Where’d all Our Friendships Go? Long Time Passing…
Brain Leaders and Learners
by admin
18h ago
What if we imagine five qualities or habits we most admire in friends or family members. Then let’s consider one trait at a time from our list and become that characteristic. Since we tend to criticize in others what we lack or dislike in ourselves it only makes sense to start with inner growth if we hope to improve relationships with anybody. Let’s not be afraid of missed opportunities in past, or let’s not focus on any failure to relate well to somebody we care about. Even hatred or unforgiveness can give personal  meaning and purpose to growth if we consider growth mindset as a way to ..read more
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Depressed, Anxious or Stress-Free ?
Brain Leaders and Learners
by admin
18h ago
Even when depressed and down we are all still unique, and we each deserve unique approaches to healing depression that give us hope for a better future. Not that it’s easy, and at times it requires medications, therapy or both to help balance chemicals that work against wellbeing. Especially critical is the ability to feel heard but not judged when we feel sad, lonely or depressed. In fact criticism can keep us defaulting back to fears that caused us to be anxious or down in the first place. Some seniors even run to embrace a project or event that appears much easier. We often hear or witness ..read more
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Growth Mindset Boosts for Senior Wit ‘n Wisdom
Brain Leaders and Learners
by admin
1w ago
A growth or fixed mindset define our senior years and determine whether we burn strong or burn out after retirement. In any day we experience both tamed emotions for growth, and untamed or fixed emotions. Emotional responses to challenges such as loneliness or isolation during a pandemic, will determine our mindset and leave us emotionally well or moody and emotionally impaired. Research shows we generate 60K to 80K thoughts daily. About 80% of these are typically negative (or fixed mindset thoughts). We cannot improve 80K thoughts. But what if we improve the first thought of our day in a way ..read more
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Retire Graciously or Voraciously?
Brain Leaders and Learners
by admin
2w ago
Do we lie about our age, or do others find inspiration from our maturity and mindfulness that come with a few wrinkles? Perhaps more importantly – can we laugh and glance lightheartedly at age because it rocks for us? If predictable answers fly from our tongue like corn pops over heat, we may want to investigate and weigh a few growth mindset viewpoints? If friends describe us as gracious and see us as set in our ways, it may be time to step into adventures that come when we choose to feel alive and chase curiosity? Myth may have it that aging should be about gracious living, but rejuvenating ..read more
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Crazy Busy or Creatively Brilliant?
Brain Leaders and Learners
by admin
2w ago
Fixed ideas of HOW SMART WE ARE keep us busy on gerbil wheels anxiously chasing perfection. Flexible growth mindset ideas of HOW WE ARE SMART keep us risking creativity to grow brilliance. How we think about intelligence has a lot to do with how we take advantage of our abilities to expand our lives. What if we are asking the wrong question, though, if we hope to discover a wider range of capabilities or intelligences? Do you know the original purpose of IQ tests? Alfred Binet was a French psychologist who developed the first IQ test as a tool to identify learners who failed to find support i ..read more
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Retire into Loneliness or Liveliness
Brain Leaders and Learners
by admin
2w ago
Seniors who suffer from feeling alone, felt especially isolated during the COVID pandemic. Have you felt isolated or do you know retirees alone and without support as they leave their careers? Broken relationships, conflicts with peers, or disappointed expectations can exacerbate the alienation we suffer when a career no longer distracts us from conflicts we face. Sadly at such times we can cling to dangerous cortisol toxins that tend to torpedo our wellbeing, especially when alone with time to think about the problem. In such times we only increase our personal pain. Yet to be alone and witho ..read more
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Expect Kinder Retirement Possibilities
Brain Leaders and Learners
by admin
2w ago
Start any morning with a kind anticipation for the day and we are more likely to live more retirement rewards held in trust for those with matching expectations. The happiness of our lives depends on the quality of our thoughts according to Marcus Aurelius. It makes sense if you think about it. For instance, if we reflect on specific expectations for living well, we are more likely to meet these and live well. No question, we may have to pivot and adjust our steps along the way. Yet when we set a clear target we trigger a lighthouse flash … pause … flash … pause  cadence of certainty alon ..read more
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Assumptions Can Cause Conflicts or …
Brain Leaders and Learners
by admin
2w ago
Our assumptions can also bring blessings all around. It’s really a matter of going after grit, grace or gotcha grievances where blame blocks our brain’s gateways into grace. How so? Let’s say somebody wants to meet up in order to blame somebody else we happen to care for deeply. Perhaps a co-worker, a marriage partner, or a friend feels slighted by a person we know. Let’s say we agree to meet with the wounded person, but ask ahead that no toxic assumptions be brought up to smear the other side. What will result? Grace or grievance? Or what about cutting assumptions that lead to blaming f ..read more
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Don’t Tell Brains What NOT to Do
Brain Leaders and Learners
by admin
2w ago
Tell our brains not to do a thing and it ignores your command because brains simply don’t do don’ts. They lack equipment to simply stop doing a thing while they come well equipped to act on or do a thing. Let’s say we wish to stop judging a sibling, or we resolve to stop criticizing. Good luck with that because the “don’t judge command”, or “don’t criticize reminder” is framed in a non-usable language to the human brain. It’s best to avoid advice, especially to teens because what our brains fail to understand or register or tangibly do, it cannot support.  So how can we get past the “don ..read more
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Mend Minds of Teens and Boost Trail Blazers
Brain Leaders and Learners
by admin
2w ago
Inaccurate assumptions about the human brain often lead to harmful outcomes that block our incentives to tackle challenges and grow grit for innovative adventures that improve life for ourselves and those around us. While it’s true that the same boiling water that softens a potato also hardens an egg, it’s also true that we can develop resilience for moving beyond limited pathways to embrace challenges, build resilience, and achieve our goals. Yes, even in spite of tough times! For example, we can use newly discovered brain facts to become aware of a failing fixed mindset. Similarly, we can th ..read more
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