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•Are you a Sleep Walking Zombie
?  by: Royane Real Do you get enough sleep? Chances are you don’t. Many people living in modern industrial societies suffer from a chronic, and worsening sleep deficit. Until a few decades ago, most people lived lives so very different from ours that we would scarcely recognize them. Until fairly recently in human history the majority of people lived in small villages or on farms, not in big cities. There were no electric lights. There weren’t any faxes or e-mails. There was no...

•Advice For People Who Get Tongue Tied When Talking to Others
Are you one of those people who gets tongue tied when you meet someone new? Do you wonder what to talk about when you don�t know the other person? Do you feel you have to start showing off to impress a new person you have just met? Learn some simple conversation strategies and just be yourself! When you need to speak with someone new, do you break out in a cold sweat, wondering how you can impress the other person? Do you worry that you babble too much? You�ll actually have a better...

•The Truth About Persistence and Success
If you really want to be successful in life, you probably spend a lot of time reading motivational books and articles. You want to know what qualities are required for success. When we read about the tools required to achieve success, very often we are told that if we really want to be successful, we must have persistence. Persistence is the quality of never giving up when we encounter challenges. Of holding on to our dream. Of refusing to be discouraged no matter what the odds, no...

•How You Can Double Triple or Even Quadruple Your Reading Speed
by Royane RealAre you drowning in a sea of unread papers? Do you feel frustrated because you cannot keep up with your reading assignments? You may have wondered if you should take a speed-reading course. Or can you learn to improve your reading ability by yourself? The good news is that if you are committed and actually do the work, you can develop your own speed-reading program at home. You can greatly increase your reading speed without sacrificing comprehension. How do you start to improve...

•Are You Being Lied To
Sometimes we suspect that someone is lying to us about a very important matter. It could be a matter of where they spent a couple of hours, or they might be trying to cover up who they were with. How can we tell if someone is lying to us? Recently I read a book that gives a lot of tips on how to deal with a situation where we suspect that someone might be trying to lie to us or bluff us. This book is �Get Anyone to do Anything� by David J. Lieberman. This book is filled with...

•How to Start a Conversation With Someone You Dond t Know Well
Do you find it easy to make conversation with new people you�ve just met? Or does the thought of trying to make conversation with someone new make you break out in a cold sweat? If you don�t feel comfortable making casual conversation with new people you have just met, you will find it harder to make new friends. One of the most common reasons that people have difficulty making conversation with someone they don�t know very well is because they put too much pressure on...

•What to Say When You Have Hurt Your Friend
In every relationship there will be occasional misunderstandings and hurt feelings. Sometimes we are the one who hurt another person; sometimes we are the one who has been hurt. Sometimes both people have become very angry at each other, or both feel hurt. Hurt feelings can be the result of a slip of the tongue, a misunderstanding, or a deed committed in bad judgment. Sometimes feelings are hurt deliberately in the heat of anger and regretted later. If we were the guilty party, we might...

•Study More Effectively and Remember Better
Are you a student? Or paerhaps a business person who needs to learn a presentation? Or an actor who needs to learn some dialogue? If so, you may sometimes find it difficult to remember what you study. How can you keep your material fresh in your mind? You already realize that reviewing the material you are studying more than once can help you remember it better. But you may have wondered if there is an ideal way to schedule your reviews. Is it best to study large chunks of material at...

•How to Make More People Like You
When you meet new people for the first time, do you usually like most of the new people that you meet? Or do you find that you usually dislike new people, unless they can eventually prove after a long time that they deserve your friendship? Perhaps you have never thought about this before. And you may even wonder if it’s really important. Does it really matter very much if you like most people when you first meet them, or if you decide to like them much later, after you get to know them...

•How to Create Confidence in Your Learning Ability
If you are a student who is studying and facing exams, you already know that you will benefit from learning better studying techniques and better note-taking methods. What you may not know is that an important part of being a good learner is to feel very confident about your learning ability. Why is it important to have good confidence in our ability to learn? When you don’t have a good confidence in your learning ability, you will approach learning situations and exams in a state of...