The bell rings and Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.) bounces out of his corner of the ring to face his fearsome opponent. The great Sonny Liston, tipped to win heavyweight champion of the world, steps forth. Cassius’s big strategy was to ‘float like a butterfly and sting like a bee’. With the boxing…
Indirect change through the magic of walking With a characteristic glint in his eyes, Milton Erickson (*) leaned forward and said “I’m not going to stop you from smoking, drinking or eating the foods you want to”. The man relaxed, yes he was overweight, smoked and drank far too much. Milton in a much lower…
No failure only feedback Just knowing this can be helpful; putting it into practice is different. Last year I was thinking about how to serve you and decided running a webinar would be a great idea. We have reached a stage in NLP where I believe you could make a living using NLP to help…
What if you don’t have anyone who can give you feedback? Could you give yourself feedback? Yes. The key is honesty. One exercise you can do is to hold a mirror up to different areas of your life. I’m not saying this is easy and yet it is worth doing. Here is how you do…
You have set your goal…. You have written out your goal…. You have seen yourself achieving the goal…. You can hear people congratulating you on achieving your goal…. But sadly, nothing actually happens. Nothing happens for a very long time and you start to ask yourself….”What’s gone wrong?” At this point, you are likely to…
The first week of July, wow so much is happening at the moment. This year seems to be about making things happen and is a good time to start something new. What are you doing? No, I mean it let me know by email, phone, Google Hangouts, Skype, send me a telepathic message, even do…
Do you know how to upset a group? All you need to do is say the phrase “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.” Even if someone agrees, very rarely will they want to do it badly. A friend of mine, who wanted to be a writer, decided he needed some advice. He then…
Do you love books? I used to struggle with reading until I left school. Now I read at least one book every week. I remember a quote which goes “You can tell where someone will be five years from now from the books they are reading and the people they hang out with”. Do you…
To be or not to be A big thank you for all the responses to last week’s Newsletter. I had a couple questions about a phase I used: “When you are in the bottle, it is hard to read the label.” What did I mean? Have you ever wondered why a company would hire a…
Are we thinking too small? I have a question for you; let me ask it in a moment. What’s on my mind recently is mindsets. Another way to think about mindsets would be how we frame the world around us. What I mean is, how you think about time is a frame you put on…