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Expand Your Mental ability Experience Rush Hour

By David Hennessey, Copyright February 8th, 2010

Bugatti Veyron 252 mph

Even if you drive one of the fastest cars in the world like the Veyron you cannot get through Rush Hour any quicker. But today’s post is not about the Rush Hour you may experience going to and from work or school each day it is about an excellent problem solving game that can help you expand your mental ability. So you are able to manage challenging situations better.

I wrote a posting about how to Grow Your Brain located here. The posting was all about feeding your brain to stimulate mental activity and make it possible for you to think clearer and more effectively. After playing the game Rush Hour this weekend I knew that playing this game is a great way to help nourish mental activity no matter what age you are.

Rush Hour was created by a company called ‘Think Fun’ (great name!) and it involves you setting up the game board according to different images of traffic jams on the game cards. Then you have to solve for the most efficient exit of your car by moving pieces on the board. The challenge gets steadily more difficult as you move through the cards.

Think Fun have received 25 awards for the game Rush Hour.

You can expereince a sample game of Rush Hour on line at the developer’s site. Just follow this link. You don’t have to sign up or disclose who you are on their site. They just want to show you how much fun this game is.

On the ThinkFun site you may choose to buy the game on line OR you can SAVE approximately 25 percent by buying online at Amazon by following this link to Rush Hour. That is great, ThinkFun gets a sale and you the savings.

If you do not wish to purchase via Amazon check out KazooToys for The Rush Hour Game by Think Fun.

Perhaps, make Rush Hour a gift for someone you know.

Please note I was not paid for this posting. I bought the game for my family and we all enjoy it very much and I simply think it is great to share.

I look forward to your comments.

Enjoy a wonderful day,

David

Stop Computer Eye Strain The Missing Tip

By David Hennessey, Copyright February 5th, 2010

When I wrote the article on how to reduce computer eye strain I included seven tips that can help you. The article is here. However, today as I worked I took a moment to reflect again on my own habits I use to avoid computer eye strain. Yes! I do use many of the tips I offered but I realized I did not share in the article one tip that I learned is really helpful.

This Missing Tip is designed to help remind you to take the time to practice some or all of the techniques in the article like focusing on a distant object to reduce tension and damage to your eyes.

And here it is the missing Tip. Set your watch or cell/portable phone alarm to ring quietly or better yet vibrate on your desk or in your pocket every 15 minutes. When it rings take the time to practice one of the recommended tips like rolling your eyes to moisten them so you have less visual fatigue. After you remind yourself often enough by the use of the alarm you will form a habit that will help protect your valuable eyesight. If you don’t have a cell phone or a watch with an alarm you could follow this link to read about Small Digital Minute/Second Timers .

Enjoy a wonderful day, David

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Exercise and Mount Everest

By David Hennessey, Copyright February 4th, 2010

Jim Whittaker and myself 2005

In 2006 I met Alain Robert alias The French Spiderman at the Vancouver International Film Festival. In 2005 I had another memorable experience as I met a legend of mountaineering Jim Whittaker. Jim was the first North American to summit Mount Everest when he did it in 1963. Also, during the event I met the legendary rock climber Peter Croft author of The Good, the Great, and the Awesome.

Now I am a long term back packer but beyond having gone up dozens of peaks my experience in the outdoors is nothing compared to Jim and Peter. They are legends, I am simply a person who likes the outdoors but something happening during the festival that made me feel reassured that my approach to mental and physical health and wellness is actually ’on track’.

I had the honor of being on a discussion panel with Jim and Peter to answer questions on how to manage stress and prepare your mind and body for outdoors activity. Before the discussion at other events I had shared that to train for an intense physical activity you benefit from doing the same activity on a lesser scale frequently and train your mind to believe more is possible. This is what I practiced and shared with people. When I wanted to hike longer distances I simply did more hiking. But many people have suggested to me I need to work out at the gym too but I have resisted because I don’t like exercising I simply like to hike. I had always wanted a legendary source to verify or deny what I believe and Jim Whittaker is a legendary source.

What made me feel reassured that what I believed is ‘on track’ is the fact that during the presentations Jim Whittaker made it very clear to the attentive audience that the main part of his training was going up and down Mount Rainer and training his mind that he was capable of going up Everest. Everything else was supplementary. He trained by doing what he loved to do – mountaineering.

To me, I was reassured. For you I hope this helps reassure you that you can grow to be the best in what you love to do by doing more of it.

