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  • Help Yourself to a Sharper Memory
    By nature, the brain has the ability to retain facial images of people casually met years ago. But remembering names can be a problem. We often hear “It’s at the tip of my tongue.” Even recalling where, when, and how you met a person in the past can be frustrating. If you’re lucky, a slight clue might help to trigger what was temporarily lost in memory.
  • Switching Behaviours
    The wise say the first enemy to defeat is the self. When the self rules, any form of success is devoid of meaning. Indeed, many success stories are spoiled by even the slightest show of bad behavior.
  • Family, Friends, Foes and You
    In our daily activities, whether we like it or not, we have to deal and interact with different kinds of people having different views in life. More often than not, people have a natural tendency to parallel their actions with respect to how others would perceive their decisions. They have to answer a question that appears unconsciously all the time: “Would these people approve of me or not?”
  • Why People Shy Away (and What You Can Do About It)
    To know what makes people shy away, you must put yourself in their shoes. Placing yourself in their position will give you visualized thoughts. Three probable reasons are written below.
  • How to Manage Your Problems
    Problems and solutions are no exceptions to this natural phenomenon. Life is never free of problems. Life came to existence with problems on its tail. Imagine a life with no problems. It would be a dull life. Imagine a life without struggling. With only good things dominating the earth, it would result to laziness.
  • How To Make This World A Better Place
    Consider these facts:

    If you have food, clothes, and a home, you are richer than 75% of the people in the world. If you have some money in the bank, you are among the top 80% of the world’s wealthy. If you woke up healthy this morning, you are more blessed than the 1 million people who will not survive this week.
  • How To Overcome Defeatism
    Admit it or not, many of us have some sort of defeat habits. Have you ever felt that you are not good enough? Have you ever let fear dissuade you from pursuing a perceived difficult task? Have you ever let a strong comment from your family stop you from pursuing your dreams?
  • How To Get Inspired Now
    “Do you need to be inspired to aspire or do you need an aspiration to get inspired?”

    Some may argue that in order to have a strong desire to achieve something, you must be inspired. On the other hand, some argue that for you to be inspired, you may need to aspire first.
  • How to Deal with a Suicidal Person
    In helping a person deal with suicidal thoughts, it is best to combine the approach of treating the underlying mental disorder and treating suicidal tendencies directly. A five-point suicide prevention plan, dubbed SUPER, is presented below:
  • The Anatomy Of Rejection in Achieving Your Goals
    The fulfillment of your goal is largely dependent on the help you get from other people. But hear this out: Not everyone will be willing to help you.
  • How to Stop the Sleep Robbers
    You think you’re getting enough sleep? Think again, because you’re most likely not. A lot of studies confirmed that most adults have been depriving themselves (oftentimes unnoticed) of the amounts of sleep needed.
  • Mind Control over Body
    What your body can do depends on what your mind can conceive. The body can only come up with a potential that the mind can imagine. When the mind is strong, the body will obey. When the mind is creative, the body will create accordingly.
  • Nothing to Lose and Everything to Gain
    Presenting four scenarios:

    1. Nothing to lose and nothing to gain
    2. Everything to lose and everything to gain
    3. Everything to lose and nothing to gain
    4. Nothing to lose and everything to gain

    If you are given a chance to pick one, which will it be?
  • Keeping Away Those “Bad” Memories
    After watching the film, “The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” I suddenly became interested about a threshold point of our memory. It is the point where people would just want to undergo a painful medical process, although currently impossible, of removing some parts of their memory just like what the lead actors of the movie did.
  • Necessary Qualities of a Good Persuader
    Persuasion is asserting your will over others. In this definition, the concept of power comes in. Power is the ability of a person to put his will over others or over his followers. But in persuasion, no full power should be applied. The persuader should learn to be humble to accomplish his objective, so that the persuadee may give in. Therefore, the qualities of a persuader must come from opposite ends. He must be positive-minded but open to negative results; he must be insistent but must also
  • Miscommunication - Root Cause of Problems?
    People of two opposing ideas can stir up arguments and fights. It's that situation when one thinks he has the right concept while the other one also believes he has the proper notion. Both of them would try to outsmart each other until one claims victory.

