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    MIND MEDIA REVIEW No.43 
    Introductory Edition Edited by Mead Rose
    Copy Editor: Will Penna
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    IN THIS SPECIAL ISSUE!
    
    ++ WELCOME TO MIND MEDIA -- HOME OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT ON THE WEB
    by Bruce Ehrlich, Founder of the Mindware Catalog
    
    ++ THREE FREE SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS YOU THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE --
       DOWNLOAD SITES BELOW
    
    ++ FIVE SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD WEB SITES WORTH HAVING ON YOUR HARD DRIVE
       by Bruce Eisner
    
    ++ FIVE MINDWARE ONLINE APPLICATIONS YOU CAN VISIT TODAY
       by Bruce Eisner
       
    ++ FIVE FAVORITE MIND MEDIA PRODUCTS 
       by the Mind Media Staff
    
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    WELCOME TO MIND MEDIA -- HOME OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT ON THE WEB
    by Bruce Ehrlich, Founder of the Mindware Catalog
    
    This is a special issue of the Mindware Review. The Mindware 
    Review is one of the longest running Internet newsletters --
    having sent out its first issue to subscribers in early 1995. The 
    publication is written by the Mind Media staff and is sent to a 
    subscriber list which has now grown to over 100,000. I am sending 
    it to you because you visited Mind Media Life-Enhancment Network
    so I know you are interested in what I call 
    Mindware. Please excuse me if I sent it to you in error, 
 
    Mind Media Review is about "Mindware" -- a term I coined back in 
    1988 to describe software that I had been collecting while I was 
    finishing my doctorate in P.M. Actually, just when I was going to 
    write my dissertation, I decided to start a small "side-business" 
    called the Mindware catalog. The 32 page color catalog grew from a 
    circulation of 5000 for issue mailed out in the spring of '88 to 
    500,000 mailed in the summer of 1994 -- our last issue. 
 
    In a strange twist, the first issue of the Mindware catalog was 
    called The Mindware Review -- which was the hot idea of a 
    marketing company I had hired to put out the first issue. When I 
    found out I could print 50,000 catalogs for about twice as much as 
    5,000, I left that company and found a local designer named Scott 
    Sandow who was a great layout artist but an also had been in 
    business and marketing his entire life. As someone who had come 
    from Grad School (I didn't know the difference between an invoice 
    and a purchase order), I was glad to have him spend hours with me 
    figuring out what this mindware thing was all about and who would 
    be interested in using it.
 
    This is an excerpt from the "Letter from the President" from that 
    second Mindware catalog.
 
    
        "Welcome to Mindware! An extra dimension has been 
        added to your personal computer with the arrival of a new 
        genre of software we call mind appliances. These mind 
        appliances cover many areas but share a common purpose: 
        the enhancement of human intelligence in all its aspects -
        - and so our name became,"Mindware."

        Mindware was conceived and created to be more than a 
        business in the normal sense. We sincerely believe that 
        anyone can benefit from this new relationship between computers 
        and the mind! 
 
    By the time we had grown to half a million catalogs, we were the 
    first catalog to have sold a CD-ROM drive along with CD-ROMs to 
    play in them and also the first to sell voice recognition 
    software. In a sense, we were kind of a "Sharper Image" of 
    computer software as well as a self- improvement catalog.
 
    One half-million catalogs costs a lot to mail. Our post office 
    bill was so large, I thought we should be given red carpet 
    treatment at the post office -- but we had to stand in line like 
    everyone else. Our team at Mindware was always dreaming of 
    starting something like America Online or even to be given a 
    section of AOL or than equally prominent CompuServe in order to 
    replace or at least supplement the catalog.
 
    My main assistant at the time,Thad Atkins had a couple of friends 
    who were starting a company to do catalogs on something called the 
    World Wide Web. When I ordered an ISDN line and started browsing, 
    I was sure that this was where I wanted real estate. So as the web 
    began to become more than just a place for scientists, we were one 
    of the earliest online. Our first web site was at mindware.com but 
    we decided to create a larger site called the Mind Media Life-
    Enhancement Network so that we could feature more than just the 
    Mindware Catalog Online.
 
