MOTIVATION FOR STUDENTS

Studying
1.            If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb
2.            Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.
Helen Exley
3.            Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
4.            He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
5.            Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell
6.            Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
William Arthur Ward
7.            Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
8.            Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
9.            It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
10.          I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Carl Sagan
11.          Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
Allan Bloom
12.          No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery – the source of truth.
Barry Long
13.          If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
14.          Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
Success
15.          Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
16.          Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.
Theodore T. Hunger
17.          The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
18.          Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
A. Branson Alcott
19.          The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
Vince Lombardi
20.          Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Jeremy Collier
21.          I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
22.          To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
William Shakespeare
23.          Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
24.          The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business–or almost anywhere else for that matter.
Lee Iacocca
Action
25.          It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
26.          The most important thing is to keep the most important thing the most important thing.
From the book “Foundation design”, by Coduto, Donald P.
27.          Nothing’s ever built to last but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth building
Unknown
28.          Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
29.          We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
30.          You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
31.          Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
32.          Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
Orison Swett Marden
33.          Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
34.          You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.
Henry D. Thoreau
35.          The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
36.          Press on – nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
37.          You will never leave where you are, until you decide where you’d rather be.
Dexter Yager
Destination and Confidence
38.          Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi
39.          Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
40.          If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra
41.          Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.
Polybius
42.          The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.
Richard Monckton Milnes
43.          To reach a port, we must sail—Sail, not tie at anchor—Sail, not drift.
Franklin Roosevelt
44.          Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
45.          Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
46.          Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Lanston Hughes
47.          There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
48.          You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
Dr. James G. Bilkey
49.          You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?”
George Bernard Shaw
50.          Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.
Louis Aragon
51.          Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.
Jonathon Livingston Seagull
Prepare for Future
52.          To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too, can be president of the United States.
George W. Bush
53.          I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
Josef Albers
54.          Be generous with your colleagues and your competitors. When people learn that they do well whenever they work with you, they will be more willing to come to you with opportunities.
Michael Masterson
55.          When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
Deng Xiaoping
56.          The educational resources provided by a child’s fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.
James S. Coleman
57.          The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.
Allen Tate
58.          We need to find; the courage to say ‘NO’ to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
Barbara De Angelis
59.          Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi
60.          My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.
Lukas Foss
Self-Discovery
61.          If You Can’t Find Anything To Live For Then You Better Find Something To Die For.
A Hewitt
62.          People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
St. Augustine
63.          So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains. And we never even know we have the key.
Lyrics from Already Gone, peformed by the Eagles for their 1974 On the Border album
64.          Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao-Tzu
65.          Ninety per cent of the world’s woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves – so how can we know anyone else?
Sidney J. Harris
66.          It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary
67.          We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
68.          The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.
Arnold Palmer
69.          Resolve to be thyself; and know that he, who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
70.          To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution.
Joe Cordare
71.          All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber
72.          After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
73.          What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
74.          He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others, is a slave.
Friedrich G. Klopstock
75.          If you aren’t sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
Robert Brault
76.          Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Erich Fromm
77.          Your vision will come clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside, awakes.
Jung
78.          You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
Alan Alda
79.          The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
80.          Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.
Tom O’Connor
81.          You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
Jerry Gillies
Taking Opportunities
82.          Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
83.          Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
84.          Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, ‘Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.’
Martin Luther King, Jr.
85.          Life’s ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
Marsha Sinetar
86.          The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Anthony Robbins
87.          When written in Chinese, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy
88.          A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry Truman
89.          With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
Wayne Dyer
90.          When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
91.          Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?
Brian Tracy
92.          Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.
Dale Carnegie
93.          If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
Milton Berle
94.          The golden opportunity you are seeking is not in your environment, not in luck or chance, not in the help of others. It is in yourself alone.
Orison Swett Marden
95.          It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
96.          It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.
George M. Adams
Achieving Great Things
97.          Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford
98.          Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Robert H. Schuller
99.          I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
100.        Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
Conrad Hilton
101.        The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Napolean Hill
Plus
1.            All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
James Allen
2.            Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Francis Kennedy
3.            He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would accomplish much must sacrifice much.
James Allen
4.            Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
Nido Qubein
5.            The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
Jim Rohn
6.            Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
7.            Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose; the ability to do; the patience to wait. Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement.
Leo J. Muir
8.            It is hard to fail but is worse to have not tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
Theordore Roosevelt
9.            I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
10.          That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln
11.          Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
12.          To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
13.          You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein
14.          You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar


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It is within your power to gratify your every wish. Success is the result of the way you think. I will show you how to think to be successful.

