When NLP Doesn’t Work – And What To Do

What to do, what to do. Sometimes you do a simple process, it works like a charm.  Other times you wonder if it did, or you know it didn’t.  Here’s a reminder of the logical first place to start and how to deal with it. Enjoy, Tom Dotz P.S. Remember: Summer In The Mountains: Personal and Career Rejuvenation in our exclusive NLP Immersion Trainings! Click Here To Read All About It! Now you can study NLP and

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Change Without Pain NLP Story

Making Choice Just A Little Easier In NLP we are real big on increasing choice. One of the basic presuppositions is “Choice is better than no choice” another is “The element in a system with the most flexibility (choice) has the most control.” I was talking with an old friend the other day who was facing another of those transitions we all experience in life’s passages. She was living alone in the large home where

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Questioning Authority

Back in the 1960’s a  popular slogan on posters and bumper stickers was “Question Authority.”  It was directed outward, at the strictures and the authority to impose them of government and organizations – church, school, the “cool kids,” television and movies, books, art, and yes, science. In the language studies of NLP we learn some useful ways to challenge authority, and perhaps more useful, how to recognize internal “authorities” who are imposing limits on us

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Changing A Life In 3 minutes: NLP In Action

Quick change is usually easier, and kinder, than the alternatives. Most of all, it’s a skill anyone can learn. 1011 words; Reading Time 3.88 minutes Most people think that making big changes in life takes a lot of effort and a lot of time, and the bigger the change the harder it will be. Not so. Not even close. Here’s a story of how fast and easily you can do this. One day years ago

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Better Than A Bucket: Conversational Coaching With NLP

A Story of NLP In Action – from one of our readers, John Lambert. “I hadn’t seen ‘Susan’ at work for a few days, She drives her van to work when it’s not cold or raining (she broke the driver’s side window out one day when she locked her keys inside). She doesn’t have the money to fix the window so on ‘bad’ weather days she drives her boyfriend’s truck to work. When I saw

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Did Barack Obama hypnotize the nation during his Denver acceptance speech?

Found this one in the local weekly, “Westword.” 🙂 “Did Barack Obama hypnotize the nation during his Denver acceptance speech? In this recently posted video, for instance, Obama is accused of using “the techniques of neurolinguistic programming (NLP), a covert form of hypnosis,” to … As you may have heard, Barack Obama recently became the president of the United States. However, his enemies continue to portray him as a smooth but dangerous character whose rhetorical

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Tom’s Twelve Laws of Life

Want to know how NLP can help you Live Your Limitless Life? Click here to schedule your FREE, one-on-one NLP Discovery Session with Tracy! 12 Laws of Life Tom Hoobyar These are non-negotiable and there are no escape clauses. No excuses are accepted. Ignore them at your own risk. I got this information over decades of living, but many people never learn these rules at all. And so they live in “quiet desperation.” You don’t

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What Takes Your Breath Away?

“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.”  — Ralph W. Sockman Have you asked yourself lately: “What is the positive intention of our current economic situation?” I was on the phone with a friend today who spoke beautifully about the gift of the current situation — how it is collectively putting us in a place we can truly “wake up!” to

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Five Great Stories

by Lisa Jackson, NLP Master Practitioner One of my favorite tools in the NLP toolkit is the use of metaphor — especially “teaching stories.”  Stories are universally powerful teaching elements because they create a sense of possibility. They are also vastly under-utilized in the world of business. Too often, leaders over-focus on the dry stuff – financials and statistics – and not enough on what inspires people’s hearts and emotions. In the leaders I work

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Does NLP Influence or Manipulate?

If you have had exposure to NLP beyond a book or introductory CD, have been involved in a discussion about the utilization of NLP for the purposes of “manipulating” people.  (And if you are brand new to NLP, having seen some of the claims made by NLP training institutes, perhaps the question has been raised in your mind). I recall vividly my version of this conversation, in the opening days of my own Practitioner Training,

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