    In 1995, we stopped printing catalogs and went entirely online. 
    The same year, I came out with the first email edition of the 
    Mindware Review. At the time there were only about a hundred 
    online newsletters and so were actually read and even enjoyed (I 
    got a lot of email asking questions when I wrote something which 
    is how I know).
 
    But by the end of the decade, the Internet revolution occurred --
    which actually made it more difficult for us in many ways. All of 
    the good programmers and web artists were suddenly working for 
    large corporations that formerly only had stores and advertised on 
    TV. Search engines were selling ranking -- and we didn't have the 
    money to pay. From less than twenty online catalogs that were 
    around when we started, now there were 200,000. Many of them 
    started what became known as the "dot comers" -- people who had 
    made money in other businesses and now were getting Venture 
    Capital which allowed them to out spend us by huge factors.
 
    Perhaps the one of the strangest stories of my twelve years in the 
    computer human potential business was an event that took place in 
    the fall of 1999. It was right in the middle of the Internet boom 
    -- when you drove through Silicon Valley and saw billboards from 
    VC companies. A woman called me. She told me that she had an 
    online art gallery but that her first love was personal 
    development -- the kind of products and services that we provide. 
    She then told me she represented someone in the "self-help" field 
    whose name I would instantly recognize. He had acquired a publicly 
    traded shell (a stock in which the company no longer exists but 
    which is still listed on a stock exchange -- a fast way of raising 
    public money is to buy one of these "shells" and put your company 
    and a few others together into it.). 
 
    She was looking for a few good personal development sites which 
    you could join together under this self-improvement figure. At one 
    point, she had me on the line with a gentleman who asked me what 
    my gross sales were. He had seen my business plan, which is posted 
    on our web site and mistakenly took our projections based on one 
    million dollars investment as our current earnings. When he found 
    out we weren't making the projected figure, he hurriedly got off 
    the phone.
 
    Who was the mysterious man? A few months afterward, Anthony 
    Robbins launched his high-profile web site -- Dreamlife.com. And 
    here is an excerpt from a January 10, 2000 Newsweek Magazine 
    (International Edition) --
    http://www.rickross.com/reference/general/general162.html --
    article:
 
        "This much is clear: if success is the goal, the gurus 
        have found it. Anthony Robbins leads the pack. Of all the 
        gurus, he's most focused on the Net. Last summer Robbins 
        took control of a publicly traded shell company whose 
        stock cost just pennies a share and announced plans to 
        build a self- improvement Web site, Dreamlife.com. The 
        site still isn't operational, but investors don't seem to 
        mind. Last week its stock stood at $16 a share, 
        putting Robbins's stake at more than $300 million."
 
    Well Robbins site was slick and "did everything right" -- from 
    personalized membership to an online interactive tutorial which 
    identified the parts of life that needed improvement, complete 
    with Tony Robbins voice and picture to guide you. I joined the 
    site and was bombarded with Newsletters on a daily basis. 
 
    Now in one of the business plans I wrote, before the Internet 
    became so fashionable -- I suggested that Mind Media approach 
    individuals such a Robbins, Deepak Chopra
 
    Stephen Covey. In "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and 
    John Gray, the former Hindu monk from right here in Mind Media 
    Country, Santa Cruz, California -- who wrote "Men Are From Mars, 
    Women Are From Venus," with the idea of Mind Media using its 
    expertise to give them a web presence. So when the VC money flowed 
    like wine and all of the big guys jumped aboard, little Mind Media 
    remained pretty much a slowly evolving web organism as it always 
    had been.
 
