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1. WIN: Learn Something New and Change Your Brain.

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  1. Learn Something New and Change Your Brain. Every time you learn something new, you win and you win big!  Recent neuroscience discoveries have uncovered new information about our brains.  Every new experience changes our brain!  The old science operated under the belief that after age four our brains were already formed but the new science of neuroplasticity is causing neuro scientists to rethink everything they thought they knew.
  2. The following is an excerpt from a  fascinating article,  by the Practical Memory Institute,  ‘Introduction to Neuroplasticity:

“Groundbreaking new research suggests that, beyond modifying pathways and forming new ones between existing neurons, the human brain is even able to generate entirely new brain cells. While this neural regeneration was long believed to be impossible after age three or four, research now shows that new neurons can develop late into the life span, even into the golden years of age 70 and beyond. Thus, the old adage “use it or lose it” is brought soundly home. If one’s brain is constantly challenged by and engaged with a variety of stimulations and new experiences, while also exposed regularly to that which it already knows, it is better able to retain its adaptive flexibility, regenerative capacity, and remarkable efficiency throughout life.”

If you prefer to watch and learn, check out these Youtube videos, Neuroscience of emotions and Norman Doidge on the brain and neuroplasticity.  Now that’s what I call winning!  Your brain is ready, capable, and waiting to catapult you to success.

I’m Barbara Talley, The Poet who speaks and inspires.   To find more about me, visit:  www.thepoetspeaks.com

Manage Your Roles and You’ll Manage Your Time

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Roles=Time Commitments

Whether it is in our jobs or schools, our community, our homes, or places of worship, each of us takes on many roles.  And, with each role we make an expressed or subconscious commitment of our time.  If we want to avoid overload and limit our stress, we must learn to manage our roles.  Some of our roles give us more energy, and some zap it and drain us.  You have to decide which is which.  I have provided a process for clarifying, analyzing, and prioritizing your roles in my book, TalleyUP: The Excitement of Value Based Living.  Below is an excerpt from the book on roles.

First, Define Your Roles

“The first step to living more on purpose is to define your roles. Every role you choose to play in life will have to compete for your precious and limited time. Each role will vie to be the most important priority. Many people I consult with have a problem with managing competing priorities. But the truth is priorities shouldn’t compete. They only compete because we haven’t defined for ourselves and communicated to others the real order of our priorities.” Read more about roles in TalleyUP: The Excitement of Value-Based Living.

Part 7B: Success And Money Are Spiritual Matters (Biblical References)

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Ask for The Wisdom and Knowledge to Serve Better and You Will Receive Riches

Continued from Part 1: Success and Money http://wp.me/ppImQ-rV

Napoleon Hill in his ‘Philosophy of Success” mentions the importance of consciously:

  1. Choosing what we want,
  2. Asking for it specifically,
  3. Promising what service we will do in exchange for our dreams,
  4. Reciting the goal and the promise we’ve made at least  a dozen times a day and,
  5. Always praying after the recitation of the request and the promise for wisdom and understanding .

In  fact he states that the secrets of his success was that he prayed (not for riches), but instead for more wisdom and knowledge to use the gifts and talents that he had been given at birth.  I know this to be truth because I found confirmation of his very prayer in the King James Bible.  We are admonished to ask, believe, and we will receive, but the following verse describes specifically what we are  to ask for.

Chronicle 2 in the King James Bible shares a story of Solomon.  “1:10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?

1:11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king: 1:12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.”

Wealth and Riches Are Gifts, Appreciate Them!

I’d personally like to add a #6 to the list above and that is to be grateful, for we know that it is a grateful heart that attracts blessings to us, and not a fearful, desperate, angry, entitled, arrogant, hateful, or ungrateful heart.

Many people are reluctant to set monetary goals for fear of sacrificing an even greater eternal life.  But in the King James Bible 1Timonthy verse 6:10, it clearly states that it is the love of money, not the money that is the problem.   “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”   The key here is to desire service first and the money will come and to not “err from the faith.”  But Ecclesiastes 5:19, states, “Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.” I think it is important to understand that we are free to use our riches in whatever way we choose, but also have the responsibility to only take our portion.  That implies sharing the rest with others.

