Well, I have been very busy the last few weeks so my daily blogging has kinda dropped off. My apologies. Since my last post time seems to have flown by, so I thought it would be relevant today to talk about how to speed time up. I have already described a technique for slowing time [...] Read more »

I have been bogged down recently “re-engineering” some things behind the scenes, which is why the “Daily NLP Tip” has become more of a “When I get a Chance NLP Tip”, so my apologies, it should return to some sense of normality and regularity very soon. Without the and of prunes. Whenever I sit down [...] Read more »

What was the first thing you thought of? Orange penguins, right? For us to understand what we should NOT do, we first have to imagine DOING it. So asking someone, or telling yourself, NOT to do something, will invariably make you do it more. This works with any form of negation, “Stop doing that ” [...] Read more »

For example I injured my back very badly some time ago, for a long time I would say “I have a bad back” it was description of who I was it was part of what made me. For all that time I was saying that I never ever improved it. Because, well you know I [...] Read more »

“You can’t solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem” Albert Einstein Robert Dilts considers that we are now in the “3rd generation” of NLP where this model has gone beyond a small controlling group and has now spread far and wide, it is used in pretty much all aspects [...] Read more »

I have to admit to be writing this Daily NLP Tip as much for my benefit as for yours! Someone once told me “to truly understand a subject you have to teach it”. And I find that a very true statement (for me anyway), by teaching it, you really have to methodically sit down and [...] Read more »

I was just thinking about, what to me, is the most essential presupposition of NLP. And that is “the map is not the territory”. This phrase was originally coined by Alfred Korzybski in the 1930’s when he developed the system of General Semantics, a forerunner of NLP and one of its major influences. General Semantics [...] Read more »

Today I am sitting here mulling over the new layout of this site. Nothing too fancy of a change, merely a few new pages, get rid of some of the old ones and update the ones that are left to reflect the changing focus of my work. So you will probably see a different site [...] Read more »

Sometimes I sit here and can’t think of a single thing to say in this blog. Not a single thing. My mind goes blank, as blank as the screen at which I am staring at. You know what this is like? Sorry, that was mean of me. But it is true. Which is odd, because [...] Read more »

Continuing the theme of yesterdays box, I was thinking, how do you protect yourself form negative suggestions? They are around us almost everyday. Just watch the news. When was the last time you saw a positive news story? People say things to us like “I am having a rubbish day, you know what it is [...] Read more »