Reading About A Self Improvement Guide

Written by funker on August 14, 2010 – 3:20 pm

There are different books and seminars that can help you gather some self improvement guide. All these sources are against the negative factors in your life.

This self improvement guide is intended to offer you the best solutions to eliminate these factors for good. Or at least to reduce it drastically.

Work, meetings, deadlines, appointments, telephone calls, shopping, taking the dogs out etc. – all these are things most people have to accomplish daily.

Most of the times, on the waiting list there are other things like: family, friends and even ourselves.

Sometimes we discover too late that the points mentioned on the waiting lists are, in fact, the most important and, unfortunately, sometimes, we don’t realize this at all, so find ourselves wondering for what reason we are so unhappy.

All this people know that time is more than money – time means, first of all, life and, more than that, it means our lives.

That is way we have the obligation not to surrender in stressful situations and to go fighting for the joy of living.

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Improve Your Speed Reading

Written by Dr. Jay Polmar on June 11, 2010 – 2:46 am

Words are everywhere. No matter where you go “work, school, home, video games, even the Internet” you cannot get away from the written word. Being able to read faster and comprehend more of what you read will help you not only when you have to read for business or classes, but it will help you in every aspect of your life.

The ability to speed read “defined as reading more than 500 words in a minute with a minimum of 50% comprehension rate” will help you immensely in every stage of life. Read over your reports in less time, giving yourself more time to discuss things with your co-workers. Read books for pleasure and self-improvement more quickly to increase your knowledge on other topics, to allow you to get ahead in business, school, and life. Keep the peace at home by reading that book your husband or wife has been nagging you about in only an hour or two before moving onto more pleasurable subjects.

With the Complete Speed Reading course, improve your entire co-workers’ reading speed, memory, reading comprehension and recall, concentration, and note taking skills.

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Reading Articles To Help With Self Improvement

Written by funker on June 10, 2010 – 3:21 pm

There are a variety of self improvement articles available nowadays. You may be thinking that this is one of those, obviously.

What have you got to lose by reading one more self improvement article?

When you came the 40-year stage in your life, you will suddenly realize many things. You get to ask yourself questions. How will it be when I get to the end of my life? How do I feel about the life I lived?

Then someone gave you some self improvement articles while telling you that it is not yet too late. Does that mean anything to you?

You bet it does. The feeling of anxiety that will come next is just normal. Then you will feel confused because life had felt so good. You were happy, had a successful marriage, two wonderful kids, and a job you reasonably enjoyed. What was my problem?

It was your class ceiling. The “practical” and fear-based side that had convinced you all along that your passion and dreams had died.

Here are top ten shifts in perspective that can help you move your life to the next level. This self improvement article will assist you in breaking through your own glass ceiling to create the life you really want.

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Speed Reading: From University To Your Home

Written by Dr. Jay Polmar on May 8, 2010 – 3:31 am

What started as a university lecture course has evolved into an affordable do-it-yourself course designed to make everyone “from stay-at-home moms and dads to administrative assistants to MBAs to CEOs” more valuable to their company in the form of The Complete Speed Reading Program.

The Complete Speed Reading Program, Family Edition, has four books (available both as a PDF download and “if desired” in print):

Speed Read in Only One Hour teaches the basic techniques and has multiple reinforcement exercises. If You Can Read This, You Can Read Faster is specifically designed for children. It is written at a third-grade reading level to help give young brains the best chance to re-learn how to read. It also teaches the basic techniques of the program. Be Dynamic Through Speed Reading is essential for anyone looking to go to college or go back to school. Focusing on concentration, note taking, and recall, this book will help students wade through the millions of words that need to be read each semester and give them time to not only finish their studies, but also to have a social life.

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Help With Writing: Effective Teaching Methods

Written by Danny Ricks on April 21, 2010 – 4:06 am

If your child is having problems in writing their own paper works and does not learn what you have taught them about correct writing, then you might had used the wrong way or in a less interesting way. For you to be able to teach them effectively, you must give your child confidence in their writings. They must be able to not fear writing and express themselves completely without holding back. In writing essays, articles, letters or any other paper works in school, what they need is an effective guide or learning ways for them to remember the right formats on how to write their assignments correctly.

Your child must possess a strong foundation in writing for them to be able to have easier time in school. Making you check all of their works would eventually end. They can no longer seek for your help when they go to college or even in high school. They must eventually learn how to do their paper works on their own and learn to see what is wrong with their works. In the Internet and sold in stores are so many software and guides regarding how to effectively give your child help with writing. These are effective tools for your children to learn in a better way. The software and guides focuses on discussing sorts of solutions in children’s writing disabilities and how to develop their writing skills. Parents must know what can motivate their children to write essays without stressing them.

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Learn How to be a Speed Reader

Written by Dr. Jay Polmar on March 1, 2010 – 2:22 am

ACCELERATED PACING METHOD:

Hand movements can cause improvement of reading speed. Now I’ll introduce to you the well-known pacing movement. It uses your index finger of your dominant hand, i.e. right handed use right hand, to scan a line by running your finger under the type you are reading. Always turn the page with the unused, non-dominant hand. Don’t move your head, keep it still.

