So said Austen Osman Spare, Edwardian artist and occult magickian. But what does it mean? Essentially it means, use what is useful disregard what is not. Or in NLP parlance, if what you are doing isn’t working, do something, anything different. It ‘s, after all, the difference that makes the difference. Read more »
Better than Working for a Living
Phew! Just finished running a 7 day Practitioner Training with my co trainer Bob. They get better and better, the 12 people we had (we deliberately keep our numbers small to make certain of the best quality training) were probably the best group we have ever had, they picked up the skills and flew with [...] Read more »
The Grauniad?
For those of you that don’t know “The Grauniad” is an affectionate name given to The (Manchester) Guardian newspaper, as it is famous for making terrible spelling mistakes (or at least, was, until they moved to computer printing). I am thinking of renaming this blog The Grauniad, as I have had several comments recently from [...] Read more »
And how do you find it?
Ever bought a new car and then seen the same make and model everywhere? But you never noticed it before? That is your Reticular Activating System (RAS). With over 2 billion pieces of data coming at you every second you need a filter to sort the information and only allows through what you need. The [...] Read more »
But what do you want?
So many clients I see say things to me like”I want to stop smoking”, “I want to get rid of this habat” “I want to get rid of this phobia” And when I ask them “So, what do you want?”, they look at me blankly! That is why so many people fail to change thier [...] Read more »
What is Rapport? Really?
There is a lot of rubbish written about rapport and how we can get and maintain it with people we meet. Rapport is usually used in conjuction with owrds like “win” and “control” and “influence” and “persuasion”, givign the impression that rapport is soemthing you DO to people. Rubbish. So, what is Rapport? Well, you [...] Read more »
