A few posts ago I was talking about the NLP entry on Wikipedia and how I felt it was a bit of a biased description. And someone left a comment! Many thanks Rob from Birmingham. It is nice to know someone is reading my blog and taking the time to think about the posts and [...] Read more »

I received my copy of “The Wild Days: NLP 1972-81″, by Terry McClendon today and have read half of it already! It is a fascinating account of the birth of NLP written by someone that was actually there. As well as giving a very good historic account of those times, it actually captures the SPIRIT [...] Read more »

I have just been reading the NLP entry on Wikipedia (one of my favourite sources of online information) and was shocked at how they got away with such a one-sided opinion. So here is my views on it: Everything has it’s critics. Which is fair enough And NLP has been very badly misused and misold [...] Read more »

Bootstrapping alludes to the legend off Baron Münchhausen, who was able to lift himself out of a swamp by pulling himself up by his own hair. In later versions of the tales he was used his own boot straps to pull himself out of the sea which gave rise to the term bootstrapping. The phrase [...] Read more »

Apparently, according to Cardiff University tutor Cliff Arnalls who says his formula proves 23 January is the grimmest day of the year. Something to do with bad weather, debt, seasonal blues and failed resolutions mean today is miserable Monday. Nothing like a nice positive suggestion is there? (Notice how no one ever tells us when [...] Read more »

Why Not? No really. Why the new name? Well I thought I would give this blog a slightly new focus for the new year and the new title hopefully encompasses what I want to acheive. I want to tap into the true spirit of NLP, to explore wide and deep. There are countless sites out [...] Read more »

Begin 2005 as you mean to end it! My girlfriend and I have a little ritual at new year, It goes like this: Around midnight we sit down and make a list of the 10 things we want to accomplish in the coming year, these could be anything from getting a new job, to changing [...] Read more »