Pain Or Pleasure?

There are all sorts of weird and wonderful Life Coaching and NLP phrases I use on a regular basis that are alien to the majority of people. If you are a regular here you probably already know what anchoring and reframing are, so today I wanted to share with your four  slightly more obscure phrases that nevertheless come up…

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Banishing Phobias and Fears

Snakes

About 10 years ago I was in a sales meeting with a customer who happened to be a Life Coach and psychologist. I can’t remember how we got onto the topic, but I was telling him about my sisters severe phobia of snakes that she’d had most of her life. When I say severe phobia, I mean really, really…

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What Is Hypnosis?

chicken-man

Let me start this post by saying this about hypnosis: Hypnosis is a very common state and you drift in and out of it many times per day. Are you shocked? Did you imagine hypnotic states were something associated with men in black capes waving pocket watches around, whilst telling their clients they were under their spell and to…

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How To Influence

doctor-at-desk

If I walked up to you at a local Chamber of Commerce networking event and after introducing myself as a Life Coach, proceeded to eat the rather nice shrimp vol-au-vent off your plate, quaff the last of your delicious wine and then after announcing you were an asshole, turned and walked off. What would you think of me? Would…

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Do You Fear Public Speaking?

Mortician

I’ve posted on the thorny issue of fears a few times in the past, but never specifically about the fear of public speaking. That’s a bit remiss of me considering it’s permanently ensconced at the number one position when surveys regarding peoples fears are undertaken. It’s more than a little weird when you think people are less scared of…

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The Map Is Not The Territory

To get a firm grasp on what the young scallywag NLP is really all about you have to understand the presuppositions that it was built upon. There are as many of 27 presuppositions depending on where you look and who you listen to, but there are about a dozen or so that seem to make up the core and…

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Buddhism, Beatles & Brilliance

In my highly controversial (no seriously it was, you should read the comments) review of Steve Pavlina’s book I made the rather rash statement that I hated doing book reviews and would probably never do one again. Yet here we are just a few days later and I’m doing not one, but two book reviews in one post. Can…

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How Can I Be More Confident?

For those of you that read my guest post over at Writer Dad on having a sense of purpose, this is part two in a three part series on the Triple Crown of Self-Development. For those of you that didn’t read my guest post at Writer Dad, on having a sense of purpose, this is part two in a…

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