http://www.goalenforcer.com/blog Helping to optimize your brain power. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:21:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Running multiple projects at the same time can easily overload you if you don’t use the right approach. The basic successful principle is to keep focus on what matters and make sure that things keep moving forward. In order to do this you need to be able to overview the ... http://www.goalenforcer.com/blog/?p=13 It’s late at night and you are not ready for your presentation tomorrow. Your boss asked you to present a status report to the group, showing your accomplishments and future task plan (broken down into tasks and sub-tasks). But the hours go by and you are still fighting ... http://www.goalenforcer.com/blog/?p=12 Being highly adaptive is a great  advantage in today's  world. As unexpected challenges and new obstacles arise, you have to be able to quickly modify your plan in order to accommodate the new changes. As a project becomes bigger and more complex, changing task Start Dates and Due Dates can ... http://www.goalenforcer.com/blog/?p=11 Are you miserable at work? Well, you're not alone. According to a 2007 survey conducted by The Conference Board, less than half of all Americans are happy with their jobs. For young adults below the age of 25, the numbers are even more striking: only two out of five people ... http://www.goalenforcer.com/blog/?p=10 Setting a course that leads you to, and through, a great career is one of the most important tasks you will ever take on. The mileposts along that course are the goals and objectives you set. Choosing the right ones is clearly critical to your success. Everyone wants to be successful. ... http://www.goalenforcer.com/blog/?p=9 Yes, really! Researchers from University of Minnesota and University of British Columbia have indeed shown that ceiling height can affect your thinking. They argue that low versus high ceiling can activate different concepts in your brain, and this will affect the way your brain process new information and do problem ... http://www.goalenforcer.com/blog/?p=8 There is no doubt that in order to accomplish a goal you must firmly believe that you CAN and you WILL accomplish it. So, the next step is “How to put my brain in the right mood, to firmly believe it.” You can try to repeat to yourself all day “Yes I ... http://www.goalenforcer.com/blog/?p=7 Habits are good, but what would life be like if there were only “habits”? Boring! You don’t want to be a robot spending most of your life following programmed behavior patterns, do you? Habits are good to free our brain to execute more noble and challenging tasks such as “adaptation”. That’s ... http://www.goalenforcer.com/blog/?p=6  So, what's the secret formula to form a new habit? Creating a new habit  can be seen as creating a path of worn grass in a public lawn. If you walk through a path once, it won't do anything to the grass. If you walk for 5 days, you might get ... http://www.goalenforcer.com/blog/?p=4 Think about something you can do very well without thinking. How about breathing? Isn’t it amazing? You can breath slower, faster. You can breath deeper, shallower. But even if you don’t think about it, you can still breath. You can read a letter, eat, talk to your friends, drive a ... http://www.goalenforcer.com/blog/?p=3