The power to rule and attract success is within yourself. The barriers that shut these off from you are subject to your control. You have unlimited power to think and this is the link that connects you with your omniscient source.

Success is the result of certain moods of mind or ways of thinking. These moods can be controlled by you and produced at will.

You have been evolved to what you are from a lowly atom because you possessed the power to think. This power will never leave you, but will keep urging you on until you reach perfection. As you evolve, you create new desires and these can be gratified. The power to rule lies within you. The barriers that keep you from ruling are also within you. These are the barriers of ignorance.

Concentrated thought will accomplish seemingly impossible results and make you realize your fondest ambitions. At the same time that you break down barriers of limitation new ambitions will be awakened. You begin to experience conscious thought constructions.

If you will just realize that through deep concentration you become linked with thoughts of omnipotence, you will kill out entirely your belief in your limitations and at the same time will drive away all fear and other negative and destructive thought forces which constantly work against you. In the place of these you will build up a strong assurance that your every venture will be successful. When you learn thus how to concentrate and reinforce your thought, you control your mental creations; they in turn help to mould your physical environment, and you become the master of circumstances and the ruler of your kingdom.

It is just as easy to surround your life with what you want as it is with what you don't want. It is a question to be decided by your will. There are no walls to prevent you from getting what you want, providing you want what is right. If you choose something that is not right, you are in opposition to the omnipotent plans of the universe and deserve to fail. But, if you will base your desires on justice and good will, you avail yourself of the helpful powers of universal currents, and instead of having a handicap to work against, can depend upon ultimate success, though the outward appearances may not at first be bright.

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Never stop to think of temporary appearances, but maintain an unfaltering belief in your ultimate success. Make your plans carefully, and see that they are not contrary to the tides of universal justice. The main thing for you to remember is to keep at bay the destructive and opposing forces of fear and anger and their satellites.

There is no power so great as the belief which comes from the knowledge that your thought is in harmony with the divine laws of thought and the sincere conviction that your cause is right. You may be able seemingly to accomplish results for a time even if your cause is unjust, but the results will be temporary, and, in time, you will have to tear down your thought edifice and build on the true foundation of Right.

Plans that are not built on truth produce discordant vibrations and are therefore self-destructive. Never try to build until you can build right. It is a waste of time to do anything else. You may temporarily put aside your desire to do right, but its true vibrations will interfere with your unjust plans until you are forced back into righteous paths of power.

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All just causes succeed in time, though temporarily they may fail. So if you should face the time when everything seems against you, quiet your fears, drive away all destructive thoughts and uphold the dignity of your moral and spiritual life.

"Where There Is A Will There Is A Way." The reason this is so is that the Will can make a way if given the chance to secure the assistance of aiding forces. The more it is developed the higher the way to which it will lead.

When everything looks gloomy and discouraging, then is the time to show what you are made of by rejoicing that you can control your moods by making them as calm, serene and bright as if prosperity were yours.

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"Be faithful in sowing the thought seeds of success, in perfect trust that the sun will not cease to shine and bring a generous harvest in one season."

It is not always necessary to think of the success of a venture when you are actually engaged in it. For when the body is inactive the mind is most free to catch new ideas that will further the opportunity you are seeking. When you are actually engaged in doing something, you are thinking in the channels you have previously constructed and the work does not have to be done over again.

When you are in a negative mood the intuitions are more active, for you are not then controlling your thoughts by the will. Everything we do. should have the approval of the intuition.

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When you are in a negative mood you attract thoughts of similar nature through the law of affinity. That is why it is so important to form thoughts of a success nature to attract similar ones. If you have never made a study of this subject, you may think this is all foolishness, but it is a fact that there are thought currents that unerringly bring thoughts of a similar nature. Many persons who think of failure actually attract failure by their worries, their anxieties, their overactivity. These thoughts are bound to bring failure. When you once learn the laws of thought and think of nothing but Good, Truth, Success, you will make more progress with less effort than you ever made before.

There are forces that can aid the mind that are hardly dreamed of by the average person. When you learn to believe more in the value of thought and its laws you will be led aright and your business gains will multiply.

The following method may assist you in gaining better thought control. If you are unable to control your fears, just say to your faulty determination, "Do not falter or be afraid, for I am not really alone. I am surrounded by invisible forces that will assist me to remove the unfavorable appearances." Soon you will have more courage. The only difference between the fearless man and the fearful one is in his will, his hope. So if you lack success, believe in it, hope for it, claim it. You can use the same method to brace up your thoughts of desire, aspiration, imagination, expectation, ambition, understanding, trust and assurance.

