Miscellaneous

My video of positive affirmations

Posted on August 28, 2008
How selective are you when it comes to the images that appear in front of your eyes, sounds that you hear, words that you use? What we feed to our senses affects our perceptions, emotions, and vibrations. We don?t always...

"Pursue the Passion" interviews attorney Lonnie Williams Jr.

Posted on August 15, 2008
In this post last year, I wrote about Pursue the Passion and their project "to interview passionate professionals about their career paths." They recently interviewed attorney Lonnie Williams Jr. about his dream and his path to become a prominent lawyer...

Meditation Retreat for Law Professionals and Students

Posted on August 11, 2008
The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society is offering Meditation Retreat for Law Professionals and Students on September 11-14, 2008 at Menla Mountain Center, Phoenicia, NY: Mindfulness meditation can provide a practical tool for busy legal professionals to quiet the...

Wordle

Posted on August 08, 2008
This is a visual representation of Lawsagna created in Wordle. Worlde is an application that creates word clouds from text that you provide. You can enter text, submit a URL of your blog, or a del.icio.us user name to see...

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Personal Energy Management Teleclass

Posted on July 28, 2008
You are motivated, ambitious, hardworking, and at the same time, you often feel overworked, overscheduled, overwhelmed. If this rings true, join me on August 5, 9:00pm ET for my free 1-hour tele-coaching class on mind/body approaches to personal energy management...

Interview with Cheryl Stephens, the author of ?Plain Language Legal Writing?

Posted on July 23, 2008
I wonder sometimes how much time and energy we waste on creating and reading legal texts that are hard to understand. It is a sad situation that many people expect legal documents to be incomprehensible. Cheryl Stephens is set to...

Bar exam review

Posted on July 15, 2008
For July bar exam takers, here's a round-up of my earlier posts to help you prepare: How to take exams with the champion?s mindset Memory techniques 8 times smarter : learning with multiple intelligences Getting ready for the bar exam...

Using multiple intelligences for health and wellness

Posted on July 08, 2008
Yesterday, I led a session on bridging the gap between information and transformation at ?My Ultimate Mind-Body Makeover? event organized by Master Coach, NLP Practitioner and Audio Author Sue Stebbins, the founder of Successwaves. We discussed the topic of information...

If you want to increase your intelligence, train your working memory

Posted on May 20, 2008
If you want to sharpen your mental ability to solve new problems outside your area of expertise, you should train your working memory, according to The New York Times article ?Memory Training Shown to Turn Up Brainpower? by Nicholas Bakalar....

Top 10 Tools for Learning

Posted on March 25, 2008
Jane Hart at the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies is compiling the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008 list by asking learning professionals to contribute their lists of top 10 favorite tools for learning. If you want to know...

Spring Equinox

Posted on March 20, 2008
It's been busy around here (I will update on the developments soon), and my blogging gave in. Today is a fresh start. It's Spring Equinox. The word "equinox" derives from the Latin words "aequus" (equal) and "nox" (night), which translates...

TimeLeft for time management

Posted on March 07, 2008
TimeLeft is a multipurpose time-management tool that can notify you of an upcoming event, count down till your next scheduled study or work break, measure time interval and signal its end, even track online auctions. The program can can also...

"The Opposable Mind" by Roger L. Martin

Posted on March 04, 2008
If you like to think about how you think, you may want to read Tim Milburn?s review of "The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking" by Roger L. Martin. The book discusses the concept of integrative thinking:...

Orientation Series: 21 Steps to Becoming a Better Learner

Posted on February 28, 2008
Step 20:  Learning to learn What distinguishes best lawyers, doctors, architects, etc. from the rest of the crowd?  What do they know or do that others don't?  One possibility is that they are very proficient in using certain meta-skills that can be applied to multiple tasks and contexts and supercharge whatever these experts do...

Free places to learn

Posted on February 26, 2008
I am just back from browsing courses at MIT OpenCourseWare. There, you can access more than 1800 courses in different disciplines of the MIT curriculum free of charge. Titles range from How to Develop "Breakthrough" Products and Services to Neural Basis of Learning and Memory to Expository Writing - Food for Thought: Writing and Reading about Food and Culture...

What I learned in my first week of the raw food diet

Posted on February 21, 2008
It's been about a week and a half now since I started my 30-day raw food program.  I view it as a learning experience.  Instead of focusing on limitations, temptations and frustrations, I choose to think of this experience in terms of explorations, discoveries and learning opportunities...

"Taking Play Seriously"

Posted on February 19, 2008
The New York Time Magazine?s article "Taking Play Seriously" by Robin Marantz Henig offers interesting perspectives on the nature and function of play:    Armed with research grounded in evolutionary biology and experimental neuroscience, some scientists have shown themselves eager ? at times perhaps a little too eager ? to promote a scientific argument for play...

