Jim Rohn - 10 Steps to Achieving Anything You Want (Jim Rohn Personal Development)

Interesting video  by the great Jim Rohn on 10 Steps to achieve anything you want.

Unleash Your Super Brain To Learn Faster And Work Smarter | Jim Kwik

In this digital age, probably one of the most important skills you could have is the ability to learn faster and work smarter. In this video Jim Kwik shares how to learn faster, remember more, and work smarter.
Learn quick tips for fast learning, learn the super-villains to avoid and learn the FAST technique.



Jim Kwik was once known as the boy with the “broken brain.” After a childhood accident left him struggling in school, he learned how to trick his brain to overcome mental limitations. Now, he’s the Brain Coach to celebrities, Fortune 500 CEOs, and even superheroes. ******** TIMESTAMPS OF THE IMPORTANT LESSONS FROM THIS VIDEO: 01:55 All learning is State dependent 08:15 Why it is important to “Learn How to Learn Fast” 19:30 6 Quick tips of fast learning 29:10 Two super-villains: Digital Overload & Digital Destruction 33:15 Digital Dementia - How modern people are losing simple memorisation capabilities 40:39 The Success Mindset - All behaviours are believe driven 47:26 Learn any subject faster - the “FAST” technique 50:35 A Story of Jim Kwik about his childhood and learning quickly

Taking Action - Exercise (Babyak et al., 2000)

Here's a great talk by psychologist Shawn Achor on why exercise is good for your success and happiness.



Everyone knows exercise is supposed to make you happier but we tell you the wrong reason for it. Usually we say  if you run enough maybe endorphins might get released and you might get addicted to those. Endorphines, these neurochemicals, they give you short term happiness but we are talking about today is long term quantifiable happiness and what we found is exercise does this but for a completely different reason. Exercise does this because it changes your tetris effect. What it does is people who exercise  also started eating healther on average. Why because their brain says I've been successful in one domain I bet I can be succcesful in  another domain.  which is why we found when senior level executives exercise in the morning they are better at dealing with their inbox at 2 oclock in the middle of the day. Two separate functions at two separate parts of the  day  and yet linked to the same activity. That activity is that you are getting your brain to believe your behaviour matters. If you exercise and go to work and you look around at other people you think I exercised and look at all these people that didn't , Even though that's the fist time you've exercised in a decade. you feel a moment of success and that moment of success translates into the very next action you take and just like we see in sports we see they get into the momentum of success that happens because they have an initial victory which leads to a cascading effect and those individuals start building an entire constellation of positive habits around them based on that first belief that my behaviour matters.

Just read an interesting article on pattern interrupts by Helen Roe. If you are not getting the right results in life you need to change your behaviour and change how you react to triggers. A pattern interrupt breaks you out of robot mode and gives you the awareness that you are taking the same path and  then you can try something else.

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Why a Pattern Interrupt Is Just What You Need

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it is lethal.”

~ Paulo Coelho

Routines are great for getting us out of bed in the morning and keeping the momentum alive. We know exactly what to do and when. But what about creativity in this busy predictable time? How do we make room for growth, expansion and new beginnings? It’s time, of course, to introduce a pattern interrupt.

A Pattern interrupt is a technique to change a particular thought, behavior or situation. Behavioral psychology and neuro linguistic programming use this technique to interrupt and change thought patterns and behaviors. It can be as simple as initiating a handshake or as definitive as seizing the moment to travel or fulfill your bucket list.

Humans have an average of up to 50,000 thoughts per day. Amazingly up to 95 percent are the same thoughts, repeated every day (according to the National Science Foundation). That’s a lot of repetition. And very little space for new thinking. Einstein summed it up nicely.

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Turning my back on insanity, I recently embraced a pattern interrupt. One whole delicious month of travel overseas. Of course pattern interrupts don’t have to be saved for just holidays. Taking a week, a day or even an afternoon can still be of immense benefit.

Here are five truths about pattern interrupts and why, if you haven’t taken one recently, it might be just what you need.

Truth #1 A Fresh Perspective

A pattern interrupt transports you to enticing new places, physically and mentally. It jolts you out of your familiar thoughts and routines and into a vast openness of possibility. It’s like seeing things for the first time again.

Truth #2 Trust in the Future

Scheduling in a break for a walk or a yoga class is great for an hour but let’s face it, you’re still in your safe zone. You know what’s next. A pattern interrupt involves some risk, bravery and one hundred per cent committment, even when you don’t know what’s next.

Truth #3 Relinquish Control

An interruption to our schedule can be an inconvenience, don’t you think? All sorts of ‘What if’s?’ pop into our head. It’s so tempting to avoid these feelings and not rock the boat. Managing that challenge requires letting go and accepting we can’t control situations and outcomes all of the time.

Truth #4 Growth and Expansion

The big one. Where there is life, there is growth. But how much growth can really happen when we are on rinse and repeat, day after day? When we are programmed to perform we do what’s expected of us. Spread your wings and give yourself some space to grow. Imagine where that could take you.

Truth #5 Creativity Thrives

It’s a bit like the inspirational ideas that can often pop into our head in the shower, in the car or just before we fall asleep. Only magnified. Creativity is not on a schedule. It often appears when we least expect it. Sitting in silence, admiring a view, getting lost in a new city, savoring a great meal, lost in conversation, anytime anywhere.

Are you ready for a pattern interrupt? Start small, today. Go digital free and spark your energy, set your imagination alight, discover a new kind of silence or simply rest. You will receive what you need to, in ways that simply are not possible by following the same routines each day.

Helen Roe  https://www.huffingtonpost.com/helen-roe/why-a-pattern-interrupt-i_b_8075800.html