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If you get anxious, angry, discouraged, undecided or worried, it is because you are not receiving the co-operation of the higher powers of your mind. By your Will you can so organize the powers of the mind that your moods change only as you want them to instead of as circumstances affect you.

I was recently asked if I advised concentrating on what you eat, or what you see while walking. My reply was that no matter what you may be doing, when in practice think of nothing else but that act at the time. The idea is to be able to control your unimportant acts, otherwise you set up a habit that it will be hard to overcome, because your faculties have not been in the habit of concentrating. Your faculties cannot be disorganized one minute and organized the next. If you allow the mind to wander while you are doing small things, it will be likely to get into mischief and make it hard to concentrate on the important act when it comes.

The man that is able to concentrate is the happy, busy man. Time does not drag with him. He always has plenty to do. He does not have time to think over past mistakes, which would make him unhappy.

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If despite our discouragement and failures, we claim our great heritage, "life and truth and force, like an electric current," will permeate our lives until we enter into our "birthright in eternity."

The will does not act with clearness, decision and promptness unless it is trained to do so. There are comparatively few that really know what they are doing every minute of the day. This is because they do not observe with sufficient orderliness and accuracy to know what they are doing. It is not difficult to know what you us doing all the time, if you will just practice concentration and with a reposeful deliberation, and train yourself to think clearly, promptly, and decisive. If you allow yourself to woMeditation is a state of concentrated attention on a thought, idea, quote, an object, or on nothing at all. It is a mental/spiritual technique for relaxing the restlessness of the mind and freeing it from anxiety and stress. In its higher forms, it aims for the attaining of peace of mind, inner silence and spiritual awakening.

Here are a few paragraphs from the article “Meditation Advice, Guidance and Tips – Information and Instructions”:
Meditation is more than a method for relaxing the body, as some people think. It is a way for gaining freedom from incessant, nagging thoughts and worries, quieting the chatter of the mind, and attaining inner peace and happiness. In its higher levels it leads to spiritual awakening, enlightenment, and to realizing who and what you are.

Though it plays an important role in various religions and spiritual practices, it is actually a practice that is free from all religious connotations, and has always been practiced everywhere, from ancient times until the present day. There has always been the desire to go within, to find what is beyond the physical form, and to find the real spirit and the relation between mankind, the world and the creator.
There are many forms, techniques and traditions of meditation, which are practiced and followed for various reasons and aims, for relaxation and health, for mental mastery and inner peace, and of course for attaining spiritual awakening – enlightenment, and for discovering who you really are.
Meditation calms down the body and the mind, reduces stress and anxiety, normalizes the blood pressure and has a healing effect on the body. It improves the power of concentration, sharpens the mind and strengthens the intuition. Its constant practice reduces the number of restless thoughts in the mind and brings inner peace, happiness and bliss.rry or hurry in what you are doing, this will not be clearly photographed upon the sensitized plate of the subjective mind, and you therefore will not be really conscious of your actions. So practice accuracy and concentration of thought, and also absolute truthfulness and you will soon be able to concentrate.

How to Improve Concentration and Focus: 7 Tips

I’ve written about a range of habits related to learning, but one I have not yet covered is concentration – perhaps because I find it among the hardest of habits to truly master.
I’m as apt as anybody to have my working memory hijacked by the temptations of multi-tasking,
….or simply to become distracted by the shiny new learning objects that I encounter on a daily basis,
…or to start writing about one thing and find myself wandering to other topics as new thoughts occur to me,
…or….uh, right – concentration. Here are some of the approaches to it that I find helpful:

1. Be conscious and intentional

I keep coming back to “consciousness” as the cornerstone of most effective learning habits. Before you are likely to be successful at concentrating you have to make a clear, conscious decision to focus your attention. Sounds simple enough, but more often than not we move from one experience to the next without any real consciousness, and certainly without a decision to concentrate.

2. Set clear goals – and victories

I’ve lamented my own lack of goal setting before. To concentrate effectively, it really helps to have specific outcomes in mind.  Break down longer term goals – like mastering a new language – into smaller chunks that are achievable in short bursts of concentration – like memorizing how an irregular verb is conjugated.

3. Be consistent

A foolish consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but a wise consistency is often essential to enlarging the mind. Great athletes, musicians, writers, and others who excel in their chosen field nearly always have set times and places for concentrated thinking and practice. Consistency of environment helps to normalize distractions and consistency of time helps establish a pattern and rhythm to support concentration. Pick a limited range of places where and times when you do your most focused learning. You can and should vary these over time to avoid falling into rote learning habits, but don’t be too fast or erratic in making changes.

