Being Your Belief

Our beliefs drive our actions.  Grading Girl believes there are some juicy beliefs that each of us would like to hold about ourselves.   Here’s a step-by-step process to create and embody them.

I just completed this with my Speech Communications class.  The only way to be a truly effective communicator is to understand and believe in yourself ~

Being Your Belief!!!

 

1. Think of a belief you want to have about yourself.

2. Create a sentence that affirms that belief.  Start with either of these two phrases:

I can . . .

I am . . .

3.  Now say to yourself:  “When I am at my best, I can/am (fill in with your belief).”

4.  Now think of someone who has that belief about herself (himself) or acts as if she believes something similar about herself.  For example, if you want to be more critical, Simon Cowell might be a good role model.  If you want to be more sophisticated, Julie Andrews might be a good role model.  Of course, thinking of someone you know personally who has this belief works just as well . . . if not better.

5.  Pay attention to how your role model stands, moves, breathes and acts.

 6. Stand like that yourself – mimic the posture.  You’ll be surprised how much this helps!!

7. Say the belief to yourself over and over in your head . . . listen to that little voice in your head.

8. Say your new belief out loud.  It will really make it a truism.

9. Continue this process until you ARE what you believe.  The more you do this, the more your body takes on the cell memories of the belief and the more it appears as if it is ture.  Then one day it just is!!!

 

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Memory Mastery

Do you find yourself forgetting names? Do you forget what you need from the grocery store once you actually get to the store? Are you about to take your driver’s license renewal test and can’t seem to get those nit-picky rules straight in your head? Well, the trusty rope around the finger only goes so far. There are a few tricks to help you “cheat” your way down memory lane. Here are Grading Girls’s two favorite, sure-fire brain-boosting tricks. These tricks help pertinent details transcend from your short term memory to your long term recall:

Memory Mastery Tip #1 ~

Use acronyms to help remember names, sequence, spelling definitions, the possibilities are endless with this trick.
An acronym is a word or sentence formed from the initial letters of a name, such as TLC for Tender Loving Critic; or, by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging. Acronyms can be great for remembering names, sequences, details, you name it . . .

“A Rat in The House Might Eat the Ice Cream” is a sentence that can be used to remember how to spell arithmetic.

“Every good boy does fine” is a sentence that can be used to recall the lines of a musical staff – e, g, b, d, g.

Memory Mastery Tip #2 ~

Organize information so that details are brought together under one main idea or concept that connects them. This can help diminish the all too frequent times you come home from the grocery store only to discover you forgot item.

For instance, it’s much harder to memorize this group of words . . .

Horse
February
Red
Monkey
Asparagus
September
Apple
Brown
Elephant
August
Yellow
Banana

than this group of words:

February
August
September

Red
Yellow
Brown

Asparagus
Banana
Apple

Horse
Monkey
Elephant

Now you too can wow your friends at your next party while rapidly rambling the names of the 50 states, the signs of the horoscope, the first paragraph of the Constitution . . . use that brain matter!

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Smells that Make me Scream

They say that the sense of smell holds the strongest memory of all five senses. It is first sense that is activated when we’re born. It is deeply connected to our emotions and, according to Marie Wright in the Mar/Apr issue of Psychology Today, people who lose their sense of smell can even lose their will to live. This strong sense took me back tonight as I was in one of my “throw away” moods. I came across an old bottle of perfume spray and took a whiff,  instantly taken back to an occasion I attended wearing that scent. Weird! It’s no wonder that car salesmen pop popcorn to elevate shoppers’ moods (hmmm . . . I’m not sure I completely understand that one). Growing up, my brother teasingly nicknamed me “the sniffer” due to my old tendency to enjoy the scent of my dinner nearly as much as  the taste.   This naturally spawns an idea for my latest list.  Go ahead, scribe this list yourself; GG guarantees you’ll be tickled.

All the smells that make me scream:

1.  That very kind old Mrs. Harry who used to work in my grade school library and who wore way too much perfume ~ my nose still aches
2. Cigar smoke in an enclosed dorm room ~ I had one particularly crazy neighbor
3. Wet dog ~ not good; the more hair, the worse!
4. Skunk!!!
5. School bus exhaust fumes ~ cancer!!
6. The book room at school that houses books from three decades ago and God knows how many dead mice in the walls
7. Brand spankin’ new books ~ flip open the pages and get a whiff
8. A just-out-of-the-dryer fluffy bath towel ~ hmmmmmm
9. Banana bread in the oven ~ nothing screams home more loudly!
10. Sprinkles cupcake shop with just baked red velvet cupcakes out of the oven ~ take me there now!!!!!

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