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Kevin Hogan
Author of The 168
Hour Week: Living Life Your Way 24/7
and numerous other books
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Praise for The 168 Hour Week
 "This is the REAL book about work, productivity, happiness, and profit. In four hours you will discover answers for a lifetime of success and fulfillment."
--Jeffrey Gitomer, author of The Little Red Book of Selling
 "The most scientific book ever written on personal productivity."
--Mark Joyner, #1 Bestselling Author of Simpleology and Founder of Construct Zero
"What you’ve been told causes success is flat-out wrong! Kevin Hogan explains why you haven't gotten the results you've wanted. More importantly he shows you how to leverage the latest scientific breakthroughs to really succeed in life. Get this book as if your success depended on it – because it does!"
--Rich Schefren, CEO, Strategic Profits
"I don't know anyone, anywhere who can communicate with greater skill, power and compassion than Kevin Hogan. In fact, after reading his latest book, I'm convinced he's the 'Bruce Lee' of personal development. The 168 Hour Week reads like a cross between Enter the Dragon and Think and Grow Rich. Grounded in reality, backed by research, and packed with powerful strategies and tactics, you can't help but read it and come away ready, willing and able to kick some serious ass. And even in today's uncertain times, with the right knowledge and the right spirit, it is still possible to live our lives on our own terms. Don't believe me? Read The 168 Hour Week and you will."
--Blair Warren, Television Producer www.blairwarren.com
"An invigorating read, clearly written with personal passion; full of invaluable life success tactics. I do live my life 'my way' and I've loved every moment of it since I discovered how to (just to do it!). Still, I struggle with procrastination, time management, frustration and sometimes lose sight of my vision or goals. Kevin’s simply implemented strategies, and well structured time management plans, were exactly what I needed to move on to the next level with my own personal development, maximizing my productivity, i.e. success. A much needed tier addition to my life toolbox. This is a terrific read for anyone, but especially those wishing to better organize their time,
gain motivation and clarity for the journey to reach their goals, and live a fuller, happier life knowing and appreciating who they are. There are many books about personal development but this is the only I have came across which is written in such a pure, non frills approach. Everyone needs to know about this life changing book."
--Laurena Lacey, International Model, www.laurenalacey.com
 “Another Masterpiece by Kevin Hogan! Finally a book that delivers proof debunking time ‘management’ myths and delivers practical solutions that work for busy people in the real world of business. Kevin reveals a simple system to blast procrastination habits forever. Read this book today and gain the competitive edge over 93% of corporate executives while you get control over your life back!”
--Deborah Micek, CEO, RPMsuccess.com, New Media Strategist and Author of Secrets of Online Persuasion
"I am sorry, but you mustn't read Kevin's latest book - if you still plan to excuse yourself for procrastinating or achieving less than you could...Deep lasting change after reading another book???
No! This is not "another book". It's unlike anything you've ever read on the subject. Concoction of scientific data, unique metaphors and humor makes it irresistible. You won't need any excuses any more..."
--Ewa Zaremba, CEO Masters Educational Co., Poland,
life-masters.com.pl
“Kevin Hogan doesn’t see you through his eyes, but yours. He helps you make a difference and realize the greatest dreams. With the book, time comes to your side.” --WEN Zhen, European Commission Delegation. Candidate for United Nations Competitive Examinations for Translators and Interpreters, Beijing China
“Kevin takes a big crate of dynamite and blasts conventional time management topics-- goal setting, planners, scheduling, procrastination, outsourcing, etc--- down to solid bedrock to uncover and reveal what REALLY matters… If this book can’t turbo-charge your life, focus your dreams, and accelerate your achievement nothing can… This is a Bible of Achievement for the 21st Century…”
--Rob Northrup, President, Advanced Extrusion Solutions
Kevin Hogan
Network 3000 Publishing
16526 W. 78th St. #138
Eden Prairie, MN 55346
(612) 616-0732
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Kevin Hogan
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Accelerated Learning
with Kevin Hogan, Psy.D.
Accelerated Learning
and
Memory Enhancement
Learning is something that most people do fairly well...but only
fairly. Our opportunity to learn more, faster and easier is something we can
start to take advantage of immediately. Almost everyone fails to utilize the
hypnotic tools that are available to them in the learning process.
Most people are shocked when we tell them that their IQ can be raised. It was
once thought that IQ was set like the Ten Commandments...in stone. Such is not
the case. In Minnesota, where we have taught dozens of classes about teaching
people how to learn faster and more efficiently, we have discovered that using
simple hypnotic techniques, we can increase IQ by up to 10% and retention of
facts by as much as 300% in some tests.
What are the secrets?
For years hypnotherapists have known that certain types of music have trance
like effects with their clients. Some kinds of music enhance dissociation, some
kinds enhance association. Some music excites. Other kinds of music measurably
relax clients. Could it be that there are kinds of music for enhancing learning
states of mind? What about other strategies and mental manipulations outside of
music could be used? There are a number of strategies you want to learn in order
to be able to optimize your learning ability. Each strategy independently will
assist you measurably. Synthesize them and you will amaze yourself and others.
1) Utilization of Mind Expanding Music
It may or may not surprise you that music directly affects how you learn and
remember. There are certain types of music that have been scientifically
researched to increase IQ and enhance learning (at least while the music is
being listened to). Various pieces from the works of Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi,
Beethoven, and Pachelbel have been cited as increasing learning speed and IQ.
The most famous study of the effect of certain types of classical music on
learning and memory was done at the University of California at Irvine. Mozart’s
Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major K 448 was the piece of music studied and
contrasted to students listening to no music and then contrasted to a group of
students listening to a relaxation tape for 10 minutes before taking the spatial
component of an IQ test. Those students listening to Mozart tested out at 119.
Those listening to the relaxation tape tested at 111. Those listening to nothing
tested at 110! The bad news, as mentioned above is that the gains are not
maintained for long after the music is turned off! The good news is that we know
that music, at least certain types of classical music do raise IQ.
Does music do more than raise IQ? Absolutely. Another 8 month research
project at Irvine revealed that students who were given various types of music
lessons. Other students in the research project were not. Tests that showed that
music helped accomplish various tasks included putting puzzles together. In
order to put a puzzle together the student needed to have a clear mental image
of the puzzle to do the task quickly. In fact those students who had music
lessons performed 80% better on object assembly tasks when compared to the norm.
However, music isn’t the only magical element in achievement. There was no
difference between students given music lessons and those without in other tasks
including tasks that didn’t require mental imagery.
There is much more, though. Dr. Georgi Lozanov pioneered the accelerated
learning movement and recorded his research in the groundbreaking breaking book
“Suggestology and the Outlines of Suggestopedia” Lozanov, a
Bulgarian psychiatrist was the first to fuse hypnosis and music in creating
accelerated achievement in learning.
Lozanov created the concept of learning concerts by blending verbalization of
material needing to be read with relaxation and music. There are two kinds of
concerts that Lozanov developed. One was the Active concert. The Active Concert
is one where material that is to be learned is read with emotional flair and in
conjunction to the highs and lows of the music it is “scored” to.
The other kind of concert Lozanov developed was the Passive Concert. This
reading was simply articulated softly and quietly with a baroque score in the
background.
Both types of hypnotic concerts have proven to be very effective in learning
something as complex as foreign languages! In both cases, the recall of terms
and phrases is impressive and effective in the long term!
Lozanov (the creator of the mind model discussed earlier in this book) spent
thousands of hours researching both trance and music in creating a learning
technology that is now modeled all across the world. Here are a few samples of
the pieces of music that accelerate acheivement.
Active Concerts
Beethoven - Concerto no. 5 in E-flat Major for Piano and Orchestra, op. 73
(“Emperor”)
Haydn - Concerto no. 1 in C Major for Violin and Orchestra
Mozart - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; Concerto no. 7 in D Major
Tchaikovsky - Concerto no. 1 in B-flat Minor for Piano and Orchestra
Passive Concerts
Bach - Fantasy in G Major, Fantasy in C Minor, and Trio in D Minor; Cononic
Variations and Toccata
Corelli - Concerti Grossi, op. 6, no. 2,8,5,9
Handel - Water Music
Vivaldi - Five Concertors for Flute and Chamber Orchestra
Making Your Own Hypnotic Concerts
You will be amazed at how easy it is make your own Hypnotic Concerts. Here is
the step by step plan.