    Here's an actual example.
  • Bad Luck ... Or Blessing In Disguise?
    Sometimes bad things really happen. We lost our money, failed our exams, or get rejected by others. There are times when nothing seems to go our way.

    So what do we do about it? Are we going to be disappointed? The answer is a resounding "No!"
  • Control Your Fear Before It Controls You
    "Fear Factor" is one of my favorite TV shows. It highlights the courage of the participants to engage in the most fearsome and disgusting acts.

    Most of the contestants are willing to sacrifice their dignity for the sake of the prize money. So what does that imply? It implies that with the proper mindset, determination, and will power, you can conquer your fear.
  • 4 Brilliant Tips to Speed Read Faster than Ever
    Many people, particularly students, would love to be able to absorb information faster. But before retaining information, they have to go through the first stage of learning, which is reading.

    For many individuals who are pressed for time, speed reading has become a necessity. However, it's not just the reading part that is important. Equally essential is for the reader to fully understand the words coming out from the book or paper.
  • 4 Powerful Ways To Fire Up Your Motivation
    It's so difficult to go on when everything seems to fail, isn't it? Are there times in your life when you really want to call it "quits" because you just can't see any good results from all the hard work you've done?

    Hold your horses!
  • Two Proven Techniques that Successful People Do to Double or Triple Their Time in a Day
    They say that time is much more important than wealth. Most effective people think so. They know how to get more time in a day, and they have mastered the art of utilizing time effectively to do more productive things that contribute to their advancement or success. So how do they do it?
  • Time Management Tip: How to Write a Paper in Two Days
    So it has happened. You had put your homework off for two weeks now and you find that you have only two days to turn it in. The thought of calling in sick at the day of the deadline crossed your mind but you knew your professor will not buy it. You have also considered saying your computer crashed, but, hey, it's probably the oldest late excuse in the book. You're actually left with no choice but to write that blasted paper in so short a time.
  • How to Improve Your Memory
    Have you ever been in the middle of a thought and could not remember what you were thinking of? Perhaps you were about to take an exam and forgot all of the information that you thought you knew. Maybe you were talking to someone and forgot entirely what his name was. If any of these situations sound familiar to you, read on to discover some relatively simple ways to jog your memory and keep everything in perspective.
  • Have A Shy Child? Teach Him or Her to Be More Upfront
    There are children that are naturally more outgoing than others. As a parent, you should understand that shyness or inhibition is driven by both genetic and environmental factors.

    However, this temperament isn't necessarily permanent and does not always determine a child's personality when he or she grows up.
  • Developing Your Persuasion Skills
    There are people who never cease to amaze us. They have charisma that makes you believe just about whatever they say. These people have learned the art of persuasion. This skill is something that you definitely want to have yourself.
  • Choose To Be Intelligent
    Researchers believe nobody can improve their intelligence quotient or IQ. If you ask the experts why, they will probably give you a scientific definition of intelligence coupled with how the human brains worked. However, if what you want are real action and you are not really concerned with mere explanations, then read on and you will surely pick a few quick brainpower doses.
  • Visualization as a Key to Happiness
    Visualization is an essential tool used by millions of successful businessmen and professionals all over the world to help them achieve their goals. Visualization however cannot only bring success to your business but happiness to your life, as well.
  • The Secrets To Stress-Free Change
    The only thing constant in life is change. Change can be an exciting part of one’s life or it can be a daunting experience. However, changes can be manageable if you are prepared to handle them. Since change is so much a part of our lives, don’t you think it is a good idea to learn how to manage it without stress?
  • Successful Leaders And Intuition
    Are you a leader in your organization?

    Are you an instigator of change or a catalyst in your family circle, school, church or institution?

    Does your work entail initiating change?

    Do you want to make a difference?

    If you answered “yes” to any of the questions, then you are a leader!
  • How to Drive Shyness Away
    A wallflower cannot succeed in this competitive world. One has to stand out in order to be heard. If you are timid and shy, you will not be noticed. You have to get your point across.

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