The secret to networking

Effective networking leads to genuine relationships with people you can help and who can help you.  It is essential to business, building new friendships and dating.

In this article I will explain how to network effectively starting with your mindset. I will also explain how to create the right first impression, how to establish rapport and [...]

Get motivated to get lean!

Righto Summer is just around the corner and you want to build that beach body. You know the one that makes the chicks/fellas go ‘ahhh’.
Well first off I’m here to tell you that there are way more benefits to having a great body than impressing the opposite sex. The main benefits come from [...]

Optimistic people live longer – now officially including women!

We talk loads about the importance of positivity and optimism for having a happy and successful life here at Cognicology.com. There is a lot of evidence that suggests that optimists are more successful in what they achieve – be it pursuits in business, relationships or family concerns. It turns out that there has been recent [...]

Landmark Advanced Course Review

It’s 2am in the morning on a Thursday and I’m trying so desperately to sleep, but I can’t. You see, tomorrow was the first day of my Landmark Advanced Course and I was starting to have serious doubts.
When I did The Landmark Forum, it was a little different, I had absolutely no expectations, I simply [...]

Giving positive and constructive criticism

The aim of giving criticism is generally to improve the performance or output of an individual, by giving feedback on their current progress.
Anybody who has been in the position of having to correct or give feedback to another will know this: Giving criticism sucks. Receiving criticism sucks even more. I don’t know about you, but [...]

Book Review: Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman

Optimism is the key ingredient to living a happy and successful life. Or at least, so Martin Seligman says. This message is the ever-present ideal underlying the content of his book entitled Learned Optimism. In this book, Seligman explores the role that positivity and optimism play in modern day psychology as well as the implications [...]

Landmark Forum Review

I am joining a cult. My mind kept saying, Cult, Cult, Cult, Cult. Yes, okay so what if it’s a cult, does it hurt to go and see what they do for three days?
A friend of a friend of mine (lets call him Bob) told me ever so briefly that I should do the Landmark [...]

The importance of inspirational material for success

There is a lot of inspirational material available out there in the big wide world. Be it in the form of a book, a DVD (or video for the old-school) or a seminar, there is definitely a lot of it. Many people think of all inspirational material to be a bit of a sham – [...]

Kick-start your productivity

The purpose of this article is to give you a few simple and easy to follow tips to help kick start your productivity. It is important to note that these tips are not a set of once off instructions; rather they are a set of behavioural changes that, once introduced into your daily routine, will [...]

Creating positive thought habits

If you’re new to the whole positive thinking process, you might be wondering how you can go about eliminating negative thought patterns and creating positive ones. In which case you will find this article useful.
Before we start though, let’s go through and analyse our thoughts for the day. Most of us get up in the [...]

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