focus & concentration

Accomplish more in less time with focal point thinking

Paul R. Scheele
Brian Tracy
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welcome!
Paraliminal, as derived from the Greek para (beyond) and liminal
(threshold), means “beyond the threshold of conscious awareness.”

Stimulate your mind with a Paraliminal recording to quickly improve your

life and maximize your potential. More than a million Paraliminals are
already in use by people all around the world.
Listen with headphones to receive a unique, multilevel communication for
each hemisphere of the brain–all without subliminal messages. You’ll hear
a variety of messages coming into each ear in a soothing, effective, and
pleasurable way.
As you listen, choose which message to attend, or float down the middle
between the voices. From time to time your attention will switch, causing
you to perceive the recording differently with each listening. BUT, your
nonconscious mind receives and processes the entire message each time,
which is part of the effectiveness and beauty of Paraliminal technology.
On a very deep level you will be learning strategies to help you respond
differently in the world so that you get the results you want. That’s the
source of the name of our company, Learning Strategies Corporation.
More information on how Paraliminals work can be found at
www.LearningStrategies.com/Paraliminal.
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tips and insights

• Create quiet time to focus inwardly. Choose an environment relatively
free from distractions. Sit comfortably or recline. You will receive
minimal benefit if you merely play a Paraliminal in the background; do
not listen while driving or operating machinery.
• On some Paraliminal recordings you will be asked questions to help you
focus on the benefit you desire. Pause the recording as needed.
• If interrupted, simply open your eyes, deal with the matter, and then continue.
• If you fall asleep while listening, you will still gain benefit providing you
clearly state your purpose for the session at the beginning.
• To listen to more than one Paraliminal, take a 20-minute break between.
• Paraliminals are catalysts for change. They facilitate access to strengths
already within you. When you succeed, it’s your success–not the recordings.
•  Most changes are integrated within three days. Continued listening can
reinforce continued development. When not getting the results you want,
consider changing 1) the time of day you listen, 2) whether you are sitting
or reclining, 3) the room, or 4) the furniture you sit or recline on (listening
on a sofa might not generate results if you usually use the sofa for napping).
•  Visit our online Discussion Forum to interact with other Paraliminal
users who have the same quest as you: maximize potential!
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paraliminal sleep learning

To enjoy the benefits of sleep learning, set your audio player to repeat the
Paraliminal sleep learning track (Track 3). Adjust the volume so that you
can tune out the sound as you sleep. Waking is an indication that your
mind had completed the process, so turn off the player at that time. Use the
Paraliminal sleep learning feature as often as you would like.

holosync audio technology

Holosync audio tones, which you might hear as a hum, have been
embedded in the recording to increase your ability to benefit and learn from
this Paraliminal session.
Centerpointe Research Institute’s Holosync audio technology, when
listened to with headphones, creates the electrical brain wave patterns of
many desirable states. These states include deep meditation, increased
creativity, focus and concentration, and accelerated learning ability. Using
Holosync creates new neural pathways between the left and right brain
hemispheres, balancing the brain, enhancing mental/emotional health,
improving mental functioning and self-awareness, and healing unresolved
emotional problems.
A much deeper and more powerful version of Holosync can be found
in Centerpointe’s ongoing program, The Holosync Solution. For more
information about this program and how Holosync can accelerate mental,
emotional, and spiritual growth, and to receive a free Holosync demo, visit
www.Centerpointe.com.
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Paul R. Scheele
Paul Scheele is a highly trained and internationally acclaimed innovator
within the fields of neuro-linguistic programming, whole mind learning,
and preconscious processing. He has skillfully crafted each of the
successful Learning Strategies Paraliminals. His unique expertise and
collaborative genius creates a transformative experience for you.
Paul has designed over fifty programs relating to personal development
including PhotoReading, a unique reading system for processing the written
page 25,000 words a minute. He has authored two books: PhotoReading
and Natural Brilliance. His works have been translated into 15 languages.

brian tracy
Brian Tracy is one of the world’s most successful speakers and consultants
on personal and professional development. He addresses more than 450,000
people each year throughout the world on leadership, sales, managerial
effectiveness, and business strategy. Brian has helped thousands of people
double their incomes, reduce their working hours, get control of their time,
and dramatically improve their relationships with family, friends, and others.
Brian is the best-selling author of Time Power, Maximum Achievement,
TurboStrategy, The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success,
and Focal Point, which provides the basis for this Paraliminal session.
You can reach Brian at Brian Tracy International, 2840 Fifth Avenue,
Suite 400, San Diego, California, 92103, by phone at 1-858-436-7300,
or online at www.BrianTracy.com.
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FOCUS & CONCENTR ATION

