It seems that when it comes to boosting your brain-power everyone has an angle - and it can be difficult to work out which direction or which approach you should take. Here is a list of assorted tools and techniques, stripped of their packaging, for you to trial.
Pick and choose what works well for you, and keep this list handy for regular referencing. Trial a new technique each week and in three months you will have twelve extra or improved competencies. Or, put
opportunity off and in three months you will have twelve competencies less than you could have. List of Brain Improvers
Write down goals. Tried and true and based in research from 1950s. Using this simple technique enormously increases your chances of success. It is a focusing tool. What you think about is what you pursue and create in your life. Best if you write it down and then refer to it within your daily workload or activities for more powerful results.
Ensure you attach a strong visual component and a positive emotional component to using your daily affirmation or goal statement. This pulls your nonconscious brain into play, and it outranks your conscious intent by 5:1 - so give it what it needs to get you what you want. Spend ten seconds five times a day seeing and feeling that goal statement.
Make your exercise routine easy as pie from start. When your body is able to step up quality or quantity, it will tell you. Trust it. Pull back and aim for longevity; you have decades left on this planet, set yourself up to maintain your health for long haul.
Shift balance of your food intake between carbs and protein to below 50/50, favoring protein. You need more carbs to give you energy that protein provides - that is, you will overeat. But even worse, carbs just plain make you hungry because simple carbs and processed carbs you mostly eat don't have nutrients and energy in them that your body needs - so your body will demand more, i.e. you often feel hungry or tired from eating carbs. Feed your body properly and your brain can function properly. Deprive your body of a decent diet and there'll be little brilliance coming from a brain preoccupied with feeling hungry, feeling tired, and where it can get it's next food hit from.
Use color and visual aids when you write notes in meetings, at your desk, in your team, at workshops or conferences, or at home. This enhances your brain's ability to remember and integrate what it is you want to do.
Have five different colored pens, textas or pencils in your drawer. Have a few packs of kids' stick-on shapes and animals to highlight key points and grab more of your brain's attention: having fun is a powerful highlighter. Use a bright highlighter or several different colored highlighters when reading documents, notes, books or other text material.
Don't be frightened of putting color and notation directly on to text. It exists for you to learn, so if you can highlight it in a way that will increase memory, integration, application and create easy referencing for yourself or others in future - go right ahead.
To achieve a goal you need to do something toward it every day, even if it is a small thing or some form of mental prepartion. It should become a daily habit that you are leaning toward your goal, mentally, psychologically and with specific action. Each morning before rising or during your shower frame that day's goal-focused action as one sentence. Ensure statement is in present tense: I make five cold calls today. I am calm and organized with my workload today. I complete all of today's tasks on time. Support your brain's capacity to act by giving it clear, consistent, daily instructions.
