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  • 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!
  • 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!"
  • Brazen Up Your Fears!
    Admit it. You are afraid. There are things that give you goose bumps, as well as make your body tremble, your palms sweaty, and your heartbeats faster. These things do not necessarily mean to be real, because oftentimes, you fear things that are mere creations of your ingenious imagination.
  • Breakthrough the Barrier
    A lot of people I’ve talked to have said they feel like there is a force field around them keeping them from succeeding. That has happened to me for years. But that was before I had an overhaul on my attitude. There are a lot of people in life that become seriously depressed because they couldn’t accomplish what they really thought they deserved. But eventually, they come to realize the depression was a symptom of being totally focused on “ME”.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Dealing With Irritation
    We’ve all been in situations where irritating things or people can get you to start gritting your teeth to hold your temper in check. First, it’s bad for your teeth when you do that, so take pity and stop it. However, it’s also not good for you to bottle up that irritation. Here are some tips to deal with your irritation without committing murder:
  • 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.
  • Do You Have Your Life Figured Out?
    So many of us wander through life thinking we have everything together. I have a fool proof way to see if you really do have it together. You will be able to tell with one question.
  • Effective Time Management Techniques
    Do you always find yourself doing numerous tasks at the last minute? Does the sight of voluminous paperwork make you feel swamped, eventually leading you to put them off for "just a few more minutes"? Does the word deadline unfailingly give you panic attacks?
  • Enjoy Life More – Embrace Change
    Do you feel that your life is starting to stagnate into a boring routine? Well before you get depressed, break away from that cycle! Do something to get the adrenalin pounding through your veins again. The easiest way is to make simple changes, here’s how:
  • 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?”
  • Fill Your Every Hour with Happiness
    Happiness. It is the ultimate goal of every human being as argued by the great philosopher Aristotle. We are all willing to do everything and give up anything just to possess it. But, still, we rarely find it. Why is this one transcendental good so hard to find? And if it is found, why does it slip away so fast?
  • Harnessing the Power of Your Potential
    Everyone was born with a tremendous amount of potential. You start learning about it from the arms of your parents. Then education and the people you interact with improved it until you can recognize it yourself. Admittedly, some are more gorgeous than you are; some were given higher IQs and some have more talent than you have. But that’s the beauty of it...
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • How To Achieve Your Lifetime Goals
    You may have already gone through the process of creating a list of lifetime goals – the next step is to actually start the process of achieving them. This involves creating a list of smaller goals that you plan to achieve over the next 25 years preparatory to reaching your lifetime goals. After creating a 25-year plan, make a 5-year plan, then a 1-year plan, then a 6-month plan and then a 1-month plan. Get the picture? Each plan is founded and contributes to the lifetime plan.
  • 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:
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • 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 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 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 Plan The Rest Of Your Life
    Some people value spontaneity. Others crave structure. Still, it would help if you would go through life with direction, and with goals. Goals help in guiding your choices. Purpose underlines everything you do.
  • 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.
  • How to Streamline Your Day
    Do you feel like you always have too much on your plate? Like your day needs to be 48 hours because: your boss requested that you walk his dog, your wife needs your sheets changed, and you still need to edit your kid’s album on Photoshop?
  • How to Succeed in Whatever Field You Choose
    Success is a goal you undeniably want to strive for in life. As with everyone else, you would like a piece of the good life. You would want to rise above your capacities and drive yourself to the best you can possibly reach.
  • 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.

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