Greetings! This is a “How To Enjoy The Holiday” email. It will tell you how to have a wonderful holiday, even though you have to put up with some of your least favorite people. For many folks, holiday gatherings are a chore and a challenge. Face it, there’s a reason that this time of year, […]
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1459 words, average reading time 5.8 minutes Greetings! There is a dirty little secret in the NLP world. And it’s this: No matter how much you know, it’s VERY difficult to do real work on yourself. We all know this. There’s even a saying about it: “Doing NLP on yourself is like playing tennis alone.
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I have an asparagus fern named Lazarus. Why did I name him Lazarus? I’ll tell you why. I named him Lazarus because when I first got him for my batchelor apartment I was sometimes a neglectful caretaker. I got the plant so there would be something alive in my apartment besides me. It came in
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How’re You Doin’? Article Word Count 932, average reading time 3.7 minutes “Fine”, is what you’d probably answer, if someone asked you this question. Actually, “fine” is what we say to be polite, no matter HOW we are feeling! We’re all taught that. Think about the last hundred times you said or heard, “How are
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Priorities, Relationships, Success: This week’s story is an update of a favorite by Tom Hoobyar, “When Will You Be Home? Quick Announcement: Remember, you still have time to get to the ONLY real NLP Conference in the United States! And if you can’t make it in person, there’s a smokin’ deal on the complete audios.
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Troublesome Gulch is the name of a road in the town one over. It happens to be where a famous ex-Senator lives who certainly created his share of troubles for himself. However his internal dialogue framed it, he behaved as if the rules didn’t apply to him. All it cost him was his Senate
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Attitude is one of the key tenets of NLP. In this sweet story Steve Andreas tells how attitude and setting your perceptual filters can combine to sort your experience and your opportunities to bring you more of what is best for you. Enjoy! Tom Dotz Giving Thanks by Steve Andreas. 850 words, approximate reading time
Here’s another fun story embodying the principles of NLP by one of our favorite writers, Tom Hoobyar. Tom’s in the process of completing a book deal with a major publisher based largely on the articles he’s written for you here – so look forward to a big announcement next year!
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Many people would agree with the old song lyric “War – what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.” Well, ok, except maybe for freeing slaves. Stopping a genocidal dictator from taking over all of Europe. Creating a new model of self governance out of the colony of a distant power. In NLP we take the
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Language patterns are one of the most constantly popular models in NLP. Here in a story from the book “Is There Life Before Death?” Steve Andreas describes in a very easy way the profound traps we create by our (mis)use of language in our everyday lives. And if you would like to search through some