Productivity, Creativity, and Stress Management Seminars

Delay Dementia Today (Pt. 2)

2010-04-26T12:48:00.000-07:00

Neuroscience research shows that the connections between our billions
of neurons – the synapses – are damaged in dementia patients.

Billions of neurons transfer information in our brains using electro-chemical signals.

In Dementia, information transfer at the synapses deteriorates,
the number of synapses declines and eventually our brain cells die.

This is also clearly seen in autopsies as a significant reduction in brain size.

Whole Mind Success has workshops to help stave off the onset of Dementia - using methods shown to work by neuroscientists.

Delay Dementia Today

2010-04-20T19:55:00.000-07:00

Dementia is not a single disease, but is a term describing a collection of symptoms often caused by disorders of the brain.

Persons with dementia have sufficiently impaired intellectual functioning to interfere with their daily activities and relationships.

They sufferer memory loss, have difficulty solving problems and maintaining emotional control.

Often, they also experience changes in personality and have behavioral problems such as agitation, delusions and even hallucinations.

Whole Mind Success methods have been shown to delay dementia.

Dementia, CEOs, Whole Mind Success

2010-04-12T10:47:00.000-07:00

What causes dementia?

Dementia is due to changes in the brain that can be caused by various factors such as Stroke, Head Injuries and Tumors.

Other factors include an underactive Thyroid gland, fluid buildup in the brain and Vitamin B12 deficiency.

The latter factors, fortunately, can be readily treated, as can the dementia-like symptoms caused by depression or the wrong combination of medicines.

Aging CEOs

2010-04-03T09:11:00.000-07:00

As CEOs age, their thoughts are turning to the looming prospect of retirement and the foreboding possibility of Dementia.

Are their fears justified?

Reports from around the world show that Dementia is on the rise, not only in the USA but also in the UK and Northern Ireland - where they expect a 200% increase over the next decade.

What causes Dementia?

Can it be cured?

Can it be prevented?

How can Whole Mind Success methods help?

CEO Innovation Strategy

2010-03-31T08:25:00.000-07:00

What CEOs need to know:

The Strategies and Success Factors involved in developing Innovation in their companies.

How to discover Innovation Opportunities and create the necessary new Business Models

Steps in Developing an Innovation Strategy

How to Implement innovation in product or service Organizations

How to Develop and Nurture an internal Culture of Creativity, Collaboration and Innovation

How to Foster a Managerial Leadership with an Innovative Mindset

How to lead diverse teams within an Organizational Structure to reach Innovation Goals

How to Champion Innovation Efforts in the Organization

We at Whole Mind Success realize that it is not an easy, overnight strategy - but do it we must, if we wish to remain competitive in the 21st Century.

CEOs and Innovation

2010-03-16T00:07:00.000-07:00

Those of us who have worked in large Corporations are rather skeptical of CEOs who claim to support Creativity and Innovation.

We have experienced time and again the lip service paid to *facilitating a creative environment*

Why is this the case?

Is it because most CEOs are under pressure to produce short-term results?
Or are CEOs too far away from the trenches?
Are some of them too old to have learned about Innovation during their MBA days?
Are CEOs simply risk-averse?

What do you think?

Innovation, Creativity, Neuroscience

2010-03-08T10:04:00.000-08:00

Whole Mind Success is pleased to provide more information on the TEDx program in Thousand Oaks, CA.

The TEDx program is organized around the theme, What’s The Big Idea
and is divided into three sessions:
Thinking, Doing, and Seeing.

Topics to be covered include
the neuroscience of beliefs,
innovations and discoveries in medicine and healthcare,
the principles of meaningful enterprise,
new ideas in education, effective communication, computer science and art, microfinance, psychology, human perception and music.

Creativity in Schools

2010-03-05T10:52:00.000-08:00

The famous TED Conferences are also held as TEDx programs, partnering with schools, etc.

Ted aims to bring together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives.

Top creative, successful professionals from the Sciences and Arts present cutting edge ideas.
Attendess can interact with these presenters and enjoy a day developing their WHOLE MIND.

