Brain Rules - Dr. John J. Medina
May 18, 2008
Watch this YouTube Video of Dr. J, author of Brain Rules
In this video he references both Keith Richards (Rolling Stones) at age 65 years old, and 60 Minutes’ Mike Wallace at age 90 years old- here’s a visual…
More about Brain Rules
May 17, 2008
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The Perfect Work Environment
April 22, 2008
Trivial pursuits, originally uploaded by Gaetan Lee.
We are happiest when we have harmony in all the environtments that make up our life. What often happens is that we think we can live with separation and disunity in our environments. The truth is that we open unseen doors of opportunity as we eliminate tolerances and bring harmonious energy between our the nine environments that make up our world.
The Nine Environments of “You”
The Memetic Environment: Your memetic environment is at the very core of who you are as an individual. It includes ideas, thoughts, beliefs, paradigms, styles and usages that are passed down from parents, grandparents and generations gone before. Your memetic environment also includes access to information and knowledge (books, websites, magazines, television, and radio.)
Inner game coaching focuses almost entirely on the memetic environment and some on the environment of self.
The Body Environment: Your body environment includes your body, hair, skin, nails, posture, health and energy. It also includes you observer your own body, how you use the body as a compass and how our bodies affect the environment and the energy around us.) Your body environment touches the network environment, as it includes physicians, skin care consultants, massage therapists, physical therapists, dietitians, personal trainers and other professionals who support your physical body well being.
The Self Environment: Your self environment includes our strengths, talents, personalities, feelings, emotions, values, passions, skills and unique assets. Your self environment includes the intangible aspects of our beings.
The Nature Environment: Your nature environment includes nature, parks, bodies of water, the seasons of the year, pets, plants, the seasons of life, and the outdoors, in general. As humans, You are a part of nature, so access to this environment is crucial for our survival and ultimate well being.
The Spiritual Environment: Your spiritual environment includes your connection to God or the Divine. Your spiritual environment also indcludes your inner spirit, your creativity and joy, your invisible connection you feel to others and the universe. It includes methods of connecting to spiritual aspects of life (such as meditation, prayer, and places of worship).
The Relationship Environment: Your relationship environment includes those people in your life who are closest to you and with whom you have an intimate connection…your “inner circle.” This includes your family, close friends, close colleagues, mentors and neighbors who are in your life on a daily basis.
The Network Environment: Your network environment is an extension of the relationship environment. It includes people with whom you are on a first name basis, yet you may not have a deep an intimate connection. The network environment includes your strategic partners, networking partners, community organizations, and members of any mastermind or support groups you belong to. The goal of the network environment is usually to provide an exchange of information and to build bridges to people who can support you in enhancing both your business and personal life. Business Network International and The Chamber of Commerce are part of the network environment.
The Financial Environment: Your financial environment includes money, investments, insurance, stocks and bonds and the people who support your financial well being (accountants, financial planners, stock brokers). This environment also includes any tools or support services you use to achieve your financial goals (Quickbooks, Quicken, Microsoft Money, budgets, banking institutions). When exploring the financial environment, it is also important to look closely at the relationship you have with money and their beliefs around money and prosperity/abundance.
The Physical Environment: Your physical environment includes the very tangible aspects of your lives…your home, office, car, furnishings, artwork, toys, boats, and accessories. Your physical environment provides visual clues to what is going on in our lives. Clutter, noise, broken equipment can be visual clues to looking deeper to discover our thoughts, energy and behaviors.)
As the above descriptions may make clear, anything can be seen as an environment. For example, people, technological systems, the television, office space, R&D teams, pets, special interest groups, etc.
By viewing everything as an environment, you can choose not tolerate things that don’t sustain you. It forces you to look at things differently and de-personalizes it. You need to begin to recognize things around you as either sustainable environments or not. Looking at each of your life environments brings a heightened clarity and sense of direction. Every game (goal, dream, or life direction) has an environment to support it. If you can’t come up with one, you might want to question the validity of that game. (material on Environmental Design developed by Josh Hornick).
Next I will describe how your enviroment defines you, reflects you, can propel you, or hold you back. In my next post we’ll discover how to perform a clean sweep of your environment and open unseen doors of opportunity, possibility and cash flow!
Opportunity Favors Preparation
January 2, 2008
“What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.” H.P. Liddon
A friend of mine is a pilot. He regularly goes through training on what to do in case of an in-flight emergency. My friend has determined that he must have his subconscious mind take over when his conscious mind might be filled with anxious thoughts of the emergency at hand. For example, if an engine were to fail on his jet he knows exactly what to say to control tower and what switches to flip. He has physically and mentall rehearsed how to save his life in this emergency.
Athletes prepare both mentally and physically for their most formidable competition. That is the point of the hours of practice - building both physical and mental muscle, training actions, reactions and instincts to respons appropriately for a win.
If you’re in sales - it’s the hours of script writing and role playing, discovering all of the potential objections and preformulating responses that draw your clients in to purchase your product or service.
If you’re a doctor, a lawyer or accountant - it’s the hours of school and internship that prepares you for fieldwork.
If you would be truly successful you must begin acting and living successful before the evidence appears in your life. I work with my coaching clients about “stepping into character.”
You must prepare your mind to “be” what your intention is. What does success in your field look like? Opportunity will pass you by if you’re not prepared to “be” a player. And your instincts won’t be prepared to quickly act on opportunity when and if it does present itself to you.
This year - whatever goal you are striving to reach - prepare yourself for the fulfillment of your desire. How would you live, how would you conduct yourself when you succeed? Begin today writing that book if you would be an author, prepare for the presentation if you would be a speaker, role play your sales calls.
Prepare.
Get ready to answer the door when Opportunity knocks.
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