    Well  in  mid-2001, a year after its launch, Dreamlife.com was 
    dead. And Mind  Media is still here.. Back in 1990, one of the 
    software publishers I featured on in the Mindware Catalog, Bert 
    Shaw, sent me this quotation which still hands on my bulletin 
    board.
 
        "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. 
        Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful 
        men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is 
        almost a proconservation alone will not; the world is full 
        of educated derelicts."
 
    The saying had nobody it was attributed to, so I decided to look 
    it up on the web as I was wring this, I found out it was said by 
    good old "Silent" Calvin Coolidge himself, so I thought about 
    taking it down since he doesn't have much of a reputation] as he 
    had articulated an idea missed by many in the trendy self-
    improvement arena. 
 
    So this special issue is dedicated to the future of what I called 
    Mindware back in 1988. Its come a long way. In this issue, I'll 
    start with three free programs we give away on our site. Then I'm 
    going to take sections of two previous issues to introduce you to 
    five great downloads on the Web (not on our site) and five of the 
    best of the online applications And finally I'll put in a plug for 
    five of my favorite Mind Media Products.
 
    So I'm still carrying the torch Mindware. My dream is to make 
    our West into a portal dedicated to the use of computers 
    as mind appliances -- for individual success and personal development
    and the enhancement of the diverse aspects of human intelligence. 
    How is that for perseverance?
 
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    THREE FREE SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS YOU THAT MAY CHANGE YOUR LIFE
    Here are three free software give-always from mind media They 
    all can be found on our "Specials Page" 
    http://www.mindmedia.com/specials.html.
 
    1) The first is the ever-popular Mindviewer -- a very close 
    follow up to the original Mind Prober which was published in the 
    mid-1980's:
    
    MINDVIEWER  GIVES YOU X-RAY VISION INTO ANYONE'S HIDDEN 
    PERSONALITY AND PRIVATE FANTASIES
 
    "Gain the advantage in personal and business relationships Reveals 
    the secrets of winning people's trust Developed by an eminent team 
    of psychologists "I was impressed by the reports it produced. In 
    fact, I thought it pegged me pretty darn close to how I perceive 
    myself. After showing the reports to a couple of close (and I mean 
    close) friends, they agreed with Mindviewer's analysis completely. 
    Of course I clipped out the section "Top Secret Sex Fantasies." --
    Ron Albright, Computer Shopper
 
    Uncover anyone's hidden personality with the best-selling self-
    improvement program of all time. After using Mindviewer, you will 
    feel like you have x- ray vision into parts of people that 
    normally they can keep hidden.
 
    People hide behind masks. With Mindviewer, you gain accurate 
    insight into the true nature of your friends, family, employees, 
    associates. Find out what makes them tick, what gets them angry--
    even how to shape their behavior. 
 
    Developed by Drs. James and Kathy Johnson, a renowned husband/wife 
    psychologist team, the program is both entertaining and 
    enlightening. And its analysis hits home in a big way.
 
    Using the program is simple, yet the complex psychometric 
    equations taken from personality psychology make the program 
    uncannily accurate. Mindviewer asks you a series of multiple-
    choice questions about yourself or someone you wish to know 
    better. Then you get a detailed profile of your subject, which can 
    be viewed on the screen or printed as a detailed 3-5 page report 
    custom-generated from the results. Run Mindviewer on your best 
    friends and see if you get some new angle on them. Run Mindviewer 
    on your boss for advice on important matters like how to get that 
    raise or next promotion. Or try the program on your spouse or 
    lover to reveal some hidden fantasies that just might warm up your 
    relationship.
 
    You'll have fun finding out what Mindviewer can do for you! A free 
    download at download at http://www.mindmedia.com/mv.com 
 
    2) Another of our featured downloads is called Brainworks and it 
    helps you determine which hemisphere of the brain you use --left 
    or right or perhaps a bit of both.
 