Enjoy a great day, David

P.S. You can read more about Jim Whittaker’s adventures by getting a copy of his book A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond. Inside is a history of this great man’s life plus lots of fantastic photographs. I have the honor of having a copy as you can see me proudly holding it in the picture above. Yes! Jim is actually 75 in the picture and in great health. If you like the mountains I recommend you get yourself a copy

Stress Well Managed The French Spiderman and More

By David Hennessey, Copyright February 3rd, 2010

Stress Well Managed – The French Spiderman and More

The picture above of yours truly was taken when I was in the Himalaya region of Northern Pakistan just outside Passu. Here about a 100 km from the border to China there was just the two of us (my lady and I) back packing. We felt we managed our stress of heavy packs (28 & 23 kilos), traveling without a guide and the issues of no guarantee of water and food very well. But now I know we had no stress compared to the following three people who manage all kinds of stresses very well indeed.

Alain Robert Alias The French Spiderman

I met Alain Robert Alias The French Spiderman when he was speaking at the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival in 2006. He told me he is amazingly at peace when he climbs with his bare hands free style high buildings like the Sears Tower in Chicago (443 meters) for the joy and as an expression of who he is. You can learn more about his amazing adventures and his film called L’homme araignée (the human spider) on Alain’s Site here and more about Alain in his book called With Bare Hands: The True Story of Alain Robert, the Real-life Spiderman

Philippe Petit Man on Wire

Philippe Petit is a French High Wire Artist who become well known after his high wire walk between the Twin Towers of The World Trade Center in New York in 1974. There is a great film on this adventure called Man on Wire
and you can check out details about it here. To do what he did and does and do it so joyfully shows he has truly managed to control stress in his life and remain healthy and happy. In the film there is a classic scene when he is crossing between the twin towers and he lies down on the wire teasing the police as they watch him from the edge of one tower.

William Trubridge World Record Holding Free Diver

I have always been inspired by Free Divers since I saw the film The Big Blue: Le Grand Bleu about the life of Jacques Mayol. Recently I read an article by Zack McDuffie based on his time with William TruBridge who a world record holding free diver. Read the article here. William has the incredible ability to manage his mind and body so he can go down to 90 meters below sea level and hold his breath for over three and a half minutes. You can see the amazing video of William’s decent to 88 meters here. Note: I had to let the 4 minute video of William’s decent load a bit before playing so I could watch it in its entirety. You can see the harmony William expresses in what he does throughout this video. William’s website is www.verticalblue.net

I can learn a lot from how these three people manage their minds and bodies.

Enjoy the links and a wonderful day,

David

Improve Your Time Management Today

By David Hennessey, Copyright February 2nd, 2010

To reduce stress and to improve the health, happiness and prosperity in your life you most likely agree you need to ask yourself important questions before you start a task.

May I suggest you follow this four step question format to help focus your valuable energy – these questions can of course be reframed to be not only used at work but for personal tasks outside of work.

The Four W’s of Time Management (I wrote this to be easy so the four W’s are not Work,Work, Work, Work

Step ONE

Ask yourself WHAT exactly is it that you need to do.

Perhaps, you need to update your website, organize your past client files so you can start using a contact management system like Aweber, perhaps you need to design a new product.

Now once you have written WHAT tasks need to be done move to the next question.

Step TWO

Ask yourself WHO is the right person for the task.

Okay, so you are not a web designer so you will hire someone for this (make a note to locate a web designer), you will also hire someone to organize your client files because your time needs to be used more effectively (make a note of what way you need the files organized) but you are very creative in product development area so you will work on the new product.

Now that you have focused your energy and realized there is a ideal task for you to work on (the product design) you need to double check what you are doing before you start.

Step THREE

Ask yourself WHY do I need to do this task?

Well, all your market research indicates the market has changed and your products need to change too. you need to redefine/recreate/create a new product – this task is a good choice to use your time best.

Now that you double checked you are definitely on track you need to ask yourself another question.

Step FOUR

Ask yourself WHEN do I need to do this task?

You have the time, you have the funding, you have the need so then the time is now. If you are missing the funding or you decide the need is not really present in the current or future market place then you need to find another task to focus your time on. And as always in life there are always more tasks to complete.

I hope this idea I put together for you (I call it the four W’s of Time Management) helps you enjoy a more stress free and successful day.

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Remember I always welcome your comments. Do you have a time management system you wish to share?

Best Wishes,

David

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