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For those of us who are blessed with the gift of sight, it is easy to understand how critical and important it is to our daily life, decisions and actions. Our visual organs bring forth into our conscious mind a world of color, intrigue, movement and depth. We perceive our reality to be real and true based on our personal [...]

As we go about our days, we tend to perceive, decipher and understand the problems, events and circumstances of our lives somewhat differently than others. In fact we believe that our understanding of reality is built upon the foundations of our perceptions – what we take in through our sensory organs including the eyes, ears, nose, skin, and tongue. This is [...]

Problem Solving, Creative and Critical Thinking go hand-in-hand helping us to see the world from several different angles and perspectives. Each of these techniques strengthen our capacity to think in flexible and adaptable ways expanding our understanding and awareness about the world we live in. This post will specifically focus on the process of problem [...]

Creativity is the hidden capacity to think about ourselves, others, objects, events and circumstances in original and unique ways. Moreover, creativity allows us to overcome great odds, problems and challenges that maybe standing in the way of the success we desire to attain in life. With it, we can move [...]

The questions we ask ourselves on a daily basis could very well be the most critical and important factors determining our ongoing success, happiness and fulfillment in life. In fact, the questions that we persistently dwell upon intrinsically influence our thoughts, habits, decisions and actions in insurmountable ways that are simply beyond our conscious [...]

Ever since the creation of the printing press, it’s hard to argue with the fact, that most of the information we are exposed to on a daily basis is presented to us in the “written word”. With the ever increasing influence and expansion of web multimedia services, the “written word” is somewhat losing a little ground, however it is still [...]

Procrastination is something that many of us struggle with every single day. We simply fail to find the motivation to undertake a specific type of task or activity because of a myriad of excuses, habits, thoughts and fears that absorb our daily ritualistic behavior. Yet, procrastination can easily be overcome if we simply take time to understand the [...]

Most of us go through our academic years without fully utilizing our potential as intelligent and creative human beings. We are all gifted with the ability to learn and absorb new pieces of information in so many surprising and profound ways. However, most of us never fully realize this, and therefore struggle with ineffective means and methods of learning [...]

Our fears are debilitating things that rob us of our energy, our dreams and our opportunity for redemption. They are very much like rubber bands flinging us back and forth into our comfort zones the moment we try and expand the possibilities. Yes, our fears are indeed horrible figments of our imaginations, much like dreams – seemingly real, yet completely [...]

For hundreds of years, the typical western world’s “school culture”, has always encouraged and measured the effectiveness and efficiency of our intelligence through a Logical and Linguistic means. These two types of intelligences are highly respected and admired within the academic realm. Those lucky enough to have grown up within an environment that [...]