Accomplish more in less time
with focal point thinking

PURPOSE
Focus your thoughts, feelings, and actions on what is absolutely consistent
with achieving success and enjoying the life you choose. Develop goals and
plans, set clear priorities, and focus single-mindedly on the one thing you
can do at any given time to achieve the greatest reward for your efforts.

before listening to this session

When you intelligently choose the time, place, and activity on which to
focus your energies, you can achieve maximum success in your career
while achieving harmony with your relationships and personal life. You
can have it all and still be happy and fulfilled!
Take a moment now to project forward three to five years and imagine the
life you choose, in every respect. Be clear about who you are, what you
want, and what you need to do to get it. You can achieve success simply by
choosing to do more of what takes you closer to your vision as well as less
of what moves you away from it.
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For your listening session, do one of the following:

• Focus your thoughts, feelings, and actions on starting or continuing to do
what you know works best to achieve what you choose to create.
Or
• Focus your thoughts, feelings, and actions on reducing or stopping
whatever is not absolutely consistent with accomplishing success and
enjoying the life you choose.
You can now listen to your session. Read the rest at your leisure.

BEnefits
• Focus on what generates success.
• Develop a firm belief in your purpose and establish a clear sense
of direction.
• Set clear priorities among the competing demands for your time.
• Authentically express what is most important to you.
• Develop greater knowledge and skills to expand your personal capacity
for success.
• Find valuable lessons in every situation that strengthens your
personal power.
• Communicate your goals and desires with clarity and effectiveness.
• Cultivate the peace and balance that is at your very core.
• Open yourself to creative insights.
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• Increase your enthusiasm and motivation to perform at higher levels.

• Translate your visions into specific tangible actions that you implement
with absolute confidence.

TECHNIQUE OVERVIEW
What you focus your energies upon is called your focal point, and how you
direct it ultimately controls your time–and your life. The one thing you can
do, at any given moment to get the best result possible, is to deliberately
direct your focal point. No other factor has a greater impact on your life.
This Paraliminal helps you direct your focus and strengthen your
concentration so you can achieve your goals faster and easier. You will tap
into your personal powers at a higher level than ever before, concentrating
your full power on results you choose to create right now.
During your listening session you will be inspired to live a life of freedom
and fulfillment as you venture on a metaphorical journey to ascend a
mountain peak. You learn that asking “how” to any challenge, goal, or
dream opens more creative insights that help turn your vision into reality.
If you want something strongly enough and are willing to persist long
enough, nothing can stop you from achieving it. In fact, everything in the
known universe will help you make it happen.
Recognizing the inner resources, knowledge, and skills you possess within,
you will raise your self-confidence and increase your enthusiasm and
motivation to reach the summit–the life you envision for yourself.
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Each time you listen to this Paraliminal session, you clarify the deep
values, qualities, and traits most important to you in creating the complete,
balanced, and fulfilling life you desire.

BEST WAYS TO USE

• Listen when undertaking any goal-setting and planning process in your
career or personal life. This Paraliminal session will help clarify your
vision and strengthen your purpose. It will also build your inner resolve
for change.
• Listen whenever you feel scattered, off track, aimless, or stagnant. It will
help you refocus on your goals and objectives.
• Listen before starting any new activity or project. This session will
instill an attitude of openness to the challenges ahead and inspire your
creativity as you respond. You will crystallize your ideas into positive
behaviors that energize you every step of the way.
• After you plan your day first thing in the morning, listen to this session
before getting started. It will help you develop a deep commitment to
perform at your personal best and keep you on track with your most
important tasks.

POSSIBILITIES FOR GOING BEYOND

The Focal Point Process as described in Brian Tracy’s book, Focal Point,
involves a personal strategic planning system that helps you clarify what
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you want in the following seven areas of your life. Ask yourself how happy
and fulfilled you are in each. If you were to rate yourself on a scale of 1 to
10, with 1 being the lowest, you would probably find your lowest ratings
in areas where you experience the most stress and unhappiness. Consider
what areas may need adjusting for you to be satisfied with your results.
Business and career: How do you become extremely successful and
satisfied and move to the top of your field?
Money and investments: How do you get your financial life under control
and achieve financial independence?
Health and fitness: How do you achieve and maintain high levels of
fitness, energy, and overall well-being?
Family and personal life: How do you achieve balance between external
success and personal relationships?
Social and community activities: How do you structure your life so that
you make a real difference in the world and leave a lasting legacy?
Personal growth and development: How do you identify and acquire the
key knowledge and skills that you need to live an extraordinary life?
Spiritual development and inner peace: How do you organize your inner
life and thinking so that you realize your full potential as a human being?
Once you rate yourself in those seven areas, you can determine what steps
you need to take to turn things around. The following seven steps make up
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a system of planning and goal setting you can use to decide where to put the
emphasis of your attention in each of these areas.
1) Values: What are the values, virtues, qualities, and traits that are most
important to you in each area of your life?
2) Vision: If your life were perfect in this area five years from today, what
would it look like?
3) Goals: What specific goals must you achieve to fulfill your ideal future
vision in that area?
4) Knowledge and Skills: In what areas will you have to excel in the future
to achieve your goals and fulfill your vision?
5) Habits: What specific habits of thought and action do you need to
become the person who is capable of achieving the goals you have set
for yourself?
6) Daily Activities: What specific activities do you have to engage in each
day to ensure that you become the person you want to become and achieve
the goals you want to achieve?
7) Actions: What specific action or actions are you going to take
immediately to begin realizing your ideal future vision?
The greater clarity you have about who you are, what you want, and what
you need to do to create the life you envision, the more power you have to
make it happen.
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Over a weeklong period consider listening to this Paraliminal session for

