Train Your Brain For Success E-Book

Roger Seip

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 319

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

Train your mind to achieve new levels of success! Professionals and entrepreneurs do a great job of keeping up appearances. But if they're honest with themselves, they're short on living the life they really want. Train Your Brain For Success provides the perspective to analyze how you got where you are and, more importantly, learn the skills to get where you truly desire to be. Train Your Brain For Success explains specific ways of thinking and acting that will get anyone where they want to go, fast. Learn to condition your mind to move towards success automatically, by discovering greater memory power and fundamental techniques for boosting reading speed and comprehension. Get a proven strategy for succeeding and becoming a record-breaking performer. * Learn to live in the moment * Become brilliant with the basics * Aggressively take care of your mind Train your mind for new levels of success by boosting memory power, reading speed and comprehension.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Foreword

Introduction How to Break Records

Mental Factor Number One: Success Leaves Clues

Mental Factor Number Two: What You See Is What You Get

Mental Factor Number Three: What You See Is What You Look For

The Bad News: Your Comfort Zone Limits You

The Good News

The Really Good News: Small Changes Make a Huge Difference

How to Use This Book

Section 1: Your Learning Foundations

Learning Foundation #1: Your Instant Recall Memory

Chapter 1: Discovering Your Memory Power

How You Originally Learned to Learn

The Teachability Index

Your Baseline Memory Evaluation

Chapter 2: Learn to Speak the Language of Your Memory!

Chapter 3: Using Your New Mental Files with This Book and Beyond

Taking Optimal Care of Your Brain

Your Next Filing System

The Key to Long-Term Recall: Spaced Repetition

Remembering Names

Learning Foundation #2: Your Smart Reading Capacity

Chapter 4: Why You Read Like a Sixth-Grader and What to Do about It

Baseline Test

What Your Score Means

The Concept of “Gears” in Smart Reading

Three Reading Habits You Can Reduce

Chapter 5: Your Smart Reading Tools for Improved Focus and Speed

The Mechanics of the Reading Process

Using Your Hands Properly

Chapter 6: Your Smart Reading Tools for Enhanced Comprehension and Retention

The Balance

Why and How to “Smart Read”

The Key to Retention: Interactive Processing

Section 2: The Components of Your Record-Breaking Life

Component #1: Having Energizing Goals

Chapter 7: Five Characteristics of an Energizing Goal

Focus

Direction

Sense of Urgency

Chapter 8: Heighten Your Focus with Your Keystone Goal

Step 1—Narrow It Down

Step 2—Identify the Keystone

Step 3—Solidify the Why

Step 4—Make It Visual

Step 5—Create Supporting Rituals

Chapter 9: Overcoming Barriers

Three Emotional Barriers

Mental Barriers

Component #2: Being Fully Present: Using Time as It's Meant to Be Used

Chapter 10: Common Myths of Time Management and How to Use Time as It's Meant to Be Used

The Myth of Balance

The Myth that Time Can Be Managed

The Myth of “Enough” Time

Chapter 11: The Two-Hour Solution: How To Create a Record-Breaking Schedule

The Two-Hour Solution Defined

Chapter 12: Top Tips for Supercharging Your Productivity

Get Crystal Clear on Your Goals

Component #3: Be Brilliant with the Basics

Chapter 13: The Basics of You Part 1: Your Personal Core Values

A Structured Way of Answering the Big Question “What Is My Life Really About?”

Chapter 14: The Basics of You Part 2: Purpose and Vision

Be, Do, Have

A Structured Way of Answering the Other Big Question: What Do I Want to Do?

Your Vision Statement

Record-Breaking Component #4: Aggressive Mental Care

Chapter 15: The Most Basic Piece: Energy

Chapter 16: Your Energy Management Tools

Tool #1: Your Ability to Laugh…

Tool #2: Your Ability to Practice Gratitude

Tool #3: Your Ability to Manage Mental Input Sources

Tool #4: Your Ability to Decide Your Focus

Tool #5: Your Ability to Take Action

Chapter 17: The Power Hour: Your Daily Energy Management Practice

The Value of the “Last 5 Percent”

Where This Comes from—The Concept of “Little Victories”

What the Power Hour Does

The Power Hour Described

Conclusion: What to Do with What You've Learned

About the Author

About Planet Freedom

Index

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Seip, Roger, 1970-

Train your brain for success: read smarter, remember more, and break your own records / Roger Seip.

ISBN 978-1-118-27519-1 (hardback); ISBN 978-1-118-33055-5 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-33123-1 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-33338-9 (ebk)

1. Mnemonics. 2. Memory. 3. Speed reading. 4. Reading comprehension. I. Title.

BF385

153.1'4–dc23

2012010593

Foreword

People don't tap into their full potential.

Nearly everyone (certainly anyone who would pick up this book) wants their results to significantly improve. They want to grow, thrive, and make a huge impact, but the majority of their God-given potential isn't being used.

In the pursuit of personal development, most people make two dire mistakes. First, they look outside themselves for the answers. They believe that there's a magic bullet that someone has forged, and if they could only get their hands on that elusive magic bullet, everything would change for them.

Of course, nobody admits that they are looking for a magic bullet. Deep down inside, however, most people really hope that someday their magic bullet will magically appear.

After people resign themselves to the fact that there is no magic bullet, they commit the second mistake. They make the process of growth way more complex than it really is. In an attempt to take personal responsibility and fully engage, all but a very wise few overcomplicate the simple steps that create huge personal growth.

This brilliant book has no magic bullets. It is simple without being simplistic. What you will find are foundational skills and fundamental truths that have been around for thousands of years, yet are still missing from most people's lives. These skills are fun to learn, interesting to study, and remarkably easy to apply.

I've traveled with, lived with, and worked with Roger Seip for more than two decades. I've watched him do the things that he teaches here, and he's living proof that when you understand and apply the fundamentals, you win.

Although there are no magic bullets, the results certainly seem magical. Tripling your ability to remember information! Reading two or three or even four times faster than you do now! Crafting goals that propel you toward them, and utilizing time in a way that allows the achievement of everything that's really important!

From the outside looking in, these are impossible feats, right?

Not at all. These are simply the foundations that any committed student of this book will experience. And that is only the beginning.

The principles and stories shared in this book work. They've worked for thousands of people just like you. Your task is to be bold enough to believe that you too can do extraordinary things, teachable enough to let this powerfully simple information sink in, and then accountable enough to act on it. Be free!

—Eric Plantenberg President of Freedom Personal Development Creator of The Abundant Living Retreat

Introduction How to Break Records

The very first motivational speaker I heard as an adult was a gentleman named Mort Utley. I experienced his speech in May 1989 in Nashville, Tennessee, at the end of a week of sales school with the Southwestern Company. I was 19 years old, and Mort Utley made one of the most unmotivational statements I had ever heard. He said:

“Most people do not get what they want out of life.”

How depressing, I thought. This guy gets paid large amounts of money to motivate people and he comes on stage and says that most people do not get what they want out of life. My 19-year-old brain went “Thanks for the tip, Mort. I suppose next you'll tell me that people from France all speak French. No kidding, most people don't get what they want out of life. Why do you think I am listening to you in the first place?

I didn't want to be most people, and my guess is that you don't either. If you want to be most people—broke, unhealthy, and with too little time to actually enjoy your life—you wouldn't be reading this book. However, you have to be aware that your brain/mind has a lot of unconscious patterns that hold you back. Here's one of them.

A big part of you wants just to be average.

Starting in elementary school, through a combination of education and our brain's natural urge toward safety, we all develop a strong unconscious desire to be like everyone else around us. We want to fit in. We want to be average.