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“Happy Hollandaise” – a Holiday Story from Tom Hoobyar

“Happy Hollandaise” Word count 924, average reading time 3.7 minutes There’s a lot to learn from what people say. And much of the time, it’s not what you might think. Here’s an interesting example that took place in our house last Christmas. Our two grown sons (my stepsons) and their families were visiting for the Holidays. My wife Vikki was going to make her famous Eggs Benedict for Christmas brunch. We all enjoy each other’s

Tom Dotz December 3, 2009

Choosing Your Triggers

A good friend of mine once said to me “No matter what, if a business isn’t meeting your goals in three years, drop it and move on to something else – no matter what!” Charlie Sheppard is one of the most consistently happy people I’ve ever known. He has the lovely family, loyal friends, beautiful home, the income and independence that almost anyone would envy. Charlie, an old time NLP’er and I had recently met.

Tom Dotz October 28, 2009

Doing The Impossible

Another enjoyable story from the “other Tom.” The NLP uses are much more subtle here, and I think you’re ready for them. 😉 Enjoy! Tom Dotz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “Impossible.” What a funny word. It’s a word that creates its own reality. “I can’t do that — it’s impossible!” Yeah, right. Let me tell you about some rat cages I saw in a research lab years ago. I was the founding CEO of a company that manufactured

Tom Dotz October 22, 2009

Turning Your NLP Skills Into Gold While Helping Others

You know what’s even more high impact than a motivated person working with focus and intensity? No, not a lot of them; they’d just get in each other’s way. Don’t you watch news? Or sports? Here’s what’s even more high impact – the same motivated person from the first sentence – WITH the added support of others. This is a secret known to some but actually experienced by very few. Tom Dotz and I are

Tom Dotz September 10, 2009

Motivation With NLP: Do It Yourself or Outsource?

I was standing in the lobby outside of one of the trainings here in the Colorado mountains last week chatting with an executive from Hilton Hotels. Like many people her acquaintance with NLP was based on an exposure to Tony Robbins. She commented several times that the main point Tony “taught” was to come back to his next program. “It’s a lot of pomp and circumstance and it’s very expensive and at the end of

Tom Dotz August 21, 2009

Playing To Your Right: Mastery In NLP and Life

In basketball there is a saying that you have to learn to play to your left to master the game. This refers to the fact that most people are right handed and find it easier and more natural to play to their preferred side. So for basketball players learning to have the flexibility to play to either side gives them a significant advantage. What’s true in a game isn’t necessarily true in life. A few

Tom Dotz July 30, 2009

Visual learners convert words to pictures in the brain and vice versa

NLP has long proposed different learning and perceptual styles bases on individual’s sensory preferences. The emerging field of Neuroscience is validating more and more of the proposals of NLP as in this example. March 25th, 2009 http://www.physorg.com/news157202233.html A University of Pennsylvania psychology study, using functional magnetic resonance imaging technology to scan the brain, reveals that people who consider themselves visual learners, as opposed to verbal learners, have a tendency to convert linguistically presented information into

Tom Dotz July 27, 2009

The Sage Advice Process

This is a simple and yet profound process you can do with no previous knowledge of NLP – just a good imagination! 1. Sit across from an empty chair. Close your eyes, relax, breathe slowly and deeply. Begin to think of the very distant future. 2. Let an image of an ancient and wise you form in the chair in front of you. This is an ancient you who has reached all of your potential.

Tom Dotz July 21, 2009

Practice Building: The Top Six Mistakes And How To Avoid Them – Part 2

(Part 1 is here: http://www.nlpco.com/2009/07/practice-building-1 ) We have already covered errors in philosophical grounding, lack of skill, and a failure of implementing a sustainable structure for your business–and for the scope of your clients’ needs. What is next? More nuts and bolts rather than philosophical grounding or mindset: Mistake: Having only 1 stream of prospects Most coaches and solo-preneurs rely on word of mouth. Word of mouth is critical. In the 21st Century marketplace there

Tom Dotz July 21, 2009

Practice Building: The Top Six Mistakes And How To Avoid Them.

We’re lucky enough to have a website that was one of the very first in NLP. The upside of one of the world’s original NLP sites is recognition and credibility. The downside was embedded obsolescence. After months of work we have it cleaned up, and a new design and navigation. (Maybe now the search engines will see the whole site, and not just part of it.) 🙂 More important to you we’ve changed the look

Tom Dotz July 8, 2009