    WHAT BRAIN HEMISPHERE DO YOU PREFER? ARE YOU MORE VISUAL OR 
    AUDITORY? DISCOVER YOUR PERSONALITY STYLE
 
    Do you know whether you prefer your left hemisphere or your right 
    hemisphere? When you think, do you think visually or in sounds? 
    The answer to these two key questions can unlock important secrets 
    to your personality. Secrets, which can give help you to become 
    more successful and effective in everything that you do.
 
    Mind Media Life Enhancement Network is pleased to give you, for a 
    limited time, Brain Works, a simple to use software program which 
    answer the two questions we asked at the beginning, and then give 
    you much more. You'll get a complete report which you can read on 
    screen or print, how your unique preferences for right or left 
    hemisphere and for visual or auditory thinking styles make up your 
    unique personality style. But more important, you'll get guidance 
    and important tips on how you can be more effective in your 
    learning, in relating to others and in achieving your goals with 
    maximum success. 
 
    When you download Brain Works, you get a free subscription to Mind 
    Media Review Newsletter with information on the cutting edge 
    software, CD-ROMs and new technologies in computers and the mind. 
    Back issues of this important publication are available on our 
    site.
 
    The questionnaire is visual, short and fun. And you never get the 
    same set of questions twice. The report invaluable! Print it out 
    and keep it for future reverence. For a limited time only, Mind 
    Media Life Enhancement Network presents Brain Work, a revealing 
    mind revealing software program absolutely FREE! Download it now 
    at http://www.mindmedia.com/brain.html
    The last is called IQ Smarts and it gives you four IQ scores 
    instead of one and helps you build your IQ by several points -- up 
    to 15 says the publishers.
 
    TURBOCHARGE YOUR BRAIN WITH IQ SMARTS MEASURE YOUR IQ - THEN RAISE 
    IT DRAMATICALLY RAISE YOUR IQ BY 15 POINTS OR MORE 
 
    Discover your hidden strengths At last, here is a computer program 
    that can not only measures your IQ, and whether you are left or 
    right brained-- it actually raises your IQ. And it will raise it 
    not just a tiny amount but to a dimension that you never dreamed 
    possible. From the psychological and programming genius of Dr. 
    James Johnson -- founder of the pioneer Human Edge Software --
    comes IQ SMARTS, dramatic new advance intelligence. 
 
    The software is based on major breakthroughs in the brain 
    sciences. You?ll get exercises specially designed to develop your 
    brain the same way aerobics, Nautilus, and other fitness programs 
    have given us the ability to develop our body. Until now, these 
    exercises have been available only from professionals with 
    programs costing many thousands of dollars. Now these life-
    changing exercises are available with IQ SMARTS. IQ SMARTS begins 
    by measuring all aspects of your intelligence through a short 
    test. In the multi-page report you print out, you are told: 
 
    Your overall IQ score Your "common sense" intelligence IQ score 
    Your "book smarts" intelligence IQ Your "thinking creativity" 
    intelligence score After explaining exactly what these scores 
    mean, the program tells you exactly where you are strongest and 
    targets weaknesses for improvement. IQ SMARTS explains what these 
    strengths and weaknesses mean for your everyday life. Then, you 
    are given a personalized training program that includes exercises, 
    skills and procedures that are specific to your unique makeup and 
    that are guaranteed to improve your ability to think and be 
    creative. The user interface friendly and easy to use and you?ll 
    be building brain cells in minutes after running the program. 
 
    With this remarkable program, you can actually raise your 
    intelligence by 15 points or more in as little as three weeks. 
    This increase can mean the difference between success and failure 
    in many careers and can 
    lead a better and richer life.  
    Download Spot http://www.mindmedia.com/iqsmart.html 
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    FIVE SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD WEB SITES WORTH HAVING ON YOUR HARD DRIVE
 
    If you're at all like me, you love to download and try new 
    software. However as you might have discovered, you only really 
    find a few programs that you continue using and want to keep on 
    your hard drive. Today, I'm going to show some of the programs 
    that I kept on my computer.
 
