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The Power Of Four – How Four Little Questions Can Change Your World

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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Contagious Behaviors

“Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas” How our communities- of choice, birth, and chance – both form and inform us. Mom used to tell you to choose your friends wisely.  Gurus advise their devotees to form “sanghas” or spiritual communities.  Now science has put some very precise numbers and reasoning behind these aphorisms

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The Magical Difference Between “This” and “That”

The difference two words can make.  This article exposes you to a deceptively simple language pattern that is an example of a linguistic state change. This is the kind of language patterns covered in our NLP Portable Practitioner Training on DVD.  A growing number of people are becoming Certified Practitioners through this unique program. Consider

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A Pound Of Framing: The Power Of Language In Politics And Life

Years ago the then so-named anti-abortion movement seemed to be making little progress. Then they started re-branding themselves the “pro-life” movement. Well, if they were the pro-life movement, and you opposed them, what did that make you?  Anti-life? Pro-Death? Take your pick; poor choices all. You’ll notice two important elements of framing in that example.

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