Life Improvement Meetup Event Self Improvement Concepts – Life Strategy Personal Revolutions ™ November 12, 2011 © 2011 Paul Worsham

Slides & discussion & breaks

Wrap-up and after-discussion

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Housekeeping notes: If you need to feed a meter, we can help remind you.

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Improve yourself

Enjoy your life

Your capabilities

Happiness – recognize, allow, expand it

Identifying your own challenges gets you past denial and blockage.

Sometimes you need to act without believing.

Our brain filters, for patterns such as “horizontal motion”. We can even dictate these filters.

Our mind gets this input, and applies “meaning” to these pixels and patterns

We “see” our world

Blood flow is increased

Better mood, skin, muscle tone, energy

Who you are = in your head (brain/mind)

What you eat = who you are able to be (brain performance)

Tasks – completing actions, thoughts

The most important decsions are “near to us”

The better “working memory”, the smarter?

Prioritization

(ingredient 1) + (ingredient 2) = Happiness

We are born with more connections than we need, and lose them as part of becoming who we are

Belief factor – fiction more powerful than fact?

Multi-tasking – fact or fiction?

Refers to “the ability of the brain and nervous system in all species to change structurally and functionally as a result of input from the environment.” (Wikipedia)

“Plasticity occurs on a variety of levels, ranging from cellular changes involved in learning, to large-scale changes involved in cortical remapping in response to injury.”

* logical - laws, society

* emotional - confidence, social pressure - our interpretations

A plan is how builders take the blueprint, and over time make it a reality.

long-term vision – create one, or use "default".

default = dependent on external influences, training, expectations

a goal must have a deadline, or else it is a dream?

Really? Must be someone who likes deadlines.

A goal must have a feeling associated with it, which is perhaps the real goal.

Do you want marriage, or the feelings that it will bring?

the real goal may be happiness - pleasure.

Marketers continue to study this area. Why? Because if they know us, it will help them.

Become comfortable with what fits in with your personal sense of destiny & purpose

What will you remember tomorrow?

What other topics are you interested in covering?

Social time is beneficial to our minds & brains...

(continue sharing with each other)