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Creating Vision Statement

Jumat, Januari 16, 2009


Your personal vision statement guides your life. Your personal vision statement provides the direction necessary to guide the course of your days and the choices you make about your career. Your personal vision statement is the light shining in the darkness toward which you turn to find your way. Your personal vision statement illuminates your way.

Obviously, I am a huge fan of personal vision statements. Write your personal vision statement as the first step in focusing your life - for your joy, your accomplishments, your contribution, your glory, and for your legacy.
Exploration to Prepare to Write the Personal Vision Statement

Use these questions to guide your thoughts.

* What are the ten things you most enjoy doing? Be honest. These are the ten things without which your weeks, months, and years would feel incomplete.

* What three things must you do every single day to feel fulfilled in your work?

* What are your five-six most important values?

* Your life has a number of important facets or dimensions, all of which deserve some attention in your personal vision statement. Write one important goal for each of them: physical, spiritual, work or career, family, social relationships, financial security, mental improvement and attention, and fun.

* If you never had to work another day in your life, how would you spend your time instead of working?

* When your life is ending, what will you regret not doing, seeing, or achieving?

* What strengths have other people commented on about you and your accomplishments? What strengths do you see in yourself?

* What weaknesses have other people commented on about you and what do you believe are your weaknesses?

source: http://humanresources.about.com

Human Brain Evolution Was a 'Special Event'


Genes that control the size and complexity of the brain have undergone much more rapid evolution in humans than in non-human primates or other mammals, according to a new study by Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers.

The accelerated evolution of these genes in the human lineage was apparently driven by strong selection. In the ancestors of humans, having bigger and more complex brains appears to have carried a particularly large advantage, much more so than for other mammals. These traits allowed individuals with “better brains” to leave behind more descendants. As a result, genetic mutations that produced bigger and more complex brains spread in the population very quickly. This led ultimately to a dramatic “speeding up” of evolution in genes controlling brain size and complexity.

“People in many fields, including evolutionary biology, anthropology and sociology, have long debated whether the evolution of the human brain was a special event. I believe that our study settles this question by showing that it was.”
Bruce T. Lahn

“People in many fields, including evolutionary biology, anthropology and sociology, have long debated whether the evolution of the human brain was a special event,” said senior author Bruce Lahn of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Chicago. “I believe that our study settles this question by showing that it was.”

Lahn and his colleagues reported their data in a research article published in the December 29, 2004, issue of the journal Cell.

The researchers focused their study on 214 brain-related genes, that is, genes involved in controlling brain development and function. They examined how the DNA sequences of these genes changed over evolutionary time in four species: humans, macaque monkeys, rats, and mice. Humans and macaques shared a common ancestor 20-25 million years ago, whereas rats and mice are separated by 16-23 million years of evolution. All four species shared a common ancestor about 80 million years ago.

Humans have extraordinarily large and complex brains, even when compared with macaques and other non-human primates. The human brain is several times larger than that of the macaque — even after correcting for body size — and “it is far more complicated in terms of structure,” said Lahn.

For each gene, Lahn and his colleagues counted the number of changes in the DNA sequence that altered the protein produced by the gene. They then obtained the rate of evolution for that gene by scaling the number of DNA changes to the amount of evolutionary time taken to make those changes.
By this measure, brain-related genes evolved much faster in humans and macaques than in mice and rats. In addition, the rate of evolution has been far greater in the lineage leading to humans than in the lineage leading to macaques.

This accelerated rate of evolution is consistent with the presence of selective forces in the human lineage that strongly favored larger and more complex brains. “The human lineage appears to have been subjected to very different selective regimes compared to most other lineages,” said Lahn. “Selection for greater intelligence and hence larger and more complex brains is far more intense during human evolution than during the evolution of other mammals.”

