Yes!!! Now is the time to do those things you have chosen not to do and not to think about while you now find yourself thinking of those things.  If you change your mind you will change your life so make those changes you have not been thinking about until now.  Powerful change in you life is possible now with the simple step of choosing to do it now.  So choose yes and feel that refresh, that restart, that renew!

Start your personal revolution! TODAY!

It is often said that NLP is the modeling of excellence.  That said, the basis of NLP is the Process of Modeling, which has three elements

1. Belief & Values Systems
2. Physiology
3. Strategies

Within the context of the NLP concept of the Physiology of Excellence, the idea is that “Anything you can do, I can elicit and also do.” Through the process of Modeling, one can find and model excellence in behavior and anchor that excellence in themselves or others.

We often observe that successful people are generally in control of their state no matter what the external circumstances, and that they demonstrate excellence in staying in a positive state.

A fantastic Resource Anchor is the The Ring of Power

A Resource Anchor can be anything that is anything that helps you to recall a desired, powerful, and positive state. The Ring of Power is a powerful, “fully loaded” resource anchor that is useful in many circumstances.

Methodology:

Anchor a number of positive powerful states to an imagined circle on the floor

1. Imagine a Ring of Power in front of you as a circle about 2 feet in diameter.
2. Now remember a time when you were totally motivated and when you are totally motivated, then step into the Ring.
3. When the state begins to subside then step out of the ring.
4. Add additional desired states in the same way.
5. When done adding all states, step into the Ring of Power and test.

One can anchor the following states: motivated, confident, energetic, successful, charismatic – or any others you might think of as useful.

The Ring of Power is a great resource anchor for public speaking or other public situations.

… and you can choose everything you dream of … now with total and complete possibility… knowing the things you know completely …

Asking empowering questions as a success coach is a skill that most people lack, yet can be easily learned.  These techniques of questioning will produce very effective outcomes, whether coaching others or self-coaching.

Powerful questions allow dialoguing about the area of life being coached.  The coach’s job is to identify limiting decisions and beliefs, negative emotions, and any other obstacles, and to coach through these.

Asking powerful questions will enable anyone to achieve monumental breakthroughs in any area of life.

Powerful Questions should consist of:

1. What-Based Questions
   Asking “why” questions rarely produces powerful results.  Why focuses on motivation, which can be important, but “what” questions focus on solutions.
   “What’s important to you about that?”
   “What do you want?”
   “What could prevent you from achieving your goals?”
2. Action-Oriented
   Thinking about results isn’t enough.  Your client must take action to achieve their outcomes.  Your questions should always lead the client toward action.
   “What will you do by next week to insure that happens?”
   “What will your next step be when you leave the office today?”
   “What other options do you have?”
   “What are you unwilling to change?”
   “What can you learn from this?”
   “What will you do differently next time?”
   “What can you do that will make a difference now?”
3. Goal-Oreiented
   Powerful questions should always be goal-oriented, rather than problem oriented.  Focus on Solutions and Goals, rather than picking apart problems and obstacles.
4. Future-Oriented
   Coaching should always focus on what the client can do now, and in the future.  Never on the past, with the exception of past positive resources that can be used in the future.
5. Powerful Presuppositions
   These questions take the following structure:What + you + verb + future positive?“What will you change next week for success?”
   “What resource can you leverage to meet your monthly sales goal?”

Everybody knows that you should set long-term and short-term goals, but most people go about it the wrong way, setting long term goals first, then trying to figure out the first step, second step, third step, and so forth.

One of the most important contributions of NLP and TIME Techniques to the area of goal setting is the concept of working backwards from your long-term goals.

What is the first step to making a million dollars in a year?  If you knew, you’d probably have it now!  However, if you start with the long term goal and work your way backwards, you’ll have a much better chance of devising an achievable outcome.

Starting at the one year goal of a million dollars, where would you have to be nine months from now to achieve it?

Knowing that, where would you have to be in six months to achieve that nine month goal?

Where would you have to be in three months?

Where would you have to be in one month?

Where would you need to be in a week? This might be as simple as “making that first phone call.”

All outcomes become more achievable when you work backwards.

In an apology to another we are forgiving ourselves

We know anger can be a debilitating feeling – wasting our energy and weakening our body, mind and soul. How do we release ourselves from anger?  The simple and seemingly trite answer is of course by offering forgiveness.  Now, we often think the way to release anger is in our offering forgiveness to others, but then the real trick is figuring out how to forgive someone toward whom you currently feel angry.  More deeply though, frequently when we tackle issues of forgiveness we end up needing to confront forgiveness of our own self.  Are you angry with a parent, a sibling, a friend, an ex-spouse or lover?  Did they “do something” to you?  Do you need to forgive them but find it “impossible”?  Look deeper, it may be you need to forgive yourself.  So go ahead and forgive yourself… forgive yourself for not being perfect, for making mistakes, for being human, for being a part of something that was ugly or painful.  Maybe you now feel the desire to ask that other person for forgiveness or to simply apologize to them.  Interestingly, even in an apology to another we are forgiving ourselves.  Once we forgive ourselves we have little to defend – it becomes so much easier to then “let go” and forgive others, further releasing ourselves from the associated pain.  We are acknowledging our own humanity and saying it is okay to be less than perfect, even far less than perfect.  So today, forgive yourself, tell yourself it is okay, start new, rise up.  Feel the anger fade away.  Feel calm flood your being.  Begin a new day with a new approach – start your own personal revolution today!