4. Avoid or remove distractions

Part of what sparked me to write about concentration this week is the ongoing debate about the impact of the Internet on our brains. (See, for example, Pinker and Carr on this.)  I’m still undecided about the deeper, longer term impact, but I don’t have much doubt about the ability of the Internet – and countless other modern wonders – to distract us on a minute-to-minute basis and interfere with concentration. You may be able to train your mind to block out such distractions, but for me, the easiest path has always been simply to avoid cognitive overload by turning off the e-mail, the browser, the phone, the iPod, the [add your own distraction here], etc..

5. Set time limits and allow for breaks

Similar to how the body has limits for focused physical activity and needs recovery time from exercise, the mind benefits from periodic short breaks during periods of concentration as well as longer breaks between periods of concentration to help consolidate learning. During shorter breaks, it is better not to turn to other tasks, but to truly take a break and let the mind rest. (For a scientific perspective on this – including a helpful video abstract – see a recent article on “awake rest” in Neuron.). Longer breaks should include essential activities like getting sufficient sleep at night.

6. Take care of mind and body

Speaking of sleep – I’ve written before about the important role it plays in memory. And having sufficient sleep is also likely to positively impact your attitude towards concentrating and ability to concentrate in the first place. Likewise, a balanced diet and plenty of aerobic exercise are very important factors in promoting healthy brain activity and memory. Really, being well rested, well fed, and in good physical shape is the foundation for being able to concentrate well.

7. Practice

Finally, few of us are able to will ourselves to concentrate and become effective at it over night. I wrote recently about the keys to deliberate practice and those keys apply here as much as they do anywhere else. Yes, that’s right – you have to focus and concentrate in order to learn to focus and concentrate. Here are a few simple techniques for improving concentration that might help you in your practice. I’m also a fan of breathing exercises as a way to help clear the mind and focus attention.
So, those are my tips. Got any you think should be added to the list?

PERSONAL INTUITION

 observe facts and realities or pay attention to ideas and possibilities? Identifying your personality preference for sensing or intuition helps in understanding how you choose to focus your attention.

One is not better than the other and, at times, everyone uses sensing and intuition to become aware of realities and ideas. However, one of these describes your preferred approach to the world. Highlight your personal brand by letting people know who you are and how you like to function in the world of work.

Using your personality

Personality type theory tells us there are two qualitatively different ways in which people take in information and become aware. People who prefer Sensing focus first on realities and data gained directly through using the senses of seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, and smelling. People who prefer Intuition focus first on links between facts to generate new ideas.

For example, if you ask a sensor what time it is, they may say “2:13 PM”. Ask an intuitive what time it is an they may say, “It’s still early.” Or “We have lots of time.” The sensor is sharing the facts, as they exist, while the intuitive is immediately focusing on what the facts might mean.

Of course, all work requires you to use sensing and intuition. Everyone needs to pay attention to facts and possibilities. If you have a preference for sensing you will learn to use intuition to conceptually organize what you know. If you don’t anticipate the future, you may find yourself heading down the wrong path.

If you have a preference for intuition you will learn to use sensing to attend to the important realities and facts, otherwise you might set unrealistic goals.

Both sensing and intuition are equally valuable and necessary ways of paying attention to data and ideas.

To promote your personal brand, you will need to understand, relate to, and convince people who have either sensing or intuitive preferences.

Here is a description of the two preferences as well as tips for how to effectively communicate with people who have each preference.

The sensing approach

People who prefer sensing are most comfortable and at their best when they can draw on experience to deal with current situations. They observe the world, as it is, through their senses.

Words to describe people who prefer sensing include: observant, practical, realistic, experiential, and factual.

If you want to convince someone who prefers sensing:

• Address immediate problems or opportunities
• Draw on experience as a guide for next steps
• Focus on realities, facts, and relevant details
• Share information in a step-by-step manner
• Find practical applications

The intuitive approach

People who prefer intuition are most comfortable and at their best when paying attention to abstract patterns and possibilities. They prefer to see the world as it could be, rather than as it is.

Words to describe people who prefer intuition include conceptual, imaginative, insightful, original, and inspirational.

If you want to convince someone who prefers intuition:

• Address long-term problems or opportunities
• Draw on ideas and possibilities as a guide for change
• Focus on connections between and meanings of data
• Show them a “big picture” overview
• See future applications and implications

Understanding your preference for sensing or intuition helps you figure out your work style and create a brand that highlights who you are. Communicate your brand using language that appeals to and convinces both sensing and intuitive types.

