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Research Background and Results The researchers had participants perform specific tests and in a long study showed this is a result, “Chocolate intake was significantly and positively associated with the Global Composite, Visual-Spatial Memory and Organization, Working Memory, Scanning and Tracking, the Similarities test (abstract reasoning), and the MMSE.” Why for Breakfasts? Know what that means? Let’s couple chocolate with the powerful first meal of the day that is known as breakfast and layer it into cake form!...

Classical Intelligence Test – 2nd Revision – [Psychology Today] This IQ test measures several factors of intelligence, namely logical reasoning, math skills and general knowledge. It also measures your ability to classify things according to various attributes, and to see analogies and relations among concepts or things. It doesn’t take into consideration verbal, social, or emotional intelligence.

You may be thinking, “It’s the public areas that affect the bottom line, right?” Think again. All areas of a business affect the bottom line. Feng shui teaches that everything is connected. Clutter, dirt and disorder in one part of the establishment are sources of negative energy and that negative vibration will affect all other areas of the business. If that energy happens to be located in the area that holds energies associated with wealth and prosperity, the business may suffer financial challenges....

Now you have your reason (excuse) to have your coffee break. He says that the replay mechanism may be part of how the brain packages information and sends it off to different parts of the brain. “It’s still a little controversial,” Foster says, “but the idea is that information may first be stored in the hippocampus, but then slowly integrated into long-term stores in different parts of the brain.”… Coffee Break Brain – [ScienCentral News]

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I’m a late adopter. Like I said, I love gadgets. I’m the go-to guy for any tech-related questions in my family, and carry a few pounds of silicon-and-LED goodness on my person at all times. The thing is, the shiny new gadget I’m oohing and aahing over is liable to be a year out two out of date. Why is that, I hear you ask? There are a few of good reasons I can think of to refrain from buying the latest thing, and even to buy one or more generations removed from a company’s current line-up....

The list is geared toward network-savvy professionals, especially those who are actively involved in expanding their business or ideas. Most of these 15 ways do not require having an in depth knowledge of the areas of interest of the person you want to impress. It is simple enough to ask for more information where you aren’t sure. These things should come from a genuine area of interest and there should be no expectation of getting something back if you do one or more of these things for someone....

Be Human Even if a person isn’t shy, a first meeting can be stiff. It can be hard to come up with conversation. It is important, though, to make the effort to relax in these situations. Whether or not you want to worry about impressing your new friend or client, doing it during a conversation makes it even harder to talk. You’ll either make that good impression, or not. Don’t worry about it during the process — that’s what before and after are for....

Cuba has long been the unvisited island in the Caribbean for Americans — a hot topic of history, foreign relations, and controversy, even today. President Barack Obama’s visit to Cuba last month was the first by a sitting U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge in 1928. Later this year, U.S. airlines will begin flights to Havana (HAV), Camagüey (CMW), Cienfuegos (CFG), Holguín (HOG) and Santa Clara (SNU), while Starwood Hotels and Marriott International will offer accommodations and Airbnb will expand services to visitors from all countries....

Here are a few items that should definitely be in your hospital bag: Stopwatch Whether you have one already available on your smartphone, or you prefer an old-fashioned one, this gadget is crucial for timing contractions. Make sure you know how to use it before the big day, since you don’t want to be fumbling around while your wife is in the middle of very painful contractions. High-energy snacks It is important to keep your energy levels up during the entire labor and birth process, whether it ends up taking eight hours or more than a day....

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow. Sound too good to be true? Well, it’s a simple fix — all you need to do is eliminate four bad time management habits and stop wasting time today. 4 Critical Ways You Can Stop Wasting Time Today

I’m guilty of this. While I was always a runner, I didn’t run my first marathon until I was 31 years old. That began my love affair with endurance racing. I am now in training for my first Ironman triathlon, so the relationship has grown stronger over the years. So what are the benefits of endurance training? Why the appeal? What would make a presumably sane person want to spend hours running, swimming, or biking?...

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. Keep a positive attitude: There’s is nothing more powerful for self-motivation than the right attitude. You can’t choose or control your circumstance, but can choose your attitude towards your circumstances. How I see this working is while you’re developing these mental steps, and utilizing them regularly, self-motivation will come naturally when you need it. The key, for me, is hitting the final step to Share With Others....

A Preface: Management and Leadership are not interchangeable words for me. We need both of them, for in part, management tends to be more internally focused (within a company, within an industry, within a person) whereas leadership is more externally focused on the future-forward actions you will take in the greater context of industry, community, or society. They have commonality to be sure, for instance, both are about capitalizing on human capacity, however they are defined by the differences we value in them: Management tends to be about systems and processes, whereas Leadership is more about ideas and experiments....

While you may need a certificate in order to be a licensed professional of some sort, however, you don’t need to attend an expensive class for many of your other learning needs. There are plenty of stunning examples of people who have gotten ahead based on their self-education — enough that there is a fancy term for them; they’re called autodidacts. Step up and join the likes of Benjamin Franklin, Stanley Kubrick and Frank Zappa....

Thankfully Justin Jeffers, editor of men’s style blog The Fine Young Gentlemen, has created a simple chart so the colour co-ordination between your pants and footwear will puzzle you no more! The left column features the colour of trousers you wish to wear, and on the right you can see which shoe colours will go with your outfit. If they work, the co-ordinating box will be shaded the colour of the shoe, if not you’ll get a massive NO....

Now, I can find the Internet Price for anything: my car, my home, a college education, major surgery, you name it. Even me. Plug in the skills you want, the years experience, optional equipment and how you would like me wrapped and there’s dozens of sites where programmers are listed by their Internet Price, some with pictures as nice as those of new cars. Would that be cash, check or charge?...

At this point, we need to stop and ask: do you need to be a jerk to be successful? Kindness as weakness? Jobs, Max, Bezos, and guys like Jordan Belfort (the main character in The Wolf of Wall Street) are some core examples of the prevailing idea that if you want to be rich and successful, you need to be a jerk. That idea is underpinned by another idea: kindness as weakness....

Check out some easy ways of baby proofing your home, speed up that bed time routine, fight of the monsters in the closets, show your kids how to use a juice box without spilling all over themselves and much more. Feel free to share this article with as many parents as possible. Let’s help each other make parenting just a tad bit easier.

No matter how it happens, it’s only when you are lucky enough to find a relationship with your best friend that you realize how truly amazing it is. If you’ve found love with your best friend, you know the following to be true. 1. You can read their mind It often feels like best friends can read each others’ minds. By simply looking at each other, they know exactly what the other is thinking....