Creating Achievable Outcomes is easy to do if you apply the below steps:

State your outcome with positive language – “What specifically do you want?” (Not what you don’t want)

Identify your present situation – “Where are you now in relation to your outcome?”

Get the specific outcome – What will you see, hear and feel when you have it?

• Make it compelling
• Future pace it, “It is now January 12, 2012 and…”
• Write it present tense, “I have…” “I am…” or “I do…
• Is the first step specific and achievable? – If not break it fown into more specific actions.

Get your evidence procedure – “How will you know when you have it?”

Is it  congruently desirable? – “What will this outcome get for you or allow you to do?” “Are you sure you want it?”

Is it self-initiated and self-maintained? – “Is it only for you?”  “Are you the only person in charge of your results?”

Is it appropriate in all contexts? – “Where, when, how and with whom do you want it?”  “Are there drawbacks in any of these contexts?”

Establish resources – “What personal resources do you have that will allow you to achieve this?”  “Do you know anyone else who has achieved it? What resources did they have?”  “Imagine you have it now. Other than those mentioned, what resources did you use to get it?

Check for ecology – “For what purpose do you want it?”  “What will you lose or gain if you get it?”

• What will happen if you get it?
• What won’t happen if you get it?
• What will happen if you don’t get it?
• What won’t happen if you don’t get it?

You are now successful in the first step to achieving your personal goals!!!

A New Year Resolution suggests a conscious effort to change.  Consciously we attempt to impose our will power on our actions, resulting in a desired change in behavior.  How successful are most of us in keeping our resolutions?  I suspect not so good.  We fall back into old habits…. the reason being is that those old habits are just that – HABITS!  We want to eliminate the habit yet our Conscious Mind cannot do so, because it is the Subconscious Mind that maintains our habits.  We often fall back into old, unwanted behaviors without “thinking”, that is, without our Conscious Mind “thinking”.

So let’s “park” the Conscious Mind and allow our Subconscious to make our desired changes – it is in the Subconscious where change happens and it can happen INSTANTLY!  NLP, hypnosis, and other techniques provide a variety of ways to make this a reality… YOUR NEW REALITY.   Give us a call or send us an email and we can discuss how to make the changes you want in your life.  Eliminate your old, unproductive habits and begin the New Year with a set of New Behaviors – easily, quickly, and successfully – NOW!

We all want success in life.  Did you know there are some very basic principles to achieving and having success … in any area of your life?  Well now you know!

Very simply, You will be Successful!

If You:

1. Know your outcome.
2. Take action.
3. Have sensory acuity.
4. Have behavioral flexibility.
5. Operate from a physiology and psychology of excellence.

In other words, know what you want, identify and take the necessary steps toward what you want, be aware of feedback, be willing to adapt your actions, and act and operate at all times at your very best.

Sounds easy – it is easy… but we often get in our own ways in achieving what we want.  That is why a Success Coach can so benefit anyone!  Talk through your goals and desires with a Success Coach and speed up the process of understanding what you want and how to achieve it!

In NLP, some basic assumptions are made about our world and how we communicate…

We might call these: “Convenient Assumptions For Phenomenal Life Success”

These are the Presuppositions of NLP.

Mnemonic Device: RESPECT UR WORLD

1. Respect for the other person’s model of the world.
2. Behavior and change are to be evaluated in terms of context, and Ecology
3. Resistance in a client is a Sign of a lack of rapport. (There are no resistant clients, only inflexible communicators. Effective communicators accept and utilize all communication presented to them.)
4. People are not their behaviors. (Accept the person; change the behavior.)
5. Everyone is doing the best they can with the resources they have available. (Behavior is geared for adaptation, and present behavior is the best choice available. Every behavior is motivated by a positive intent.)
6. Calibrate on Behavior: The most important information about a person is that person’s behavior.
7. The map is not the Territory. (The words we use are NOT the event or the item they represent.)
8. (U) You are in charge of your mind, and therefore your results (and I am also in charge of my mind and therefore my results).
9. People have all the Resources they need to succeed and to achieve their desired outcomes. (There are no unresourceful people, only unresourceful states.)
10. All procedures should increase Wholeness
11. There is ONLY feedback! (There is no failure, only feedback.)
12. The meaning of communication is the Response you get.
13. The Law of Requisite Variety: (The system/person with the most flexibility of behavior will control the system.)
14. All procedures should be Designed to increase choice.