mind is AND how very different this creation is from yours!  You can gain some information by Read the rest of this entry »

Everywhere I go I hear people talking about poor literacy.  Poor literacy / numeracy is the number one block to young people quitting school as well as being employment ready after leaving school.  Of course, it is now common knowledge that this trend is easy to change as more people are understanding how our fabulously talented visual children and adults operate.   Read the rest of this entry »

If you already are, or are about to be back at school, these 3 tips will help you dramatically improve your learning experience in every lesson!

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How many times have I heard and read this mantra before?  Yet, people don’t realize how they’re doing themselves total disservice by acting according to it…  But why do they?

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If you are or know a financial services representative or a financial advisor in the retail banking sector or an independent financial professional, you [or that person] too can enhance your [their] performance by some simple NLP tricks. Here they are:   Read the rest of this entry »

The case of my friend whose volunteering as a counselor for the Samaritans had recently been halted by her program coordinator for “being too direct with the clients” inspired me to write my view of this topic.  Is being too direct good for your clients?   Read the rest of this entry »