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.
(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
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
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
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
Word Count 884 reading time 3.5 minutes Sometimes it’s easy to think that changing someone’s beliefs requires a big formal process. I was out visiting some old familiar places in Silicon Valley last week. After living there 25 years you make some interesting acquaintances. Meeting an old pal for coffee one day he introduced me to a friend of his whose business had really been devastated by the economic downturn. I’ll call him Gil. He
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
by Richard Bandler, excerpted from the NLP Comprehensive Practitioner Manual Trainer Edition A fast little process – with a little practice you’ll find yourself doing this in just minutes – that’s great for motivating yourself to do things you know you need to do and want to have completed but seem to keep putting off. This pattern is an example of the power of submodalities. It is especially useful for changing your feelings about getting
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
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