PhotoReading - Day 20 - Pieces of Eight

Day : Day 20

So the weather here in the UK is terrible. Wimbledon is rained off. No surprise really. Is that rain coming from the sky or is the water come up from the ground? I don't think, anybody is quite sure anymore.

Therefore what to do? I could quite happily have a few too many cheeky beverages all in the name of human science and personal development. Then again, I do have an assignment to complete. OK, how about a deal...do the assignment and then have a cheeky few. Done!

What can I tell you? I was really excited to get started. Very much unlike University days! I've an assignment to complete, the weather is bad. The beer is chilling. PhotoReading here we come.

Already I've photoread the PhotoReading book today. After all my assignment will involve me PhotoReading many books in one siting. I just felt it would be to my benefit to read the book again. I focused my post viewing on the synoptic reading section.

My books today were (covers at end) :

The Structure of Magic II: A Book About Communication and Change - Richard Bandler

Ericksonian Approaches: A Comprehensive Manual

Principles of NLP - Joseph O'Connor

Training Trances - John Overdurf

Understanding Neuro-linguistic Programming in a Week

Instant Rapport - Michael Brooks

Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Guide - Tad James

The Sourcebook of Magic - Michael Hall

I've read all of these previously, never just given them the PhotoReading treatment. My purpose was pretty much set by the assignment question. I just further defined my PhotoReading purpose by asking what, where, when and how. My original assignment title was to describe X. Describe is pretty general a term I think. I didn't really need to preview as I've already read these books. I just went over the back, front covers and the table of contents.

I got into state before each book and then flipped through the books. All in all they all took me about half an hour to 45 minutes to go through. I then went away. I walked the dog...oh the excitement. Yet, it got me away from the books for about half an hour.

I then began to go through each book with my how, what, where and when questions. Sometimes I knew which book to go to for the answers. I grabbed what I needed looked at the table of contents or index, read and left. Others, I wasn't so sure of. I guess I need to pay more attention to my own internal signals. I was able to mind map each section that I needed to answer. I did go on to Wikipedia to see if there was anything else I could add to my mind maps. Aside from a few references, there wasn't. I then just sat down with my PC and began writing my assignment up. I writing came quite easily and rather fluidly. I was impressed. Although I'd made mind maps of the areas I wanted to cover. I didn't need to refer to them much. The first draft is done. I'll come back to it in a few days. When my mind has had further time to ponder my assignment question and add detail if required. I'll also be able to check over the spelling and grammar etc.

The assignment wasn't that difficult to complete, yet I still had to be motivated to do it. After all I don't, in theory, have to hand it in until early December. Now it is done. I can now begin planning more important things... October, my next piece of travelling, catching up with friends. In addition it is time to really putting into further practise the ideas of Tim Ferriss. Who at the moment doesn't appear to have caught on too much over here in the UK. Only a matter of time. By then, I'll be back on one of my favourite beaches.Thankfully I've got somebody over here who is able to chase me and quiz me on that side of things. Cheers Dan!

If I've not had too much of the amber nectar. I'm going to play with Direct Learning tomorrow.

Happy Travels

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Technorati : Hypnosis, NLP, PhotoReading

PhotoReading Days 17 and 18 - Two of Everything

For some reason that escapes me right now the last few posts are missing. It is nobody's fault except my own. Everything happens for a positive reason.

So a quick recap over the last few days.

Day 17 I PhotoRead the following : The Virgin Wine Guide by Chris Orr and Day 18 I read Using LDAP for Directory Integration by IBM.

Whilst the Virgin Wine book was good as I love my food and wine.I'm not going to discuss about that one.Not much out of the ordinary except I drank another few glasses of wine.

The one I'll spend a little time on is the LDAP experience.

This happened in my current office. I was under a little pressure as LDAP isn't something I spend a great deal of time with. It was for work, not so much pleasure. The book was in a PDF format. Several 100 pages. I had to answer a question from a client and prepare documentation for implementing a solution.

