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I’m always going on about FUN. Have you noticed? It’s not that everything is ‘fun’, it’s not. There’s plenty of misery, pain, hopelessness and sadness out there. I see it every day. But there’s a lot of fun to be had too … if you look. Fun is good for you. Proven fact: Fun is a top to bottom body-brain brightener. My old Yoga teacher used to say: “You don’t catch butterflies with a fishing rod”. What he meant was you need to get the right tool for the job. So …… How do we ´catch´more fun? Good question! I ...
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Today I’m going to show you the difference between Neurology and Psychology. If you are not among the venerable brain scientists who read these articles, I will bet no one has ever come up to you and said: “Do you know the difference between Neurology and Psychology?” I can see your eyes starting to glaze over already but please stay with me. This very simple bit of information might just turn on a light bulb in your brain to explain why you have spent the last ten years in a fog, or a lifetime feeling like one foot was nailed ...
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Don’t you just love this little terror? I love working with kids. They’re so much fun, so easy to engage. They don’t get in their own way like adults do. They crave praise and acceptance. They smile and laugh so readily. They’re like sponges, curious, eager to learn, creative, responsive, enthusiastic, shamelessly proud of their accomplishments and, most importantly, so playful. I get to work with them because they are equally saddled with an alphabet soup of modern childhood ‘problem’ labels that box them in, confuse them, turn them into unhappy little robots and perpetuate their feeling of helplessness well ...
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Sometimes I look back on the conversations I have had with people who felt they were so totally stuck, they simply couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. Some gave up looking for solutions while others learned to live with whatever debilitating condition was sucking the life out of them. Then I tell them about my own personal hell and I can almost see their brain literally lighting up with the possibilities when they look at me today. Hey, I’m just as surprised as they are. After all, how does one actually become a Brain Reprogramming Doctor? ...
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Happy New Year! What better time to look at one’s life over the years and start to think about how to make absolutely the most of this brand new year? We’ve all heard about resolutions of course … all our lives in fact … we’ve made many … kept some … achieved various degrees of success. Do they work? Definitely. There is just one tiny bit of a hitch … there must be a follow-through Plan. A Plan? Indeed! One’s vision must be expressly put out to the universe to stand any chance at turning out a BIG win. So ...
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I got a B in Physics. Doesn’t sound very impressive does it? … Until I tell you I was expecting a D, or an E, perish the thought! You see, I was 18 and this Physics exam was the university entrance exam. Mucho important, let me tell you. Lots of pressure. A very big deal. Back then, I was in very poor shape mentally and physically. I was 18!! I won’t bore you with a long story but essentially, I was hanging onto reality by my fingertips. Fortunately, I found a way to revise for this Physics exam in a ...
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Many years ago, when I was teaching bottom-line-focused teams of executives to make more money and spend less by reprogramming the way their brains were taught to approach every strategy in the book, I came to the realisation that they were all too serious for their own good and what they really needed was to loosen up. I devised a rather clever way to take their minds off the “important stuff” and introduced the “anything goes” crazy wall. A sizeable portion of our conference room walls, well apart from our “important stuff” mapping, was devoted to the posting of impossibly ...
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I was chatting with a friend last night and she told me a fascinating story of an experience she and her husband had while they were in Australia a few years ago. As part of their visa requirements, they were sent to run a small pub for three months in a very small hamlet in the deep outback that only had one road in and out. “It was a dismal hopeless place”, she said, “where the customers appeared aged beyond their years with long drawn faces, sad expressionless eyes, colourless clothing and resigned demeanour. They never laughed or hardly ever cracked ...
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I was 12 and I was in trouble. Again. I had just started Geometry and we had to learn to use a protractor to measure angles and wotnot. Never seen one before. I could not, for the life of me, figure out what the two sets of numbers were for. Why two? Made no sense. A twelve-year old boy’s mind works in mysterious ways. It got bad. I was worried. I was falling waaay behind. Everything seemed to hinge on this horrible, plastic, protracted, Protractor thingy. Out of desperation while doing my homework one autumn night, I quite predictably fell ...
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I don’t know about you but there are days when I walk around humming the same tune over and over again for days on end and it drives me (and my long-suffering wife) absolutely mad. I know it’s time for a change when she starts looking up divorce lawyers. We call these pesky little tunes ‘Earworms’. Naturally, being the boffin that I am, I started to wonder how big they are, the size of neural circuitry, the chunk of meat involved, anything that would give me an inkling of how to stop the darn things or, better yet, how to ...
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