- Acquire the pieces of music which are proven to enhance learning and
memory.
- Verbalize what you need to learn into a tape recorder in either a
passive or active voice as discussed above.
- Close your eyes and relax before you play your concert.
- Allow yourself to be alert and focus your mind on the concert, allowing
the concert to fill your mind.
- When the concert is over test your recall to ensure that learning has
taken place!
Music’s power, beat and rhythm have induced trance for millenia. Now we can
change the way we learn forever with the right music!
2) Learning In Multiple Modalities
We learn from hypnosis that the more sensory modalities we can access, the
more likely the hypnotic experience is to be useful to changing the person’s
future. The same is true for learning and memory. Many people simply read a text
book or learn something from a lecture. Long term retention in these situations
is slight. Did you go to college? About 1 in 4 Americans graduate college with a
degree. Most of them can’t remember anything they learned in college. Even fewer
can remember the majority of their professors and instructors! The college
learning environment is not conducive to long term learning.
What is?
You and I learn better when we see, feel, hear, touch and do something. It
has been said that we remember about:
- 20% of what we read
- 30% of what we hear
- 40% of what we see
- 50% of what we say
- 60% of what we do
and
- 90% of what we see, hear, say AND do.
Therefore when we are learning any new material we want to fully utilize all of
our sensory systems. When you read a book that you are learning from, you should
pause once in awhile, close your eyes and internally dialogue with yourself so
you can comment to yourself about what you are learning and how you will
remember it. You also want to see yourself utilizing the information you are
learning in your mind’s eye. Make sure you fully experience the use of
everything you are learning in your mind and then your learning experience will
become more vivid and real to you. If you can imagine yourself teaching others
the material you are learning you will benefit even more from the experience as
preparing to teach is one of the finest ways to learn that we know!3) Use
Mental Imagery to Enhance Recall and Learning
Imagery is a pillar of good hypnotic trancework. Throughout this work you
have experienced how to make many different kinds of pictures in your mind.
You’ve learned how to manipulate those pictures and make these images work in
your favor. Now you will learn two fascinating hypnotic memory tools. The first
is exaggeration and the second is association. Blended together you can remember
almost anything.
Imagine that you have a list of items to remember. Here is your list:
- Hitler
- Love
- Mom
- Boxer
- Airplane
- Tomatoes
- Diamonds
- Spain
- Bull
- Chair
Repeating the list over and over would help you remember some of the words for
the short term but you wouldn’t retain the list for long. However, by creating a
metaphor, or an exaggerated story using associative techniques would permanently
embed the list into your mind. Read this story and see if you don’t remember the
list easily and clearly by the end of the article.HITLER raises his right
hand high into the air. As you look at Hitler’s hand you are shocked to find the
word LOVE written in big red letters on his hand. As Hitler turns and looks at
his hand he doesn’t see the letters but sees a picture of your MOM in his hand.
Your Mom has never looked better and she pops out of Hitler’s hand onto the
ground growing to her full height like magic and immediately knocks Hitler to
the ground with a blow to the chin. Mom is ready to take on the next heavyweight
contender and a BOXER mystically appears as Mom turns around. She immediately
strikes the boxer so hard that he flies onto the top of the biggest airplane you
ever have seen. Mom blows like the wind and the airplane takes off into the sky.
As the plane ascends the boxer falls off the plane into a huge crate of TOMATOES
rendering the boxer unconscious. You go to look at the tomatoes and as you come
closer they turn into huge DIAMONDS. You grab a handful and jump so high into
the sky that you land on top of the airplane which is flying to SPAIN. The
airplane lands you down in an arena where a BULL is charging you. You sit on a
CHAIR and look at the bull with ferocious eyes and the bull stops dead in his
tracks...and you remember all ten words!