To further examine the role of selection in the evolution of brain-related genes, Lahn and his colleagues divided these genes into two groups. One group contained genes involved in the development of the brain during embryonic, fetal and infancy stages. The other group consisted of genes involved in “housekeeping” functions of the brain necessary for neural cells to live and function. If intensified selection indeed drove the dramatic changes in the size and organization of the brain, the developmental genes would be expected to change faster than the housekeeping genes during human evolution. Sure enough, Lahn's group found that the developmental genes showed much higher rates of change than the housekeeping genes.

In addition to uncovering the overall trend that brain-related genes — particularly those involved in brain development — evolved significantly faster in the human lineage, the study also uncovered two dozen “outlier” genes that might have made important contributions to the evolution of the human brain. These outlier genes were identified by virtue of the fact that their rate of change is especially accelerated in the human lineage, far more so than the other genes examined in the study. Strikingly, most of these outlier genes are involved in controlling either the overall size or the behavioral output of the brain — aspects of the brain that have changed the most during human evolution.

Source: http://www.hhmi.org

Decided

If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
No wind is favorable to him.

You have to know where you are going in order to get there. This may seem simplistic, but many people have no idea where

they are going in life--much less where they are headed on the Journey of the Soul.

Yet these are things that have to be decided, not discovered. Too many people are waiting to discover what they should decide; to chance upon what they should be choosing.

Are you one of them?

source: Milis Kata Hati Institute

Two Wolves


One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.

He said: 'My son, the battle is between 'two wolves' inside us all.

One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt,

resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride,superiority, and ego.

The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy,

generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.'

The grandson thought about it for a minute, and then asked his grandfather: 'Which wolf wins?'

The old Cherokee simply replied: 'The one you feed.'

Chicken into Eagle

Selasa, Desember 23, 2008

source:Adi W. Gunawan (www.adiwgunawan.com)

"The Empires of the future are the Empires of the mind"
~ Sir Winston Churchill

Picture:www.barefootsworld.net/eagleflight.htm

Nearly all of my books, especially when I covered the key success, I always discuss about the concept of self. Why do I emphasize the importance of the concept is very self? The concept itself is a computer operating system's mental. The concept of self-determine our performance. Determine the level of self-concept level of achievement of life.

Self-concept consists of three components, namely the ideal self (ideal self), self image (self image), and the price of self (self esteem). Who is the ideal self ourselves in the future. Ideal self is our personal success. People we want to be. Self image is how we see ourselves at this time. This is about the mental picture of ourselves in today. Meanwhile, the price comparison is between self-image and self-ideal. If we lower the price themselves, the achievement of our lives, certainly low. Similarly vice versa.

Why do I write again about this topic? There is one interesting story that we can make it as a learning material. Story like this. Beginning January 2007 and we, I and my close friend Ariesandi, holding Supercamp Becoming a Money magnets. Supercamp this time attended by 31 participants from various cities. There came from Jakarta, Balikpapan, Menado, Surabaya, Samarinda, and other cities. We hold the SC with the number of participants that we are not the only limit to maintain exclusivity SC but also to be able to give the best results for the participants.

SC laden with practice and guidance to be conscious into the subconscious mind and find a mental block that hindered success. This process, into the subconscious mind, identify and destroy mental block, something that is not easy. This process is very difficult to run well if too many participants, say up to 50 people at the top. Moreover, if up to hundreds of people. Clearly it is not possible. Although there is a request that we hold the SC Akbar with the number of participants to hundreds, we remain on our principles.

There are many techniques that we use to help participants make reprogramming the conscious mind. In one session to identify mental block there are three participants who experienced the inner Conflict serious enough that it appears from their physical reactions.

One participant felt dizzy because they are blocking the energy in the region Indonesian and Chinese culture, and one female participants experienced vomiting, and the most serious is that the strain on the entire body. Special to the strain, A Bram, we give special handling, and soon.

I am sure you would feel "horror" when I read the description. However, this is actually very normal. Handling is also very easy. Of course it easy for us because we are used to therapy. Then, what happens is that the subconscious mind Bram?

