In the NLP Five Principles for Success, Behavioral Flexibility is KEY!

The Five Principles for Success are:

1. Know Your Outcome
2. Take Action
3. Have Sensory Acuity
4. Have Behavioral Flexibility
5. Operate from a Physiology and Psychology of Excellence

With enough Rapport (with yourself and with others) and enough Behavioral Flexibility, you can always achieve your outcome!

You know it is impossible to not succeed if you don’t not remember to keep this in mind.

What’s important to you in life?  What would be most fulfilling… to you?  Is it making money, finding love, being successful, being a parent, caring for others?  It can be a number of things and can change over time but think for a minute what desires and goals all have in common.  I would suggest our desires in life are fundamentally rooted in the desire to create!  We want to matter, we want to have a legacy, we want to create some kind of impact or change, for ourselves and for others.  Life is creation and we are part of it.

You can create what seems now the unthinkable, the impossible, yet with the right energy and focus your can achieve that creation!  Follow your passion and equip yourself with the tools of success.  I would love to share those tools with you.  While I already have shared a few on this web site, there are many more.  Give me a call or send me an email and position yourself to succeed with creating a life full of your passion!

Are you stuck in a state of lacking motivation?  NLP provides a very simple tool to get out of such a stuck state and into a state of high motivation.  This NLP tool is called Chaining Anchors.

Steps for Chaining Anchors

1. Get in rapport with yourself (relax with deep breaths and let today’s worries just drift away… that’s right!).  See what you see, hear what you hear, feel what you feel …
2. Identify your undesirable present state (Procrastination), and decide on your positive/resource end state (Motivation).
3. Now ask yourself a series of questions in order to design the links in your chain of anchors.   You must identify the intermediate states that will lead to your desired end state.  (“You’re Procrastinating, what gets you off that State?” — “Panic gets you out of Procrastination, what gets you out of the Panic State?” — “Focus gets you out of the Panic State, what gets you beyond the Focus State? – Energy get you beyond the Focus State, what gets you beyond the Eerngy State? — ANSWER: “The Motivation State” – And there you are!!!)  These intermediate states will vary between individuals – each person has their own steps from one state to another.
4. Get into each state as you elicit and anchor each state separately (touching a knuckle is a great anchor – a different knuckle for each state).  Start with the present state (Procrastination) and work your way through each state to the end state (Motivation). Make sure to break state after each anchor is applied (“Do you smell popcorn?”.
5. Test each state to be certain it is well-anchored and you can esily elicit that state.
6. Now Chain each state together (using for example the knuckles on your left hand) firing #1 and when #1 is at its peak add #2, and then release #1. When #2 comes to the peak, add #3, then release #2. Add #4, etc. in the same way.
7. Test: Fire the present state anchor.  You should end up in your desired final state.
8. Ask yourself, “Now how do you feel about procrastination.”  You should find yourself in a state of Motivation to act!!!
9. Future Pace:  “Can you think of a time in the future which if it had happened in the past you would have Procrastinated and tell yourself what happens instead?”  you should be in a highly motivated state!!!

Easy enough – give it a try!!!

Our tag line is: Life Uprising is the premier life transformation and success coaching service in Orange County, California.

And that only touches the very tip of the iceberg…

Life Uprising is about your success, in any and all facets of your life that you choose.  Life Uprising is about choices, the right choices in order to generate success in your life – in relationships, financially, career-wise, spiritually.

Life Uprising is about providing you with the tools you need to make the desired and necessary changes in your life that will remove obstacles to your success.

Here with Life Uprising we will use a variety of techniques in life change which can be utilized for any collection of problems or issues.  Energy Work using Reiki and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EMT) can bring centeredness and focus on solutions, freeing you from obstacles.  Time Techniques will allow you to release emotions from the past and project yourself into your successful future.  Hypnosis and NLP can provide you with the mindset via multiple language and behavior tools to transform your life in incredible ways.  And simple yet encompassing Coaching techniques will enable you to make the necessary decisions and take the important actions required for you to break through old barriers and achieve new successes.

So let’s start your personal revolution today!  Take control of your life and rise up with Life Uprising!

Breathe in deeply and slowly… and breathe out, slowly and completely…

Breathe in… breathe out…

Keep breathing in… deeply… and breathing out… slowly…

And… relax… that’s right…

Keep breathing…

And keep relaxing…

Until you are completely and totally relaxed and completely at peace…

And now go on with your day!!!

