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“Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and to live in real and current time. I assert these are perceptual illusions. Sensation is an abstraction, not a replication of the real world.” Vernon Mountcastle

Quote from YouTube Video: Kavli Prize Laureate Lecture – The Restless Brain

The Life Goals Planner

Closing Comments

There are three things that I hope have been accomplished with this program;

  1. Clarity of your values, mission and life’s goals.

This being absolutely foundational to our success and development of character. I hope that you are well on track and now know how to keep yourself focused, fulfilled and productive.

  1. Create a more balanced and effective person.

I hope that with the clarity of your goals, the understanding of planning, time and task management, being organized, and this decision making process will serve you to being a more effective human being.

  1. Produce courage, responsibility and personal leadership.

I hope that this clarity and these new skills will help you to be more courageous to pursue your dreams and become the most that you can be.

No one on this planet knows your desires, your wants, your needs and your hopes but you. No one knows your fears, your insecurities or your weaknesses but you so no one can really tell you what you should or should not do. It is my belief that the overall goal of mankind is to become the most that we can be, to grow to new levels of awareness and fulfill our human potential. To do that will require your commitment to your goals and dreams, the disciplines of good habits and courage. Sir Winston Churchill said “courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues for upon it all others depend.”

  • It takes courage to set goals and pursue your dreams.
  • It takes courage to choose values and resolve to live by them.
  • It takes courage to stay the course under subtle pressure to give up or conform.
  • It takes courage to go the way you feel in your heart even when its not sure to succeed.

Most of all it takes courage to try to become the most that you can be.

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

Key Tips from Great Books
7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness by Jim Rohn
Strategy One: Unleash the power of Goals.

Strategy Two: Seek Knowledge.

Strategy Three: Learn how to change.

Strategy Four: Control your finances.

Strategy Five: Master time..

Strategy Six: Surround yourself with winners.

Strategy Seven: Learn the art of living well.

 

7 Keys to High Productivity by Brian Tracy.

  1. Work harder at what you do.
  2. Work faster at what you do.
  3. Work on higher-value activities. (80/20 rule.)
  4. Do things you are better at.
  5. Bunch your tasks. (do several similar activities at the same time.)
  6. Simplify your work. (create better systems so there is less steps.)
  7. Work longer hours.

 

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven R. Covey
Habit 1: Be Proactive.

       Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind.

       Habit 3: Put first things first.

       Habit 4: Think win/win.

       Habit 5: Seek first to understand before being understood.

       Habit 6: Synergize.

       Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw.

 

The 7 Steps to an E-Myth Manager by Michael Gerber
       Step 1: Primary Aim.

       Step 2: Strategic Objective.

       Step 3: Financial Strategy.

       Step 4: Organizational Strategy.

       Step 5: Management Strategy.

       Step 6: People Strategy.

       Step 7: Marketing Strategy.

 

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Science-fact-theory-hypothesis

Definitions key to discussions:

  • Fact: A fact is a statement that is true and can be proved with evidence.
  • Hypothesis: A hypothesis is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon that can be tested by the scientific method. A hypothesis has not been tested.
  • Theory: Scientific theories are distinguished from hypotheses, which are empirically testable conjectures, and from scientific laws, which are descriptive accounts of how nature behaves under certain conditions. Theories have been rigorously tested and widely accepted by the scientific community who agree the theory best explains the observations or phenomenon we experience.
  • Scientific Method: The scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge.
  • Empirical Evidence: Empirical evidence is the knowledge received by means of the senses, particularly by observation and experimentation.
  • Reality: Reality is the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.
  • Delusion: A delusion is a belief that is held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.
  • Insanity: Insanity, craziness, or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns.