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Observation is the sufficient tactic of all tactics employed that will help you sharpen the mind. In fact, researchers as well as others interested in observation, has proven that observation is the one of the ultimate strategies to sharpen the mind. I grew up using observation as my guide to survive. Unfortunately, my parents had little value on education, and the only time we went to school was at what time the parents felt they would get in trouble. Furthermore, I was not permitted to be in the house while my mother cooked, therefore, I had no teacher. Still, I learnt to cook by observation. I loved potato salad and slaw, so I observed carefully into the ingredients of bowls were other people cooked and went home and prepared the slaw and potato salad myself. I cooked some of the best potato salads, Macaroni Salads, and slaw of anyone around. All this from observing, yet the point are observing sharpens the mind.

If you are studying, the best idea is to study in shorter spans. If you sit for hours at a desk, it will soon frustrate the mind. Like exercising if you over exert self you will workout without getting good results. However, as you study observes the details you read. This will help sharpen your mind and prepare you for tests. Another great idea while studying is taking notes. This too will help you to backtrack and review what you learnt. It is always good to review, preview, and practice. This great strategy will help sharpen your mind. Furthermore, previewing should be the first step, since you review statements, work, and other details before you jump into it.

Observation is noting facts that come your way. The facts will help you to construct a memory that will have evidence. The mind works in mysterious ways, however you don’t have to be a master to understand how the mind works. Therefore, what you observe goes inside the mind and stays there. It takes you to cultivate the mind so that it can recall and remember without problems. To help you see how observation leads you to using other tactics to sharpen the mind we can consider the following details.

Observation

Where ever you are at the moment single out something around you to observe. As you capture the picture in your mind, notice what follows. You should be previewing at present, i.e. studying what you are observing without dwelling on the observation. In fact, before you eyes came in contact with whatever you are looking at, previewed before you noted the object.

Next, considering reviewing the observation, as you listen to your mind to see what it is capturing. Reviewing is closely examining the observation. Reviewing is a critical process that helps stimulate the mind and sharpens the mind at the same time. Review is the process or restudying what you studied in the first place.

Moving along think of repeating by singling out the observation again, and consider what you see this time as you look at the object. What is your mind saying at the moment? What does your mind see?

Write it down. As you notice details of the object, write down what you observe. Review the information and see what you come up with.

You could next move into role-playing the scene, particular if the object is movie-making material. In other words, act out what comes from your mind. See where it takes you. As you move along write down what comes from your mind. Keep going.

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Giving with a happy heart. If you teach a child to give with a happy heart you will raise a child who will never hesitate to lend a helping hand. Children enjoy helping others, especially if they see their parents doing the same. When a child’s basic physical and emotional needs are met, they are willing to share almost anything they have with someone in need.

My daughter wanted to help others from the time she was old enough to understand what it was she was doing. Before she was old enough for an allowance she helped me go through her outgrown clothes and toys to give away to charities. At Christmastime we would shop together for needy families (she looked forward to this as much as picking out her own gifts). And this doesn’t mean we weren’t needy ourselves. When my daughter was young I was a single mom working and going to college, and I was barely able to make ends meet. What little we had left over, however, we used to help others. I am convinced that this act of helping others took my daughter’s focus off of our own circumstances and created a passion in her for helping others. She always had food to eat and clothes to wear–she did not sense a lack in her life and so was willing to freely give anything she had.

As my daughter got older and started getting an allowance, she started spending her own money. She spent her allowance on family Christmas and birthday presents (however small), started tithing, and started contributing to charities of her choice. My daughter’s allowance is relatively small, compared to some of her friends, but that doesn’t keep her from making contributions, no matter how small, to people and organizations she wants to help. Now that she’s old enough to babysit, she has even more money to decide what to do with. She decides what to spend on herself, what to save, and what to give to others.

Our family recently came up with an idea of how we could work together to save up some money to help others. I am forever picking up loose change around the house, on the floor, in the car, and in the bottom of my purse. We decided to start a “Giving Jar” where we could deposit our spare change, and then as the occasion arose, we would use it to help others. We all pooled together our spare change and we already had more than $15. I placed the jar on the kitchen counter and put a big label on it that says “Giving Jar.” It has motivated us all to save more and is also a great conversational piece!

Don’t think you have to have a lot of money to give others a helping hand. Any amount, no matter how small, develops in your child the gift of a giving heart.

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