Month: August 2019

Guide To Mental Math For Management Consulting

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Many people do have rather poor mental math skills. You might ask yourself why mental math is important, when you can use Excel and calculators. To succeed in a management consulting interview, however, you have to know mental math. Firstly, management consulting interviews emphasize math skills, and you will get tested in detail. Secondly, in the day-to-day consulting job, good math skills are very handy. During case interviews the interviewer will often test your quantitative skills by asking questions that require some sort of calculations (e.g. during a market sizing exercise).

The top tier firms as McKinsey, Booz, Bain and BCG all require great mental math skills. This is also the case for smaller consulting boutique firms.. By doing a few minutes of practice every day, you can turn your mental math problems into a strength. Rad our tips below.

What should you prepare? The sort of math questions you might encounter are often quite simple. You have probably not used your mental math skills since high school. Sometimes a candidate is allowed to do the calculation on paper – especially if the complexity is high. You will use math skills as part of the case interview process. Say that you are answering a pricing case study. You might get a question to calculate the bottom line impact of a new price. This is a calculation that management consulting recruiters expect you to be able to solve. You need to know some quick rules for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Addition
Many people will think it should be the easiest above of all calculations. But what if an interviewer asks you what 1891+1640 is, can you blurt out your answer within 3 seconds? Well, this should not be as hard as it looks if you know how to break it down and calculate them separately. Let’s break this down: 1891 needs 1200 to become 3091, so 1891+1200=3091, then you just need to plus another 440 (1200+440=1640) to get the final answer, 3091+440=3531. This process may seem long, but think about doing this out loud. As you know that the result will be 3XXX, you can firstly say 3XXX out loud. While you say it, you can finish off the rest of calculation.

Subtraction
Generally, the basic idea is the same with addition. Let’s try one, what is 6734-89? You could break it down like: 6734-100=6634, 6634+11=6645. Maybe you have realized what we are doing now – we are simplifying the calculation. But there are still so many ways to break one number down. The basic principles are: it’s always easy to do with hundreds and people are more familiar with addition rather than subtraction.

Multiply
When it comes to multiply, many people will just surrender. It only takes a bit more time to master than addition and subtraction. Still, the basic idea is the same. What is 49*73? Notice that when we can’t find hundreds, we look for tens. Let us break it down as: 50*73=3650, 3650-73=3577. It takes more time, but still, a lot easier. When you are doing the breaking down, you will find all the calculations follow the simple rules. The only thing you need to work on is your memory. Paper is also useful as your aid.

Division
Division takes mental math to another level. You need to find the common factor quickly when you are dividing. For example, what is 35/210? If you practice a lot, you will find the common factor is 7 right away. Then you divide both 35 and 210 by the common factor. This gives a new calculation: 5/30. Now you have 5 as the common factor, and a calculation of 1/6 shouldn’t be hard.

Set up a practice routine After you have reviewed the basics, you need to set up a practice routine so you can increase the speed of your calculations. If you have some time before the case interview, you should spend it wisely. Some ideas for practicing are:

1. During grocery shopping: Add all items in your basket before you head for the checkout counter and remember to include the decimals.

2. When travelling: A natural great way to practice currency conversion.

These examples are far from exhaustive, but the main point is that you need to build your practice into your daily routine, so it feels more natural for you to work with numbers. Hope this give you some good ideas on how to practice math.

Mental Health Counselling At Its Best

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Whenever you think of Mental health counselling, you usually would go blank at one point of time thinking that if it happens to you, what you would do. Firstly, you would go crazy thinking the consequences of mental health of you or your near and dear ones getting detiorated over something. But with the Science advancing and its super effects on your fellow beings, you need not worry about these. There are specialists like Robin Leigh Maier who have been specializing in Cognitive Behavior Therapy and will take the best care of your dear ones mental health.

Robin Leigh Maier has been a Licensed Social Worker and an expert dealing in Mental Health Counselling. She has been dealing with the mental health hazards for the past 25 years and therefore understands your problem even before you start explaining it to her. She deals in the domain of mental health of new born babies, postpartum depression, ADD and ADHD in both children and adults.

She understands that life is unpredictable and even before you realize the same your ability to think normally can go out of the way. But she assures, with her empathetic Cognitive Behavior Therapy , she is able to analyse her patients lives and provide deep counselling to them so that she knows the roots of the problems.

