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Deciding to learn? Can’t quite get motivated? Strategies: The Commanding NLP Model

Leave a Comment / Beginning, Stories, Techniques / By Tom Dotz

Deciding to learn? Can’t quite get motivated? Strategies: The Commanding NLP Model A Story, a Video, a Process, and Announcements Three: This week in NLP! From the questions and comments I see around the web it’s evident that NLP is becoming known more and more as a bundle of “patterns” or “techniques,” mostly concerned with […]

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Which Lines Should You Cross?

Leave a Comment / Personal Growth, Stories / By Tom Dotz

Which Lines Should You Cross? By Tom Hoobyar Article Word Count 1000, average reading time 4 minutes. Last week we talked about limits — the limits that each of us sets for ourselves on what we can want, and what we can do. I said we’d talk more about how to manage these limits inside

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Why NLP Training? Tom’s Story

Leave a Comment / Stories, Trainer / By Tom Dotz

“I liked the shaver so much, I bought the company” -Victor Kiam, Remington Electric Over the years many people have asked me what’s important about NLP training. What did I get out of it, how did I get involved in the first place? So let me tell you my story. It was a tough year.

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Markets Tumble, People Stumble, and How NLP Helps You Get Up Again

Leave a Comment / Personal Growth, Stories / By Tom Dotz

Stopping by the office last Friday the phones were ringing and things were hopping. Unusual for a Friday afternoon, that’s for sure, but then interest has been up a lot lately. So I picked up a call and had a great (and to me classic) conversation with someone who, like you, is interested in how

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Cement Trucks and Miracles: Having More in Your Life

Leave a Comment / Beginning, Stories / By Tom Dotz

Sometimes people ask, “What is your Spirituality?” The one answer I am always sure about is gratitude. The miracle is that you and I are here. The odds against us were millions to one. The miracle is that we exist at all. Everything else is a bonus. This is our traditional season of giving and

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“Happy Hollandaise” – a Holiday Story from Tom Hoobyar

Leave a Comment / Beginning, Stories / By Tom Dotz

“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

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Doing The Impossible

Leave a Comment / Beginning, Stories / By Tom Dotz

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

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Playing To Your Right: Mastery In NLP and Life

Leave a Comment / Beginning, Stories / By Tom Dotz

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

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Magic and Mastery

Leave a Comment / Health, Stories / By Tom Dotz

Magic and Mastery One of the biggest lies used in NLP is that anything can be done by anyone. It’s a useful lie properly understood, but few people take the time to get that understanding, and instead just fall in love with the magical thinking implied. It’s this love of magical thinking that leads us

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Change Without Pain NLP Story

Leave a Comment / Beginning, Stories / By Tom Dotz

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

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