Beginning NLP

The Next Step in Perceptual Positions

Have you ever felt like, even though you understand and have practiced perceptual positions, sometimes they don’t make changes by themselves?  Like sometimes you need something else, another bucket than the three standard positions? Perceptual positions are a core distinction in NLP, one that is used in multiple processes and techniques. Our perceptual positions guide our experiences. It is through this key distinction that we form memories, experiences, and reactions. But what if our perceptual

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Miss Information Educates Tom

“It ain’t what you don’t know. It’s what you know that ain’t so.” -Yogi Berra A foundational principle in NLP is the importance of information gathering. Frequently simply getting accurate information is enough to cause a behavior change. In NLP one precise approach is called a “Double description”. Double description means exactly what it sounds like. It means getting a thorough and detailed description from 2 different points of view, ideally from two different perspectives

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How to Benefit from Procrastination

I wondered about that NLP Presupposition for a long time. Finally, I thought of one place where it is really useful. That place is behaviors you wish to simply stop, without replacing. Procrastinating is a very powerful way to stop those habits, behaviors, or addictions that you’re already really tired of. After all, isn’t the definition of procrastinating not doing? For instance, I drank alcohol pretty consistently for most of my adult life. Last year

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Beginning NLP

You can’t make ‘em change

It’s happened to all of us. We have someone in our lives and we want to help them change. Maybe they want to quit smoking, make more money or improve an important relationship in their life. Whatever it is, the story is the same. They tell us they want to change, they have tried to change, and they have never successfully changed. So, what is that about? Can you help them change, and more importantly,

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Beginning NLP

What hidden beliefs do you have?

Have you ever had that moment when you say something with very little purpose, just part of a story, and all of a sudden it hits you…a hidden limiting belief you have and when you got it?  Something you had no idea you ever believed, you never consciously thought about it, but when you heard yourself speaking you realized that slippery little bugger had embedded itself without you ever knowing? Geez…that just happened to me

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NLP - Color Your World and Staying Positive
Personal Change & Growth

Color Your World

Times of great turmoil and change within the human experience are the perfect time to discover how well we have cultivated states of inner peace and well-being. (So what if everyone is freaking about money. There really isn’t any less of it on the planet!). In “The New Earth” Eckhart Tolle writes “How to be at peace now? By making peace with the present moment. Once you have made peace with the present moment, see

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NLP Learnings by Perry Marshall
Beginning NLP

Perry Marshall’s Learnings with NLP

Perry Marshall wrote the book on Google Search when most others could barely spell SEO. In fact, Google hired him to explain it to them. So obviously, a very smart guy. Perry was also a good friend of Tom Hoobyar, my co-author on “NLP: The Essential Guide“. This story isn’t from the book, so you probably haven’t heard it yet. It’s a quick, easy story of how a couple of friends, just chatting away one

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Different Planets: The Worlds Inside Our Minds

An Excerpt from “NLP: The Essential Guide” – Understanding NLP I bet you think you know what’s real, right? If we were in the room together, you might assume that the world you live in is the same one I live in. Sorry, Charlie, it just ain’t so. As soon as we’re born, we begin noticing things. At first, it’s chaos. You can imagine all that stuff flooding in, all those images, all those sounds,

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Beginning NLP

How would you define a spectacular life?

It happens to the best of us. We get so into our routine that we forget to do the unexpected. Our day to day habits become the only things we do. We find ourselves declining invitations to do other things because we have a routine. We don’t make new plans if they aren’t a part of our routine. And before we know it a year has passed and we don’t really remember anything spectacular about

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Personal Change & Growth

Why Self Improvement Books Don’t Work

Self-improvement is a lofty goal that many of us are reaching for. We want to get past our challenges, bring out our strengths, and become the best and happiest version of ourselves possible. For many of us the journey is amazing. It’s illuminating, instructive, and successful. We are able to overcome and persevere, with more joy and ease than we originally thought possible. For others it becomes almost an obsession, never reaching that level of

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