Big day today! Want to know why?

The blog celebrates a month of existence!

It’s not a lot of time, but it has been enough to gather a small group of loyal readers. A big and warm “Thank You” to all!

The highlight articles of the first month:

1. Drinking problems? - How to stop drinking
2. How to wake up early
3. The honey ghost - is skinny sexy?
4. The happiness recipe. 56 tips for a happier life
5. The money blueprint
6. Good visual memory? Put it to the test
7. Connections between weather and psychology
8. Flag colors - psychological influences?
9. 4 reasons why personality tests are evil
10. Take control

Some of them are my favorites too, but I would also like to name some other very interesting posts:

• The brainwashing industry. An insight article on the advertising industry.
• Information overload. Data asphyxiation. Learn the symptoms of information overload and how to fight them.
• Don’t rush. All in good time. A post on why is it important to move through our lives one step at a time.
• The outside noise and the inside peace. Article on the importance of silence and how it can help you improve yourself and the world around you.
• Simplify. Short post about simplicity and how it drives stress away. Nice inspirational story in there.
• I can read your mind - part I & part II (more to come!). A series of articles on how to read and interpret indicators of the communication process. You’ll learn to “read” what is going on in peoples minds.

Now some miscellaneous figures regarding the first month of existence. Continue Reading �

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Confidence per se isn’t bad. It frees us from the paralysis by analysis. The moment when confidence turns into a problem is when it becomes overconfidence.

Overconfidence refers to the human tendency to be more confident in one’s behaviours, attributes and physical characteristics than one ought to be. Surveying drivers, Ola Svenson (1981) found that 80% of respondents rated themselves in the top 30% of all drivers.

Overconfidence may cause people to persist in situations where their expected outcome is poor. In some situations, this might ironically cause them to improve their outcomes via greater effort.

Nevertheless, this bias can be counterproductive and lead to “exploitable” behaviors.

Almost all of us are being overconfident. Are you feeling different? Continue Reading �

Welcome to the second part of “I can read your mind” series. In the first article I wrote about the meaning of up and to the left eye position.

I hope and you enjoyed reading the first part at least as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Today I will cover the meanings of three more eye positions:

1. Up and to the right
2. Middle left
3. Middle right

Up and to the right

This eye position, like the up and to the left, is also connected with the visual memory (Visual Mode mental process) and it indicates that a person is remembering visual images.

Ask someone “what color shirt did you wear two days ago?” and this would be the direction their eyes would move. In their minds, they are visually remembering the color.

The up eye position, whether it is left or right, indicates a visual mindset. Left is for constructing images and right is for remembering images.

Middle left

The middle position is connected with the Continue Reading �

Mind reading, that’s right. I’m gonna teach you how to read people’s thoughts by interpreting different body signs.

It’s been said that “the eyes are the mirror of soul”, and indeed they are. Many people know that their eyes can betray their lies, feelings or thoughts, but only a few know how to interpret the indicators.

Starting with this article, I will write a series on the interpretation of eye and body signs. By learning and applying these things into communication processes you’ll be able to know what is going on in the mind of the person who you’re talking to, and you’ll also be able to figure out whether they are lying or telling the truth.

Knowing what the other person is thinking enhances communication.

Imagine how great it would be for you to be able to determine whether someone is in a kinesthetic, visual or auditory mode of thinking. Imagine if you could read their thoughts and be able to tell if someone is making something up or recalling some facts. Imagine if you could tell for sure when your girlfriend or boyfriend is lying to you. Sounds exciting right? Read on.

All this is possible by Continue Reading �

While surfing the web looking for something useful to read I stumbled upon a really great video by Richard St. John.

He was inspired to find these principles during a flight, when a high school student asked him how to be successful and he couldn’t think of any good answer to that question.

Unlike other secrets of success that I’ve read or found in other books, I find these eight to be very realistic.

Who is Richard St. John?

St. John describes himself as an average guy who found success doing what he loved. He spent more than a decade researching the lessons of success.

He has found success through his marketing company, the St. John Group, which boasted clients like Nortel and BlackBerry/Research in Motion. But he couldn’t get away from the question: Why him? He thinks of himself as an average guy, not talented at school, not terribly handsome or particularly lucky. So he spent more than a decade interviewing 500 people he defines as successful.

The decade of interviews resulted in a book (Spike’s Guide to Success: Stupid, Ugly, Unlucky and RICH) which has created even more avenues for success for St. John as a motivational speaker and talk-show star.

Back to the video. Continue Reading �