Are you the same person when you are angry as when you are happy?Of course not! When we are angry we behave differently, speak differently, we even have access to different memories from when we are happy! This is due to a concept called ‘state dependency’. State dependency refers to the fact that all learning, […]
A major focus of mine over the past few years has been on emotional state management: How can we run our own emotions rather than our emotions running us. One of the things I have discovered throughout this process is that there are two major ways of using our emotions. Just like you can take
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Do you ever beat yourself after or during an experience because ‘I should have done better’ or ‘I should have known better’? If yes, I have good news for you… Whether you are working with a professional coach or just self-coaching, when you are in the heat of the moment is not the time to
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In my previous article I wrote about beginning with the end in mind when goal setting. But in this article we are going to do something magical…. I am going to explain to you how you can totally ‘let go’ of all of your large goals, dreams and visions and still be on target to
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A big breakthrough I had when I first began my study of effective goal setting was to begin with the end and work your way back to the present. Is that how you have been setting your goals? Since nobody had told me this I inefficiently spent a lot of time working my way forward
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One of the reasons that I hear from people about why they do not set goals for themselves is because they are afraid of failure… But what if I told you that goal setting is NOT about getting what you wish for. Would that surprise you? The most successful people do not set goals for
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Did you know that there is a way of perceiving time that is shared by some of the most productive and self-actualized people? Would you like to know what that is? There is an interesting thing about time… Have you ever walked out of your home and tripped over a pile of time? Of course
Do you live in the past, present or future? The ideal time zone isn’t what you think! Read More »
One of the presuppositional beliefs of NLP is that ‘People are not broken, they work perfectly well’ and this is a major paradigm shift for a lot of people, Before NLP, psychology for the most part focused on the ‘abnormalities’ and dysfunctions in human development. But NLP didn’t look at people through that perceptual lens,
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