Atomic Habits or Big Life-Affirming Goals? Why not both? A couple of different approaches have proven effective in achieving goals, and motivation is essential to all of them. One approach is the Tiny Little Habits approach, popularized in the “Atomic Habits” book. This method involves adding one little tiny habit at a time. Over […]
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Negotiating and Resolving Conflicts, Internal and External: Framing, Reframing, and the Six-Step Process You’ve heard of “framing” in the context of politics, marketing, and areas where influencing people is a primary concern. In any context, the party setting the frame has preempted the permissible dialogue. For instance, in the area of politics, the Republican party
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Avoiding collapsing businesses and getting a better job? Making better investments in love and life? The Power of Four – How Four little questions can change your world – or the world of someone around you. “According to whom?” “What would happen if you did/didn’t? How, exactly,…? Who, specifically…? One of the essential language sections
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The primary presupposition underlying all of Neuro-Linguistic Programming is that The Map is not the Territory. You experience life through a set of personal perceptual filters that are unique to you. Your experience is filtered first by the limits of your sensory organs and what you perceive as a small slice of the world. In
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One of the most valuable lessons I learned from my mom and step-dad – everyone processes at different speeds. You see, my mom was a very quick thinker with a wicked sense of humor. My step-dad, brilliant in his own right, was a much slower thinking, processing everything before responding. Unfortunately for my mother, that
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Or Popping out of the bad feels We are now in what is being called “The Great Reset”. We know much of what we knew has changed, and we know we don’t know how it will all play out. What is still as true as ever is that if someone suggests they do know what
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How’re You Doin’? Article Word Count 932, average reading time 3.7 minutes “Fine”, is what you’d probably answer, if someone asked you this question. Actually, “fine” is what we say to be polite, no matter HOW we are feeling! We’re all taught that. Think about the last hundred times you said or heard, “How are
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This is one of many stories I fondly remember from my first Practitioner Training. Along with numerous others it’s to be found in the Trainer’s Version of the “NLP Comprehensive Practitioner Training Manual” as well as in “Is There Life Before Death?” Among other reasons that the training was remarkable was that while a lot
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20 Max? A new and literally historical training opportunity. You have a rare chance: we are going to have the most intimate summer Practitioner training ever in our 30 year history this year. While I might like to announce the biggest ever, for you this is a unique, unrepeatable opportunity. We expect to have a
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When Goals are Dead-Ends by Charles Faulkner Living in the Age of Goals We live in the Age of Goals. We’re in the 25th year of Management by Objective (MBO) and at least the 55th year of goal setting thanks in large part to Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale and Norman Vincent Peale. According to an
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