Whole Mind Success is pleased to be supporting TED in their work to spread Creativity in our Educational Establishments.

Brain Power, Innovation

2010-02-28T01:12:00.000-08:00

Early Humans used Brain Power and Innovation
and Teamwork to Dominate the Planet

see this recent Scientific American article:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=humans-brain-power-origins&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Creativity Online

2010-02-22T12:18:00.001-08:00

We are pleased to announce that iLG - i Learning Global is now showing a few videos from our Creativity Seminars on their iLG website.

You can access some of their material via this link (or copy & paste in your browser) :
http://www.ilearningglobal.biz/creativity - when you enroll for full access, the sponsor name to use is Creativity.

The site provides a Real World MBA - with successful businesspeople teaching practical Business Smarts.

Steven Covey, Brian Tracy and others are available 24/7 for Sales, Marketing, Business Plans, Financing, Tax advice, etc.

Creativity and Innovation with Whole Mind Success is now available online.

Creativity at work

2010-01-28T10:53:00.000-08:00

Creativity and Innovation are todays buzzwords at the workplace.

Creativity, Innovation, Stress Reduction - SINGAPORE

2010-01-21T12:22:00.000-08:00

We are back from our fortnight in Singapore - a remarkable city-state in S.E.Asia.

Our Whole Mind Success seminar was, once again, a resounding success, with our clients requesting another seminar this summer.
We also have a large client in Taiwan who us scheduling a Creativity seminar for government clients.

Singapore has a government which is actively promoting creativity in their universities and industries - in both cash and kind.

2010 Child's Brain Development

2009-12-31T08:37:00.001-08:00

Happy New Year from Singapore!

Start the New Year by developing your childs mental capabilities.

Remember that:

By the age of five, a childs brain is already 90% the size of an adult brain.

Although the brain’s (cerebellum) total volume peaks at about 14+years for boys (11+ for girls), there is a continual *remodeling^ of the gray and white matter in the brain from childhood all the way through our thirties.

What is Success 2

2009-12-15T09:32:00.000-08:00

Last week we addressed a few older concepts on the meaning of success.

Current thinking is that successful people are more interested in the challenge and the journey, rather than the outcome.

Many believe that success is knowing that you did your best to become the best that you could be.

My grammar school motto was *The best is yet to be*. The continuous quest to improve yourself often leads to a greater sense of satisfaction.

As the famous General, George S. Patton said, * If a man has done his best, what else is there? *

What is Success?

2009-12-07T09:58:00.000-08:00

WHAT IS SUCCESS?

What makes a person successful?

In Europe, for many centuries, it was the social class you were born into which determined your success and position in life.

In other countries, it is an accepted fact that intelligence and diligence are the major factors in a person’s success.
Intelligence was believed to come from our genes, so we either thanked or blamed our parents.

Study and hard work, we were told, would lead to a life of comfort and wealth.

What do recent developments from Neuroscience tell us about these beliefs?

Creativity in Children 2

2009-11-29T18:45:00.000-08:00

We have been discussing the peak periods of brain development in a child.

Professor Stuart Shanker of York University said,
* While conventional knowledge holds that the ability to reason is genetically hardwired into components of our brains from birth, our research shows that reason is in fact formed by emotion itself, by the responses of infants to their environment and to their caregivers*

This confirms our own observations that a child’s reasoning powers can be increased by improving their environment and their interaction with those around them.

Creativity in Children

2009-11-15T11:27:00.000-08:00

As we asked a few weeks ago:

*What does happen to those young, developing brain circuits – those neuronal links that are changing and growing daily?*

The answer is that they are being continually influenced by their environment.

Parents, teachers, friends and society are constantly programming these creative young minds into blocks of convenient conformity.

The ancient wisdom of *give me a child before he is seven, and I will give you the man* has also been confirmed by science.
Studies show that the greatest development in a child’s brain occurs during the first four years of life, after which growth continues until the major developmental spurt during their teenage years.
Brain development after this period of peak growth is more measured.