She claims that her practice has no side effects and is especially designed for people who are suffering from ADD and ADHD, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. This anxiety might occur from breaking up with your partner or losing your job which was very close to you. She has been into treatments like psychoanalytic therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, anddialectical behavioral therapy which has benefittted the patients to a large extent and made them live their lives like normal people once again.

Robin is also a trained coach for life skills. She also founded the Mothering Center. She has been well acquainted with the problems of the women and therefore is well known for her counselling services in miscarriages, care of the babies, pregnancy and postpartum depression. If you are unaware, the postpartum depression is a term used for women who have their lost child and she has also ben handling such sensive services through her counseling services. To reach out to a wider audience, she is also a regular blogger through she is able to make her readers aware and motivate them in times of utter sorrow.

Lambo Door Deal Of The Decade Casts Doubt On The Lambo Door King’s Mental Health

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Oh my god! I just about soiled myself at the sight of the best deal in the history of Lambo Doors. The Lambo Door King’s new Protocol and JP Factory brand doors are for sale online right now at record discounts that even the most frugal of motorists can afford. I can’t believe that he would stoop to this level, but then again when the Lambo Door King has always ruled with an unmatched iron fist of quality he’s never mentioned price as a factor. I guess anything is possible.

90 degrees of motion with automated options manufactured from the finest materials can cost a pound of flesh these day, but don’t tell that to the Lambo Door King. He’s just stacked Protocol brand vertical doors on top of his 90 Degree Lambo Door Kit collection, but they don’t look like they will be there for long. What the hell is he thinking? The man is practically giving those top of the line Lambo Doors away for free! Has he gone insane? A brand new 90 Degree Manual Heavy Duty Lambo Door Kit with a two year warranty for just $349 and a fully Automated One Touch System for $558. I’ve never heard of such an amazing offer. Sounds like a lot of people are going to have a merry christmas thanks to the Lambo Door King, but what about himself? Doesn’t he want to make money off his doors? I guess he must be happy buying himself a lump of coal this year because I haven’t even gotten to the worst part yet.

The Lambo Door King was lucky to land an exclusive distribution deal with JP Factory and now has the JP Factory Standard 75 Degree Discount Scissor Door Hinges up on his website for just $299. I’ve never heard of scissor doors that cheap and now I’m confused. I thought he was the Lambo Door King, what the hell is he doing with Scissor Doors? I looked Scissor Doors up online and all I find are Lambo Doors then I when I look up Lambo Doors I start finding Scissor Doors followed by Lambo Doors and Scissor Doors together. No wonder the Lambo Door King’s gone insane. His own industry doesn’t even know what they sell and he’s truing to satisfy both worlds like a dysfunctional old married couple still arguing over what to name their son after he goes to college. My god the humanity, but at least the doors are great and the price can’t be beat.

I am greatly concerned for the mental well being of the Lambo Door King. No rational human being would sell Lambo Doors for so little and because they are on LamboDoorKing.com I know that they had to pass the Lambo Door King’s iron fist of quality screening process. I just hope for his sake that making other peoples holiday wishes come true doesn’t lead to the next great federal bailout. The only way this could make any sense is if he got a bulk discount and wants to pass the savings on to you otherwise you might feel bad for taking advantage of such a generous soul. God bless you Lambo Door King!

Mental Baggage Slows you Down

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Are you carrying around a bunch of excess mental baggage which you don’t really need to carry? You need to travel as lightly as you possibly can in order to make better distance. Mental baggage will slow you down and prevent you from reaching your goals just the same as a heavy physical load.

I like to use the analogy of the jockey who guides a race horse to victory as well as the soldier or hiker who has to carry a heavy backpack. They can’t make good time if they carry excess baggage and neither can you.

Now the thing that I am referring to here is the mental baggage that we are prone to carry. I’m talking about hurt feelings, anger, jealousy, worry etc. Carrying these things in your heart will do absolutely nothing to change your situation even if you were put in the situation by unfair treatment. For example, the businessman who has to file bankruptcy because his competition was able to get an illegal or unfair advantage over him won’t be able to deal with the situation by worrying about it. He will have to divorce his mind of the situation in order to concentrate on doing what he needs to do to break free.

Worry, will not help you. Worry won’t change the bad situation which is exactly the thing that you need to do. The time that you spend worrying is time which would be better spent on applying a solution to your problem. The test of a real winner is the way that he or she responds to adversity. How do you respond? Do you allow the situation to overwhelm you and take away your effectiveness, or do you regroup and rebound?

