How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. -Anne Frank Last week we talked about your “happy spot,” and whether you are spending enough time in it. For several weeks, we have written this blog toward to the person who can most use it: You. This week, I want to invite you to apply this wisdom to others in your life whom you influence. If you
Lately, I have spent some time reflecting on the question “Am I happy?” I am not the type of person to spend a lot of time contemplating questions of this nature (I find they are an antidote to being happy). Yet, I think a lot of people these days are stressed and worried. I think a lot of us are wondering about the staying power of happiness in tough times. My answer? I have many
Lessons in Hope By: Lisa Jackson, NLP Master Practitioner & Executive Coach dis·ap·point-verb (used with object) 1. to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us. 2. to defeat the fulfillment of (hopes, plans, etc.); thwart; frustrate: to be disappointed in love. When was the last time you lost something you really cared about? How did you feel? In 2006, in the space of one year, I lost my home,
Because of the requests as a result of the post “The Inside Family” I’m posting this version of the Parts Party format (you may want to read “The Inside Family” first. :-).
In the NYT today is another of the reports I’m finding more and more of these days. The theories behind NLP that were so outre when first proposed 30 years ago are now being re-proposed and validated with increasing frequency by mainstream science particularly in the field of neuroscience. Here’s a lovely and simple example one such study of how we construct our inner reality. The folowing paragraph in particular could have been taked directly
Language Directs Attention: Negative Commands – How they don’t work (and do!) Here Connirae Andreas describes this distinction in a context where it’s a easy to recognize the importance of this distinction! And whatever you do, don’t start wondering now just how soon you’ll find ways to use these in your life.:-) Offering Positive Alternatives: Telling Children What We DO Want Let’s suppose your child came up to you and asked you what you wanted
If you played with this weeks’ Tip, you noticed how anchors already are and have been affecting you for your entire life, and affect you to this day. Here’s another set of examples in this article by Seth Godin, a brilliant marketer and a very good writer. The context is familiar to all of us: Meetings! Yea! He shows both how existing out of awareness anchors affect us, and how we can deliberately
Here’s Tom Best in a clip from “The NLP Portable Practitioner Training” Defining and Demonstrating the famous NLP Eye Accessing Cues! LIke it? Give us a thumbs up on YouTube!
The first variation on the Swish, the distance/color swish, is a nice variation. Here it is, again from the classic NLP Comprehensive 24 Day Practitioner Training Trainer’s Manual. A number of people have asked about this classic. Here’s the link to more information, and a special savings for you – enter this coupon code “Classic” (no quote marks) and get $100 off the cost of the manual! Frame: Size/brightness is only one (out of literally
In preparing this address, naturally the first thing I did was look again at the conference title: “Modeling Excellence in an Increasingly Complex World.” And I thought back to when I was a kid, and recalled that it seemed pretty darned complex then, too. We were diving under chairs to protect ourselves from atomic bombs, and crowds of white adults were screaming at a little black girl trying to go to school, and we were