    In addition to being winners, I have tried to choose programs from 
    a variety of different sub-categories of the genre that I call 
    "mindware." They are all worth a download.
 
    1. http://www.goalpro.com/index.cfm?ID=50571 The people who 
    publish GoalPro 5.0 calls it "The most effective success-
    management application available" and the funny thing is -- they 
    may be right! I've been working on a special feature article 
    covering my personal search trying to find the perfect program or 
    combination of programs to accomplish the increasingly difficult 
    task of managing my personal information. And GoalPro software in 
    tandem with Microsoft Outlook is the combo that I use. 
 
    But you don't have to use GoalPro on a PC. The people at GoalPro 
    have kept up with the state-of-the-art and are offering GoalPro 
    with most of its features intact as an on-line application. So 
    Macintosh and Linux users as well as anyone who has access to the 
    web can begin using GoalPro right now.
 
    What does the program do? Well it's hard to describe all of what 
    it does briefly and so next month this publication will have a 
    feature length review of GoalPro. In summary, it guides you 
    through the process of listing and clarifying your most important 
    life objectives.  You a set of concrete goals to reach each of 
    these objectives and also create short term tasks for reaching the 
    objectives and goals. 
 
    The program not only helps you create your "success tree" of 
    objectives, goals and tasks, it sets up a regular daily and 
    separate weekend routine where you visit these lists and determine 
    how you are doing. This is called Success Coach and it's pretty 
    darn useful. There's even a past-due management system where 
    people who set too many tasks or procrastinate -- - people such as 
    myself -- can evaluate and reschedule missed deadlines. Download a 
    free thirty-day trial -- you might want to keep using it.
 
    2. http://www.store-mindjet.com/affiliate.cfm?aff=PEZEVOBFQNFJ A 
    mind map is a visual representation of the relationship between 
    related ideas. The typical map starts with a central idea, word or 
    concept. Then, around the central word you draw five to ten main 
    ideas that relate to that word. You then take each of those child 
    words and again draw the five to ten main ideas that relate to 
    each of those words until you have an excellent visual model of 
    the idea you are trying to understand or express.
 
    MindManager 3.7 is perhaps the best tool for creating mind-maps 
    that has yet been devised, Whether you're trying to solve a 
    problem, prioritize your daily activities, organize multiple 
    projects or make a simple to-do list, MindManager will help. 
 
    Here's some of the wide range of uses for the program: you can 
    prepare speeches and presentations quickly and easily, plan and 
    track complex tasks and projects, share project information with 
    others, via MindManager's unique Internet conferencing, create web 
    sites and/or site maps using the web site export features, track 
    progress on projects visually, to quickly see how far along you 
    are, organize multiple projects at once, take notes efficiently 
    and easily reorganize them and more.
 
    Download a free full-featured demo -- or a smaller version which 
    downloads quicker and try it for 21 days.
 
    There are a wealth of resources on-line to help you learn the 
    skill of mapping your mind. So if you want the big picture, he's a 
    place to start drawing it. 
 
    3.http://www.brain.com Josh Reynolds's 
    Brain.com focuses on mental performance enhancement with its 
    premier thinkFast software. Now thinkFast is an on-line 
    application and brain.com has become an on-line brain-enhancement 
    community.
 
    In 1995,the Global Idea Bank listed my idea of the "mini- mind 
    gym" http://www.globalideasbank.org/BOV/BV-488.HTML. The principle 
    is that by using your brain, you can increase your mental fitness. 
    Mind Media's IQ Builder and thinkFast software featured on 
    brain.com work along these principles. They both give you a 
    variety of mental tests which focus on a spectrum of mental 
    abilities. By increasing the difficulty over trials, you "build 
    mental muscle."
 
    Now thinkFast has become an on-line application and added features 
    which take the idea of mental fitness workouts further.
 
    thinkFast is the perfect mind-mini gym and allows you to measure 
    and save your improvements on-line. It "works you out" on a wide 
    variety of mental skills. The program even includes your own 
    Personal Tutor who coaches you to greater mental heights. 
 
