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.
More on Markets Tumble, People Stumble, and How NLP Helps You Get Up Again
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Reframing: Simple Ways To Re-View.
I'm basically a cheerful person at heart. I also love reading the newspapers. This combination has been a wee bit challenging lately. So rather than our usual technique embedded in a story this week I'm giving you the chance to play, too.
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As we've been saying in NLP for decades, our immune systems need to be educated. An allergy is really a mistake made by a poorly educated immune system (See: "Heart of the Mind" Chapter 5).
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Uh oh. Another holiday letter. If you throw this away unread you won’t miss much. Just my story about how Martha Stewart screwed up our holidays awhile ago.
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Courtesy of the other Tom who occasionally writes here, Tom Hoobyar (www.tomhoobyar.com)
12 Laws of Life
These are non-negotiable and there are no escape clauses. No excuses are accepted.
Ignore them at your own risk.
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by Lisa Jackson, NLP Master Practitioner
One of my favorite tools in the NLP toolkit is the use of metaphor — especially “teaching stories.” Stories are universally powerful teaching elements because they create a sense of possibility. They are also vastly under-utilized in the world of business. Too often, leaders over-focus on the dry stuff – financials and statistics – and not enough on what inspires people’s hearts and emotions.
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One of our coaches told me the following story, and I thought it was such a great fit with Labor Day I asked her to write it up for you. Those of you familiar with NLP will appreciate the elegant use of this familiar model in a specific context.
More on The Inside Family: Getting What You Want More Easily
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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 deliberatelyMore on Anchors In Your World
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Interesting updates from the scientific community on the perennial debate around the influence of language on perception and thought.
When Language Can Hold the Answer
"Naming, Dr. Lupyan concluded, helps to create mental categories.
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Gee, If I'd spent all that time playing "Concentration" instad of "Solitaire"…
A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent, increasing the brainpower they had at birth.
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