Author:

Donna Dunning, PhD, is a psychologist, certified teacher, member of the MBTI ® International Training Faculty, and director of Dunning Consulting Inc. She is the author of more than a dozen publications, including her two newest books, 10 Career Essentials and What’s Your Type of Career? 2nd edition. Donna’s guiding principle is: Know yourself, respect differences, learn and grow. Follow Donna on Twitter and Facebook and visit her website.

Solution for Developing Your Intuition

Developing Your Intuition Intuition is the process of perceiving or knowing things to a high degree of certainty without conscious reasoning. Researchers with the Institute of HeartMath and many others who have conducted numerous controlled and scientifically validated studies over more than half a century have expanded the definition of intuition to include not only conscious perception by the mind alone, but also by the body's entire psychophysiological system. This perception often is evidenced by a range of emotions and measurable physiological changes exhibited or detected throughout the body, according to the study Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: McCraty, Atkinson and Bradley, 2004.

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

—Albert Einstein, 1879-1955.

Taking into account the array of intuition research, along with findings from years of experimentation at its research facilities in Boulder Creek, Calif., and elsewhere in the U.S. and abroad, HeartMath theorizes that intuitive abilities we're unable to attribute to subconsciously stored memories and experiences or to the conscious brain's analytic processes, make sense in another context: The body is connected by sensory perception to a field of energy that enfolds the information we attribute to intuition.

What the Heart Knows

What we know today about what the heart knows is truly exciting and the implications are great. Relying on a variety of data from numerous studies and experiments, particularly heart-rhythm-pattern measurements, IHM's findings point to the human heart as playing a key role in the intuitive process, and a recent study concludes the heart actually receives intuitive information faster than the brain – by a second or slightly more. This would seem to attribute some independent intelligence to the heart: In fact, the concept of a "heart brain" is widely accepted today.

It has been established that the heart has a powerful electromagnetic field and its own complex nervous system and circuitry that generates up to an estimated 60 times the electrical amplitude of the brain. The electromagnetic signal our heart rhythms produce actually can be measured in the brain waves of people around us. It is no wonder that the findings by researchers at HeartMath and elsewhere conclude the heart has its own organized intelligence network enabling it to act independently, learn, remember and produce feelings – all attributes which, until recently, were nearly universally held to be solely in the brain's dominion.

"… but it is wisdom to believe the heart."

—From a poem by George Santayana, 1863-1952.

You and Your Intuition

Perhaps the knowledge that the heart possesses this intuitive intelligence doesn't mean much for you because your experience has been that although some people seem capable of tapping into their intuition, you haven't been able to do it. As far as you know, you've never experienced intuition, or it is such a rarity that you readily dismiss all such instances as mere coincidence or sheer luck. What would it mean if you could fine-tune this intuitive ability? Is it even possible? The Institute of HeartMath's extensive scientific studies indicate you can develop and enhance your intuition. In tandem with its years of research, HeartMath also has engaged in comprehensive development and testing of tools and programs to help you develop your heart's intuitive intelligence and use it advantageously.

"Heart intuition or intelligence brings the freedom and power to accomplish what the mind, even with all the disciplines or affirmations in the world, cannot do if it's out of sync with the heart."

—The HeartMath Solution, 1999, Childre and Martin

The Rhythm of the Heart

After years of research, the very core of HeartMath's findings regarding the ability of human beings to improve their lives emotionally, physically and mentally is the revelation of what is known as "heart-rhythm coherence." In simple terms, here is what heart-rhythm coherence and incoherence mean, followed by a description of what happens when the heart is in or out of coherence:
A coherent heart is one that has smooth, ordered heart-rhythm patterns such as might be seen in an electrocardiogram.
An incherent heart is marked by jagged, disordered or irregular heart-rhythm patterns.
As testing has shown, events, sights, sounds and other stimuli in the environment around you contribute to your heart-rhythm patterns, and regardless of the favorability or unfavorability of these patterns, the heart transmits them to the brain for processing. This process includes storing and remembering these patterns for future use. When heart-rhythm patterns are coherent, the heart's ability to perceive intuitive information is heightened. Stress chemical pathways reverse, paving the way for increased synchronization between the heart and brain. It is in this synchronized state, which athletes call being "in the zone," that you can achieve optimal mental clarity, cognitive performance and perception of intuitive information.
When you have a coherent heart, you are at your best. If you are accustomed to being appreciative, caring, compassionate, all of which lead to a coherent heart.
Your heart processes your caring attitude and responses into coherent rhythm patterns and these are sent to the brain, which in turn triggers remembered responses appropriate to or learned from previous similar situations.
When heart-rhythm patterns are incoherent – disordered and irregular – your heart sends these unfavorable patterns to the brain, which then searches its stored heart-rhythm patterns in search of a match and simply triggers a remembered emotional response – what you might call learned behavior. When things irritate or anger you and more often than not you respond by shouting or slamming a door the brain is likely to recommend the same emotional response the very next time something angers you. Anger leads to incoherence, which leads to a negative response, which leads to continued incoherence.
The Coherent Heart (Heart-Brain Interactions, Psychophysiological Coherence, and the Emergence of System-Wide Order). McCraty, Atkinson, Tomasino, and Bradley

