Beliefs begin as ideas born from interpretations of experience. Sometimes you are the source of the interpretation, while other times the source is some entity outside yourself. From a practical standpoint, your beliefs are either the result of direct experience or were modeled from external sources. Beliefs Acquired through Direct Experience: This equals that. As [...]
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You are what you do. Sounds simple doesn’t it? Our actions serve to define us. While other people can’t always know what you’re thinking, they can usually see what it is you’re doing (unless you happen to be a secret agent or the writer of a blog, in which case nobody has any clue what [...]
We all have various mental images of who we are. We have images in our minds of who we are as parents, friends, co-workers, spouses, children, as well as images for how we look, dance, smile, etc. All of these collective images come together in our minds to form our overall level of self esteem. [...]
Tags: General · Life Purpose · Presense
I was inspired to write this post after reading a article and some comments over at Tom Volkar’s blog, “Delightful Work”. You will find a very interesting post there called “What makes you exceptional”. It made me think about authenticity, and the pretense that often gets in our way and keeps us held back from [...]
Earlier tonight at my improvisational comedy class I was struck with the idea of how much coaching and improv comedy have in common. Being both a Success Coach/NLP practitioner and an improv student, I couldn’t help but notice some pretty significant similarities between the two activities. For those unfamiliar with improv comedy, it is a [...]
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Are there areas or interactions in your life where your performance is less than optimal? Are there real life situations that you either fear or dread that take place during the normal course of events in your life weather you like it or not? Of course there are. Everyone goes through situations like these at [...]
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Most often, the best way to make a decision is to take action immediately upon processing the relevant and important information available to us. Many decisions are cut and dry and require little deep thinking. Decisions like these are best made quickly, followed by taking action and reacting to feedback in the environment (see my [...]
Think of it as a dance. Two dancers gliding across the floor, moving in harmony, becoming one with the music and one with each other…flowing together effortlessly. The song ends and gently one leads the other over to an empty table nestled in a relatively quiet and picturesque corner of the club and orders a [...]
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One of the most important things you can do in interpersonal communications is to learn how to build excellent rapport. Rapport is that feeling of commonality that happens when two people just seem to
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Ever wanted to know what someone is really thinking when having a conversation with them? If you’re interested in what’s going on behind the curtain so to speak, NLP eye accessing cues can provide you with some valuable insight. They are not hard and fast, error free rules that work 100% of the time – [...]
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