Hit Your Goals Lately?

Goaltending: How to Include The (L) in “Earning”.

Can you imagine a cherry-pie divided into three sections?

Now picture this pie plate, and say hello to Slice # one, called Ms Visualization.

Now introduce yourself to Association, slice # two, and last is Location, slice # three.

Can you see the three-section pie now? You’re already a master of visualization.

The Association step is even easier. When you think cherries, your mind brings up

a bunch of links called associations. George Washington cutting down that tree; in each Spring they begin to flower in Washington, D.C.; and Dolly Madison, President James Madison’s wife, used to spend hours removing the pits to make delicious ice cream.

Notice how your mind automatically seeks associations like up and down, inside/outside, and good/bad, it is part of the context, the frame of reference of your thinking.

To remember like a wizard requires a Location, where the mental picture and the

association link together creating the Peg. A peg holds the picture and association

together, and a recall of one drags along the new idea.

Example

One is a Bun, two is a ton, and three is a tree, is a peg system that locks in the sequence, 1-2-3, and when we retrieve the peg, it retrieves along with it whatever we associated, in-sequential-order.

We want to remember in order, Symphony, Prayer and Watermelon.

First on our list is a symphony orchestra each eating his/her own frankfurter on a bun. Mentally see them chewing.

One is a symphony.

Two is a Ton; now mentally see a ton of people in St. Patrick’s praying.

Two is a prayer.

Three is a tree; now mentally see watermelons instead of leaves, hanging off

the tree’s branches.

Three is watermelon .

We can keeping adding links to our peg system, and when we recall the Location,

we will recall the concepts to be remembered in order.

The Educational Establishment

Educators luv to make all learning complicated, and get their jollies by making

us doubt the common-sense results of our three-pound coconut. Do they

consciously want their students to become dependent on them as mentors?

Sure there is complexity in the world, and everything is not obvious cause-and-effect, but research indicates successful, creative people are auto-didacts (self-taught), not the dependent learning-slaves of their teachers.

Psycho-Motor Skill

Speed reading is a psycho-motor skill consisting of three elements: eye-pattern-movements, field-of-vision, and specific guidance strategies. That’s the motor half; the psycho portion consists of meaning, comprehension and memory.

Funny thing, when we activate the motor half to learn new eye strategies,

we inhibit the cognitive, comprehension half - temporarily. Once we enlarge our comfort-zone to include chunking (grouping), and crunching the words of the sentences, our comprehension returns improved.

How to Code Your Goals

We asked a recent class to explain the difference between emotions and feelings.

The consensus was that emotions and feelings are synonyms. Webster’s agreed.

Let’s define emotion as the fuel, the energy that drives our thoughts. One psychologist explains that – mental-imagery drives emotions. What we see on the

movie-screen of our mind excites our emotions of anger, fear, sadness, happiness and joy.

Refer to your conscious thoughts as the guidance-system, and your emotions the electronics (fuel), that cause your consciousness to function.

Many believe that consciousness is our left-brain in action, while feelings are

a function of our reptilian complex and limbic system, structures of our right-brain.

Speed reading, memory and learning operate primarily at a subconscious level.

Do you know the next words out of your mouth when you are in a conversation?

How often are you surprised at how you express your own ideas?

Our right-brain (subconscious), operates at a non-verbal level 95% of the time. Your right brain controls pattern recognition, holistic thinking, spatial-skills, and parallel processing. We receive its communications through intuition, body language, gestures, and facial expressions.

Did you know that our subconscious mind responds to feelings, to the tenth-power,

compared to the power of words (verbal expression)?

Three Steps to Your Goal

First, a target-affirmation is a simple statement of your intention.

We use the law of As-If, by communicating your goals as a written statement, in a positive, present reality. Can you act-think-feel-believe that you have already succeeded in obtaining the goal of your intentions?

The simple act of expectation creates a mood-change, and acts as a motivation

to persistence and determination. Successful people make a commitment to

the pursuit of their goals that is almost obsessive and compulsive.

The daily act of writing out the theme (key ideas) of your intentions involves your three major senses – seeing, hearing and touching. The time consumed is just two-minutes. Is that too large an investment for success?

Second, mentally imagine a summary of your goal. See the outcome you want for

five seconds with feeling, and it becomes an ‘engram’, your memory trace and roadmap for your brain to follow.

See a vivid mental picture of being congratulated by your divisional v.p. , being

promoted, and applauded by your department staff. See it though your own eyes,

not as a picture, and it imprints itself as a goal. Some call this virtual reality, or

the use of mirror-neurons in using your feelings to trace your objectives. The result is an enlarged self-image leading to originality and creativity in pursuit of your

intentions.

Feelings

When thoughts and emotions unite, they create feelings. The secret is to raise the

vibrational level of your mood. Enthusiasm pumps your mood and suddenly all things seem possible through personal effort. It is measurable by a fMRI which

results in the excitation of your brain’s Ventral Tegmental Area, and the Caudate Nucleus.

These two areas of the brain are the pleasure and reward centers, motivating us to

produce the neurotransmitter, dopamine. Mentally see your success, and internally feel your response to your goal and you are triggering both left and right brain to act in-sync.

Endwords

These three steps – target affirmation, mental visualization, and feeling the power

of succeeding, causes the subconscious (right-brain), to follow your roadmap to

duplicate (by imprinting), your goals.

Try it, and discover an ancient secret that has scientific reality to improve your life

dramatically.

See ya,

copyright © 2006

H. Bernard Wechsler

www.speedlearning.org

hbw@speedlearning.org

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