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Introducing TasksPlus for Outlook New from Franklin-Covey -- Save 20% Off with Coupon

Link for this Post: Get 20% off TasksPlus for Outlook Software from Franklin-Covey . Use Coupon Code 18378

Franklin-Covey's PlanPlus v5 has been one the most popular planning software program of any I have reviewed on the Mindware Forum and use the PlanPlus solution personally.

In this review, we will be looking at TaskPlus, a new Windows software offering from FranklinCovey.

Many people not involved in complete business processes have told me that they through that the rich feature set of PlanPlus is more than they need but they sure could use some of the features to manage tasks.

The ability to create a non-scheduled Master Task list and another scheduled daily task list was the most sought after feature.

The folks at Franklin-Covey have answered this request and by creating two new products TasksPlus and ProjectsPlus, both for outlook and both offering a subset of the features of PlanPlus.

In this post, I'm looking at TasksPlus and I will post soon about ProjectsPlus. Below is a screenshot of the new TasksPlus software, task priority screen.

Here are some of the best features of TasksPlus

 
• You can organize  your tasks by day so you are focused on what you will complete today—not on an overwhelming  list of tasks.
 
• You can also  rank your your tasks with an additional level of prioritization using FranklinCovey's time-tested ABC-123 system for focusing on the most important tasks.
 
• You get Franklin-Covey's Quick Prioritize, a daily task-management tool that helps you choose how to spend your time each day in 10 minutes or less, increasing your productivity.
 
• Use the Convenient Home View lets you see both your calendar and tasks on the same page so you can use the drag-and-drop interface to quickly create appointments.
 
• Master Task List helps you track long-term tasks and unscheduled projects.
 
• Task delegation features allow you to assign tasks to team members that appear on their task list and then view their progress toward completion (Microsoft Exchange Server required).
 
• Task lists can be printed in sizes that fit Franklin-Covey binders so you can take your task list with you.
 
• Task list Gadget for for Vista desktop lets you quickly check off tasks without opening Outlook

The Vista Gadget is not so important for me (I'm one of those Windows XP holdouts) but the other features are are extremely useful  tools for any planning system.

By considering many Master Tasks as "projects", you eliminate the need for the projects category and can still use the system under either the Franklin-Covey or David Allen Getting Things Done system. Many people that do not to manage projects involved other people or who do not have a huge amount of products would benefit by the simplicity of this system.

Franklin-Covey allows you to add ProjectsPlus at reduced cost later or upgrade to the PlanPlus for Outlook v5.1 also at lowered cost so there is no risk trying this one out first..

iCap Technologies Unveils Their Release Meter Neurofeedback System V.2 -- Pix Inside the Box

Link for this Post: iCap Technologies Release Meter Neurofeedback Personal Development System Version 2.0  Note: Special Coupon Code D4DC63C7 Half-Off for Mindware Forum Readers

The breakthrough Release Meter Neurofeedback Personal Development System from iCap Technologies that I have written about previously has released new versions of its software and EEG biofeedback computer hardware.

I reviewed the system here and have updated the review to reflect version 2. I also posted a video interview Ray Caamano Inventor of the Revolutionary iCap Wireless EEG Release Meter Interviewed by Mitchell Rabin.

So I'm going to show you some pictures of the new system. A couple of them are from my friend and fellow blogger Elliot Arron who does the Self Improvement Sites blog who sent me a few of the first pictures he took of the new system so I could share them with you.

This is what you see when you open the box.

What you are looking at better understood using the labeled diagram shown by here:

In my review of the release of the iCap system which I first posted back in September 2007 (now updated to reflect version 2) , I said the software included as part of the iCap system is the most sophisticated mindware program I have ever used.

Well the amazing news is that Version 2 of the software is even better!.

My complete and updated review of the iCap Release Meter System in its new version has been moved to one post above this one.. You can also read the review through this link.

Zen to Done: the Ultimate Simple Productivity System from Zen Habits -- FREE eBook Download

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Download Zen to Done FREE as PDF with Registration

If you would like to purchase the book and pay the author, then choose the BuyNow link below.

Here is what Lee has to say about the development of the book:

When I published the Zen To Done: The Ultimate Simple Productivity System series, a number of readers asked for it to be turned into an e-book. I heard the requests, and after some hard work, today I’m making it available for purchase. Zen To Done takes some of the best aspects of a few popular productivity systems (GTD, Stephen Covey and others) and combines them with the mandate of simplicity. It makes things as simple as possible, and no more.

What is ZTD?

