Dreams and Rotten Tomatoes

  This week’s blog is not a typical NLP teaching tool. You’ve been fairly warned. The big election in the U.S. has heated up discussions about emotional topics like our unwelcome presence in Iraq, our limp economy, and our impact on global warming. What business do politics have in a blog about NLP? Our nation seems insatiably fascinated by fear and bad news. The unintended side effect of our addiction to who, what, when, where,

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Reality Bites … Good Feedback Rules

Reality Bites … Good Feedback Rules If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.  ~J.M. Power If feedback is the breakfast of champions, I want protein. The kind that sticks with me and sustains my energy. Feedback is the DNA of learning. Feedback is what sets apart the “good” from the “great.” The more friendly we are toward feedback, the more likely we will

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A Strategy For Responding to Criticism

Along with this week’s story about benefiting from feedback I thought it appropriate to include this gem from “The NLP Portable Practitioner Training” Section 4, Strategies.  It’s generally useful when dealing with feedback to have a really good strategy for discerning feedback from attack and for dealing with it effectively. A Strategy for Responding to Criticism (Developed by Steve Andreas) Step 1: Install this strategy in a dissociated state. “See yourself out there in front

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The Good Guys

Last week, we shared Coach Lisa’s exercise on the “Inside Family.” Today, I want to share her process on building a more supportive “soundtrack” for your life.  I call it “The Good Guys.” Even those of us who are Master NLP’ers still have self-talk that we are largely unaware of, that is not positive and supportive. Disciplining yourself to a daily practice of befriending your inner self pays off big! The alternative is like driving

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The Inside Family: Getting What You Want More Easily

One of our coaches told me the following story, and I thought it was such a great fit with Labor Day I asked her to write it up for you.  Those of you familiar with NLP will appreciate the elegant use of this familiar model in a specific context. Some years ago, a good friend of mine and I were discussing change. The really big kind. He had just lost his job and he wanted

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Allergy Process Formats

Recently the Allergy Process was mentioned to me as if there was only one version.  No, no, no! 🙂  There are two distinct versions, and here are the tried and true exercise formats for both of them! You can find more instruction and framing in both “Heart of the Mind” and of course a full walk through in the “Allergy Process” Audio CD. Counter Example Process Note: This is written for an allergy, but you

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A New Process by Jan Prince: STRAGEDY

STRAGEDY: When Your Strategy Turns Into A Tragedy by Jan Prince, NLP Author, Practitioner and Trainer All of us operate out of unconscious patterns that “get us what we have always gotten.” When these patterns repeatedly harm our relationships or our careers we are unwittingly creating our own tragedies. If we can examine and experience these ineffective patterns in a detached way we have the opportunity to change them dramatically. Working with a client one

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You Can’t Lose Bad Habits?

Lately I have noticed with increasing frequency and delight the number of instances of discoveries and principles and understandings first generated in the field of NLP that are now becoming known and verified by mainstream Western science. It was in NLP that the understanding that people

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The Myth and Reality of Opportunities in NLP

In 1990 I founded what became the most successful NLP start up in the country. In just four years we had the largest NLP programs of their kind in the US, and 18 years later that company is still going strong. So I frequently am asked what kind of professional and business opportunities are there in NLP.   You can find a tremendous amount

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