Applying NLP Now
One of the more popular requests we get is how to be "more motivated." In the NLP model of "Metaprograms" motivation is described as an analog sorting. At one end you have what is labeled "away from" and at the other, "towards."
This is about using NLP to control stress reactions, and I'm going to use new research from our toughest military training as an example of what's possible.
Our U.S. Navy SEALs have the reputation of being the best commandos ever created. A Navy SEAL is someone who has survived the most challenging military training in the world.
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Here's My Story
A few years ago I wrote regularly for this blog at NLP Comprehensive.
One week I decided to list my beliefs and to describe them. The article contained many of the things I've learned over 50 years, from my 40+ occupations.
Attitude is one of the key tenets of NLP. In this sweet story Steve Andreas tells how attitude and setting your perceptual filters can combine to sort your experience and your opportunities to bring you more of what is best for you.
This week's article reveals some conversational uses of advanced language patterns and advanced submodalities, covered in our Practitioner course on DVD as well as in our LIVE Practitioner Training.
"Last Call!" The 2010 Summer Practitioner Training is filling up. We promised to cap it at 20, and we're getting close.
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 some aspect of self-improvement. That is a sadly limited view.
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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 ourselves.
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 old middle eastern adage; "You shall not reach Mecca, for you are on the road to Medina" and on this most goal setting is based. After all, it is quite reasonable to ask; If you don't have a plan for where you are going, how are you going to get there? Most everyone is, by now, familiar with the Harvard University study in which the 3% of the graduating classes (Ted Kennedy's being one of them by the way) that had written goals out performed the other 97% (who didn't) in terms of money, power and recognition.