Your Subconscious: A Reservoir of Intuitive Wisdom

We all have access to a giant data bank containing all the information we could possibly need. This vast reservoir known as the subconscious contains stored memories, creativity, and wisdom. Wisdom in the form of an intuitive flash or insight comes from the subconscious. Your intuition operates to uncover the truth and wisdom within you. There are times when most people allow themselves to be spontaneous and allow pearls of wisdom to roll out.
The logical mind, or thinker, would have a difficult time telling you exactly where the subconscious resides and the intuitive mind graphically show how the subconscious works.
Somehow the straight facts, and that the logical uses becomes “MORE”.

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• Benefits of Forgiving
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• Being in the Zone, Now
• An Attitude for Financial Security
• Unconscious About Wealth
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  Inspired Intuition Quotes

  Intuition is a wonderfully personal and unique experience. These intuition quotes reflect this wonderful diversity and describe this experience we all share. (For more information about intuition, see the other pages on this website!)
  I hope these intuition quotes inspire you to listen to your "voice within" even more! Enjoy!
  
  
  
  ”Trusting you intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you where you want to go and bring you everything you desire.”
  Shakti Gawain
  ”Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.”
  Mother Teresa
  ”There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action…Keep the channel open.”
  Martha Graham
  ”All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of ‘deep intuition’.”
  Willis Harman
  ”A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.”
  G.K. Chesterton
  "Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophesy nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships. It is actually the ability to use energy data to make decisions in the immediate moment.”
  Carolyn Myss
  
                     Intuition - Clear Reflection
  
  ”The goal for greater wisdom isn't to learn to use larger portions of your brain. It's about developing your intuition, your relationship with your Spirit part of you. As you become a better channel for your Spirit's communication with you, and you follow your Spirit's clear guidance, you access greater wisdom in your life. Using your intuition more is what activates greater portions of your brain and more of your wisdom.”
  Karen Whitaker
  ”Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.”
  Albert Einstein
  ”You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.”
  Alan Alda
  ”It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It’s my partner.”
  Jonas Salk
  ”The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.”
  Baruch Spinoza
  ”When we mistrust (intuition) or let it atrophy by persisting with exclusively rational-empirical thought patterns we end up tuning in with mono to a stereo world.”
  Phillip Goldberg
  ”Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.”
  Felix Klein
  ”We think what is at the heart of your dilemma is something that is at the heart of almost all dilemmas, and that is finding our own guidance and feeling confident in finding it. It’s alright for you to choose things that are different from what others are choosing. But you have to decide that it is alright. And you have to develop your own relationship with your own guidance, otherwise you’re upside down and all around, you’re sort of lost in the confusion of all of it.”
  Abraham/Esther Hicks
  ”Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.”
  Eileen Caddy
  "SETH said: Logic deals with exterior conditions, with cause and effect relationships. Intuitions deal with immediate experience of the most intimate nature, with subjective motions and activities that in your terms move far quicker than the speed of light, and with simultaneous events that your cause and effect level is far too slow to perceive.”
  Jane Roberts
  More Intuition Quotes...
  ”The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
  Albert Einstein
  ”There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.”
  John Astin
  ”Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn’t good for you (and conversely, when what you’re doing is just right).”
  Oprah Winfrey
  ”Don’t be trapped by dogma-which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
  Steve Jobs
  ”If you were utterly following your inner guidance, you would always be reaching for the best memory or the best possible scenario. Following your bliss is following your inner guidance."
  Abraham/Esther Hicks
  
  
  I hope you liked these intuition quotes! Do you have any other favorite intuition quotes you would like to suggest for this site? Please send them to me !ndsome

ALL ABOUT YOUR INTUITION...AND HOW TO IMPROVE IT
From an interview with Thomas Condon
Intuition is a lot like dreaming. We don't know how we do it, but we do it. Intuition is knowing something - but not knowing how you know it.
Intuitive knowledge comes to us spontaneously and directly, without the use of reason or logical thought.
Some people trust their intuition - they "believe" in it, and act on it. Example : you bypass a parking space because you "know" there will be a space closer to where you're going.