Nurture and Creativity in Children

2009-11-03T08:23:00.000-08:00

As we continue our focus on children this Fall, we would like to report recent research on children and learning.

The latest published papers turn our *modern* thinking upside down.
Parking your kids in front of the TV with a *learning* DVD does NOT do the trick!!

In fact rigorous tests have shown that direct human interaction and immediate rewards have a far greater effect on academic skills than watching a *Einstein training* DVD.

Creativity in Children

2009-10-26T10:11:00.000-07:00

Dr. Jay Giedd of the NIMH has presented updates on our understanding of brain development.
He showed the myelination of the teenage brain and how late the superior temporal cortex matured.
In Giedd's recent paper, when the curves for females and males were superimposed, boys were more likely to have a "late blooming" profile.

This corresponds to data which show that boys have slower processing times.

Lost Childhood Creativity

2009-10-19T22:40:00.000-07:00

Childhood Curiosity and Creative Inquiry

How does it end? why? is it our insistence on reality and the way things are?

Is it the schools we send them to where their innocent curiosity is dismissed as ignorance?

Is it the rote learning we emphasize in their early school years followed by the systematic removal of their unlimited imagination - what we adults call fantasy?

What happens to those developing brain circuits; those neuronal links that are changing and growing daily?

Creativity and Children

2009-10-12T11:54:00.000-07:00

What is it that makes a child delve whole-heartedly into an investigation of how things work, and why everything is as it is?

For those who have experienced parenthood, you know the torrent of questions your child had, as he or she wandered around this exciting new world that they were discovering every moment of every day.

Whats that, dad?
Why, mom?
Hows it do that?

Then there are the hours of make believe, of limitless imagination, of that childhood joy; the joy of life itself.

So, how does it all come to an end?... and why?

Is it our insistence on so-called
reality
and
the way things are?

Creative Young Music Lovers

2009-10-05T23:53:00.000-07:00

The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada, has reported conclusive proof that immersion in the musical arts increases creativity.

Young children who were educated in music, and continued to immerse themselves in it, showed increased brain development, higher IQ test scores and were "happier children"

Music and Learning

2009-10-02T21:56:00.000-07:00

The power of music on our mood and emotions has been recognized for centuries, and today we know that it also affects our neural pathways.

Neuroscience has shown us that neural pathways which become detached can reconnect through music.

Studies confirm that classical music actually stimulates the amygdale, which helps us learn.
Children who listen closely to, and become involved in music have also scored higher on IQ tests

Creativity On- Line

2009-09-24T22:33:00.000-07:00

Well, this past fortnight has certainly been busy.

I'm pleased to say that the value of my seminars and our Whole Mind Success techniques has now been recognized by iLearning Global, and at their invitation I have joined the iLG faculty.

In the near future, I will be presenting more of my seminar material through this brilliant new technology and the remarkable iLearning Global platform.

If you wish to develop your creative skills and business acumen, I encourage you to consider
becoming a member of iLearning Global. To find out more, or to join, click or copy and paste

http://www.ilgcreativity.com/

No. we are NOT neuro linguistic programming

2009-09-13T15:21:00.000-07:00

Whole Mind Success is NOT neuro-linguistic programming

We are sometimes asked by clients are you NLP – Neuro Linguistic Programming?
Our answer has always been NO because we are not.

NLP began in the 1970s and over the next decade its early proponents went through the courts to defend their claims.

We would like to refer you to an article written in 2007 by an attorney, Anthony J Fejfar.
The title is
Disinformation and the Dangers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming

The full article is available at this webpage: http://www.scribd.com/doc/344884/Disinformation-and-the-Dangers-of-Neurolinguistic-Programming.

Meanwhile, our Whole Mind Success methods, based on proven methods of increasing creativity and enabling innovation, continue to be used by creative people worldwide.

A pre-publication booklet of excerpts from the forthcoming book Don't Think, Don't Blink is available at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B002BVQE5Q/ref=dp_olp_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1252880415&sr=1-1&condition=all