September is eventful one could say! Significant events and milestones were achieved that forever changed life as we know it. Let’s look at the 10 most important events that occurred in September.

#1

It was in the early hours of September 1, 1939 that World War II started. Hitler’s armies invaded Poland, marking the onset of one of the darkest moments in human history.

#2

On September 2, Napoleon the Third surrendered during the Battle of Sedan, essentially marking the fall of the 2nd French Empire. That took place in 1870.

#3

In 1993, Israel and the PLO ended years of negotiation by coming to an agreement of mutual recognition. The international community was hopeful this would accelerate the conflict resolution between the two countries. More than 10 years later the issue is still unresolved.

#4

September 11 is another dark day in the history of humanity as the biggest and worst terrorist attack on US ground takes place. About 3,000 were killed as an aftermath.

#5

In 1788, New York become the federal capital of the newly established American Government.

#6

Grace Kelly, Hollywood actress and Princess of Monaco, died in a horrid car accident in Monte Carlo. Her daughter, Stephanie, also in the car, survived with only bruises. Grace Kelly’s stunning film career ended prematurely, to the grief of millions of fans worldwide as well as her family. This took place on September 14, 1982.

#7

It’s been more than 100 years (September 16, 1908) since GM was founded by the entrepreneur William Crapo Durant in the state of Michigan.

#8

New Zealand allows women to vote. It’s the first country to do so and this takes place on September 19, 1893. The nation sets in motion a wave of new discourse that would gradually urge more countries to give women the right to vote.

#9

It’s September 26, 1960. The American people witness the first-ever presidential debate between candidates JFK and Richard Nixon.

#10

California is discovered by Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo on  September 28, 1542 – when he drops anchor at the San Diego Bay.

How are you going to use these historical facts?

eReflect, the Educational Technology company behind 7 Speed Reading software and Spreeder.com, announce a new desktop app to be launched in 2016 along with a highly anticipated iPad app and a speed ebook reader.

7 Speed Reading is undergoing a major revamp for its 2016 version, eReflect announces. 7 Speed Reading seeks to better align its brand with the new company goals and to better serve its existing and new customers. Apart from an upcoming name change, the 7 Speed Reading desktop app and cloud software will now incorporate highly anticipated new features, including a brand new iPad app for speed reading.

Although the name is yet to be revealed, 7 Speed Reading will get a new brand that will better reflect the software’s user-friendly, interactive, and efficient design in teaching people how to speed read. 7 Speed Reading is already a best-selling software product, and eReflect is confident that the version to be released in 2016 in parallel with the revamped new product name will provide a smooth transition for existing clients.

The new, rebranded software will offer course materials designed and brought together by top speed reading experts and authors. There will be an exclusive speed e-book reader for helping users read digital content faster, and also a forthcoming iPad app for Apple users that will allow them to save time and learn new things through their iPads whether at home or on the go.

Through its promising rebranding and feature expansion 7 Speed Reading aspires to be the go-to speed reading solution for students, professionals, and anyone who values saving time and benefiting from the amazing the power of knowledge that can be gained through reading.

Among its planned feature upgrades, eReflect anticipates that the new Web browser plugins and extensions for letting users add online content into their Spreeder library will be popular with users of all ages. There will also be WordPress and website plugins for website managers and owners who want to offer a speed reading version of their online content.

Thanks to 7 Speed Reading, many people around the world have already managed to save time and do better at work and school, by gaining new knowledge faster and handling workload and homework more efficiently. The speed reading program gives people the ability to read faster, improve their memory, and increase reading comprehension.

7 Speed Reading helps users improve their reading speed by as much as three times their current rate, saving them hundreds of reading hours every year. Through expert-designed activities and games, users can discard old reading habits that hinder comprehension and slow down reading pace as well as adopt new reading habits that help them increase their focus, memory, and ability to speed read. 7 Speed reading focuses on fixation expansion, full brain utilization, eye muscle fitness, and improvement of the overall reading comprehension rate.

With over 20,470 ebooks to use when practicing speed reading, 7 Speed Reading provides the most comprehensive ebook library available. People from all walks of life and professions will find relevant and useful content to use to learan to speed read. Users also have the ability to import their own purchased books and documents to read in the integrated speed e-reader.

In 2015, 7 Speed Reading became cloud based, allowing users to practice anywhere, anytime, and on any device. User profiles and training progress are synced across devices and downloading on several different computers and other devices is no longer necessary. The cloud-based 7 Speed Reading is available exclusively online through individual logins. 7 Speed Reading offers up to five personal profiles with a single license, making it suitable for the entire family and small businesses.

Through its adaptive learning technology 7 Speed Reading offers a personalized learning experience based on the learning goals and objectives of each user. The program tracks and reports on every training activity and game and offers learning recommendations to help users achieve their speed reading milestones.

Its user-friendly and intuitive interface make it easy for new users to find their way around the games, activities, lessons and other functions. The program offers visual, easy-to-understand reporting on practice and results, and enables Facebook sharing when the user completes an activity. A recent and highly praised feature in 7 Speed Reading has been its point-collecting functionality, in which users earn points as they practice their speed reading skills.

The highly popular 7 Speed Reading offers a 100% money back guarantee along with an extra $50 for any user who does not manage to improve their speed reading skill.

eReflect has said that the official announcement of the 7 Speed Reading relaunch and feature expansion will take place in the next few weeks. For more information on the upcoming changes and updates, eReflect welcomes any individual or press inquiries.  

UPDATE:

*On January 2016, Speed Reading App – Spreeder Pro is already up for grab online.

* On February 2016, Speed Reading iPad version for Spreeder Pro is already available in iTunes and Apple Store.

7S: When people think about internet marketing, it’s often related to one of two things. First, they imagine themselves as a successful marketer, sitting back and watching the money roll in. Second, they check their spam messages and get a much less flattering picture of the profession! Which is it, really?

JR: I would have to say that the reality is neither. Once you start sitting back, that’s when you are on the slippery slope down. There is always work that can be done to improve your business. Its a nice idea having a business running on autopilot, but things change all the time, and you can’t take your eye off the ball. However you can work hours that suit you, and from a location that suits you. So it is perfectly possible to be running your business from a villa in Spain. But you must stay actively involved on a daily basis, or risk getting left behind.

There are many spammers, but these aren’t the successful affiliate marketers. You can’t make money online this way. Have you ever bought anything from a spammer? People aren’t daft when it comes to parting with their hard earned cash, and want to be sure you are trustworthy and ethical in what you do. I find it a bit frustrating that so many people spend so much time and energy spamming. If they put this same effort into dong things the ethical way, they would probably make a lot more cash.

7S: Why do you describe what you do as “ethical” internet marketing?

JR: To me affiliate marketing is about building up trust and reputation. This means doing things the ethical way. Being honest about the products you sell, and only selling what you have tried yourself and know is top quality.

My blog Affiliate Help teaches ethical affiliate marketing practices. This is better for long term success. Search engines are becoming more sophisticated all the time, so even if a spam technique works now, it won’t in the future. People are also becoming increasingly web savvy, and also increasingly see through any tricks you pull. Play the long game and do things the ethical way, and this helps assure your long term success.

7S: For our readers who aren’t familiar with the concept of affiliate marketing, could you please explain how it works?

JR: Sure. When you join an affiliate program (which is nearly always free), you are given a unique affiliate link. You can put this link on your website, on social media etc. When someone clicks on it, this is automatically tracked with cookies. It usually takes them to a sales page. If they buy a product, then you are automatically credited with a percentage commission. The occasional program will pay for some other action, such as a sign up.

So for instance I run my own hypnotherapy affiliate program. My affiliates put their unique links on their websites and on places such as Facebook and Twitter. When someone clicks on their link it takes them to my hypnosis website. If they make a purchase within 60 days, they receive 50% commission for the sale. This is a pretty good deal as they don’t have to create a product, don’t have to spend anything up front buying a product, and don’t have to deal with postage. Everything is done for them.

7S: How many websites do you read each day? Does your reading help you in your work?

JR: I do read a few websites, but I am trying to cut this down. I think most affiliate marketers will admit to spending too much time reading, and not enough time working. There are so many distractions online it is easy to fritter away a whole morning getting little done. I now try to allocate about half an hour first thing in the morning to get some reading done, then concentrate on work after that. It’s a constant battle trying to remain focussed on your work!

7S: What skills do people need to have before they consider going into internet marketing?

JR: The main things you need is tenacity and a willingness to learn. It is very likely that you will work hard for your first year without making much money. The majority of people give up well before then. You need the tenacity to keep going through this.

You have to keep going and keep learning new skills, build up contacts and build up reputation. Eventually you will get there, but it does take time and hard work.