Others deny intuitive information, or distrust it as "irrational." But most of us can recall an instance when we ignored a "feeling" or "hunch" about someone or something - and later regretted it.

Knowing how to cultivate your intuition can help in every aspect of our lives. So, to help our readers get ahead, we spoke to the expert in this area, Thomas Condon. His insights:
Intuition can be loosely defined as the ability to synthesize and make deductions from all of our accumulated unconscious experience.
Most of the information we use in our daily lives is unconscious. We "know" much more than we realize.
Example: Which way doors open - in or out. Our senses provide us with ongoing information that never reaches our conscious awareness, unless we turn our attention to it.

Similarly, intuitive information comes to us through our senses.
Examples : Some people get a "gut feeling" about things.Others hear "a little voice," "see the light" or see "a fleeting image." Still others sense good or bad "vibrations."
Those who learn to "tune in" to their intuition find it a useful tool in their personal and professional lives.
Increasing Intuition
We can expand our intuitive capacities, like any other of our physical or mental capabilities, with training and exercise. The process :
1. Evoke, or awaken, our intuitive capacity, by identifying our personal intuitive messages.
2. Focus our intuition on practical outcomes ... improved relationships, confident decision-making, clear goal-setting, increased creativity and productivity, correct judging and forecasting.
Your Personal Intuitive Style
In my research and workshops, I have learned that each person experiences intuition in a different, highly individual way.
* Identify your intuitive style by remembering times you just "knew" something. Try to relive the experience. How does such information come to you? Do you see, hear or feel it? Is it loud and clear? Niggling and vague? Intuitive images, voices or feelings tend to have a consistent source. Examples:
"Suddenly the big picture flashes before my eyes".
"I feel a sense of sureness in my stomach - a 'grounded' feeling."
"I hear my own voice inside my head."
"I literally feel pulled in one direction."
"I get a feeling in my chest that something 'wants out'."

Object: Learn where to look, listen, or turn your attention when you want intuitive information.
Exercise: Hone in on the part of yourself that transmits intuitive information - the voice in your ear, the screen in your mind, the feeling in your chest and belly. Pose clear "Yes or no" questions and be receptive to the responses you get.
Result: The bridge between your conscious, active awareness and your unconscious is strengthened.
You will find that intuitive information is readily available - even if you are highly skeptical at first. Your "inner translator" will become more clear and accessible with more practice.

Skeptics seem to respond especially well to intuition exercises.
Reasons: Underutilized intuition often seems to blossom when it is cultivated. Skeptics don't "believe" in intuition, so they can play with the exercises free of any expectations, judgments or defenses. They react with surprise and delight when it works.
To Improve Your Intuition
* Notice when you are being intuitive, and squeeze one hand with the other. Purpose: To create an association response so you can learn to access your intuition by squeezing your hand.
* Learn your physical intuitive habits. Do your eyes move in a particular way ? Do you have a characteristic posture or facial expression ? Gestures or actions ? Assume these motions to access intuitive information.
* Practise maintaining an open-minded, playful, experimental, non-judgmental attitude.
* Daydream, doodle, brainstorm, and write down words or phrases that come to you when problem-solving.
* Practice making wild guesses. Examples : What a salespersons's name is, what a new person or place will look like, who is calling on the phone. Imagine laughing when you are wrong about insignificant facts. Purpose : To free you to make wild guesses
* Listen to your "inner dialogue."
* Make positive suggestions to yourself ... pose positive, specific questions to your intuition.
* Take up rhythmic exercise such as swimming, yoga or t'ai chi. Also helpful : self hypnosis, meditation.

When seeking intuitive information about yourself or others ... relax and get comfortable. Quiet your inner dialogue and look past the inner images that run through your mind. Focus your attention on the "blank screen" behind them. Immerse yourself in the activity of receiving the information that comes.

Observation exercises : In restaurants, on trains, shopping, etc., practise noticing non-verbal behavior in others ... posture shifts, hand motions, vocal tone or tempo. Guess how your subjects are feeling or what they are talking about.

And have fun ! Some people may believe that their intuition only works in tragic or exceptional circumstances. But that is like saying we only use our common sense in emergencies. Intuition, like common sense, is with us all of the time - if we are willing to use it.
From: Privileged Information - the Newsletter of Innovation
Thomas Condon gives workshops and in-house consultations at various locations around the country. If you are interested in sponsoring an event in your area, please call or write The Changeworks for details.