It’s simple. Just replace all your bad reading habits with one easily learned one: You’ll use your pacing hand. It breaks each of these habits automatically while it increases your reading speed.

The basic pacing movement uses your index finger of your dominant hand, i.e. right handed use right hand, to scan a line by running your finger under the type you are reading. Always turn the page with the unused, non-dominant hand. Don’t move your head, keep it still.

The process is simple. You’ll replace all your bad habits with one easily learned one: You’ll use your pacing hand. Here’s how it breaks each of these habits automatically while it increases your reading speed.

You’ll read without sub-vocalizing, hearing it your mind.

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The Guarantee Of Our Speed Reading Course

Written by Dr. Jay Polmar on February 27, 2010 – 2:46 am

Many businesses offer guarantees; most of them are hardly worth the paper they are printed on. Speed reading is not an exception. Many of the speed reading seminars or do-it-yourself courses out there offer guarantees, but more often than not their products fall short, or require intense, ongoing, and stressful study practices.

SpeedRead America GUARANTEES that you will be reading faster, and without stress, after just one hour or every penny of your money back.

How can we offer this guarantee? We have 30 years of speed reading results to point to! After offering this course “both in live classes and the do-it-yourself ebooks” for more than 30 years, we know it works, and works no matter your native language. Utilizing both ancient and modern methods to teach the brain a new way of thinking, and a new way to read, we have over 100,000 copies of the course in print, and even more in ebook format.

In 30 years of live courses, more than a decade of online courses, and the “do-it-yourself” offered at http://www.speedreadcomplete.com/, SpeedRead America has only had to refund less than 1% of sales! With a record like this, SpeedRead America can afford to make their money-back guarantee and back it up.

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Passing Along Your Knowledge

Written by Dr. Jay Polmar on February 23, 2010 – 2:18 am

Nothing is worse for an avid reader and a lover of books than having a child who hates to read. Reading to a child early in life will help them foster a love of reading and prepare them to read themselves, but sometimes not even that can be enough to foster a love of the written word. Reading parents know that aversion to reading will haunt their child for the rest of his life, making school harder making the rest of his or her life harder.

But, as any parent knows, you cannot simply say to a 10-year-old who hates reading, “You’re going to read and you’re going to like it.” First, you have to understand why reading is so difficult for your child.

In the school systems today, reading is being taught in an inefficient manner. “Average” readers today read anywhere from 100 words per minute (usually for memorization purposes) to 700 words per minute (”skimming”, looking only for specific key words). As the words per minute go up, reading comprehension goes down, and this is borne out in standardized test scores. With the pressure on slower readers of having to finish the reading section and the comprehension questions within a set period of time, most end up turning to “skimming” looking only at key words in the question and then trying to find them in the reading section. This “cheater” system is only reinforced when the test comes back with a good grade (since they were only looking for specific words).

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How Speed Reading Will Work For You

Written by Dr. Jay Polmar on February 9, 2010 – 3:00 am

Just use these hints and you’ll increase your reading speed:

You can read lines of text, more easily, by reading groups of words at one time than reading a single word, and your reading speed increases when you just widen your eye span (peripheral vision).

1. Techniques will teach you have to activate hand-to-eye coordination, then you’ll be speed reading quickly and immediately. Improve your reading abilities for business or personal use with just a little practice. You can double, even triple your current rates of reading without hurting comprehension or retention.

Different speed reading methods for different kinds of reading material:

1. Fiction, especially romance novels. Try speed reading a hot and passionate love scene. You can’t! I don’t speed read romance novels. I don’t know anyone who does that.

2. Non-Fiction. Speed reading is perfect in this dimension. Where there is something to learn that is not based on hot emotions speed reading is great. And it comes in various forms. Newspapers with narrow columns, magazines, with slightly wider columns, books, computer screens, and in the mail and email.

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Who First Created Speed Reading?

Written by Dr. Jay Polmar on February 9, 2010 – 2:09 am

The worlds most famous speed reading course is Reading Dynamics developed by Evelyn Wood. It’s famous for teaching people to read faster, or speed reading as she called it. Her live course was the first known course that taught students to read faster and it started with about 25 hours of training to double your reading speed.

Over time the method was made available all over the world. These well practiced techniques teach students to read more rapidly, and also comprehend more of what they are reading. These techniques have proven to be repeatedly effective with all ages in many countries around the world.

There are many stories about how Evelyn Wood first learned speed reading. My personal favorite was that she, as a child, was fishing at a nearby lake in Utah where she was living. To Evelyn, fishing was a relaxing necessity, but her mind was always active.

When fishing, she brought a book to read until she saw that the float on the fishing line was bobbing. Then she’d reel in the fish. It was said that she read with the sun at her back for natural light, and used her index finger on her dominant hand to track under the words she was reading.

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