It is December 25, 2015. In just a few days, you have an opportunity to start afresh with New Year resolutions. Maybe it’s the weight you wanted to lose, the new skill you wanted to acquire or the leap you wanted to make to start your own business. Now ask yourself how many times you have honored your resolution in all the years that have passed since you started thinking about some strategy for reinventing yourself.
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Ask scientists about what the next frontier will be for human advancement and the most likely answer will be the ability to pick up new learning in a much shorter time.
Amazing productivity and quantum improvements in learning is the promise of accelerated learning. It is a quest that has gripped both individuals and organizations…
Warning – this article may change your life in just a few days. If you don’t want any change in your life, don’t read this.
Remember the last New Year resolution? Remember all the other goals you set for yourself that never came about? So what happened? Was it just a lack of will power..?
Our natural tendency is to behave like butterflies: flitting from one flower to another in search of nutrition – or from one task to another before the first task is complete – or switching from one priority to another on impulse.
To justify this, we call this multi-tasking but this isn’t multi-tasking, it is a lack of focus and it extracts a heavy price: loss of productivity, missed goals and a sense that much time has been expended and not much achieved. Learning to focus on just one thing at a time is the answer; it is not easy to do but the rewards can be amazing…
This is based on a strategy formulated by the world-renowned motivational speaker Brian Tracy to improve your productivity 1,000 percent.
Brian Tracy started out his career with just $14,400 in income. Twelve years later, this income had increased 100 times to $1,440,000. He realized he had achieved this amazing increase using a formula which he later articulated as the “1000 percent formula”. The formula is based on getting a little bit better each day…
Imagine you have a goal. It could be about learning a new language. picking up a new skill, losing weight, getting fit. As you get closer to the goal, your motivation goes up and accelerates. This is called the goal-gradient effect and was first studied in the 1930s rats. The study found that rats that were running a maze to get food at the end would run faster as they got to the end of the maze…
Here’s a very simple fact. You can make a stronger impact on those you communicate with simpler writing – in your emails, in your proposals, in your reports. In fact, the simpler your writing is, the more powerful it becomes in terms of the impact you create…
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