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What Is Intuition?

A human being's ability to think beyond the five senses is something that has always fascinated me. Have you had feelings of having a certain power to foretell things before it happened or had this gut feeling that what you're doing is not right?
I ‘know' because I've gone through it. Sure there have been many instances where I have ignored such feelings and ended up in trouble. They say "hindsight is 20/20 vision," and know I know that it was because I had no real knowledge about intuition; I had no way to accurately understand and interpret the signals that my intuition was sending to me.

As I've developed my intuition further, I've started to consider the possibility that we all born with intuition. The only thing that varies is our natural alignment and awareness of our intuition.
On this hub, we'll explore some of the ways you can develop your intuition more effectively.

Unlock Your Intuition

Awakening Intuition Through Left / Right Brain Integration

Here's one simple (yet surprisingly challenging) brain exercise that you probably haven't heard of nor tried before.

As you know we have two parts to our brain, the left side and the right. The left part of our brain usually does the verbal, analytical, rational and all the logical tasks. When it comes to planning, doing systematic work, and all sorts of serious work, it is our left-brain that plays the dominant role. The right-brain on the other hand is good at identifying nonverbal cues, etc. It is the right-brain that is more creative and intuitive.

So if you want to encourage your right-brain to work more than the left, then you must intentionally find ways for the two halves to connect. One such way is to draw. Yes... drawing, but not in a way that you're typically accustomed to. Instead, you must draw with your non-dominant hand while looking at pictures that are upside down.

I know this sounds a bit crazy, but bear with me...

The rationality of this is that you put the left-brain into a confused state, leaving space for the right-brain to get more active and play the dominant role.   Have you ever heard somebody say that the best way to solve a problem is just to sleep on it?  Well, when your left-brain gets too tired of this whole confusing upside-down thing, it will give up on the task and let the right brain get involved.
   
As you continue with this exercise (frustrating as it may be), eventually solutions will seem to appear out of "thin air."  These solutions are coming from your intuition - from a place where wisdom, knowledge, ideas, and creation all merge together. For many people, this is a place that many of us never even knew existed.

To help with this exercise, I've placed an upside-down image below that you can try drawing. :)

Awakening Intuition Through Left / Right Brain Integration

Here's one simple (yet surprisingly challenging) brain exercise that you probably haven't heard of nor tried before.

As you know we have two parts to our brain, the left side and the right. The left part of our brain usually does the verbal, analytical, rational and all the logical tasks. When it comes to planning, doing systematic work, and all sorts of serious work, it is our left-brain that plays the dominant role. The right-brain on the other hand is good at identifying nonverbal cues, etc. It is the right-brain that is more creative and intuitive.

So if you want to encourage your right-brain to work more than the left, then you must intentionally find ways for the two halves to connect. One such way is to draw. Yes... drawing, but not in a way that you're typically accustomed to. Instead, you must draw with your non-dominant hand while looking at pictures that are upside down.

I know this sounds a bit crazy, but bear with me...

The rationality of this is that you put the left-brain into a confused state, leaving space for the right-brain to get more active and play the dominant role.   Have you ever heard somebody say that the best way to solve a problem is just to sleep on it?  Well, when your left-brain gets too tired of this whole confusing upside-down thing, it will give up on the task and let the right brain get involved.
   
As you continue with this exercise (frustrating as it may be), eventually solutions will seem to appear out of "thin air."  These solutions are coming from your intuition - from a place where wisdom, knowledge, ideas, and creation all merge together. For many people, this is a place that many of us never even knew existed.

To help with this exercise, I've placed an upside-down image below that you can try drawing. :)

More Resources for Developing Your Intuition

There's actually a lot of resources to help develop your intuition. One of my challenges is that discovering intuition has been primarily about trial and error. Like I mentioned before, it's taken me almost a decade just to start taking my intuition seriously, but one thing that has helped me is just going with the flow, and you can read more about that here:
Developing Intuition By Going With the Flow
Fortunately, intuition is finding more and more applications in our lives, and people are taking it more seriously. There's entire programs devoted just to using intuition in business. The real challenge is finding out which intuition development programs are the most effective, and also which ones are realistic, practical, and aligned for where we are uniquely at in our journeys.
For example, if you want to explore more left / right brain integration, then be sure to check out The Monroe Institute or Holosync. Both of these programs use audio technologies to easily connect the left and right brains.
Another program that I am currently exploring is called Intuition Zone. I'm only part-way through the program, but so far it has been really helpful for me and I'm looking forward to exploring it further.

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