7S: You provide clear and easy to understand information about memory, brain function, and health issues, as well as memory training techniques. What inspired you to set up this website?

MB: To answer the question in one word: stress…or, more accurately the impact stress had on my life. My second son was born with a very rare and very large arachnoid brain cyst (fluid filled sac not a solid mass or tumor). My wife and I spent most of the first six weeks in the local children’s hospital. When we were finally able to take him home after his brain surgery, he was on oxygen 24 hours a day and required tube feeding through his nose. The feeding actually took between 12 to 14 hours per day because we could not feed him too fast or he would vomit and we would have to start all over again.

For those who are interested…my son still has some challenges, but he has done far better than my wife and I and his doctors could have ever hoped or imagined.

7S: The memory problems people often experience with age can create difficulties in daily life. How soon should people start working on memory improvement to avoid these problems down the road?

MB: My personal view is that it is never too early to begin memory improvement training. If you learn how to keep your brain sharp early in life, all things being equal, it is easier to carry those gains in to your latter years. I have seen this effect in a close friend’s 95 year old grandmother. I have only known her for a few years, but her family tells me that she is as sharp as she was at 40 or 50. A big part of her secret has been keeping her brain active and challenged. She has done crossword and number puzzles daily and kept up on statistics for the Green Bay Packers football team for the past 40 years.

While I believe it is important to start early, I certainly do not want anyone to think they should give up if they are suffering some of the effects of age related memory loss. Research has shown that your brain is plastic or able to create new neuro-pathways at any age…it just needs to be stimulated and challenged on a regular basis.

7S: You say that it’s normal to have lapses of memory once in a while, but what can someone do if they think they’re having worse-than-normal memory problems?

MB: If you think you are having memory problems that are bad enough to affect your daily life, I would probably start with my family doctor. There are a number of conditions that can affect your memory which can be ruled out by simple tests. While your doctor is going to rule out the “long-shots”, he is likely going to focus on 4 basic life-style factors that affect memory. Those are sleep, diet, the amount of exercise you are getting and the amount of stress you are under. When my son’s health challenges were most acute, I failed at managing each of these factors. I did not sleep more than a couple of hours per night; I ate a horrible diet mostly potato chips and fast food; I did not exercise at all and I was under a horrendous amount of stress. As a consequence, my memory really suffered.

Whether you are dealing with the impact of lifestyle factors or a more serious health challenge, the fifth area you can work on is brain training. My research into brain plasticity indicates that by challenging your brain, you can see improvements in your memory and overall cognition as well as reflexes and muscle control.

7S: People are used to hearing the phrase “eat right and exercise” related to weight loss, not memory gain. Why is this good advice for memory improvement as well?

MB: I think people often forget (no pun intended) that our bodies function as a complex interdependent system. Eating more calories than we are burning will cause us to gain weight but the increase in insulin required to store excess calories as fat is hard on our brains. We also need to be sure we are eating foods that still have the nutrients intact. Most processed foods are devoid or low in nutrients and naturally occurring vitamins. Our bodies and brains need these nutrients and vitamins to function properly.

As you mentioned exercise is important because it releases a number of helpful hormones and neurotransmitters in addition to reducing the impact stress has on our brains. My research for my own life and my website has shown that we need to eat right and exercise but we also need to reduce our stress and get enough sleep.

7S: Can people get all the nutrition they need for a healthy brain through their daily diet?

MB: Yes, I think it is technically possible to get all the nutrition you need for a healthy brain from your diet but it is practically difficult…not impossible…just difficult. One of the main challenges is that people are very busy. The people who market food know this, so they sell food designed for convenience and shelf-life with nutrition being secondary. Our fruits and vegetables are not much better. Most of what we see in the grocery store are grown on factory farms and are sprayed with loads of synthetic pesticides, herbicides then packaged with fungicides. I even read that farmers are spraying growth hormones on crops to shorten growing seasons and increase crop yields.

If you don’t have space for a garden and can’t afford organic, you can still get a lot of the vitamins and nutrients you need from high quality vitamins. I personally only take vitamins where the active ingredient is naturally occurring. You can get synthetic vitamins where they recreate the target vitamin in a lab, but there is research to suggest that they are not easily absorbed or as bioactive, so choose wisely.

“Because reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you. So I want everybody to read hard, okay? Read as many books as you can. All right? So then someday you can be up here reading to other kids.”

