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In this issue: -> Sponsor of the Week -> �IQ Tests� of the Week -> Brain Improvement Products and Services -> ARTICLE: The Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Mental Attitude � written by Bruce St. John, Leadership Coach -> ARTICLE: Using Your Senses for Fast Learning � written by Chance Massaro and Steve Wallis -> BOOK REVIEW: Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds � By Jan & Bob Davidson, with Laura Vanderkam -> High IQ Societies -> How to subscribe and unsubscribe to this newsletter Current Subscribers � 43,198 subscribers. Removal instructions are listed at the end of the newsletter. Send all questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (732) 761-9930 ----------------------------------------------------------- ** SPONSOR of the WEEK ** ----------------------------------------------------------- * How To Get People To Send You Their Money! * I know this seems crazy but it's not. It's not a scheme that you'd be ashamed to be involved in. And I'm not misleading you in any way. 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The following ten tips suggest ways to facilitate a more positive attitude. 1. Work first on your relationships. Relationships are both our best sources of happiness and our biggest sources of problems and frustrations. Developing good relationships and improving or ending the poor relationships in your life will increase your personal energy. An effective tactic to start improving your relationships is to develop better personal boundaries and standards and work on reducing tolerations. 2. Develop a routine to start every day in a positive mental state. It is very helpful to start the day with a routine that creates positive energy. Many people find activities like an early morning walk, exercise, meditation, quiet time, etc., effective in getting their day off to a positive start. It is easier to stay positive, if you can start with a positive attitude. 3. Learn how to monitor your current mental state and changes to it. This is a complex area, but if you can link negative mood changes to a source or cause, then you are frequently in a position to quickly change back. The important point here is once you are in a negative state, get the message or value from the situation, then take some action to return to a positive state. This is discussed more in #6 below. 4. Create an energizing physical environment. Invest some time and money to make your personal surroundings pleasing and energizing to you. Some small items may make a big difference to how your personal space affects your moods. Poor lighting can lower your mental state, especially in the winter. I put 800 watts of halogen lighting in my workspace and noticed a big mood improvement. Some people report a big improvement in their mood just by cleaning up their bedroom and making the bed before leaving for work. Clutter is de-energizing to many people. A sink full of dirty dishes is de-energizing to some. A small water fountain can create a feeling of energy. Music can offset feelings of isolation. Feng Shui is an entire discipline that addresses the harmony of physical surroundings. Further reading in this topic may give you some good ideas. 5. Carefully monitor your self-talk. Negative self talk is a common source of low moods. When you are hearing negative self talk, be alert to the unrealistic, overly negative messages. Focus on getting any truthful message, then shifting out of overly self-defeating criticism. It is true that we are usually our own worst critic. 6. Develop methods of shifting yourself to a more positive state. Once you are aware of your negative moods, and have developed your own method of getting the value out of the bad mood, then craft methods of moving back to a positive mood. These methods can include positive self talk, taking action towards a desirable goal, interacting with another person. One creative method is to maintain a Truth Journal in which you write down your personal Truth about various topics. This Truth can include past successes, what you are really good at, things you enjoy, compliments you have received, progress towards goals, etc. Then, when you are feeling negative about a topic, read the Truth Journal. 7. Deal with problems effectively. Problems are a part of life. Few people enjoy problems. But, in many cases we can learn from problems. It may help to ask yourself several questions, such as: - What am I contributing to this problem? - What Life Lesson have I been missing here? - What is the worst that can happen and how can I improve on that? - What am I doing right? - What am I going to do differently? Getting into a habit of using problems as learning experiences can help us avoid becoming de-energized when they occur. 8. Focus your energy on attracting more of what you want. Time and energy spent dwelling on problems is frequently better spent pursuing desirable goals. It helps to examine your own contribution to any difficulties and understand how you may need to change. Then be sure to ask others directly for what you want from them; don't fall into the trap of under communicating. In this way, you are always making course corrections and moving forward. I have found it helpful to print out a list of goals, and my theme for the week first thing Monday morning. This seems to help me get started on a positive note. 9. Be a positive energy source with others. Negative energy seems to attract negative results. Keeping your own mood positive can encourage positive moods and suppress negative behavior in others. 