How’s Your ATTITUDE?? Research has shown that our attitude often makes the difference between success and failure.  The Placebo effect is very active in our lives.  If we BELIEVE that something will work the chances of success goes up significantly.  If your brain believes a medication (really a sugar pill) will work it has a...

TOO BUSY and MULTITASKING How can we get more things Done?  We all here about those people that are soo good at Multitasking.  They say they get much more done; BUT do they???  Recent research shows that Multitasking and the necessary fragmentation of your attention actually reduces your efficiency and creativity.  It will also...

DECISION MAKING Our brains are amazing, able to make 100 trillion calculations per second.  Then why do we make such BAD Decisions at times?  It is because our brains are also wired to make decisions based on Feelings and feelings are often programed by our experiences and environment.  If you grew up in a household that...

Memory and Baggage I talked about how Forgiveness can bring health, but let’s look at how those significant  bad memories are formed.  The Brain is an amazing computer recording all of our experiences.  It will give greater weight however, to experiences that are very emotional or that are repeated often.  This is...

Past Isn’t Past The PAST is closer than you think.  Your brain is designed to remember all of your experiences and filter all of your decisions through those experiences.  This is how we learn.  It is good to remember that you will get burned if you touch a hot stove.  It is not so good if you filter all of your current...

Negative Attitude & Stress I got into a great discussion about Attitudes.  First; What are you Telling Yourself???  When you look at  things as negative you will perceive things as more stressful.  For instance if you tell yourself something is ‘difficult’ or ‘unfair’, it becomes more stressful to deal with than if you...

Stress & Fear Did you know that stress is actually a type of Fear?  When we have too much to do and are (Stressed) we are actually afraid that we won’t get everything done.  The Holidays causes a lot of stress because we are afraid we won’t have enough money, or will buy the wrong gift, or we won’t get...

Fearful or Afraid? Fear is designed to help us get to a safe place (quickly) when something like a lion jumps out at you.  Fear  actually short circuits the brain so you can make faster responses.  The problem is that you often will not make good decisions, just fast ones.  If a lion jumped out at me I would probably drop...

Bad Programing? The Brain is still the most amazing computer on earth; roughly 100 trillion calculations per second.  Studies show that our brains record everything that ever happened to us.  I can’t retrieve them all but the brain still accesses those memories to make decisions.  This makes your past, good or bad,...