What do ?love? and ?law? have in common (besides the fact that they both start with ?L?)?

Posted on February 14, 2008
I won't be eating chocolate today as I am on a 30-day raw food experiment.  As I sit here buzzing from all the sweet fruit I've consumed (I hope it's the fruit), I am pondering the following question: What do "love" and "law" have in common (besides the fact that they both start with the letter "L")? Service comes to mind...

Orientation Series: 21 Steps to Becoming a Better Learner

Posted on February 11, 2008
Step 19:  Learning holistically When we think of learning, we often focus on cognitive functions and memory.  But learning doesn?t happen just in our heads.  I think there's a benefit in looking at learning from the holistic perspective that involves body, mind, and spirit (I am talking about human spirit here)...

Mind on a Diet

Posted on February 05, 2008
"If we want to simplify and deepen our lives, we must simplify and deepen our minds. When we become more centered, clear, spacious, caring, and open, there is suddenly much more room in our frenetic lives for both others and ourselves."?Lama Surya DasThis is the season when many people talk about losing a few pounds here and there...

Go Red for Women

Posted on February 01, 2008
Today, February 1, 2008,  is the National Wear Red Day.  Its goal is to promote awareness of heart disease and empower women to reduce their risk.  Cardiovascular disease is the No.1 killer of American women and the cause of one in every 2...

A website where mentors and mentees meet

Posted on January 30, 2008
iMantri is a new social networking site for people who offer and seek mentoring:"Whether you want to be a mentor or a mentee, iMantri allows you evaluate your competencies, help find a suitable mentoring match, provides a framework and facilitates mentoring interactions...

Cognitive Fitness

Posted on January 29, 2008
From "Cognitive Fitness" by Roderick Gilkey and Clint Kilts, Harvard Business Review (need subscription, you can preview the summary of the article on the order page):?advances in neuroscience suggest that there is no reason why your brain at 60 can?t be as competent as it was at 25...

Bar exam tips round-up

Posted on January 25, 2008
For February bar exam takers, here's a round-up of my earlier posts to help you study: How to take exams with the champion?s mindset Memory techniques 8 times smarter : learning with multiple intelligences Getting ready for the bar exam More bar exam tips How to create memorable flashcards Tip bit #21: Change the word On stress and memory 8 bar exam preparation myths busted Mnemonics to remember the future estates Best diet before a test Tip Bit #29: Run away from panic Achieve sustainable personal efficiency!

VizThink Conference '08

Posted on January 24, 2008
VizThink Conference '08 will take place on January 27-29, 2008 in San Francisco.  Even if you cannot attend, you may want to visit the conference website and check out a number of available podcasts and webinars on the topic of visual thinking.  They also have a blog and a wiki with additional content...

Deepak Chopra on: Releasing Emotion Toxins (Video)

Posted on January 23, 2008
"How do you release emotional toxins? Deepak details the seven steps to releasing emotional toxicity, which include: 1. Take responsibility for your emotions. 2. Witness the emotions in your body. 3. Define it: is it anger, fear? 4. Express it: write down what is happening...

Smart Dinner

Posted on January 18, 2008
Here?s a suggestion from "The Dinner Choice That Thwarts Alzheimer?s" at RealAge:Recipe for a sharp mind: chop some mango, jalapeno, and cilantro; toss together with lime juice, salt, and pepper; then spoon generously over grilled fish.The combo of fatty acids from the fish and antioxidants from the fresh fruit helps protect the brain from dementia...

"Year-End Review" with Michael Melcher

Posted on January 17, 2008
Author/lawyer/career coach Michael Melcher offered a "year-end review" exercise to the readers of Shifting Careers to help them set goals that would naturally support their development over the past year.  That post generated over 80 comments and a follow-up post...

?Innovate Like Edison? Podcast from Theater of the Mind

Posted on January 16, 2008
If you are interested in creative thinking, you may want to check out the podcast ?Innovate Like Edison? from Theater of the Mind.  In this podcast, Kelly Howell, founder of Brain Sync, interviews Michael Gelb, the author of ?How to Think like Leonardo DaVinci:  Seven Steps to Genius Every Day,? about his latest book "Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor" co-authored with Sarah Miller Caldicott, the great grand niece of Thomas Edison:"This show discusses how you can use the creative principles of Thomas Edison to bring your ideas into reality...

Blawg Review #142: Letter to New Lawyer

Posted on January 14, 2008
Blawg Review #142 is here, hosted by Susan Cartier Liebel at Build A Solo Practice, LLC.  It is designed as a ?Letter to New Lawyer,? and it will make you think, dream, laugh, learn and soar!  Be sure to read it.

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