    4. http://www.acal.com  Stressmaster by Acel Self-Growth Software 
    is about more than just stress. Modules contained within this 
    ambitious Windows program include: Define Goals, Design Life, 
    Overcome Additions, Change My State of Mind, Calm Anger, Cope with 
    Daily Stress and several more.
 
    Some of the modules take you through interactive exercises that 
    help you deal with various problem areas. Each of the modules 
    written output is recorded in a master Self Discovery Journal. 
    This is one of the best of the growing number of programs aimed 
    toward self-therapy, StressMaster is available for a 30-day free 
    trial.
 
    5. http://brainstorming.org/ablemind/index.html  ThinkWorld's 
    Ablemind Streaming Idea Generator is the latest in the genre of 
    brainstorming software and works in conjunction with the company's 
    Brainstorming 101 seminar. You can download a demo version of the 
    program, which contains a subset of the program's 87 million idea 
    cards.
 
    The idea cards, which the program generates upon demand, consist 
    of three words - a verb adjective and a noun. For example here are 
    a few of the cards I drew: bevel postmodern shirts, lighten 
    leather cans, vibrate instant televisions,
 
    These phrases might seem a bit meaningless but they are there to 
    make you think. The company gives a few examples. Pump basketball 
    shoes, they say, would have made people laugh twenty years ago. 
    Now, after tens of millions of basketball shoes sold, people would 
    think the idea pure genius.  A few more examples among the 
    millions possible from Able's software: project Celluloid images, 
    navigate electronic documents. 
 
    Well the arguments pretty convincing that this software can make 
    me money. I'm going to file my patent for a
    vibrating instant television tomorrow.
    .
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     FIVE MINDWARE ONLINE APPLICATIONS YOU CAN VISIT TODAY
     by Bruce Eisner
 
    The Internet is always issuing new and trendy buzzwords and so you 
    have probably started hearing that the next wave on the Web is 
    online applications. In fact, online applications have arrived and 
    will revolutionize the way that you will use the interactive self-
    improvement and personal-development tools which is the essence of 
    the meaning of this new genre of Mindware tools.
 
    Since the beginning of personal computing, there have always been 
    a number of competing operating systems which you can chose from 
    to run your PC. In the past twenty years CPM, OS/2, the BeOS, the 
    Macintosh, many flavors of UNIX along with several flavors of 
    Windows. It has been a situation akin to the Biblical tower of 
    Babel and so computer users for the most part chose Windows along 
    those "who think different" picking the Mac. And the third most 
    popular desktop operating system, Linux.
 
    Many people have chose Windows as an operating system because 
    there are hundreds of times as many applications made for it than 
    for the Mac or Linux or the others. Most computer users have 
    dreamed of a day when it didn't matter what operating system you 
    ran, you could use whatever application you wanted on any 
    computer. Online applications are rapidly making this dream a 
    reality. 
 
    Online applications are built to work within a computer browser so 
    that the application runs on the web server and any web-enabled 
    computer can use them. In addition to their universality of use, 
    these applications can also be upgraded by system administrator of 
    the web server, virtually eliminating the need to constantly buy 
    and install upgrades to every one of your software applications.
 
    Confined at first to a small group of mainstream software 
    applications such as accounting software, utilities, online 
    greeting card generators and the like, online applications are now 
    becoming available for the kind of software that I like to write 
    about.
 
    So here are five web online applications worth a visit. I've 
    written about some of them before and their here again because 
    they help broaden the range of possible scope of what you can look 
    at today. 
 
    Five Self-Improvement Online Applications worth a Visit 
    
    1.http://www.living-software.com The first personal 
    development online application I'm going to review is by an 
    Israeli team headed by C.E.O Doron Zzur. The link above is to a 
    beta of the most sophisticated self-therapy tool created for the 
    computer and it runs on any machine you care to try it on!
 