Simply put, Zen To Done is a simple system to get you more organized and productive, and keep your life saner and less stressed, with a set of habits. ZTD teaches you:

1. The key habits needed to be productive, organized, and simplified … and no more than that.
2. How to implement these key habits … tips on forming a habit.
3. How to organize these habits into a simple system that will keep everything in your life in its place.
4. How to simplify what you need to do.
5. Minimal ZTD. Also includes an even simpler version called Minimal ZTD.

Dozens of readers have written to me with comments about how ZTD has changed their lives, made them more organized and less stressed, and has worked better than other productivity systems. It’s definitely worth a try.

Introducing iCAP Release Meter -- the World's First Neurofeedback Personal Development System! Version 2.0 Now Available

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Note: Special Coupon Code D4DC63C7 Half-Off for Mindware Forum readers

Update: Please see the video interview on this post

A California company iCap Technologies has just released a breakthrough product called the iCap Release Meter System, the first personal development system which incorporates neurofeedback and technologically advanced. guided experience software .

Neurofeedback is the most sophisticated type of biofeedback, measuring and training you to control your brainwaves (called EEG). have written quite a bit about biofeedback on the Mindware Forum. The products I have reviewed thus far either measure and help train people to regulate GSR (for example Wild Divine) or blood pressure (for example emWave PC ).

I have discussed research with neurofeedback in posts such as Scientific American Mind: "Train Your Brain -- Mental exercises with Neurofeedback.

What is Neurofeedback? According to Wikipedia:

"Neurofeedback ... also called neurotherapy, neurobiofeedback or EEG biofeedback is a therapy technique that presents the user with realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by electrodes on the scalp, typically in the form of a video display, sound or vibration. The aim is to enable conscious control of brainwave activity".

Until now, there have been no products available to the general public that use neurofeedback. But that is just  the beginning of the remarkable iCap story.

A unique component of the system is the iCap Neurofeedback meter a lightweight and portable that you are free to move around wearing it. Unlike any biofeedback device before it, this little gadget does not need to be affixed to the body with past. Instead it simply that rests in a headband.  As you wear the headband with its "snap-in" gold-plated electrode, your brainwaves are transmitted wirelessly from a tiny "transmitter module" in the headband to a "USB base station" plugged into your laptop or desktop computer.

The iCap is the FIRST neurofeedback device that is truly practical for HOME USE and it is WIRELESS!  It send back its measurements of your brainwave to your computer wirelessly giving you complete freedom to wander around the room.  So you can measure your brainwaves anywhere! You can take it with you anywhere - even on an airplane

But there is still more to this new system. The iCAP Release Meter System is a  highly advanced, yet easy-to-use personal hi-tech method for eliminating fear, worry, panic and anxiety. It comes with the Release Technique course (Abundance Course) built into it in a simple-to-use, click-and-go format. Thanks to the innovative "genius" of the inventors over at iCAP Technologies, you  CAN verify that your unconscious mind is clear of reactive thoughts, beliefs and hang-ups that would otherwise keep you from reaching our goals!

The iCAP Release Meter was developed by a team of researchers whose credentials include training at M.I.T. and Stanford Universities. It is a highly advanced, patented technology that reads 3 specific and precise brainwave frequencies (out of thousands) from the right prefrontal cortex of your brain and measures these frequencies through a complex algorithm that determines precisely how "released" you are.

iCap measures your brainwave activity and it is processed and recorded instantly by the software (Windows and Mac Versions included), revealing precisely how reactive or calm you are when you think about a particular issue or goal. You break through your most difficult blocks effortlessly  let go of EVERYTHING in the way to achieving the necessary state of mind for reaching your goals!

I have been using the iCap meter for about a week now. In an upcoming post I will give a full-length description of my process with. However, I can tell you that it is easy to use and the software is the most sophisticated mindware program I have ever used. 

What's in the Box

You get the iCAP Release Meter   - the stunningly lightweight, dry EEG sensor that is worn in a simple headband and has the ability to communicate with your computer without any wires. Includes the 2-CD Q&A audio course, carrying bag, USB base station, USB hub and extension cable.

You get the iCAP Release Meter software that lets you see exactly what the iCAP Release Meter is reading about the brain's activity. It records your sessions and lets you view them  later.

With the iCAP™ Release Meter you won't be able to fool yourself or "pretend" about your state of mind and what you are holding you. You can SEE clearly — on the screen  any unconscious tendencies or patterns that will likely pull you off-course as strive to achieve yor goals.

The Release Technique Abundance audio course is integrated into the software and teaches you step-by-step how to lower your readings, clean out your subconscious mind and eliminate the underlying causes of your stress and resistance.

