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Concentrate The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there. ~Jim Rohn
where your attention goes, your energy flows.
A belief is a sense of being certain; what you believe, you become.
Be Here Now Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ~Alexander Graham Bell
Concentration is made up of many small choices practiced consistently.
When your mind is at peace, you can enjoy the moment and your mind becomes like a laser beam. Peace and concentration are the same thing. To eliminate conflict and create peace in your mind you must do four things:
1. Take Control of Your Inner Voice
2. Stop Multitasking
Rediscover the value of consecutive tasking,
3. Know What You Want
Purpose: A clear purpose is important because clarity dissolves resistance.
Learning with a purpose increases your attention, comprehension, and retention; it also helps organize your thoughts.
Interest: Your level of interest sets the direction of your attention and, therefore, your level of focus.
Tony Robbins says, “If you want to cure boredom, be curious. If you’re curious, nothing is a chore; it’s automatic—you want to study. Cultivate curiosity, and life becomes an unending study of joy.”
4. Eliminate Worry
“I could only find three kinds of business in the world—mine, yours, and God’s. Whose business are you in?”
Learn to practice peace, because if you have no attention you have no retention.
Create and Connect When you train your creativity, you automatically train your memory. When you train your memory, you automatically train your creative thinking skills! ~Tony Buzan
The more we turn information into images or mind movies, the more we will remember and comprehend.
The SEE Principle
S—Senses: There are only five ways to get anything into your brain, and those are through your senses: sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste. Your senses help you mentally recreate your world. If you learn to engage your senses, you will use more of your brain and improve your memory.
E—Exaggeration:
The more you exaggerate the image you’re using to help
you remember a concept, the easier it will be to recall later on.
Have fun; create some exaggerated images to improve your memory.
E—Energize: Give your mental pictures action.
Your imagination is the key to unlocking your unlimited memory power.
The more skilled you become in using your imagination, the more you can know, comprehend, and create. In this way, you become the director of your own mind. Turning Abstract Information Into Images
The greatest secret to having a powerful memory is bringing information to life with your endless imagination.
Organizing new information is key to retention and retrieval.
LTM + STM = MTM
The secret to accelerated learning is superior organization.
Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Habit 1: Be proactive.
Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind.
Habit 3: Put first things first.
Habit 4: Think win/win.
Habit 5: Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Habit 6: Synergize.
Habit 7: Sharpen the saw.
creative intelligence,
personal intelligence
social intelligence.
spiritual intelligence
physical intelligence
sensual intelligence
sexual intelligence—here
numerical intelligence.
spatial intelligence,
verbal intelligence
