Genius Performance
How To Gain Energy
Meditation's Brain Upgrades Ensure Your Battery Stays Charged As perhaps the clearest dividing line between prehistoric man and modern man, two key "energy-linked" brain regions have changed dramatically over the millennia. The so-called "CEO," "thought orchestrator,"...
Boost These Hormones To Succeed As A Leader At Work
Though you cannot control your work environment or the people, the good news is that you can take actions to trigger the right hormones. DOSE—Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin and Endorphin— in your brain are known as the “happiness hormones”. These can also be called...
How the MIND Diet Helps Protect Memory and Thinking Skills
10 Specific Foods Can Help Slow Cognitive Decline and Maintain Brain Health Your diet can affect the way your brain ages. The MIND diet plan can help you retain brain health and cognitive skills. Many popular foods that you may already eat on a regular basis are...
7 Ways Neuroscience-Based Coaching Can Give You The Mental & Physical Abilities-Vitality Edge
You have possibly heard the term neuroscience coaching and wondered what that may be. Put simply, neuroscience is the study of the brain and the nervous system and how these systems function physiologically to transform sensory stimuli into output, actions and/or...
Put Your Habits to Work for You – Your Worst Habits Can Become Your Best Friends
Victimized by your bad habits? Believe that you’re stuck with them for life? According to Charles Duhigg, a well-respected author and New York Times columnist, you may want to hone rather than scrap your well-polished sequences of behavior. Habits can be put to either...
Let Your Top Performers Move Around the Company
Over the many decades my company has been studying the link between people practices and performance, we’ve seen a common trait among low-performing, non-agile, slow-to-change companies: talent hoarding. This is the practice of allowing managers to keep their top...
Becoming More Emotionally Resilient
How would you say you compose yourself after a stressful event?Does the world feel like it’s crumbling down, or are you able to see the bigger picture? Those that are resilient don’t allow for external sources to influence who they are at their core. They understand...
Mindfulness & Happiness
Mental Models for Happiness and Results
Mental Modelling is a relatively common concept in personal development: Find someone who’s getting the results you want, learn how they did it, and basically copy their approach. This makes sense from an objective standpoint. If the world is objective in nature, this...
How to Believe in Yourself More-just Know That Everything You See You Created
KEY POINTS We all need a boost sometimes, especially when something goes wrong. Look around your home and remember that everything you see, you created. The truth is: If you have succeeded before, you can do it again. We all need a boost sometimes, especially when...
How Gratitude Changes You and Your Brain
New research is starting to explore how gratitude works to improve our mental health. With the rise of managed health care, which emphasizes cost-efficiency and brevity, mental health professionals have had to confront this burning question: How can they help clients...
Seven Brain Exercises to Strengthen Your Mind
While you might know that you need to exercise your body, did you know that it might also be important to exercise your mind? You've probably heard the old adage "use it or lose it." Many researchers do believe that this maxim applies to your brain health. Brain...
9 Neuroplasticity Exercises to Boost Productivity
Yes, you really can “rewire” your brain for optimal performance at work and home. By the time you finish this article, your brain will be different. The reason for this cerebral shift is neuroplasticity – or the brain’s ability to change and restructure itself. Every...
3 Types of Perfectionism to Watch Out for
Identify your type of perfectionism and learn how to cope Key Points The three types of perfectionism are socially prescribed perfectionists, other-oriented perfectionists, and self-oriented perfectionists. The approach of “healthy striving” can help people find the...
A Mindful Approach to Mitigating Depressive Thought Patterns
There are certain thoughts that are common to individuals with depression. These negative thoughts can be considered symptoms of depression. For any one individual, there are a host of thoughts that make up their script of negativity. You may notice that certain...
Fitness & Wellness
7 Scientifically Proven Benefits Of Gratitude – Including Mental & Physical Health – Wellness!
Developing an “attitude of gratitude” is one of the simplest ways to improve your satisfaction with life. It’s that time of year where many people begin thinking about everything they have to be thankful for. Although it’s nice to count your blessings on Thanksgiving,...
Music for your ears! Everyday brain-fitness finess renaissance at any age – place
Environmental Innovations viz musical stimulation driven Neuroplasticity is a panacea for many challenges in these tough VUCA times...and many more everyday innovations that are available to all of us. Hence nueroplasticity is an opportunity for even ordinary folks to...
Trauma & Anxieties
Resilience Training, Leadership Performance and Neuroplasticity
Have you been in a situation recently where you feel like your brain is stuck in one place? This situation feels like you have a creative block; you are unable to think any further, and even the existing ideas seem to have come to a halt. You are not alone. Have you...
Meditation for happiness
What do you think of when you think of happiness? Is it a feeling you chase after but never quite reach, or a state of mind that you’re able to tap into if you have the right resources? Happiness is a state of mind — an underlying sense of contentment, fulfillment,...