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How the Brain Works: The Secret to Staying on Top of Your Game [Video]

I'm a perennial student. Being gifted with a healthy dose of curiosity—especially on how things work—guarantees that I'm constantly learning new things. Lately though, I've been forgetting a lot of things, particularly specific words and phrases that describes whole concepts. So I got to thinking...

How can my mind forget something I've been doing or saying or writing or thinking for many years?

That question led me to this video on how the brain works. The target audience are students still in school, but because we're all students as long as we live, I think you'll find it helpful, too.

Video Takeaways:

How Your Brain Learns New Things

The human brain is about three pounds in weight, and can fit in the palm of your hand. Imagine that. Everything about you—in fact, a whole universe of knowledge—fits into an organ so small you can carry it in your purse. Talk about handy, unlimited hard disk drives wherever you go!

5 Complete - and Completely Free - Cardio Workout Videos Online

Who doesn't like free, right? We all do! Which is why YouTube is my BFF when it comes to exercise stuff, girl.

And you’re in luck because today, I’m going to lead you to my favorite free cardio workout videos online -- completely gratis and downloadable, too!

What’s best, you can do these cardio exercises indoor, right at home. You won’t need to sweat it out with those nubile young bodies at the gym. All you need is a PC, a cable to connect your PC to your TV, and you’re good to go.

Of course, it’ll be best if you can get your girlfriends to do these aerobics cardio workout with you. Studies show that losing weight with a friend is more effective in achieving weight loss goals than going solo.

A word of caution: Before starting any of the routines in these workout videos, make sure you get your doctor’s go ahead first.

Especially for women who may have heart conditions or other medical issues, it’s always wise to consult your doctor so you're sure your body can bear the stress.

1. Walk at Home for 2 Miles with Leslie Sansone

This cardio workout video from Leslie Sansone is one of the gentlest (and totally free!) cardio workout videos online that I always return to. I love it because I can do an aerobics cardio workout right at home. I use this free workout video as a two-week lead up to more energetic workouts.

New Year's Resolutions, 2014

It's 2014! Happy new year everyone!

And of course, at the start of every New Year, there's the ubiquitous New Year's Resolution. I know, I know…I'm not good at keeping them but I'm going to draw up a list nonetheless. Committing them to paper or, in this case, putting it up on the Net might serve as impetus for me to strive to keep some of them, at least.

This year though, I'm going to keep it short. Five items max then cut it up to bite size pieces. So here goes something…

1. Lose weight.

Getting to a healthy weight is the all-time favorite new year's resolution of perhaps every adult tipping the overweight scale. Sad to say, this has been on my To Do list since I turned 30. (I found out that when women gets to the Big Three Oh, our bodies are fully matured. That means the extra calories that we ignored in our 20s which fueled our growth are no longer needed…they're making a beeline for our waists, hips and thighs, ugh!)

Procrastination and Productivity: The Twin Devils of the Work-at-Home Life [Video]

Working from home can get quite lonely. Yes, you can dictate your work hours and you don’t have to commute—in 2 seconds flat (for me, at least), you’re in your ‘office’ and ready to start the day. But then, there are two evils that you have to contend with when freelancing from home: procrastination and productivity.

Yep, the two Ps of work-at-home life. And if you can’t conquer one, you can’t have the other.

Here are two videos that may shed light on the science of both and how to master procrastination and improve your productivity...and of course, increase the dollars that you can rake in. :)

The Science of Procrastination

Indeed, there’s a scientific reason why we put off things that we can do today. It has something to do with rewards and dopamines. Here’s how AsapSCIENCE, one of my favorites on YouTube, explains it:

Takeaways:

Temporal discounting has everything to do with our tendency to procrastinate...something about getting rewards nowe—and having that rush of the pleasure hormone dopamine—versus getting our rewards later.
The Pomodoro technique...which is simply breaking down your work into 20 minutes then a 5-minute break...definitely helps.
Acknowledge that you will procrastinate so best do something about it from the start. Create a deadline. An externally-imposed deadline is more effective.
Enjoying the process of doing something will prevent procrastination. Make a list of the reasons why you want to achieve a goal.
Work somewhere else if you can't remove the distractions. That way, the things that encourage procrastination is far from you.

2012 In 4 Minutes [Video]

I was updating my free Real Player desktop app when I saw this video of the newsmakers and YouTube's top hits of the past year.

It's an interesting mashup by Ryan James Yezak (though I don't know who he is, heh). It's got everything: