Bill Riddell

The Fear of Change

We are all seduced by the idea of change. In theory at least - it sounds nice.

We like to read stories about people who have completed radical changes/achieved great feats and see reports about them on the news.

Many of us deep down have a lot of dreams to make radical life changes - to take the road less traveled, to quit your job and write a book, to get serious about your health and banish obesity. The list goes on.

Yet we resist change every day.

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The Memory Secret

Want to know a little secret to help you remember peoples names, phone numbers and the capital of Uruguay?

This idea was taught to me by two of my favorite teachers. To me their is little doubt that this secret is the reason why I did so well in their classes and years later can still recall what they taught me with ease.

That secret was the number eight, yes ‘8′.

Quite simply to ensure the information you want to remember stays in your brain, just repeat the information 8 times. Simple reinforcement.

But were going to take things a little beyond that, to make this secret really work at its optimum you need to be aware of the different ways we learn and retain information. Read the rest of this entry »

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Trains, Blogs and Good Omens

This morning I woke to this news, which I took as great omen to create the first post on my blog.

Why is some guy riding a train for the better part of a day a good omen? Because Heath Tully was doing the tremendous feat of train riding as part of a big list of goals he wants to achieve.

Conquering the Melbourne metro train system for 18 hours to cover the entire network. The 714km (443 miles) journey was the 32nd goal Heath has completed from a list of 183 that the 25 year old hopes to achieve before he turns 30.

Like Heath I too have a great big list of goals to achieve, and one of those was to grab my own domain (billriddell.com) and create a blog on it.

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