Reward Yourself for Accomplishment and Achievement and Train Your Brain to Do the Same!

Would you like to accomplish and achieve more in your life? There are ways to do that, there are ways to motivate yourself without any help from anyone else. Yes, businesses do this all the time to help motivate their employees, but what if you don't have a boss? What if you are self-employed, what if you are retired, what if you are in school, or what if you are "other than" the breadwinner in your family?

Okay so there are some things that I have tried to help myself achieve more and accomplish more. Because I am self-employed, I don't have a boss telling me what to do, coaxing me to work harder, or trying to motivate me to help make him or her make more money. Therefore, I motivate myself, and I've come up with several strategies to help increase my performance even though there's no one around to tell me what to do. Let me explain one technique I use, I call this method; SRS or Self Reward Scheduling.

Perhaps you've used something similar yourself. Have you ever worked real hard, and achieved something, and then decided that you needed some way to celebrate? Well it's similar to that, but what I do is I breakdown a major achievement, accomplishment, or goal into several incremental pieces. After I achieve each piece, I reward myself in some way. Over the years, I've done quite a bit of writing online, and each time I write an article, I may reward myself with a slice of an Apple, a cold glass of fruit juice, a piece of chocolate, or something of this nature, always something good as to not develop bad habits.

After I complete five articles, I may have a small bowl of nuts, or healthy chips with salsa while continuing. After I complete 10 or 15 articles, I might reward myself by going to Starbucks. Sometimes, I tell myself that after I write two or three articles, I will read another section of the newspaper, since I love to stay up on the news, it motivates me to complete those articles so that I can go onto a more favorable task. Indeed, I might write an article, and then agree that I will allow myself to watch the financial news for 15 minutes.

Then, I learn more information, which I may use in future articles. By eating nuts, fruit, and other things which are good for me I am feeding my brain, which is helping me at my task. This works very good for me, and it is my way of micro-scheduling using a very simple and powerful tool of self rewards. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this, and try it for yourself. And I'd love to hear about your progress. Let me know how well it's working for you, maybe next time you can give me some of your tips.

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 23,444 articles by June 4, 2011 is difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off..

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The Power of Deep Brain Stimulation and How to Use It to Transform Your Life

Have you ever explored the concept of deep brain stimulation? The brain is very powerful; it is like the central processing unit of our bodies. Only the experts understand how it works, and they don't even fully grasp the concept. Thus, the brain is also very mysterious.

But we have also learned about techniques on how to penetrate the deeper, mysterious levels of the brain. One of these techniques is deep brain stimulation, a process that attempts to reach deep beyond our consciousness into the inner workings of the mind.

We are capable of understanding our thoughts and forming logical conclusions in our heads. But there is a huge part of our minds that we have no control over. This part usually applies its influences in random areas of our lives, whether we like it or not. And we find ourselves unable to control our own minds, our own habits, actions, behaviors, desires, fears, and decisions. These uncontrollable processes of the mind are all the works of the subconscious mind, a powerful state of consciousness that we have no access to and yet it has all the access to our life.

1. How to access the deep levels of the brain. The concept of deep brain stimulation is to stimulate the brain at that level: the subconscious level. But how can you reach that level when its gates are guarded by the conscious mind? Simple; by putting the conscious mind to sleep or in a trance so it will not block your way to your subconscious.

You can do this using different methods, such as:

? Brainwave entrainment
? Hypnosis
? Meditation

2. How to change the way the subconscious works. It is not enough to merely access the subconscious. Once you get there, how can you really change the way it is programmed?

There are now many subliminal products that are designed to apply this kind of stimulation and alteration on our brains. You can use:

? Videos
? MP3s/audio
? Downloads

These all use a single weapon: subliminal messages. These are messages hidden in the videos, MP3s, and other downloadable products used in deep brain stimulation. You can use the messages that you want to program into your head.

3. How to change the direction of your life. Deep brain stimulation is used to penetrate through our habits and actions so we can get rid of bad habits and change our actions from negative to positive. But do we really need to stimulate the brain every time we are tempted to do something negative?

The answer is no. There is a way to completely reprogram the mind to think in a more positive light so that it always goes to the positive direction, without the need for constant stimulation. This requires a total makeover of your mind's inner processes, a total renovation of the processes your mind undergoes when it is faced with a particular situation. This way, the overall direction of your life will also change.

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