Skill Level Archives - Page 13 of 17

“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

A Tip From An Old Friend

Hi I want to reintroduce you to the “other Tom” that writes occasionally for NLP Comprehensive. Tom’s an NLP Master Practitioner (from the days when I owned NLP California) and we’ve been friends for ages. He’s also the founder of the international NLP alumni study group, the NLP Cafe. He serves as our Planning Director and for a couple of years he wrote our weekly email newsletter. Then he got too busy with his other

Tom Dotz September 9, 2009

25 Year Phobia Followup

One of the favorite criticisms of NLP is that it’s just a “Quick Fix.” This is pretty amusing since it’s simply posing a false criterion: that to be valuable change must take some minimum period of time (Really? According to whom? How long would be long enough?So if it took one second less then it would be invalid? ;- ). The right question is simply “does it work?” This video solidly answers that question. If

Tom Dotz September 2, 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

Belief Changes

One of the most popular areas in NLP is the set of processes for changing beliefs. I also get a lot of requests for patterns and processes you can do by yourself. So this week I’m including one of the simplest and most suitable for a “DIY” approach. Created by Robert Dilts, the “Walking Belief Change Pattern” is both powerful and easy to use, even if you don’t have a lot of experience with NLP.

Tom Dotz August 14, 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