By creating an exaggerated story or a metaphor you make that which is
difficult, easy to remember. Not only can you remember lists, but you can
remember steps, functions, processes, and just about anything you need to
remember, using this hypnotic technique!
If you put your story to the music we discussed earlier in the chapter the
memory becomes even more firmly embedded into your mind. Try it with this list
of ten words then test yourself!
- Jack of Spades
- Desk
- Run
- Dog
- Table
- Fireplace
- Tree
- Jump
- Nuclear Power Plant
- Nurse
Now, make your own story up, exaggerating the contents of your story as much as
you possibly can then read your story just one time. If you don’t use gross
exaggeration the story will not help you remember the word list. You must
exaggerate and in great proportion. This is what makes the memory so fascinating
to the mind. When you are done reading your story, close your eyes and remember
the story. Amaze yourself now!How did you do? Most people remember 9 or 10
words out of every 10 words that are on the list. You can try this on your own
with 20 or 30 words and you will find that you can remember them easily.
4) Have the right attitude about learning!
 What
is the right attitude about learning? The attitude, in part is that you are
going to benefit from what you are learning! So, what is it that you get out of
learning? How does it help you? Always answer those questions before you begin
learning. What’s in it for you? If you find a reason to learn, a real reason
that really benefits you then you will learn more readily than you thought you
could!
Before you begin a serious learning project you may want to induce yourself
into a light trance by reading this meditation to yourself or creating an
audiotape of this meditation before you begin your learning.
Take a deep breath in and slowly release it...take another deep breath in
and let it go even further...allow yourself to enter what is called a learning
state...remember a time when you learned something that was fun...easy to
learn...so easy that you couldn’t believe other people wouldn’t “get it...”
remember that time when learning something was easy...now...
....was it riding a bicycle?...playing a card game?...what was it that was
so easy to learn?...was it easy to play a board game...or a sport...or a subject
in school?....think of a specific time and go there.......now...
....allow yourself to be there now and remember everything you saw, felt
and heard as you begin to re-experience a specific time in your life when you
picked up on something easily and quickly...take your time and be there
now....walking through the event, moment by moment in great detail...
....good...now ...how did you feel inside as you were learning what it was
you were learning?...when you have that feeling and it is clear and strong, take
your thumb and your index finger and touch them together...
....good...now...as the feeling subsides release the thumb and the index
finger...
...return to another time...a different time when you found learning
something particularly easy.......allow yourself to be there now and remember
everything you saw, felt and heard as you begin to re-experience a specific time
in your life when you picked up on something easily and quickly...take your time
and be there now....walking through the event, moment by moment in great
detail...
....good...now ...how did you feel inside as you were learning what it was
you were learning?...when you have that feeling and it is clear and strong, take
your thumb and your middle finger and touch them together...
....good...now...as the feeling subsides release the thumb and the middle
finger...
...return to yet another time...a very different time when you found
learning something particularly easy.......allow yourself to be there now and
remember everything you saw, felt and heard as you begin to re-experience a
specific time in your life when you picked up on something easily and
quickly...take your time and be there now....walking through the event, moment
by moment in great detail...
....good...now ...how did you feel inside as you were learning what it was
you were learning?...when you have that feeling and it is clear and strong, take
your thumb and your ring finger and touch them together...
....good...now...as the feeling subsides release the thumb and the ring
finger...
...now...touch all three fingers to your thumb at the same time and take a
deep breath in...good...how do you feel inside? That’s right...good...and
release the fingers and...now...one more time...touch the fingers to the thumb
and experience how you feel inside...and this time realize that each time you
need to learn something that is important you can touch your fingers to your
thumb and you will feel just like you do ...now...inside and it makes learning
easy and remembering what you learned fun...good...now...allow yourself to
become more aware of the environment around you and return to your reading or
whatever it is you want to do...now. Wide aware and refreshed....
Accelerate and complement your learning process with
music. Research demonstrates music can help you retain information...
