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Cool Tool – Visual Thesauras

Online dictionaries are a dime a dozen these days, but can that also be said about the online thesaurus?

Visual Thesaurus provides a little more innovative and high tech use of displaying words and it’s relationships to Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs and Adverbs.

This is a one of a kind experience where you can actually visually see the different related words. For those visually minded people, you will see the words spatially.

Visual thesaurus is $20 per year. It can increase your brain power and give you a whole new outlook on your vocabulary. Great for both children and adults, the Visual Thesaurus is the best online thesaurus resource on the web.

So get rid of that outdated old Thesaurus that is taking precious shelf space (and collecting enough dust bunnies to start a farm) and opt for the best online thesaurus resource at your fingertips.

Check it out at TheCoolestCouple.com/VisualThesaurus

Organizing Relationships and Information for Review and Planning

Pat & Lorna Cool, Cool Knowledge, Cool People, Cool Tips, Cool Tools

Planning where you want to go personally, spiritually and professionally is a must. If you don’t have a plan of what you want to accomplish and what you’re going to do to get there, it can feel overwhelming or a lot like being lost.

To plan for the future, you need to know where you’re at right now.

First let’s look at relationships. You have a lot of relationships with other people; the question is what type of relationship is it? Is it a personal one, strictly professional, or both? How did you get to know this person? How can you help them? Do you have common relationships with other people?

So, to know how to keep and develop your relationships, it’s important to have an understanding of what they look like now, how they relate to you and their connections with other people, events and information.

Now let’s look at all the information and knowledge you’ve amassed over the years. It is said that knowledge is power. But as Goethe said, “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” Knowledge is of no value if it is not used.

How can you make use of, or act on, any information or knowledge you’ve acquired if you can’t remember it or find it? To plan on where you want your business to go, you need to understand what you have in terms of information and knowledge you can use. Most of us don’t need more information, we just need to know what we have and make use of it.

Now that we’ve demonstrated the importance of organizing and managing your relationships, information and knowledge, there are a couple of places you can go to to find out how we organize and manage it all.

To see a cool video on organizing and managing social media relationships,
go here!

And… for a cool video on organizing and managing your information and knowledge,
go here!

Trust us… knowing where you’re at in your relationships, what information and knowledge you have… and being able to find it and make use of it, is a huge step in successful planning. That in turn is a huge step in your future happiness and success.

Paul Potts’ – Britain’s Got Talent – 1st Audition

Pat & Lorna Cool People, Cool Tools

Do you need a pick-me-up today, this video will make you feel good and bring a smile to you.

The One Software Tool We Use Every Day – TheBrain™

Pat & Lorna Cool Knowledge, Cool Tools

Personal Brain

There is one software tool that we use every day and it is called PersonalBrain™, but we just call it “The Brain“.

PersonalBrain™, organizes the way you think. You can organize all your ideas and information the way you think. See new relationships. Discover connections. Go from the big picture to specific details in seconds.

Watch the video below to give you a high level overview of what The Brain can do for you.

PersonalBrain: Accelerate Your Mind

See and do more with PersonalBrain’s award-winning user interface and advanced linking software. Organize ideas, projects, files, and Web pages associatively to capture your unique thinking and perspective.

Use PersonalBrain for business projects or as an “everything in your life manager” so you can get the big picture and find the right detail within seconds.

Benefits

See key relationships and ideas at a glance
Map out your thinking and complex business processes
Visualize folder structures, business relationships, contacts and ideas
Navigate across all key topics and information within your Brain’s thought network and connections

Key features include:

Must see animated visual interface
Expanded Information Views
Easy Drag and Drop of files, folders and Web pages
Advanced search and editing features

We use PersonalBrain to keep track of almost every aspect of the information that crosses our desk everyday. It helps us to organize our information into “The Digital Home for Our Mind”.

Versions:

Personal Brain – Free
Personal Brain – Core $149.95
Personal Brain – Pro $249.95

Download Personal Brain – Free Edition:

Just to be clear here we use the Windows version of the TheBrain, but we have supplied the Mac & Linus version links for you here.

(Look for the Free Download Button)

Windows
PersonalBrain Installer

Max OS X
PersonaBrain Installer

Linux/Unix
PersonalBrain Installer

Purchase TheBrain Now

We hope you like TheBrain as much as we do, it’s the one tool that we have open all the time. And if you took our Brain away, we know for sure that we would be lost without it. Download the Free version above to get started using TheBrain today, it will be well worth your time and engery.

Stay tuned, we will be providing more in-depth reviews of TheBrain and WebBrain.

And let us know how The Brain works for you.

It’s Remarkable How Much “Stuff” is Out There

Pat & Lorna Cool Tools, Pat and Lorna Shanks

Take a trip down the Internet yellow-brick road… the what?

Well, you start in one of the social networking sites, then follow a link that someone has put there. Once you get there, you’ll find that there are more links to follow… more sites to discover, products to buy, free things to get, and on and on.

Now, not all of the things you come across are going to be meaningless, uninteresting or things you want to pass by. A lot of the information, products and services are going to draw your attention as something you’d really like to purchase or get involved with.

The unfortunate thing is that getting lost, and going in several different directions at the same time is often the result of heading down this road.

How do you make sure you don’t end up lost or out of focus on where you want your business to be? Look at each piece of information or opportunity as how it relates to you and your business. Is it something that you can implement that will help you to grow your business? Or, is it something that you can use personally to grow you?

Not only do you have to determine if it is something that relates to you or your business, you also have to decide if it is something that you can and WILL implement. Even if something appears really cool, you also have to look at the probability of you actually using it.

Think objectively and choose wisely. Look through the hype to how it relates to you and what you are looking to achieve.

One way to physically “see” the relationships between information, courses, offers and the people you meet (physically or online) is to capture it all in a Dynamic Information Map. This is an uber Cool Tool that not only enables you to store and retrieve information and connections, but to actually see the relationships between it all.

To check out this totally Cool Tool and how you can use it to “see” how things relate to you and your business: Go Here!