Here is a screenshot of a high and low session as revealed on the "advanced" iCAP charting program which allows you to view your results and compare your scores to other sessions on the same subject. This allows you to track your own progress and verify the success of this method in retraining the brain to make calm, conscious responses to a wide variety of situations..

The first RED line shows the readings of an iCAP™ Release Meter user the first time they went through an exercise embedded with the software. As you can see by the high readings, their minds were initially very reacive (called the Lizard mode). 

The GREEN line shows the results after they were guided through sessions that helped them to release their unconscious resistance to  having their goal. The lower reading indicates higher activity in the prefrontal cortex characterized by greatly reduced reactivity, little to no resistance, and a much quieter mind (called the Wizard mode)

You also  get the following bonus when you purchase the system.

• Abundance Course Workbook PDF - This PDF allows you to print out the Release Technique exercises and work along with the audio. An amazing addition that speeds up the process of making your subconscious mind conscious!
• 3 Months of Coaching - Free access to Larry Crane's weekly momentum teleseminars. Larry Crane, developed and has taught thousands of people worldwide the incredible Release® Technique.
• Full technical and Getting Started support - We make sure that you are able to get up and running as soon as you receive your new iCAP Release Meter System. iCap is committed to supporting your achievements with this technology.

You get a full 30 Day Money back guarantee so purchasing and trying the system out is completely risk free! The folks at iCap are offering Mindware Forum readers a special discount You Get Half off if You Use Coupon Code D4DC63C7 and visit the iCap website through this link!   

I will be posting some images of the new iCap Release Meter System Version 2 which was just released in the next post

Process and Understand Large Volumes Of Information Fast Without Speed Reading! -- Free Introductory Lesson

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Process  and Understand Large Volumes Of Information Fast Without Speed Reading with The Deluxe PhotoReading Self-Study Learning Course

PhotoReading offers a unique method for quickly and efficiently processing and understanding large amounts of information without speed reading.

PhotoReading exposes printed materials to the brain at phenomenal rates, a page per second. It is beyond the conscious mind's processing capability, but within the capabilities of the subconscious. PhotoReading actually teaches you to "mentally photograph" the printed page at 25,000 words per minute.

Photoreading has been recommended and endorsed by Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield, Harvey Macka and Ken Blanchard

Steve Palvina whose well known blog Personal development for Smart People says of PhotoReading:

"PhotoReading is by far the single best reading course I've experienced. As I went through the PhotoReading system, I realized it was much more than a speed-reading course. The rapid photographic reading is the most attention-getting part of the system, but PhotoReading is really an integrated system of flexible reading strategies. If you think of speed-reading as a hammer, PhotoReading is the whole toolbox. With PhotoReading you'll efficiently extract the key ideas from whatever you decide to read."

PhotoReading developer, Paul Scheele is an international expert in human performance. His acclaimed work has led to a breakthrough in reading that is easy for anyone to apply.

According to Scheele with the PhotoReader Deluxe Home Study Course, you will absolutely be able to process and understand any printed material three times faster than you can right now.

The PhotoReading course is not a recorded seminar. Rather, Paul Scheele redeveloped PhotoReading to present it in a way that is ideal for self-study. In just a few afternoons, you will be well on your way to mastering printed information with speeds and comprehensions that may astonish you. A PhotoReading Success Coach will be assigned to you at no charge.

PhotoReading requires a willingness to explore something different. One of the reasons people in emerging countries such as Hungary and Mexico have embraced PhotoReading is they realize they have to do something different to catch up with other countries.

You may be getting by, but to thrive in this new millennium with the deluge of information, you absolutely will have to do something different, otherwise you will be passed by. Think of where you would be today if you had not opened up to the personal computer.

Try a FREE introducting lesson of PhotoReading Personal Learning Course by visiting this link!

Make Every Cell in Your Brain a Happy Neuron

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MSNBC Today Video Featuring Happy Neuron's Brain Training Games

Your brain is like a lot of other parts of your body, if you don't use it you loose it.

The upside of this important fact is that recent scientific research has shown that if you systematically exercise your brain, you can actually increase your brain power and at the same time, stave off the effects of aging.

It was with these facts in mind that five years ago three French cognitive scientists started Happy Neuron, one of the best of the  breed of the new  online brain-training gyms.

Happy Neuron features 25 brain fitness games  that keep your  five major high level capacities --  memory, language, attention, executive  and visual/spatial  -- in top shape.

High level mental capacities, also known as cognitive functions, enable us to perform numerous complex tasks daily. Examples of these tasks include recall, reading, writing, recognition, calculations and fine motor tasks.