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Praise for The 168 Hour Week
 “Forget
goal setting and time management as you know it. If you need to make meaningful,
profitable change in your life or career right now, read this book. Actionable,
profitable information based on the latest psychological science interpreted as
only Dr. Hogan can. Read this book now and change your life for the better . . .
forever!”
-- Dave Lakhani Author of How To Sell When Nobody’s Buying and Power of
an Hour: Business And Life Mastery In One Hour A Week
"Most books on time management and goal setting say the same things. The
problem is that most of what they say simply doesn't work in the ‘real world’.
This book is different. Kevin Hogan has taken an enormous amount of scientific
research and distilled it down into an easy-to-use system anyone can use to take
control of their lives and achieve their dreams. In the hands of someone who
will apply the information contained within it, this is a powerful and
life-changing book."
--Steve Chambers, President, SMOS Companies, Inc.
“Kevin Hogan, internationally known for sharing scientific research in
bite-sized chunks that can be immediately implemented, has written the master
productivity primer for creating the life you want. If you are sick and tired of
bleeding away your time, your energy and your dreams while the days and years
fly by, STOP…and read this book. Hogan pulls no punches in helping you truly
‘get’ that you are in charge of your time and your life and he walks you
through a step-by-step process to greater freedom and empowerment. Honor
yourself today by using this book to take action toward a better life – YOU
are worth it!”
--Mollie Marti, Ph.D., Founder - BestLifeDesign.com. Author, The 12 Factors of Business Success
“Is this Kevin Hogan’s best book yet? This book is written from passion with
passion, based on scientific research, written in simple language with humor
thrown in. He has created a step by step system that will help you transform
your life through understanding Procrastination, Time Management and Goal
Achievement. If you want to know if you have encountered Mr Zen, or Mr Critic or
even Mr Chaos so far in your life and if you want to know how to get out of the
‘Hamster Wheel’, you need to read this book cover to cover and follow
through. But be warned. This book can change your life. This book has been an
absolute joy to read. Thank you, Kevin Hogan for writing it and sharing your
knowledge.”
--Lena Georgiades – Fashion Designer and Technician. United Kingdom
“Proven principles and practical advice written by an author who reveals the
formula to break free from what holds you back from ultimate success. Hogan
provides the blueprint to create the life plan you desire, identify and
eliminate what prohibits success and most importantly how to live the life you
deserve. A must read for everyone.”
--Eliot Hoppe – CEO of Paramount Learning, Alberta, Canada; and Author
of Selling: Powerful New Strategies for Sales Success
“Once I got this book, I literally couldn't put it down. I spent my day
reading it until it was finished - and I'm so glad I did. As a person who wants
to get as much out of my day as possible, and always wondering why I wasted any
time doing things that I shouldn't be, this book was a God send. Kevin pulls
back the curtains on why we procrastinate so much in our daily activities and
reveals why we're not as productive as we know we can be. His simple approach
breaks everything down into easy to understand pieces so that you can see where
you can implement what is needed for you to be productive, and more importantly,
successful. What you learn will put you on the road to productive success, but
will change how you schedule your day so that not only are your working hours
more productive, but so are your non working ones, too. A must read for anyone
wanting to overcome Procrastination and have their productivity go through the
roof - so much so that I'm off to read it again!”
--David Walsh, United Kingdom
CEO - ProductLaunchConsultancy.com
"Just about everything you have been told about time management, motivation and goal setting is flat out wrong. Get ready for some in your face changes and planning that will help increase action in your business and personal life. Kevin has laid out in an easy to read and easy to use workbook on how to achieve the life you know that you are capable of. It is up to you whether you will live up to being the person you know you can be. Write in your book, mark it up and then implement what you learn immediately".
--Scott S. Bell, Senior Technician and Sales Trainer, Bell Brothers HVAC, www.definedimpact.com
“You can start throwing out your old goal setting books because Kevin Hogan
has written the no B.S. Guide to goal setting and destroying procrastination. I
defy you to read Chapters 6 + 7 and not feel like you just got the kick in the
ass you need to take action now! This is the success blueprint for the rest of
your life.”
--Michael D. Walker, CEO, ZentiMental.com and Production Team Member Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity
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