Watch the whole video here, provided by www.whitehouse.gov

Reading is very important for children and adults. Many studies have been done on the link between reading and school success, and how that even impacts a person’s later career and income levels. When parents and guardians read to children, and then read books with them as the child learns to read on their own, they’re boosting vocabulary development, reading fluency, and an interest in learning and discovery. If you’re a parent, try to make time every day to encourage your child to read. The more they read, the better they’ll get at that skill, and soon they’ll be speed reading their way even through the hardest school books.

One great way to help all children learn to read is to volunteer to work with those who don’t have that family support. Many local libraries, youth centers, and social services organizations have programs that bring adult readers together with children who want to learn to read. If you have time, you might consider sharing your love of reading with those children – it will give them the reading strength they need to go on to succeed at school. Who knows, one day one of those children might become President themselves!

In answer to some of these complaints, a new program called “Common Core Standards” has been developed and is being implemented across the United States. It’s designed to focus as much (or more) on the why of information as the what, according to its promoters. As part of the new system, reading skills will get a new focus. Teachers will work on getting students to read more deeply, to think about what they’re reading, and to be able to talk and write about the text. They’ll use both fiction and non-fiction in their classes, rather than fiction alone, to give students the opportunity to think about real-world situations and issues as well as literary devices, characterization, and plot. For some teachers, adjusting to the new standards has been difficult, because they have had to change lesson plans they’ve been using for years. Other teachers disagree with the use of third-party materials from businesses who are creating “ready-made” lesson plans and examinations, saying that these often fall back into the trap of “teaching to the test” with only one right answer possible, even in a case of opinion-based literary analysis.

Naturally, it will take a few years to see how this new system works, and whether it does have a positive impact on children’s reading skills. The theory is good – it’s always better to think about what you’re reading, rather than just skimming it and forgetting it – but it will take time to see how the Common Core program works in practice.

Does your child’s school use the Common Core program? Let us know what you think.

If you don’t know how to touch type, then you haven’t yet opened up that unconscious mental channel to connect your brain and your fingers. If you already touch type but don’t have the speed you want, then that channel’s not processing information as quickly as possible. In either case, you’ll be glad to know that there’s a powerful new software program available that will double or even triple your current typing speed – or your money back! Check out the features of eReflect’s newest product, Ultimate Typing, and find out how just 7 minutes a day can give you all the advantages of touch typing: improved job skills, faster communication, and a professional, polished look to all your correspondence.

Not only will the mental training you get as a touch typist help you read faster by improving your word-recognition skills, but you can also use Ultimate Typing to practice your speed reading by importing texts to use in the typing exercises. This allows you to practice reading a variety of materials, which improves your vocabulary along with your reading speed and typing speed. It’s a win-win situation for anyone who wants to speed up their ability to process all the information we have to handle daily in this high-speed and high-tech world, whether you’re taking it in by reading, or sending it out by writing. Your typing skills, like your speed reading skills, will help you keep pace with the demands of your job, and of your daily life. Find out more about Ultimate Typing today, and how 7 minutes a day can lead to success!

Presbyopia is a common problem – so common, in fact, that it affects nearly everyone over the age of 40. As the eyes age, it becomes more difficult to focus on things that are close to the eyes, and harder to read finer print. You’ll notice this phenomenon at your biennial eye exams (you do schedule regular eye exams, don’t you?) as it becomes harder and harder to see the letters on the lowest, smallest line of the eye chart. You might also notice that you’ve started holding books and newspapers at arm’s length to help you read them, or that you’ve adjusted your computer monitor over time to be farther and farther away. Because these changes can be gradual, without regular eye exams it’s sometimes easy to overlook that you might need to wear glasses to help you read.

Many people skip the eye exams and go straight to the corner store for a pair of inexpensive reading glasses. These glasses come in various strengths, and while it’s true that some people may be able to use them successfully, for most people they won’t work as well. The strength of the lenses might not match exactly what you need; in addition, most peoples’ eyes focus at different lengths on each side, so they need a pair of glasses where each lens is adjusted to fit the specific eye.

By getting regular eye exams, you’ll be able to keep your eyes in optimum health and this will result in better reading speed for three reasons: you’ll be able to focus more quickly, you’ll be able to read smaller print without slowing down, and your eyes won’t get fatigued as easily.

If you haven’t had an eye exam in over three years, we encourage you to schedule one today.