Published under "Basic NLP"

When did you last take the time to celebrate an enormous accomplishment? What about a smaller achievement? How about all the little steps on the...
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In NLP, we talk about analogue as being on a spectrum. Imagine the hands slowly moving around the clockface, step by step. On the other...
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As babies and infants, we quickly learn to delete, distort and generalise as we take on board more of the world. If we didn’t, life...
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There are many things I can’t do. I’m not a parent so I have no idea how most of y’all manage to keep growing souls...
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If you’re anything like me, you did your training, resolved to integrate all of it after further study, but then put your doorstopper training manual...
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Today something incredibly basic made a big difference. A lot of the things I’m dealing with are understandable (early stages of learning to drive, cycling...
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When I first came across NLP, around 2004, I was already qualified as a life coach and loved the emphasis on resourceful states and circles...
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Preparing for over a year to move from Essex to the west coast of Ireland, from the time I signed contracts in January until March,...
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Think of a problem you’re currently up against. There’s the famous Einstein quote about not being able to solve any problem at the level at...
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I adore Marie Kondo. Her Life-changing magic of tidying was a book I bought myself thinking it would be helpful for some of my clients (I...
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Noticing how whatever we’re doing is working for us (the ‘sensory acuity’ part) – and having the flexibility to adapt our approaches when we realise...
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For me, while mostly being a ‘towards’-motivated person, it’s never been more apparent than in the last, at time of writing, 11 weeks. Before this,...
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Spring is a wonderful time to rethink our lives and priorities. Is what we’re doing working for us? Maybe you’ve forgotten your New Year’s Resolutions...
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One theme that runs through all my work (writing and with clients and students) is encouraging people – myself included, progress not perfection – to...
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Something very small shifted in the practical sense but it was enough for a little ray of sunlight to prise through my previous doom and...
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I was aware that there's more to me than this and I can access my resources but I almost didn't want to. And then I remembered...
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We are, as the old Chinese blessing / curse goes, living in extremely ‘interesting’ times. This means it’s especially important to take extra good care...
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What are you most grateful for from 2016? You might want to contemplate the things that you weren’t actively working towards but which fell into...
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By the time this piece is published, we’ll probably already be used to all the Christmas merchandise vying for our attention, months in advance of...
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Do you spend ages looking forward to things like the school holidays, only to start looking forward to the kids going back in September...
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