To continue to Part 8- Mid-Year Checkup, click here  http://wp.me/ppImQ-sv

Part 1: May Day-(SOS) Motivation to the Rescue

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Your Dreams Demand Your Urgent Attention Now

The term May Day or SOS is an urgent call for help. What’s so urgent, you ask?  Your dreams need an urgent intervention.  YOU are the emergency!  The clock is ticking on your dreams.  The universe is calling you, and you have put her on hold for far too long.

We are already half way through 2010 so I thought I’d send out an urgent SOS on your behalf to the universe to send help to you. A sense of urgency is  a prerequisite to realizing any dream and igniting energy and support.

I Hope It’s Not Too Late

I hope it’s not too late!  I hope you haven’t already given up on your dreams!  I hope you know that anything is possible if you believe.  I hope you haven’t allowed the lukewarm reception of others, their negative opinions, their doubts, their fears of the lack of practicality of your dreams, or their refusal to encourage or support you, to cause you to give up.  I hope you know that you deserve greatness, joy, peace, and work you can be passionate about and you deserve it NOW!  To continue to Part 2: http://wp.me/ppImQ-qf

c) 2010, Barbara S. Talley- All Rights Reserved

Barbara Talley is a keynote speaker, author of six books, and trainer on value-based living themes.  She also offers Effective Communication, Diversity, Leadership, Time Management, and Goal Setting workshops.  Visit her at www.thepoetspeaks.com or contact her at 301-428-4831.  You may email her at Barbara@ThePoetSpeaks.com.

Part 2: May Day- Time to Call in the Calvary?

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Continued from part 1: http://wp.me/ppImQ-q9

You Are Not Supposed to Live in Doubt and Fear

You are supposed to be happy, fulfilled, excited about life, and have passionate goals to pursue. If you don’t, it’s a May Day moment.  Call in the cavalry!  You are not supposed to live in doubt but instead to know for sure that you can accomplish your dreams.  You are not supposed to fear failure and have low esteem, instead you are supposed to know that you are worthy, capable, noble, and necessary.   And yet so many are visionless, complacent, uninspired, robotic, disillusioned, and cynical.

Too Many People Are Living Mediocre, Mundane, and Humdrum Lives

Too many people with vision, capacity, and possibilities are living mediocre, mundane, and humdrum lives.  And, they should be allowed to, but the problem is that they are not happy.  And, hurt people, hurt other people.  They sit around complaining, creating doubts in the minds of dreamers, and being envious of those who overcome and succeed.

Too Many People Are Settling and Using Excuses

Too many people are settling and using excuses to justify their giving up on themselves and their dreams.  But, no one starts out that way.  We began life as dreamers, with hope, and with expectations.  Somewhere along the way we began to settle for whatever life served us and that is the travesty.  But don’t worry, help is on the way.  The fact that you took the time to read this newsletter and pass it on to others shows that you are on the path to truth and are bringing others with you.

Seeking Help is a Sign of Wisdom and Strength

You’ve figured out that you can’t do it alone right now but still have refused to ask for help. It is okay to ask for help.  Perhaps you’ve mistakenly thought that asking for help is a sign of weakness.  To the contrary, seeking wise counsel and support is a sign of wisdom and strength for we are all connected.  The native people teach us that we each have exactly what each other needs. Your help could come from anywhere.  But, you must ASK, and believe in order to receive!  True belief unleashes our nascent powers and attracts blessings and help to us.

To continue to Part 3: Napoleon Hill’s Science of Achievement, click here:http://wp.me/ppImQ-qp

c) 2010, Barbara S. Talley- All Rights Reserved

Barbara Talley is a keynote speaker, author of six books, and trainer on value-based living themes.  She also offers Effective Communication, Diversity, Leadership, Time Management, and Goal Setting workshops.  Visit her at www.thepoetspeaks.com or contact her at 301-428-4831.  You may email her at Barbara@ThePoetSpeaks.com.