Last Friday two friends and I saw the movie Saving Mr. Banks, the story of how Walt Disney finally convinced author P.L. Travers to give him the rights to make a musical of her book Mary Poppins. It took him 20 years to accomplish the task! The trailers for the movie had me expecting […]
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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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Most of us feel that experience we call ‘overwhelm’ at one time or another, and more so as life seems to keep moving at a faster pace. Here’s a look at how to manage those experiences and have a little more energy for your self. It’s a little play with submodalities, the “molcules of meaning”
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Word Count 655 Reading Time 2.6 minutes Here’s another Tom Hoobyar story. This one both strikes a chord and makes me chuckle every time I read it. I can just picture those befuddled scientists realizing, with utter disbelief, what the rats were up to. Like Henry Ford said, “If you think you can, or you
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New Stories: Excerpts from a new book by Mark Andreas Here are two stories selected from the just-released new book by Mark Andreas. The Plywood Artwork A Stunning Example of Rapport While these two examples are directly drawn from NLP people, this book covers a broader spectrum. Mark cast a wide net for these stories,
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“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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Last week we brought you another great story of the power of applying just one of the most basic NLP techniques for establishing rapport (“Tuning In” Jan 23, 09) Here is another example – excerpted from one of the most popular articles we posted last year – of the effectiveness and transformative qualities of NLP
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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
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