Happy Neuron offers a broad range of scientifically-proven and personalized brain cross-training workouts to enhance these skills. Designed for people of any age, the program minimizes the natural effects of brain aging by maximizing the brain's capacity to learn and its ability to adapt to new information

Happy Neuron like many top-rated fitness clubs, provides you with a coach to guide you through the levels of your workout. In this case it is an online coach that manages your personal brain workouts, progression and performance. The following diagram shows the flow of how things unfold:

As you can see, when you the bottom line of the diagram says "Watch Your Brain Improve!. So naturally you should ask, is there any proof that it will.

Well the good news is: there is proof!

A six-month pilot study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Happy Neuron has been shown to delay the onset of symptoms of Alzheimer’s and defer the effects of aging on the brain. With the Boomer Beneration (of which I am a part) entering their senior years, the development of online brain games could not come at a better time.

Get started today with a FREE 7 Day Trial at Happy Neuron when you visit them through this link.

The Brain Fitness Program with Peter Coyote on PBS DVD -- YouTube Video Preview

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This program presents a workout to help viewers get their brains in better shape.

The Brain Fitness Program is based on the brain's ability to change and adapt, even rewire itself. In the past two years, a team of scientists has developed computer-based stimulus sets that drive beneficial chemical, physical and functional changes in the brain. Dr. Michael Merzenich of the University of California and his colleagues share their scientifically based set of brain exercises in this life-altering program.

The PBS special, The Brain Fitness Program, explains the brain’s complexities in a way that both scientists and people with no scientific background can appreciate.

The show is narrated by Emmy Award-winning actor and narrator Peter Coyote (pictured to the right).

The show  features experts in the field of neuroplasticity, including Dr. Norman Doidge, Sharon Begley, along with Michael Merzenich. Dr. Mezenich is founder of Posit Science and creator of the Brain Fitness Program software. The two-hour provides a lot of good information on  how our brain work with the  latest in cutting-edge brain research as well as a video brain workout.

Below is a video trailer from the DVD posted on YouTube

Pioneering Silva UltraMind Comes to the Web -- Take a FREE Mind Training Course Online

Link for this Post: The original Silva UltraMind Method. Experience it now for FREE!

Why do some people almost always attain good health, success and personal breakthroughs even in less-than-ideal circumstances while the rest of us cannot?

Dr. Jose Silva started researching that question in the middle of the last century. After more than twenty years of studying hypnosis, mediation and psychology:

Silva found that 90% of the world's population were governed by the left hemisphere of their brain, limiting them to only using only logical, intellectual, objective means of problem resolution. Silva believed that by training people to think with both the right brain hemisphere as well as their left they could access a deeper wisdom within them.

In order to help people find a way to access both hemispheres of their brain, Dr. Silva in 1966, developed the Silva Method.

What is the Silva Method?

Introducing Mind WorkStation: The Most Powerful Personal Development Software Program Ever! Free Full Featured Evaluation Download Updated Info

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More Information about Mind Workstation on Transparent Corp Website

Today is an important day in the history of personal development software. Mind Workstation the most powerful personal development software program ever has been released.

Back when I started the Mindware Forum in 2004, my first big discovery was a windows program called Neuro-Programmer. It was the best personal development software I had seen until that time.

Not only was the software highly sophisticated but the company behind it, Transparent Corp provides additional add-ons and support free when you get the program And they have developed an open and flushing user community

Last year, Transparent Corp released Mind Stereo 1.0. This software was designed people just starting out with personal development software and did not have the powerful features of their flagship product.

What Sex is Your Brain? Take A Free Sex ID Test from BBC Television

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According to BBC Television, "Some researchers say that men can have 'women's brains' and that women can think more like men." What sex is your brain?" is a free psychology test from BBC Television that helps you determine which sex your brain resembles in its unique pattern.

Discover the Source of Your Inner Power -- Audio Demo

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FREE Audio Demo 2nd half of Instant Invincibility

A year ago, I wrote about the principles behind ThinkRightNow! in a post: The Easiest And Most Certain Way To Make Lightning Fast Changes In How You Think, Feel and Act The folks at ThinkRightNow! have

7 Steps to Turn Your Self-Improvement Desires Into Reality -- Getting the ZenHabits

7 Steps to Turn Your Self-Improvement Desires Into Reality from the Zenhabits Blog

The great personal development blog Zenhavits has done it again with this practical plan for kicking out the things that jam you and to finally get in motion completing once after the next of seven steps for transforming self improvement desires into reality.

Here are the core of the steps:

Seven simple steps, that you can do today. Really. Do them today.

1. Make a date. Right now. All the good intentions in the history of the universe mean nothing if you don’t actually get started. And the only way to get started is to take action, right now. Not tomorrow, not