How to “Unstick” a Mind, Even Your Own. By Tom Hoobyar Article Word Count 568, average reading time 2.3 minutes Ever hear a friend, associate or employee say, “I can’t do it,” or “It can’t be done”? Actually, there are many variations on that statement, all meaning, “No way”. Ever been tempted to argue? Or […]
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Which Lines Should You Cross? By Tom Hoobyar Article Word Count 1000, average reading time 4 minutes. Last week we talked about limits — the limits that each of us sets for ourselves on what we can want, and what we can do. I said we’d talk more about how to manage these limits inside
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Greetings! Here’s another great article you may have missed by Tom Hoobyar. One of our favorite writers, Tom has some great tips for you on personal limitations. He points out simple things you can do to be more flexible with your personal limits. Enjoy! Tom Dotz Where Are Your Limits? By Tom Hoobyar Article Word
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When Goals are Dead-Ends by Charles Faulkner Living in the Age of Goals We live in the Age of Goals. We’re in the 25th year of Management by Objective (MBO) and at least the 55th year of goal setting thanks in large part to Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale and Norman Vincent Peale. According to an
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Yesterday someone asked if we had any processes to deal with job anxieties. For many people these situations can be a bit unnerving. Maybe even stressful. While you could create a specific process for each such anxiety, we already have one for you that is easily adapted, and so powerful it’s almost overkill. It only
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“I liked the shaver so much, I bought the company” -Victor Kiam, Remington Electric Over the years many people have asked me what’s important about NLP training. What did I get out of it, how did I get involved in the first place? So let me tell you my story. It was a tough year.
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Years ago the then so-named anti-abortion movement seemed to be making little progress. Then they started re-branding themselves the “pro-life” movement. Well, if they were the pro-life movement, and you opposed them, what did that make you? Anti-life? Pro-Death? Take your pick; poor choices all. You’ll notice two important elements of framing in that example.
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Stopping by the office last Friday the phones were ringing and things were hopping. Unusual for a Friday afternoon, that’s for sure, but then interest has been up a lot lately. So I picked up a call and had a great (and to me classic) conversation with someone who, like you, is interested in how
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Beginning this new year I find myself with an abundance of riches to share with you. This week we have two great videos and an essay. Along with the complete “Responding to Criticism” process from our Practitioner Program I’m posting a link to a great video from the TED conference on the subjective aspects of
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One of the great misunderstandings of NLP is the misuse of eye accessing cues to asses truthiness. In this essay Susan Stageman, one of our contributors and a long time NLP Trainer, explains it for you. If you missed it, last week’s video is fixed. You can catch it here: http://www.nlpco.com/library/nlp-video/anchoring-tb I’ll have more for
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