For many people, the perception of successful living is getting an edge and staying one step ahead. In our technological world of instant communication via mobile phones and Blackberry’s we are constantly available. People can quickly reply to important emails in between precious moments while playing with their children. Business deals can be finalised in between courses over a romantic dinner. Personal and business development tools encourage us to plan, plan, plan, think ahead and set goals. Multi tasking and forward planning we are told are paramount to being a success. But are they?
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NLP began its life when John Grinder and Richard Bandler modelled the behavioral and language patterns of three people who were geniuses at helping people create change in their lives. In some circles, NLP is known at the science of success. This is because with NLP you can model human excellence and the NLP tools created from the early modelling projects enable you to work through challenges and accelerate goal achievement. In this article, I will talk about how you can use NLP tools to focus your mind, sharpen your language and set clear and precise goals. By following the easy to apply tools and strategies in this article you have formula for personal success.
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In NLP a much-quoted presupposition is ‘the map is not the territory’. In this article I will focus on how you can change your map of the world by shifting your perceptual filters on an experience. You may have heard of a process called ‘triple position’ which offers three distinct sensory descriptions of one event.The positions are self, other and observer.
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I have just completed teaching a Practitioner course and Trainers Training with John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St Clair and John Thompson. We had people from seventeen countries from every continent visit Brighton, where we held our courses. It was a fascinating and exhilarating experience to be part of two unique courses occurring simultaneously but in separate rooms. I was particularly interested in the different mindsets of the people who attended each course and how in certain cases ‘filters’ determined the learner’s experience.
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Ever since I have been an observer of people, which started when I was very young I have been interested in the diverse attitudes to money and wealth creation. In this article I will look at wealth creation from an NLP perspective. For the purpose of this article, when I refer to ‘wealth’ in monetary terms or to wealthy people, I am talking of people who have £1,000,000 (one million pounds) in net assets. I have selected these arbitrary amounts and denoted them as meanings to the abstract noun ‘wealth’ based on the profile of subscribers to my newsletter. It’s interesting how different people will have different meanings for abstract nouns such as wealth. If you as a reader of this article are interested in building more personal wealth, it may be a useful exercise to write down specifically what wealth means to you in both monetary and personal terms.
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In this article, I will present a much-used metaphor in NLP and that is the notion of a conscious and unconscious mind. I use the word metaphor because neither the conscious or unconscious mind exists in the literal sense. The terms are just useful to package conscious and unconscious processing.
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