Improve Your Memory

Objective:
Learn how to memorize any string of numbers.  Ace tests and exams by easily memorizing hundreds of dates or strings of digits (key coureses include social studies, art history, etc.).  Also never forget your bank account information--even memorize your credit card number!

Improve Your Memory
As shown below, you first memorize the letter sounds that correspond to the numbers 1-9 in the Red box.  Then use the freeware software and tips on the next page to come up with objects that represent the numbers you would like to remember. In this example, I have converted the number 7215017 into a Candlestick.

 

Source: http://wwweudaigroup.com/memorytest/memorypage1.html

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Top 10 Ways to Build Muscle Mass Fast

 

    "Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."

 

- Arnold H. Glasow

 

1. Pursue Progressive Overload.

 

The law of progressive overload simply says that you must increase the amount of reps or the weight lifted every single workout (or as close to this as humanly possible) in order to ignite muscle growth.

 

2. Perform 8-12 reps.

 

3. Perform 6-9 sets.

 

Yes just 6-9 sets per body part. If you are working out with good form this is all you need to stimulate muscle growth. You want to keep your workouts under 45 minutes to avoid the release of hormones that actually break your muscle tissue down (catabolic hormones). Luckily, you can easily accomplish this by performing a maximum of 9 sets per body part.

 

4. Eat Eat Eat.

 

A good bodybuilding diet will allow you to grow without adding fat at the same time.

 

5. Increase the Amount of Protein in your Diet.

 

Lean Mass Weight (Kg) x 2.75 = Daily Protein Requirement

Your lean weight is your total body weight minus the amount of fat you are carrying. You will need to know your body fat percentage for this.

 

6. Eat Fat.

 

A Low-Fat diet is not desirable in bodybuilding. Eating fat increases the amount of anabolic (muscle building) hormones in your body. These are:

1. Testosterone
2. Growth Hormone
3. Insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1)

 

 

7. Make Sure you Drink Enough Water.

 

You should shoot for around 12 x 8 ounce glasses of water per day. Remember you can include your protein shakes towards your daily water intake.

 

8. Avoid Too Much Cardio.

 

Cardiovascular work will rob you of muscle gains. Yes if your goal is to lose fat you should do cardio but make sure it is:

(a) Performed immediately after your weight training

(b) 'High Intensity Interval Training' form of cardio for a maximum of 20 minutes.

The reason that too much cardio isn't desirable when your goal is to build muscle is that too much cardio releases catabolic hormones in the body, breaking down your muscle tissue; obviously this is counter-productive.

 

9. Sleep.

 

10. Relax.

 

Being stressed out results in a catabolic (muscle breakdown) environment in the body. One such hormone is cortisol. Remember that a calm, relaxed person builds more muscle than the hot-head :) (assuming all other factors are equal).

 

Source: http://ririanproject.com/2008/03/18/top-10-ways-to-build-muscle-mass-fast/

How to Improve your Discipline?

And it was when one of my Martial Arts Teacher told me: "You always have an excuse for whatever happens to you" that everything clicked and I finally could see myself in the mirror and see that the only one who I was cheating was I and no one else.

 

Discipline like anything else is something you learn and you really need to start small in order to not get frustrated, once you work over your own "I can" scale then you will be able to do some amazing feats. Do not try to be a Shaolin Monk tomorrow :)

 

Start Small

 

Small things are great things to get disciplined.

 

Let say you have planed to clean your house on Saturday, nothing spectacular right? But then, a couple of friends call you to invite you to a party on Friday, you go and party all night! … you come home and sleep almost all Saturday, it's 5:00pm , What will you do? Will you move your house cleaning plan to Sunday? Or will you start your cleaning on Saturday?

Discipline starts even before, if you knew you would clean your house on Saturday then why did you stay so long partying on Friday?

 

I am hearing your excuses now: "Life is one and you have to enjoy it, I enjoy going to party and not cleaning my house"…

 

Let me tell you one thing, even though you might not be aware, you are surely doing the same thing in other aspects of your life. You are just evading your plans and responsibilities in exchange for entertainment, leisure and pleasure.

 

You are just a pawn of your desires, fears and greed and the only way to get rid of that is to be strict with yourself and follow your plans for the day.

 

Deepak Chopra in one of his books wrote that once you set your objective or your goal you have to release it, in other words, forget it, he gives as an example those moments in which you are trying to remember the name of someone and you are trying very hard to make it come to your memory even though you have this feeling that you have it "on the tip of your tongue", but at the very moment that you decide not to try to remember it anymore or "give up", the name almost instantly comes up and you remember it.

 

It is kind of illogical; to forget or to give up your goals but in some way that is how it works.

 

In other words, if you are so focused on the end result, you won't have as much fun in training and the chances of you reaching your time goals diminish greatly.

 

The main question each athlete has to ask themselves to enjoy the process of training is "how can I make this more enjoyable?" Enjoyable doesn't necessarily mean fun. I like words like challenging, uplifting, encouraging, satisfying, fulfilling, outstanding, achievement. These are the feelings you want to get from your training and often it's just a matter of perspective. These are the feelings that lead to a successful process."

 

This experience revealed me the next big secret: The Universal law of "What you give you shall receive".

 

Always remember this: "A candle looses nothing by lighting another candle".

 

Credits: http://success-is-in-you.com/