    After registering, the program prompts you with the question, "How 
    Do You Feel Today." You answer by writing down what psychologists 
    are fond of calling "your issues" and then you are introduced to 
    four helpers in cartoon form. You can choose any of them and they 
    will converse with you and help you clarify your problem and think 
    about it in different terms. 
 
    Each of the helpers is a different kind of personality and can 
    give advices, which might even contradict the other very different 
    personality. By then noting changes as they occur, you involve 
    yourself in an ongoing process. This process can lead to 
    improvements in attitude and mood as the brainstorming helps you 
    become familiar with your "issue." And with familiarity comes 
    relief by looking at something you here-to-fore avoided.
 
    This is a beta and has some rough edges but the good part is that 
    it is free. Also information collected will help to make this site 
    even better. Eventually Mr. Dzur hopes to turn this into a paid 
    service. He was inspired to go into this line of work by a very 
    significant personal crisis in his life, which occurred after his 
    wife passed away with cancer several years ago. He founded this 
    company to make available to the public ways of quickly responding 
    to stressful life crises. His company has board of consulting 
    psychologists and the site is worth a visit or several.
 
    2. http://app.brain.com/member/join.cfm Josh Reynolds's 
    Brain.com focuses on mental performance enhancement with its 
    premier thinkFast software. Now thinkFast is an online application 
    and brain.com has become an online brain-enhancement community.
 
    In 1995,the Global Idea Bank listed my idea of the "mini- mind 
    gym" http://www.globalideasbank.org/BOV/BV-488.html was listed 
    for voting.The basic principle is that by using your brain, 
    you can increase your mental fitness by exersing it, just as you
    do physical muscles.
    
    Mind Media's IQ Builder and thinkFast software featured on 
    brain.com work along these principles. They both give you a 
    variety of mental tests, which focus on a spectrum of mental 
    abilities. By increasing the difficulty over trials, you "build 
    mental muscle."
 
    Now thinkFast has become an online application and added features, 
    which take the idea of mental fitness workouts further.
 
    ThinkFast is the perfect mind-mini gym and allows you to measure 
    and save your improvements online. It "works you out" on a wide 
    variety of mental skills. The program even includes your own 
    Personal Tutor who coaches you to greater mental heights. 
 
    3.http://www.goalpro.com/index.cfm?ID=50571 I've written a lot in 
    June and July about GoalPro - which I consider one of the most 
    helpful software programs I've used to help me organize for 
    success.  I'm featuring it here again because you've got to look 
    around the site to find that in addition to the software version, 
    there's an online version of GoalPro you can purchase as a 
    subscription which allows anyone including Mac and Linux users to 
    use this significant program. Here's what I wrote in June:
 
    The people who publish GoalPro 5.0 calls it "The most effective 
    success management application available" and the funny thing is -
    - they may be right! GoalPro software in tandem with Microsoft 
    Outlook is the combo that I use. But you don't have to use GoalPro 
    on a PC. The people at GoalPro have kept up with the state-of-the-
    art and are offering GoalPro with most     of its features intact 
    as an online application. So Macintosh and Linux users as well as 
    anyone who has access to the web can begin using GoalPro right 
    now.
 
    What does the program do? Well it's hard to describe all of what 
    it does briefly and so next month this publication will have a 
    feature length review of GoalPro. In short, it guides you through 
    the process of listing and clarifying your most important life 
    objectives.  You list a set of concrete goals to reach each of 
    these objectives and also create short term tasks for reaching the 
    objectives and goals. 
 
    The program not only helps you create your "success tree" of 
    objectives, goals and tasks, it sets up a regular daily and 
    separate weekend routine where you visit these lists and determine 
    how you are doing. This is called Success Coach and it's pretty 
    darn useful. There's even a past-due management system where 
    people who set too many tasks or procrastinate can evaluate and 
    reschedule missed deadlines. Download a free thirty-day trial - -
    you might want to keep using it -- I did.
 