Complications and negative emotions only cloud the mind and impair good judgment. You need to keep your mind free in order to be ready to deal with the problems and issues that you face. Too many mental issues prevent you from focusing on the tasks at hand at the precise time that they need your undivided attention. You can sometimes afford to step back when things are going well but the time immediately following a catastrophe is the time that you need to be at your best.

I have quoted Evander Holyfield before but I once heard him make a statement which was so very profound to me. He was talking with a sportscaster immediately following a fight that he had won. During the fight his opponent had hurt him badly and was pummeling him against the ropes. The sportscaster asked him if he was afraid of losing at that point to which Evander replied, -I look at the times when I am hurt as an opportunity to excel.- As I pondered this statement I understood exactly what he meant. This is the time when everyone else thinks that you should fold which makes it the best possible opportunity for a comeback. Evander was able to overcome the hurt, both mental and physical and focus on doing whatever he needed to do in order to win.

In order for you to come back from a loss you must first divorce yourself from the negatives that are associated with the situation. Evander knew how to ignore the physical pain, fear, and fatigue that he must have felt to come back and win the fight.

You can do the same but you must learn how to move on from the negative circumstance. Take time to figure out exactly what you need to do in order to win. Break down your requirement into small easy tasks and do them one at a time. Focus on each task until you complete it and WIN!!! Riceland Enterprises

Key Mental Strength Secrets for Success

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You hear it every day, not matter what the current economic situation, -they- say -If only ___- you fill in the blank. I hope you are not one of those people, I don’t think so otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this article. Think about this-why is that the people who always complain about the economy, their job, or even the weather are never -successful?- Now I know success means different things to different people, but it’s the individual that claims they are not successful, so they must know their definition of success.

So how does a person become successful under any circumstance? I’ll tell that success leaves clues and all you have to do is follow them. In my reaching top achievers the number one key ingredient is in the way they think-.they have developed mental strength for success.

Here are the top three mental strength secrets that these top achievers use to achieve success:

1.) Top Achievers Operate from an Unbiased Perceptive of Their Reality: Top achievers take a realistic view of their skills, efforts and involvement compared to their desired outcome. If they don’t match up the NEVER change the desired outcome, they change their time, improve their skills or get more involved. They ask themselves this powerful question, -Are my habits, actions, and behaviors congruent with the size and scope of my vision?- Go ahead-ask yourself the same question and sit with it for awhile, then journal your answer. You’ll probably be shocked at the answer

2.) Exceptional Success Begins with Exceptional Thinking: If you went to work today because you wanted to, you are in control of money. If you went to work this morning because you had to, money is in control of you. Even in the wealthiest nation in the world, 99% of the population is being controlled by money. The effect is lack of money. The cause is thinking. Einstein once said: “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” And this is what top achievers know and do-change their thinking, and then the results change.

Knowing this, top achievers raise their level of consciousness by studying how other top achievers create wealth. Top achievers trades ideas that solve problems, not time, for money. Frustrated over those that are top achievers the -also ran’s- often scorn the top achievers for their own lack of money, yet the answer to earning more has been in their heads their whole lives. Ideas — it’s such a simple concept that the majority misses it.

The question is then, -What would you need to change in your thinking to create more money?- Again, take time with this and then journal your answer.

3.) Top Achiever Have an Enormous Capacity for Unrelenting Concentration: Top achievers are famous for fixating their energy and efforts on what they want to the exclusion of anything or anyone that threatens their focus. While average people haphazardly pursue loosely defined goals, top achievers concentrate on the achievement of a singular purpose with an intensity that borders on obsession.

Top achievers invest an excessive amount of time and energy in selecting their major goals and then double checking to make sure the goals is exactly what they want. While the masses consider making changes every New Year’s Eve, the goal setting and planning process is an everyday habit of top achievers. When the goals are set, top achievers put mental blinders on and move forward with dogged persistence and ferocious tenacity.

The question here is, -Does your results show you are more interested in instant pleasure or delayed gratification? Tough one to answer, and if you’re committed to creating more in you life you’ll take a log hard look at this question and answer it truthfully

So, there ya go-in your face questions about how committed you are to your success using the 3 key mentlal strength secrets of top achievers. I hope this got you mad and aggravated, so much so that you will reflect on the above questions; your answers and then take action. You truly deserve to have the life of your dreams!

Gregg Swanson is a mental strength coach and owner of Warrior Mind Coach and Training. To receive a complimentary copy of his e-course -Powerful Secrets to Creating the Mental Strength of a Warrior- please visit: http://WarriorMindCoach.com