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How to make the world dyslexic & bran-friendly

Chi Chat – is your world dyslexic / brain-friendly?

As a business person would you take attention if 20% of your potential audience were confused and turned off by your product or service? I think so!

Have you considered what you could do to make the world – your part of it – a more dyslexic / brain-friendly place? This would invite and additional 20% of customers!

Here is the third part of the interview when I am asked about every day challenges for a dyslexic – are some of them the same for you as well?

What things make the world UN-friendly for you?

The interesting thing is that making a product or service more dyslexic friendly, is actually good for ALL brains!

Time to vote!

  1. Would you rather be presented with a report written in Times Roman, small font, light grey, nearly filling the page from side to side and top to bottom, OR
    2. an overview map of the report, followed by pages with images and diagrams and visual interest?

3. Same with a presentation, a drone on for 1 hour, reading and not even looking up,
OR
4. a dynamic, involving, seeing, hearing and experiencing session, less than 45 minutes, with a overview, details and a summary?

I vote for: 1. ________ or 2. _______; 3. _______ or 4. _________ ???

And here is another example, true for EVERY brain, and increasingly confusing for a dyslexic one.
PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT – NOT WHAT YOU DON’T WANT!!

Examples: ‘Don’t walk on the grass’; NO left turn; NO running; ‘Don’t forget the…’
The negative statement is ubiquitous!
And you can’t do a don’t!!

Another example: Promise me you will NOT think about what I am about to mention…
Do NOT think of a blue hippopotamus in a pink ballet tutu!
And… what do you have in your head right now?? YES!
And if you coloured him pink, you know he really is blue!

Little things really mean a lot for ALL brains to function at their best.

Please let me know your dyslexic difficulties

How low will you go? 

Chi & I look forward to seeing / hearing from YOU!!!

To request a 15 minute Mind Chi Chat with Vanda to explore how Mind Chi might assist you, your group, team or company build resilience and joy! 
Vanda@TheChangeMakergroup.com or Vanda@MindChi.com

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How low will you go?

Chi chats – How low will you go?

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Yes! How low will YOU go before you turn on your heating?

Are you considering your heating costs as winter approaches?

As I have spent much of my life in the tropics, I have to confess to enjoying a warm home. However, central heating is a relatively recent home luxury. When I was a child, I remember taking my clean underwear into bed, so it would be warm for the morning, and dressing under the covers because there was thick ice INSIDE the windows of my bedroom!

It didn’t seem to hurt me, but I have become ‘soft’ in later years. What about you?

So, how low will you go this year?

How low will you go?
How low will you go?

And 8 ways to change your habits to keep yourself warm without using too much heating:

  1. Wear your clothes in layers with a thermal base and fingerless gloves
  2. Keep your feet well wrapped in socks and warm shoes / slippers
  3. Set a timer and MOVE at least every 45 minutes – stand up; wiggle; stretch; dance; go outside for a walk – even just for a few minutes
  4. On another 45 minute break, make a hot drink, try plain hot/warm water and de-caffeinated drinks, or cook something to eat, a little snack of porridge or popcorn is good for you and warming
  5. Wrap a snuggly shawl around you – sit with sunlight on your face for a while
  6. Eat healthily, small and often to keep your internal heater stoked
  7. Turn on a little heat in the room where you mostly are and at the time you feel coldest – use a timer
  8. Change your thinking! Remember to be grateful for all you DO have. You are making a small and significant sacrifice, and saving yourself money.

Please let me know how low you will go!

How low will you go?

Chi & I look forward to seeing / hearing from YOU!!!

To request a 15 minute Mind Chi Chat with Vanda to explore how Mind Chi might assist you, your group, team or company build resilience and joy! Vanda@TheChangeMakergroup.com or Vanda@MindChi.com

And for more marvellous Mind Chi blogs:

Want more resilience for your organisation, here:

Here is a short cartoon about ‘Resilience for Change’