10. Avoid using negative energy as an energy source. Many people have a shortage of positive energy in their lives and use negative energy as their energy source. They create busyness, use deadlines, crises, and problems to keep them going. In many cases, their motivation patterns shift entirely from seeking pleasure to avoiding pain. In most cases, serious burnout is the eventual result of becoming dependent on negative energy sources. About the Author: This piece was originally submitted by Bruce St. John, Leadership Coach, who can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or visited on the Web at http://www.brucestjohn.com/. Bruce St. John wants you to know: I help business leaders become the person their dog thinks they are! ----------------------------------------------------------- ** ARTICLE: Using Your Senses for Fast Learning � written by Chance Massaro and Steve Wallis ** ----------------------------------------------------------- The learning experts call them modalities. You probably call them senses. They are the five common senses with which we experience our world. The ways in which the senses are related to our short and long term memories constitute our natural learning modalities. This article will clarify how modalities are the pathways for learning; then it will help you identify your preferred modalities and finally it will give you concrete ways to learn faster by using your modalities consciously. Modality generally refers to our hard wiring: how our nervous system brings information in, links that information to what we already know and allows us to bring the knowledge out and use it. The visual modality refers to what we see and images we remember. Auditory refers to what we hear: how things sound. Kinesthetic refers to knowing through touch or by doing. Olfactory indicates smell (our most acute and least used sense). Gustatory refers to taste. As infants, we are all pretty much kinesthetic/gustatory; we learn by putting things in our mouth. This being violently discouraged by adults we quickly learn to learn through our eyes and ears. We put less faith in our feelings or the tastes left in our mouths as ways of learning or judging. You'll know you're visual if you need pictures to understand ideas and concepts. Visual people think in pictures. They are likely to accompany their speech with visuals. They may talk fast and use words like �picture,� �see,� �glimpse,� �shape,� �looks� etc. If you're a visual, you'll do well to look for and create pictures, charts, maps, diagrams. Color chapters in your texts. Take notes in different colors. Use collages, painting and drawing to study. To review, close your eyes and see what you remember. The auditory folks tune into rhythm, pace, tone and pitch. They remember how things sound and may translate learning into rap or poetry. They are often musical and speak in more modulated tones. Auditories do well with tape recorders, lectures and discussion. Playing specific types of music in the background while learning can make it go fast and be fun. Making rhyming or cutesy sounding lists will help the auditory remember well. The kinesthetic people speak the slowest. They are feeling their way through life and often cannot learn unless they are doing something. They say, �I get it.� when they understand, and �That doesn't fit.� when they don't. Kinesthetics need to move! If you're one, take BIG notes and always imagine yourself doing something with the material you are learning. If possible, skip the books and lectures and go directly to the action required to use what you're learning. We are all olfactory as smell is the sense that connects with long-term memory. You smell fresh baked bread and are IN grandma's kitchen. Take advantage of this by using different spices in various chapters of your text or carry a fragrant teabag to your next lecture. Peppermint is always good. Since learning is, in part, bringing something into ourselves, eating can support rapid acquisition of information as well as calories. The key here, as with smell, is to create a solid and discreet association between a taste and something we want to integrate cognitively, experientially, emotionally or imaginatively. Use mints while learning a new program, butterscotch when learning to budget, chocolate when studying new regulations. All the above methods work as �jumping-off places� to creative and rapid learning. Just by focusing on �How DO I learn?� you'll get faster and have more fun. The sweet smell of success will be in the air wafting in the breeze, which blows the rustling leaves warmly against your skin. For many more amazing ways to access and build your five senses, ten intelligences and five cognitive types, check out: �Easy Genius: Awakening Your Whole Brain to Build a More Powerful Memory� available at www.easygenius.net. About the Authors: Chance Massaro, M.A., and Steve Wallis, M.A., have decades of experience helping people to improve memories and intelligences so that they can lead more successful lives - and have more fun in the process. Their work with whole-brain learning has made them popular with all kinds of people - including parents, teens, elderly, job seekers, those interested in health and education - who are all learning more about themselves and the ways that they can be more successful in the world. From intelligence to creativity, activity, emotions and