The Hierarchy of Ideas in NLP provides a model for mastering communication and being able to control the direction of conversation and ideas.  The basic principle is that ideas are in a hierarchy flowing back and forth between the abstract (big) and the specific (small).  Some people communicate mostly in the abstract, others mostly in specifics, and this can vary by topic as well.  The fact that people will often communicate at a different level of the hierarchy can result in miscommunication.  People will generally feel misunderstood when they cannot express themselves in a manner meaningful to the other person involved in the conversation.  Some basic principles in communicating within this Hierarchy of Ideas follow:

Chunking Up

One can chunk up to get agreement.  We also chunk up to separate intention from behavior and to bring people into trance.  The following three questions are examples of chunking up:

• What is this an example of?
• For what purpose?
• What is your intention?

Chunking Down

One can chunk down the conversation in order to get details and distinctions.  We also chunk down to maintain agreement for action, and to bring people out of trance.  The following three questions are examples of chunking down:

• What are examples of this?
• What specifically?
• Or any question that challenges certain assumptions, such as: “How do you know I don’t like you?” or “How do you know it’s bad?”

Lateral Chunking

One can lateral chunk to access other examples.  Successful negotiation involves the ability for one to chunk up, find connections and relationships by chunking laterally, and then chunking back down and relating to the current situation.

• Ask, “What is this an example of?” one or many times to chunk up.
• Ask, “What are other examples of this?” to lateral chunk.
• Ask, “What are examples of this?” as many times as needed to chunk back down.

Isn’t this how we expect life to be? Fun and Easy?  Of course, life is not always that way.  We each face plenty of our own hardships, whether those be in our relationships, career, or health.  And it is important to recognize how we can complicate any area of our lives by our approach to things.  We act out patterns of behavior that may not always be in our own best interest and that simple truth is often hidden from us in a variety of ways.  Success coaching can help one break old patterns of behavior and thought that create obstacles to our success.  The techniques for change often are quick and the effects immediate.  Are you ready to change old patterns that create a life for you that is something less than fun and easy?  If you are ready, start your personal revolution today… feel your life uprising!

Life can be fun and easy!

Do you ever wonder why the visual of a sunrise or a sunset is so powerful to the soul?  Of course, everything ultimately is solar powered.  Without the sun, the planets would not have formed and life would not exist.  Everyday, here on our earth, we can watch as the sun seemingly waltzes across our sky to set each evening and then return with a beautiful rising the next morning. It does seem miraculous.  But why the hold on our souls?  Could it be the simple repetition, the consistency of knowing it will be there everyday?  Maybe, but not entirely.  Every sunset places a beautiful placeholder on our day.  With the setting sun comes a certain amount of closure.  Eventually we must rest and recharge our bodies and minds and souls.  There is a time for that in the twilight and night.  With the rising sun comes the hope of a new day, new opportunities, dreams fulfilled.

I chose the rising sun for my masthead at the top of this web page because of this hopeful power.  We can chose to empower ourselves if we connect with the energies of the universe around us.  We will rise up, we will be fulfilled in abundance.  And we simply choose it.  The sunrise not only reminds us of this, it provides us real opportunity.  Every day is a new beginning.  In truth, every passing moment in time is an opportunity to change, to act, to push off in the direction we choose for ourselves.  So rise up and begin your new life now.  Make those choices you need to make, you want to make, now!

How do you make a very challenging year Your Best Year Ever?  Even if that challenging year borders on the worst year ever in your own mind?  It can be as simple as you choose it to be.  With Hypnosis, NLP, Time Techniques, and Reiki, you are able to balance your energies and focus on those things that are most important to you.  Success Coaching can be applied to any area of your life – friendships, romance, finances, work, sports, and spirituality.  Simple and quick techniques can change your thinking and thus your actions.  Do you feel stuck?  Allow yourself to be unstuck and feel yourself propelled toward success and happiness.  It is as easy as sending an email or making a call to begin this quick and successful process.  Choose for yourself today to begin your personal revolution.

It is Leap Day!  Are you ready to make Your Leap?  Maybe it is a Leap of Courage, or a Leap of Faith.  Maybe it is a Leap of Thankfulness or a Leap of Forgiveness.  It could be a Leap of Risk or a Leap of Challenge.  Maybe you need to Leap into Motivation or Leap into Love.  No matter what positive action you are ready to leap into, Today is the Day to Leap.  Leap Now and Leap Frog all obstacles as they disappear and find that Intention for Success you want and have to Leap Forward.

Call me today to Leap into Your Personal Revolution!!!