Nicos Paschali, International Author, Designer & Facilitator of Learning Workshops. Mental Discipline Coach.

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  Nicos Paschali 1:59 pm on November 8, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Stimulate more of the senses at the same time. 

   

  We absorb information about an event through our senses, translate it into electrical signals (some for sight, others from sound, etc.), disperse those signals to separate parts of the brain, then reconstruct what happened, eventually perceiving the event as a whole.

  The brain seems to rely partly on past experience in deciding how to combine these signals, so two people can perceive the same event very differently.

  Our senses evolved to work together—vision influencing hearing, for example—which means that we learn best if we stimulate several senses at once.

  Smells have an unusual power to bring back memories, maybe because smell signals bypass the thalamus and head straight to their destinations, which include that supervisor of emotions known as the amygdala.

   

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  Nicos Paschali 1:57 pm on November 8, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Stressed brains do not learn the same way as non-stressed brains. 

   

  Your body’s defense system—the release of adrenaline and cortisol—is built for an immediate response to a serious but passing danger, such as a saber-toothed tiger. Chronic stress, such as hostility at home, dangerously deregulates a system built only to deal with short-term responses.

  Under chronic stress, adrenaline creates scars in your blood vessels that can cause a heart attack or stroke, and cortisol damages the cells of the hippocampus, crippling your ability to learn and remember.

  Individually, the worst kind of stress is the feeling that you have no control over the problem—you are helpless.

  Emotional stress has huge impacts across society, on children’s ability to learn in school and on employees’ productivity at work.

   
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  Nicos Paschali 1:55 pm on November 8, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Sleep well, think well. 

  The brain is in a constant state of tension between cells and chemicals that try to put you to sleep and cells and chemicals that try to keep you awake.

  The neurons of your brain show vigorous rhythmical activity when you’re asleep—perhaps replaying what you learned that day.

  People vary in how much sleep they need and when they prefer to get it, but the biological drive for an afternoon nap is universal.

  Loss of sleep hurts attention, executive function, working memory, mood, quantitative skills, logical reasoning, and even motor dexterity.

   
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  Nicos Paschali 1:53 pm on November 8, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Every brain is wired differently. 

  What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.The various regions of the brain develop at different rates in different people.

  No two people’s brains store the same information in the same way in the same place.

  We have a great number of ways of being intelligent, many of which don’t show up on IQ tests.

   
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  Nicos Paschali 1:51 pm on November 8, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Exercise boosts brain power. 

  Our brains were made for walking—12 miles a day!

  To improve your thinking skills, move. Exercise gets blood to your brain, bringing it glucose for energy and oxygen to soak up the toxic electrons that are left over. It also stimulates the protein that keeps neurons connecting.

  They say aerobic exercise just twice a week halves your risk of dementia!

   
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  Nicos Paschali 5:53 am on November 7, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Respect people at the bottom. 

  Remind yourself to remember that the people at the bottom are the ones who get us to the top. Treat them with respect! Be a real leader.

   
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  Nicos Paschali 5:03 am on November 7, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Define success? 

  How is success defined in your mind? Achieving and exceeding financial milestones or achieving great satisfaction through one’s work?

   
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  Nicos Paschali 5:11 am on November 6, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Positive Leadership! 

  Learn to focus on positive relationships, personal strengths, and positive attitudes. For example, many of us get caught up in trying to improve our weaknesses, when it is our strengths we should focus on. We do need to find ways to negate or delegate our weaknesses, but would you rather focus your time and efforts on becoming mediocre at something you are bad at, or would you rather focus on becoming the best at what you are good at?

  To be a positive leader is a choice and one that will impart the most sustainable influence.

  Time to inspire yourself with positive leadership and if you’re ready to change the game at work, look within.

  Put your emotional intelligence, behaviours, attitudes on the line, and challenge you, to know yourself and correct yourself no matter what cards you have been dealt or what circumstances you face.  If you want to be a leader and have the responsibility to lead others and have authority over others, you have the choice and ability to create a positive culture and experience, or a destructive, demoralising culture and experience.

  Go out today and uplift yourself and your workplace! #NPx.
   
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  Nicos Paschali 2:48 pm on November 5, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Balancing creativeness & innovation. 

  1. Reconnect to real needs.
  2. Imagine a better solution.
  3. Execute with excellence.

  Good businesses start by solving real problems. But somewhere along the road of growth, other priorities take over and crowd out the innovations that really make people’s lives better. You can see this play out in major companies like IBM, Xerox, Microsoft — and now Apple.

   
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  Nicos Paschali 11:48 am on November 4, 2016 Permalink | Reply  

  Is imagination more important than intelligence? 

  Desire is only a thought, an impulse. It is abstract, and of no value,  until it has been transformed into its physical counterpart. Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. Ideas are products of the imagination. 

  We are not achieving what we  want we have “poverty of imagination”and “weakness of attention”.

  In order to change our results we have to change our self image, shifting our consciousness and change. Our old self image is controlling all our results. If we look at where we are we will  see the outer expression of our inner image. We usually think other people are smarter then we are and we  think they can do whatever they want. But the reality, we are all the same. Their self image also needs work. We all have to change our “inner image” to attain the success we seek.

  All starts with imagination. We have to imagine what we want to  become and be, and begin to change our behaviour to reflect our new selves. Einstein said it. Imagination is more important than intelligence!

  As Hill wrote, “Desire is only a thought, an impulse. It is abstract, and of no value, UNTIL it has been transformed into its physical counterpart.” And as Bob Proctor said “it all starts with imagination”.

  And as I say, watch your thoughts, listen to your calling, be well and great! #NPx.:)