Bram could see himself in the future with very clear. How appearance, apparently, tingkahnya, attitudes, how to walk, lifestyle, home, car, and what he idamkan, he can see clearly once. For some time Bram "live" in the future that is very beautiful. Future he impikan.

However, there is one part of the self Bram reject this. Bram feel part of this is not feasible or may not achieve the dream. However, on the one hand, there is one other part, from the self Bram, who really want and believe that Bram has the right and feasible to achieve any dream.

In the subconscious mind Bram contravention occurred, fierce battle, pull overextend, mutual influence between the two parts that ultimately affect physical condition. Bram experiencing convulsions. Easy handling. Only in a few minutes we successfully integrate the two parts of this conflict.

Young women who experienced vomiting another case. He knows that the conflict there. However, he tried hard to deny and convince himself that everything is ok. After vomiting and pale face the cold hands. Her husband, the SC also slightly worried. After dialiri had energy and made pemijatan dots on a certain energy in the body quickly recovered its return as usual.

Readers, I describe cases in which the case is normal that often occur in the space therapeutist practices. Are even more serious again. Conditions of this emotional paroxysm term technical abreaction. Explained to you can read my books Hypnotherapy: The Art of Subconscious Restructuring. I think a campaign to explain my new book.

Why can happen like that? In normal conditions the internal conflict is not too visible. That is visible on the effects of conflict in this particular form of behavior. For example, delaying work habits, feeling uncomfortable when a target is set to be achieved, the desire to achieve a dream, but there is a feeling themselves less valuable or less feasible to achieve that dream, or any perceived in someone who is "never good."

One of the most easy way to check whether we are in conflict or not is to check with our feelings. For example? For example, your income is Rp. 5 million. You want to reach the income of Rp. 20 million. You can visualize the achievement of very clear. However, there is a feeling uncomfortable in your heart. It feels thin difficult. Well, this is the signature of conflict. I NLP terms of people with this condition is called "not congruent."

Another example is when we give the target of learning for children. For example, the value of our children in English, only 60. We help children set a goal of, say, the value reached 90. Although children would achieve this target, you should ask the feelings of children. Is there a wedge in his heart? Is there any sense "for his good"? If so, then this means there is resistance in mind sadarnya down.

What actually happens is the child (self image) can not see himself reaching values 90 (ideal self). Because children "sure" it difficult or impossible to achieve the result, the price of the 90 children themselves will have shaking.

If you work hard to understand how self-esteem or self-concept, I will use the analogy of money. Assuming the price ourselves with the same amount of money we have. If the money we only Rp. 100000 and we want to buy goods with the price of Rp. 1,000,000 then no matter what we do, want to beg, threaten, cry, pray, kneel apply leniency seller, or any, in normal condition, we may not be able to get the goods. Experience, who want to recoup by selling goods worth Rp. 1 million in the price of Rp. 100,000?

Whatever the condition occurs when the conflict between the conscious mind (the will reach a value of Rp 90/income. 20 million) and the subconscious mind (self image; value of Rp 60/income now. 5 million), so that always win the mind is unconscious. Theory of mind that the comparative strength of mind and the unconscious conscious is 1:9.

How do I make the set target can be achieved easily? How simple, albeit not easy to do so. We must, with certain therapeutic intervention, improve self image or, if that approach can be the same with our ideal self.

One of the things that we are truly delightful Bram said that he has been experiencing increased self exceptional integration process after he experienced. What is the effect on Bram?

I very much. Friend-i said that since that time Bram become much more confident, more friendly, more active in communications, happier and more peaceful, more brave, and many other positive things. They have to know about Bram year mark can only see the changes that occurred in Bram.

Honestly, our own shocked and stunned by the changes in the self Bram. We know that this positive change happen. However, we again stunned by the strength of mind and their influence on human life.

The mind is the key to change. The mind is the key to change the children prefer chicken to be a mighty eagles flying high, which is able to explore space highway.

I remember the wise words of spiritual teacher that "the mind is the forerunner of all things, the mind is the leader, is forming the mind" and "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he."