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Overclocking Your Brain

I was just sent an article called, "22 Ways to Overclock Your Brain" :http://ririanproject.com/2006/11/03/22-ways-to-overclok-your-brain/  . Now, there was a fascinating headline, don't you think? I did. Particularly because if we are overwhelmed, exhausted, or stressed to the max we not only don't perform very well, but we actually misfire.  And, if we want to learn new ways to be or to act that takes a lot of brain power and consciousness.

Here's some facts about our brains, from the ririanproject: "Your brain is more complicated than any computer we can imagine. Did you know that you have one hundred billion nerve cells in your brain, and every nerve cell has many connections to other nerve cells? In fact, your brain has more connections in it than there are stars in the universe! Optimizing your brain’s function is essential to being the best you can be, whether at work, in leisure, or in your relationships."

You must read the article, and here are the 22 Ways that are suggested for top brain performance:

1. Run Up Your Brain Cells
2. Exercise Your Mind
3. Ask Why
4. Laugh
5. Be a Fish Head
6. Remember
7. Cut the Fat
8. Do A Puzzle
9. The Mozart Effect
10. Improve Your Skills At Things You Already Do (great suggestion)
11. Be a Thinker, Not a Drinker
12. Play (Hang around children - they remind you how great play is)
13. Sleep On It
14. Concentration
15. Make Love For Your Brain (Maybe you want to rethink - I'm too tired)
16. Play with Passion!
17. Cycles of Consciousness
18. Learn Something New
19. Write to be Read (Journal, tell stories, write letters not email)
20. Try Aromatherapy to Activate Your Brain
21. Drugs to Increase Brainpower (Not the bad kind)
22. (and one of my favorites) Build a Brain Trust

What this all adds up to is that we have lots of control of our brainpower, energy, and capacity to to invent, learn and grow. And, these suggestions are pretty easy to do.

Put everything you have in service to your success.

What If It Was Easy?

Recently Lorna McCloud, the lead coach of John Eggen's Program, Mission Marketing Mentors, of which I am a participant as well as an intern coach (more about that in another post), responded to list of my seemingly endless "to-do's", projects, meetings and obligations, wrote me an email that asked, "What if it were simple? What if it didn't need to be a struggle?". 

Those questions stopped me dead in my tracks. What would "it" (my business, project, life) be like if it were simple? What would that look like? What would that feel like? I realized that it was unimaginable. On an almost cellular level I believe that it couldn't be simple, that would be too simple; that would be not worth my involvement; that would mean that "it" had no value. Wow, now that's quite a realization. My belief creates the complexity, the struggle, the overwhelm, the sense of scarcity - all of it.

So, if my belief can create that kind of "too much" experience, can't I change my beliefs so that I create a sense of simplicity. Can I shift my belief that simple = stupid, simple=superficial, simple=not worthy of doing? I don't know if I can undo a lifetime of belief building. But, I am going to give it a chance.

Now I need to create the vision of what "simple" might look like. I am not there yet, but I am working on it.

Perhaps you can write and tell me what you think about this "what if it were simple" thought.  What do you believe? If you are further along on the path than I am, please share your journey - we all need your wisdom.