“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

- Allan K. Chalmers

During yesterday’s webinar we covered hobbies, legends and fuel for your imagination in your Brain.

We talked about how your PersonalBrain is an unlimited conceptual space where you not only find the right information quickly but are inspired by your best thinking captured and visualized.

Watch the recorded webinar now.

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“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

-Larry Elder

Whether you have resolved to lose weight or to take your production global in 2010, mind mapping your steps and progress to achieving any goal will help you go from thinking to achieving.

So instead of keeping your dreams and goals in your mind get them into your digital brain. This will let you become architect of your dreams, designing and fine-tuning, visualizing the grand scheme and refining the details for action.

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This Wednesday, December 16^th
11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern Time
Now Featuring Seeds of Knowledge Contest Winner 

Omer Aziz
Manager, Nortel Networks
& GTD Enthusiast

Omer is joining Matt Caton and I
So You Get Three Unique Perspectives
on GTD and Task Management  in One Ultra Productive Webinar

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It’s that time of year again! Ode to the exhilaration, goodwill, and ever mounting work that comes with closing your business year while maximizing your holiday festivities.

During this busy time of year let your PersonalBrain be your digital assistant so you can stay focused on your key goals and events. Here are twelve must have Thoughts that will make your holidays richer and your work load lighter; so you can spend more time with the people that matter most to you and end your year with a bang.

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PersonalBrain 5.5 has been released!

PersonalBrain 5.5 Feature Highlights

• Advanced reporting with display filtering. Powerful custom reports can now be defined utilizing multiple criteria including types, tags, and attachments.
• Faster, more flexible information visualization options. PersonalBrain’s popular outline view now enables unlimited parent-ward expansion. Additionally there are many improvements to the expanded view including automatic saving.
• Revamped calendar with recurring events. Users can setup events and reminders to stay on top of all project deadlines and key timelines.
• Keyboard shortcuts for virtually every feature. Power users can further customize features with their own keyboard commands.
• Integrated screen-capture capability. A powerful and convenient method for grabbing any portion of your screen to use as a zoomable Thought icon.
• Expanded preferences, Thought spellchecking, streamlined user interface and more. There are over 150 new features and improvements in PersonalBrain 5.5.

Download now.

It’s Time to Close More Deals and Increase Your Revenue with PersonalBrain

Understanding where you are in your sales process and what your next steps should be is critical to your success.

However, with multiple proposals and projects, gaining control of all relevant information can be a challenge.  By creating a Brain your understanding of those many ingredients to win more business becomes instantly visible. Seeing is knowing.

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  Free upgrade for all 5 users.

      Version 5.5 contains over 150 new features and improvements.

Key Features Include:

• Easier, more powerful reports
• Massive keyboard commands: virtually every single feature can be assigned a command
• Instant screen capture for Thought icons
• More powerful Thought views with additional options
• Instant spell checking for Thoughts
• And much more!

See our Complete Feature List

…or, for a quick preview, check out my 5 favorite features of PB5.5 in 5 minutes!
 
Now Available as a Beta release

Enjoy using your PersonalBrain!
Matt

It’s All About You,
Really.

Accidental Autobiography:  Your Digital Mind

Navigating through someone’s PersonalBrain gives you a very intimate look at who they are. You can learn a lot about that person not only by the Thoughts they’ve chosen to add, but also the way things are connected.

Creating a Brain that moves beyond the sum of its parts usually happens by accident as your Thoughts and ideas grow. But actually taking on the task of self-reflection and exploration using PersonalBrain can be just as fun and rewarding. With this in mind, let’s explore some ideas for purposefully mind mapping yourself.

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Use PersonalBrain for Outstanding Presentations

We had a great webinar today with a ton of questions.  Thanks to all attendees for their participation. We focused on how you can use PersonalBrain as a presentation and persuasion tool for more effective communication before, during and after your meetings. If you missed the webinar, feel free to watch the on-line recording.

Template Brains from Webinar

• Here is the BrainZip I used for my presentation. A PersonalBrain on “Presenting with PersonalBrain…”
• Here is the sample Brain of an executive annual meeting presentation done with PersonalBrain.

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Tons of Fun Going Though It!

Jerry, Harlan and I had a most entertaining and productive get together at TheBrain corporate headquarters last month. We’re so used to bumping into Jerry at every tech event on the planet and cruising through his virtual Brain that it was really nice to sit down with him in person to do a complete Brain dump… and with a video camera no less .

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