What can make you feel really good? Maybe the smell of freshly baked bread? Or the sound of your mother’s voice? Perhaps the sight of old friends? Sometimes things happen that trigger us into feeling good – or even great. Yet sometimes things happen that “make us” feel bad. While it is great for us to [...]
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Exploring Submodalities in Beijing
April 4, 2012
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Have you ever been terrified of someone, but you had to meet them everyday? Have you ever loved something or someone, but had to let go and move on? Have you ever wanted to enjoy something, but you just couldn’t? What comes to mind when you think about “broccoli”? A green vegetable? Healthy eating? Maybe [...]
Exploring Submodalities
March 16, 2012
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Have you ever been terrified of someone, but you had to meet them everyday? Have you ever loved something or someone, but had to let go and move on? Have you ever wanted to enjoy something, but you just couldn’t? What comes to mind when you think about “broccoli”? A green vegetable? Healthy eating? Maybe [...]
How can I close the deal?
March 1, 2012
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One of my participants recently asked me: One of the challenges I’m having is in the area of closing in business… how does (present) a context that is comfortable and not overly aggressive (but that still gets the deal done)? And it is a challenge for many people. What do you think? You might try putting [...]
How are you? How do you feel? How do you want to feel? How do you want to be?
January 14, 2012
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We are training our son to sleep in his own bed at the moment. Having grown accustomed to having his mother beside him, always ready to sooth him back to sleep, it has been a challenging transition for him. And he isn’t afraid to share that he’s upset, so our whole household has shared the [...]
Getting what you want
December 20, 2011
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Earlier this week, I was asked whether I could share a secret for successful negotiations and “getting your own way”. As I replied, the most important ‘secret’ is to know what you really want. In other words: Know your outcome. It’s the first step of the old USF (Ultimate Success Formula) or NSF (NLP Success [...]
Conversational Reimprinting
December 7, 2011
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When goals can fail you: Pursuing purpose above profit
November 17, 2011
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Satisfaction depends not merely on having goals, but on having the right goals. Failing to understand this… can lead sensible people down self-destructive paths. Daniel Pink in Drive Goals are powerful and useful. They can help move us forward and create a whole new world. Yet they only give us fulfillment to the extent that [...]
Cocktail Party effect
October 31, 2011
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What Went Well – and Why?
October 15, 2011
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One of the exercises from Flourish is something that Seligman calls “What Went Well”. Here’s how Marty explains it: Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well today and why they went well… The three things need not be earthshaking in [...]