    4. http://www.timecontrol.cc Panella Strategies: Success-Centered 
    Time Management Power and Power Marketing Principles is not an 
    exactly an online application but I put it here because it relies 
    on the multimedia capabilities of the web to deliver an extensive 
    library of time management principles developed by Vince Panella. 
    During the past 18 years, his profit and time-building programs 
    have influenced thousands of companies and tens of thousands of 
    people in 25 countries around the world. The application- like 
    section is called the Time Control Room and it has series of 
    modules which take several days to learn (Panella finds that most 
    people who take other time management courses don't learn anything 
    because they are presented two quickly so they are forgotten just 
    as quickly. Real Audio lectures by Vince Panella are supplemented 
    by written materials available for download and the program 
    together works very well.  The cost is $20 per month but readers 
    of this column can email mailto:psi@accelernet.net  and get yearlong

    subscription for only $49.95 if you mention that Robert Galpren, 
    Editor-In-Cheif from the Mind Media review sent you. 
 
    5.http://www.ansir.com -- Ashir.com is more than a web site, it is 
    one premier example of Mindware online app. Ashir.com starts with 
    a personality test which uses a unique system called the Ansir 
    Style of Relating. You take the test after registering and are 
    rated on 14 different personality attributes. Here is what they 
    say about their test. "Discover your Self- truth and potential! 
    It's free, challenging, and enlightening! But be warned, this 
    serious test has 2,744 possible combinations and is ranked-by 
    participants and Members alike-among the toughest and most 
    accurate on the Web. Self-honesty is key. Read Profile Briefs 
    first, then learn much, much more with Profiles In Depth 
    absolutely free! Once you take the test, you are presented with a 
    unique perspective on yourself and also become part of the 
    Asir community. It is fun, fascinating and most of all - worth a
visit.
    
 
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    FIVE FAVORITE MIND MEDIA PRODUCTS 
    by the Mind Media Staff
    Here are the most popular Mind Media products of all time 
    favorite from actual sales figures.
 
    1) Most often on the order list -- our Top Twenty Software 
    Programs from the Famous Mindware Catalog 
    http://www.mindmedia.com/catalog/pub/bundles.html  
 
    2) For those of you who want the highest quality Mindware CD-ROM 
    based mental tests -- Be Sure to Get the Superstar Suite! Five 
    multimedia tests originally published] by Virtual Knowledge, Inc 
    available at http://www.mindmedia.com/customer3.html
 
    3) Always Popular -- Mind Prober 3.0 at 
    http://wwww.mindmedia.com/probind.html came in third 
    
    4) The State-of-the-Art CD-ROM by Psychologist Sam Keen --Your Mythic
    Journey http://www.mindmedia.com/mythicj.html
 
    5) Five Multimedia CD-ROMs for Personal and Professional Success
    -- Full Interactive Video Courses on a Disk! Titles: Manage Time,
    Organize For Success, Manage Stress, Attitude for Success 
    and Communicate! http://www.mindmedia.com/catalog/pub/cdrom.html 
 
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    company has taken over administration of our electronic download 
    catalog. This means that you get their 30 money back guarantee and 
    their technical support staff is on call 24/7 to insure that if 
    you pay for your download you get your download. Just go to 
    http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_Main.Entry?SP=10007&SID=30169
    &CID=0
    We hope you enjoy the work our staff has done to enrich the 
    product descriptions of the programs you can download there 
    include Mind Prober 3.0 and our Top Ten Windows Best-Sellers
 
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    can order securely on our web site or Call toll free during weekdays
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    1-800-818-9445 Or Internationally:1+831+4260762 
    Or FAX 1+831+426-8519  
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    Thank you for reading and stay tuned for more! For comments or 
    contributions, send e-mail to Mead Rose mailto:web@mindmedia.com  
    Copyright 2002, Mind Media, Inc.
    
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