BRAIN response times can be just as fast in the elderly as in the young.

Being courageous, adventurous, enterprising, taking more risks and being happy, fun and living in the moment = staying young. Age is cultural, comes from cultural habits and is not time-related. To stay young, live young - just break the connections with old. If you choose your age, you will be your age. Be spontaneous and stay young. You choose - be young physically, older mentally and all ages in arts, creativity and values/philosophies. more at campaignforadventure.org

Both children and the elderly have slower response times when they have to make quick decisions in some ­settings, but the latest research suggests that much of that slower response on adults is a conscious choice to emphasise accuracy over speed. However, healthy older people can be trained to respond faster in some decision-making tasks without hurting their accuracy – meaning their cognitive skills in this area are not so different from younger adults.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/292371/Why-it-s-a-myth-that-brains-slow-with-age

Ohio State University researcher Professor Roger Ratcliff said: “In some situations, 70-year-olds may have response times similar to those of 25-year-olds. Many people think that it is just natural for older people’s brains to slow down as they age but we’re finding that isn’t always true.”

Fellow author Gail McKoon said: “Older people don’t want to make any errors at all and that causes them to slow down. We found that it is difficult to get them out of the habit but they can with practice.”

Positive TV - Postive News - Positive Life

Positive TV - Postive News - Positive Life
Not new, not benign, not always in one's own words or beliefs. Yet as an access point it is strong. If you have seen it before, ponder it again. Wrongly it suggests historical solutions. View it and be with it from the future you want. http://positivetv.tv/channels/2012-the-revolution-has-begun/

Conservatives? Labour? - Who wants work?

It is time to write about 'work'. In this essay 'work' is the activity done for someone else in return for pay. There may be other work but it seems 'choice work' - housework, car-cleaning, gardening, parenting. One chooses to have - or not to have - a family, a home, a car, a garden, and one chooses how one lives with these choices. The future will see fewer and smaller families, smaller homes, smaller gardens and fewer cars, so 'choice work' will decline and change.

The 'paid work' is both our time and our effort for which we recieve 'compensation'. This time and effort provides a benefit to someone else. If we enjoy spending our time and providing the effort, the compensation can be adjusted - but not necessarily.

'Work' is an invention which, on the whole, allowed others to benefit from our time and effort. They got their land tilled, their family looked after and their food prepared. Later this 'labour' grew into farming, then commerce/transport and then industry, now IT, politics, marketing & media are new specialisms - and work in the non-profit/public sector of course has grown, too.

It has been evident for some time that those demanding work seem to do it in order to gain money to spend on diverse things. This is not the obvious statement it seems. Surely those in the right of politics create work for others, and those on the left demand work for themselves? How simple is this?

In work - labour - supply and demand are about to become severely disrupted. People are beginning to value their time - creating healthy, loving, fun and inspirational lives. The need for 'work' by the individual is becomeing less. Yet the demand for labour expands(overall), and the demand for 'own time' increases, too.

Was the Labour Party created by the Conservatives?
Who needed workers who in an ideal world demanded and fought for work? Answers please....

Ianspirational: Consciousness Evolved

Ianspirational: Consciousness Evolved: Global Coaching Conference 10th-14th October 2011 • Generating Business • Developing Networks • Facilitating Learning • Improving Healt...

Ian Lewis - Ianspirational: Influencing Local Government - Changing Times - Ha...

Ian Lewis - Ianspirational: Influencing Local Government - Changing Times - Ha...: Quotes from above say much: "local government would be stronger if more people got involved in the whole budgeting/decision making cycle"."I...

Influencing Local Government - Changing Times - Half-Leaders

Quotes from above say much: "local government would be stronger if more people got involved in the whole budgeting/decision making cycle"."It is my experience that elected members are able to have a significant influence over policy"."Residents need to identify their goals and who can deliver those goals. Then the talks can begin, hopefully leading to collaboration."

In these changing times it is a great asset to all to be fluid in our change leadership, making systems more stream-lined - innovative, significantly less process-driven and more output-evaluated. Great civil-servants fall on their swords when they set up more effective delivery.

The 'half-leaders' (those would-be leaders who are short on whole-thinking and are good at ignoring what they do not want to look at) tend to be self-interested, small-game players with limited community building, especially empowerment, strategies in their Key Result Reviews.

Surely it is this message, that local government is as effective and stream-lined as is possible, constantly seeking ever more efficient ways, that needs to be communicated in ''How the state works and how citizens can influence it".

When transparent effectiveness, efficiency and streamlining are seen to be Key Performance Indicators in local goverment, citizens' support, interest and understanding will follow. Citizens will be happy, make an effort to hear how the state works so selflessly and will contribute energetically to this.

Upside Down

This is a world which depends on values if it is to exist, yet is having its values challenged every day.

The strength of the down-grade mirrors the Hurricane Irene down-grade. 4, 3, 2 and now 1 - only just a hurricane.

The most trusted needed in society - politicians, pensions fund managers, medical and health, food and farmers, banks and finance officials, legal and law-enforcers...all under investigation at the moral level.

The politicians are benefiting at the expence of the people, the fund-managers at the expense of their clients, drug-companies and doctors at the expense of the patients, farmers at the expense of healthy food and nutrition, banks at the expense of the savers....you will know a few - Teachers & education standards? Charities & Charity CEOs? Media, News and Press honesty & integrity...?

This topsy-turvy world has to do a swift check-in on its personal responsibility levels, the place where values and demands and expectations originate.

The gaps are being ignored. Honesty is all about integrity and this covers gaps. Morality demands we are honest to the degree we fill in the gaps for those who are asking questions, that we do not only answer the questions.

The truth about how decisions on pensions investments and payments to managers must be open and clear to the degree the answers say all we need to know, not just what we ask about.

What is happening to our world? Soil? Air? Water? Three basics - that are really being messed with by profiteering and short-term gains chasing.

We can do better. We must demand better. We must hear and monitor promises.

Or we shall have a very dull life, if life at all.