each of the seven areas of life.
If you are familiar with Diamond Feng Shi, remember to face the
appropriate “Best Direction” when listening to this Paraliminal.

INSIDE SECRETS
Personal strategic planning saves you an enormous amount of time and
money, much like corporate strategic planning. However, while the
restructuring activities of a corporation are designed to achieve higher
profitability and a return on equity, personal strategic planning is aimed at
increasing your return on energy. It increases your return on life.
Your personal equity is measured in terms of your own human capital. It
is composed of the mental, emotional, and physical energies you have to
invest in your career and life.
When you are no longer getting the results you desire, when you feel
frustrated or dissatisfied, it’s time to sit down and ask yourself good,
hard questions. When you experience resistance or stress or find yourself
working harder and harder but getting fewer and fewer rewards, it’s time to
revise your strategic plan.
By thinking through the following key concepts and questions, you very
quickly find yourself doing more of the important tasks that move you
toward your key goals and doing fewer of the things that move you away
from them.
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Key Questions for Your Work

Ask these key questions over and over again for your career. Sometimes a
new answer can dramatically change the direction of your work or business.
Asking these questions can lead you to establish new goals and new focal
points for your future.
1) What business am I in?
Define your business or work in terms of what you do for your customer
or your company. Define it in terms of the effect your work, products,
or services have on the life or work of your customers, other people, or
organizations. Define your personal work in terms of the effect you have on
the people you work for and with.
2) What business will I be in if things continue the way they are today?
Think about your future. If you do not change, what will you be doing one
year, two years, or five years from today? Based on your talents, ambitions,
energies, and passions, what business should or could you be doing
sometime in the future? What changes would you have to make to do the
work and live the life you would like in the future?
3) Who is my customer?
Determine whom you have to satisfy to survive and thrive in your career.
This can include clients, colleagues, staff, and your boss. Your ability to
identify and satisfy key customers is a critical determinant of your success
and your rewards in life.
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4) What do I do especially well?

You will be successful only to the degree that you become excellent
at the most important part of your work. Identify and develop the core
competencies you will need to be in the top of your field.
5) What are the 10 to 20 percent of my activities that could account for 80
to 90 percent of my results?
Identify those tasks that yield the highest returns and rewards relative to the
cost and effort of performing them.
6) What are the critical constraints on my ability to achieve my goals?
As you examine the steps you need to take to achieve your goal, determine
which are limiting you. The constraints may be external, but more often they
lie within your own habits, beliefs, attitudes, opinions, skills, and abilities.
You have limited influence on other people and external factors, but you have
an enormous amount of influence on what you do personally…or fail to do.
7) What specific action or actions am I going to take immediately based on
my answers to these questions?
The purpose of strategic thinking and planning is to choose the actions you
can take to bring about different results than what you are achieving today.
What are they?
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Key Questions for Your Relationships

Asking better questions can also help you develop winning family and
personal relationship habits and enrich and improve the quality of all
your relationships.
Ask your loved ones the following four questions. Whatever they say, resist
the temptation to argue or defend. Listen quietly and attentively. Ask them
for specific examples to help you understand.
1) Is there anything I am doing today that you would like me to do
more often?
2) Is there anything I am doing that you would like me to do less often?
3) Is there anything I am not doing that you would like me to start doing
from now on?
4) Is there anything I am doing that you would like me to stop doing?
Thank your loved ones for their input and ideas, then take their answers
away with you and turn them over slowly in your mind to evaluate them.
Good personal relationships are characterized by openness to input and
ideas from each person. Keeping this in mind will make it much easier for
you to make the adjustments necessary for happy, healthy relationships.
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TAP THE POWER

OF YOUR MIND
To Accomplish Greatness in Your Life
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manifesting your hopes and dreams.
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We create our lives, with every thought every minute of every day. The keys
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help you create the life you want now.
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focus & concentration

How to use Your

Paraliminal
1) Choose a quiet environment
where you can close your eyes
and focus inwardly.

2) Set your purpose for listening.

3) Listen with headphones.

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