I grabbed the PDF, prepared myself, which much to my relieve is relatively easy to do in my current office. I then already knew my purpose, since the client had posed a question that I needed to answer. I configured by Adobe Reader for full screen and for the software to turn the pages at a page a second. I was using the PhotoFocus technique by where you imagine an X on the page, yet, this was on my computer screen. The pages flipped by. I went through the book several times. The first time I was worried that people would ask me what I was doing. Thankfully they didn't. I was able to relax. Most people don't seem to care as long as you get your work done! I then went away from the PDF for a good half an hour. I even went outside for a walk. I had errands to run. This meant I was totally away from my reading material. I could allow my whole mind to process what had just happened.

I then returned to the book, looked at the table of contents and went straight to one chapter. In there was everything I needed to answer the question and prepare my documentation. I also implemented the solution into my test environment so that I could grab screen shots to put into my documentation.

Not bad for a few hours work. The client seemed pretty pleased too. This is great as I seem to have amassed rather a large collection of PDF documents.

Happy Travels

A

PhotoReading - Day 19- The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

Day : Day 19

Title : The Secret - Rhonda Byrne

So I've seen the film, heard the audio , blogged about it. Now it was time to read the book. Very quick, very easy. I know this book. I practise the secret some of the time. This and Tim Ferriss's book have reinvigorated my goal setting and manifesting the goals in my life . I've photoread this book several times now as I want to have this information at a very deep level within myself.

I've set up my vision board.

Happy Travels

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The Secret - Aha - Do It, Done It, Stopped

All,

Wow, what a weekend. I didn't PhotoRead.I've had much going on in my head and I've been attending my course.

This weekend we learnt about TIR . A deceptively simple set of techniques for reducing and resolving trauma. Whilst the set of techniques didn't do much for me on the day. I did discover things about myself. To cut along story short. I felt guilty about certain events that had happened to me when I was very young. I was able to release the guilt about the event and the larger issue.

That night I watched The Secret

For me this was an aha moment. I've had many negative thoughts going through my mind the last few days. Yet I thought they were positive. I was asking for what I wanted. Yet, I was actually asking for what I didn't want. The irony for me has been. My last two large manifestations (travelling around the world for a year and got a car that I've wanted for the last 5 years).I've done the Secret Process without knowing it.

Recently I've been thinking about where to live, yet wondering why I'm not living there already. Firstly thinking about the Secret Process as I understand it. I've not been focusing on the idea completely. I found that hanging a picture or as one of the expert says a vision board has really helped me in the past.

For my travels, I hung a map on the wall and discussed my travels, where I was going, what I was doing. I was able to see it every day. I imagined myself on beaches, swimming with whale sharks etc.

For my car, I had the brochure, had the car as my desktop wallpaper.

Each and every day I've seen my goals. With both I've spent time imaging what it would be like to have them.

On each goal. I 'made up' my mind it was going to happen. Still not sure what the 'turn in the key' or my mind was that made the thoughts solidify. I think it maybe the constant visioning, discussing, planning and doing something to that goal. Although I don't always know what I consciously did as an action.

The creative process has worked it for me, why have I stopped or only use it for certain goals not everything that I want?

Thankfully, I've a really good friend on the course and we talked about it all over lunch. I've got him to get in contact with me by Friday.

Since I need to create a vision board or something visual that I can see EVERY DAY. This I think for me has been a really important step to achieve my other goals. They say only 2-4% of people write goals. I think I write enough for that 2%. Why do some work out and some don't? I'm watching the next 30 days/months as I fully apply the secret process. What is truly possible for us all?

For the last few days, I've been on a totally energetic level. Yes, I've had negative thoughts. I managed to catch myself. Then change the thought to something more positive. I've done this by thinking about what I really want. The people I'll be with. Sometimes, I've played music, that is just hi tempo and makes me smile. The willingness to sing or dance around ie change your physical state has an amazing affect on your thoughts.

Happy Travels

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