Tuesday 14 April 2009

Ok, I've been annoying the idealbodiesonline crew a bit more since I last updated. They sent me a copy of their Feedback Checklist (I had asked how often you check in, etc) and ... well, IMO it's not very impressive. What do you think?

12 WEEK PROGRAM – FEEDBACK CHECKLIST


Here is a running sheet detailing the weeks you are required to submit your feedback email. Please read the 12 Week Program Feedback Requirements & Guidelines you received with this email, before sending through your feedback. Remember, feedback is to be sent only on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.

Please print the following section and place in a prominent position. Check each box after completing and sending your feedback email.

Send your feedback email at the end of the weeks nominated below:

□ Welcome Email
You will receive a welcome email from your Feedback Coach when they receive your program information. You are not required to respond to this email.

□ End of Week 1
Please provide your Feedback Coach with 3 days eating example. You should include everything you have consumed (food and beverage) including the times you ate, using the 3 Days Eating Examples Template provided in your Welcome Email. You will receive the End of Week 1 Checklist from your Coach with your feedback response at end of Week 1

□ End of Week 2
Submit feedback as per the 12 Week Program Feedback Requirements & Guidelines. You do not include eating examples in this email unless your Feedback Coach has specifically requested it.

□ End of Week 4 – is your update due?
Some clients will have an updated program due at the end of Week 4.

Please check the top of your training program to see if you are due for your update. If so, please provide start and current measurements and scale weight, and optional progress photos. You should also provide us with 3 days eating example, as you did at the end of Week 1 and advise your Feedback Coach what you would like to achieve for the remainder of your program. This will help us ascertain any changes that will be required to your updated program/s. Your updated program will be forwarded to you within a few days. In the meantime, continue to follow your current program.

For clients who are not yet due for their updated program, submit feedback as per the 12 Week Program Feedback Requirements & Guidelines.


□ End of Week 6 – is your update due?

Please check the top of your training program to see if you are due for your update. If so, please provide start and current measurements and scale weight, and optional progress photos. You should also provide us with 3 days eating example, as you did at the end of Week 1 and advise your Feedback Coach what you would like to achieve for the remainder of your program. This will help us ascertain any changes that will be required to your updated program/s. Your updated program will be forwarded to you within a few days. In the meantime, continue to follow your current program.

For clients who obtained an update at the end of Week 4, submit feedback as per the 12 Week Program Feedback Requirements & Guidelines.

□ End of Week 8
Submit feedback as per the 12 Week Program Feedback Requirements & Guidelines.

We have a Photo Shoot Preparation guide available in the Library if you would like to look your best for after photos. This is when you should start perusing this document to familiarize yourself with the instructions. We recommend you begin to look for a professional photographer at this point, if you are entering the Body Blitz or New You competitions. Even if you don’t feel ‘ready’ for it at this point in time, you will be amazed how you ‘scrub up’ at the end! Professionals can do magic things with lighting and posing which can make you look sensational!

□ End of Week 10
Submit usual feedback, and include any questions you have regarding your final week plan

□ End of Week 12
Provide start and final measurements and scale weight, and after photos when they are ready. This week you will receive an article titled Maintaining Your Results from your Feedback Coach. If you would prefer to have your own personal maintenance program designed, or would like to continue on as an Ideal Bodies Online client (we have many regulars!) please email info~idealbodiesonline.com and we can discuss your personal requirements. We have some great specials for re-signing clients!

Congratulations! You made it!!! Go and buy yourself something nice – you DESERVE it 

Sue Heintze
Managing Director
www.idealbodiesonline.com
Transforming Ordinary, into Extraordinary!

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How can I speed read and even memorize perfectly? - Yahoo Answers

Read this (at your own speed)

1. Raise your speed- comfort level. How comfortable are you speeding in a car? How fast do you have to go before you feel you are “on the edge?” 70 MPH? 90? 120? How about 210 MPH, the speed the Indy car drivers can average? Get the point? Some people have learned to drive faster; their comfort level has been raised. You can do the same thing for reading. Face it, speed-reading isn’t mostly about technique; it is about mind set. Indeed this may be the reason you can play a CD while reading — you are merely driving along at 25MPH. Can you imagine an Indy car driver playing music in the background? No. The driver focuses all his or her skills on the track.
If you are out for a Sunday afternoon stroll in your book, then ignore this. But if you are serious about becoming a speed-reader, then start expecting more of yourself.

2. See the book as a mine full of ORE not GOLD. Books offer wonderful gold to the prospector. But the reader must sort through tons of ore to find and refine the gold. The speed reader changes mindsets: quits fooling around with the ore and searches for the gold. What is a book anyway? What are words? They are “carriers” of truth, thoughts, ideas, a thesis, information, terms, concepts, notions. One reads a book to get the message, not to obsess on the words. (I’m tempted here to talk about Bible study, but we shall let it pass this time.) Switch your mindset to looking for the gold.

3. Quit Subvocalizing. Most of us learned to read by sounding out the words. The trouble is, most of us never stopped. Sure, maybe we no longer audibly sound them out, or even move our lips, but in our heads we are “reading to ourselves.” We have learned to read by Mouth-and-Ear. To become a speed reader one must discard this habit (or at least reduce it) and adopt the eye-and-mind method. It is mostly a matter of mind set. Instead of acting like the ear (even in one inside your head) is the route to the mind, begin believing that the eye is the gate to the mind. Start drinking in books through your eyes. Let the books pass into the mind directly from the eye, skipping the mouth and ears. Go ahead and start trying it.

4. Use your finger. For most beginning speed-readers this is a shock. They remember reading in grade school with their finger and assume it slows one down. Actually the finger is your pace car. It leads you forward at a speedy pace, and keeps you on focus and avoiding back-skipping. There are several ways to use your finger (or hand) but just try it out for starters. As you improve, buy one of the books on speed-reading and settle on the pattern which works best for you.

5. Break the Back-skip habit. Most of us read along a line of type like this one to get the interpretation of the meaning, but as we read our eyes jump back to dwell on a word we just passed. We do this without knowing it. In fact, probably the only way to discover how many times you back skip is to have someone watch you read and count the eye-darts back. But, unless you have someone you feel pretty comfortable staring you in the face while you read, just trust me – you probably back-skip. How to stop? First confess you do it. Then start recognizing when you do it. Finally when tempted to back-skip, treat the book like a movie — that is, even if you miss something in a
movie, you don’t stop the video and replay it. You just let it flow on through, hoping you’ll make it up later.

6. Use your peripheral vision. Just like you must develop a muscle in the gym, so your mind can be trained to use the eye-gate to take in a broader amount of data. For instance, instead of reading left to right across the lines, pretend there is a line right down the middle of this page and you are following the line. Let your eye take in through peripheral vision the phrases to the right or left. Can you do it? With practice you can train your mind to read on “both sides of the road” even though your eyes are on the center line. To practice this skill most speed readers actually draw lines down pages of a book until they have mastered the skill with an invisible line. Let your mind drink in the information on the page without looking directly at it — just like you “see” the sides of the road when driving an automobile.

7. Learn to read KEY WORDS. 40-60% of the words on a page are neither critical nor important. Indeed, if someone took white-out and hid them from your sight, you could still figure out what the paragraph was communicating. So, it stands to reason that if you could figure out which are these KEY WORDS you could scan past the other words and let your mind fill in the blank. Train your mind to find these key words and you’ll add even more speed to your reading.

8. Eliminate “Bus Stops” (Eye rests). As your eyes read down this line they stop periodically and “rest” on a word. Children’s eyes often rest on every single word.