beyond, find out about their collaborative consulting work, accelerated learning or just making better lesson plans: http://www.easygenius.net http://www.chancemassaro.com http://www.publicpartners.net ----------------------------------------------------------- ** BOOK REVIEW: Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds � By Jan & Bob Davidson, with Laura Vanderkam ** ----------------------------------------------------------- The Davidsons, a husband-and-wife team, established a nonprofit organization to assist especially bright kids and their parents in their quest for educational fulfillment. They draw on their clients' experiences in this manifesto for change. For gifted students, "doing well does not mean doing one's best," they believe, and highly intelligent children are often as inclined to fail as to succeed. Of course, the terrible shape of education�and public schooling in particular�isn't news, and approaches to learning for specialized groups like the gifted are often as jerry-built as those for the learning disabled. Like a gentle, scripted but persistent public service announcement, this book reminds readers that when it comes to education, legislators, lobbyists, administrators, teachers, parents and even gifted children themselves sometimes fall into lazy, conformist patterns of thinking and action, and that both the current situation and the forecast for the future are fairly discouraging. The Davidsons make a compelling case for re-approaching giftedness as a potential disability (to give more attention to gifted kids) and an even stronger argument for parents, teachers and citizens to consider the potential loss to American society in the costliest imaginable terms. Above all, they want readers, whatever their relationship to the gifted, to start thinking about the issue. This is an exhortatory book that doesn't resort to finger pointing; it even includes "what you can do about this" suggestions aimed at everyone from policymakers and principals to parents. Copyright � Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. The list price for this book is $24.00. To purchase it for $16.32 at a 32% discount from Amazon.com, go directly to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0743254600/selfimprovemeonlA/ ----------------------------------------------------------- ** HIGH IQ SOCIETIES ** ----------------------------------------------------------- American Mensa, Ltd., 1229 Corporate Dr. West Arlington, TX 76006 - 1-800-66-MENSA .Open to individuals who have scored in the top 2% on a standardized intelligence test. Founded in 1945 by R.Berrill and L.Ware. Name of Journal: Mensa Bulletin Visit them on the web at http://www.mensa.org International Society for Philosophical Enquiry, c/o Harry Callahan, PO Box 34304, Omaha, NE 68134 -- Open to individuals who score in the 99.9th percentile on a standardized adult intelligence test. Founded 1974 by Chris Harding. Name of Journal: Telicom Visit them on the web at http://www.crosswinds.net/~ispe/ Intertel, P.O. Box 150580, Lakewood, CO 80215 (303) 797-7210-- Open to individuals who have an IQ at or above the 99th percentile on an accepted test. Founded in 1967 by Ralph Haines. Name of Journal: Integra Visit their website at http://pw1.netcom.com/~snoflo/intertel1.html Mega Society, c/o Rick Rosner, 5139 Balboa Blvd #303, Encino, CA 91316-3430--Open to individuals with an IQ in the 99.9999th percentile. Founded in 1982 by Ronald K Hoeflin. Name of Journal: Noesis Visit their website at http://www.ultrahiq.net/MegaSociety/ One-In-A-Thousand, PO Box 539, New York, NY 10101 (Ronald K. Hoeflin, Founder)--Open to persons with measured IQs in the top 1/10% of the population. Name of Journal: Oath Visit them on the web at http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/oath.html Prometheus Society, c/o Robert Dick, 13 Speer Street, Somerville, NJ 08876--Open to individuals exceeding the 99.997th percentile of general intelligence. Founded in 1982 by Ronald K Hoeflin. Name of Journal: Gift of Fire Visit them on the web at http://www.prometheussociety.org/ Triple Nine Society, PO Box 29, Dover, MA 02030-0029--Open to those individuals who score in the top 99.9th percentile on a standardized intelligence test. Visit them on the web at http://www.triplenine.org Sinistral SIG, 200 Emmett Ave., Derby, CT 06418 (203) 735-1759-- Open to left-handed people whose IQs are in the top 2% of the population and who are eligible to be members of Mensa. The International High Five Society, 3546 Devon Hill Road, Toledo, OH 43606-1102 (419) 474-3809 FAX: (419) 474-1009, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Five is open to anyone testing above the 95th percentile on a standardized test of intelligence. The International High IQ Society The International High IQ Society was founded in April, 2000 to enable the bright people from around the world to come together on the internet. All information can be found at http://www.highiqsociety.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------- *** HOW TO SUBSCRIBE and BE REMOVED FROM THIS NEWSLETTER*** ----------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to our newsletter, please go to our Subscriptions Page http://www.selfimprovementnewsletters.com To be removed from this newsletter, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or for many emails programs just click below: http://go.netatlantic.com:8080/cgi-bin/unsubscribe.pl?id=32498649J. 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