Paradise isn’t a place, it is a state of mind

I went to see the Flaming Lips last night in Birmingham (it was live on Radio 1 here in the UK, you can listen to it by going to the Radio 1 website: www.bbc.co.uk/radio1) so I am going to have a big shit eating grin for the rest of the week. The Flaming lips are [...] Read more »

Do you want to talk the talk, or WALK the WALK?

“People that talk about it don’t do it. People that do it don’t talk about it!” Do you know how many people I meet that can TALK good NLP? But you stick them in front of a real, live human being and they have no idea what to do? I honestly don’t understand, why bother [...] Read more »

Ecological Debt?

According to the news we are now in Ecological Debt, we need 3.1 planets just to sustain us! Why are we using up so many resources? We seem to think that happiness is a external thing governed by what we have, own and consume. But studies have shown that happiness isn’t actually linked to material [...] Read more »

Easter Special

Easter is traditionally the time of rebirth, not just in the Christian Calendar (the death and resurrection of Jesus) but also in the Pagan calendar (where do you think all the bunnies and eggs come from?) and even stretches back to ancient Egypt and Rome. So, if you missed your chance of making changes for [...] Read more »

Happy Monday!!

What do I mean happy Monday? For many people it is their first day back at work and they are tired and miserable and got 5 long days until the next weekend right? I was like that too when I had a “proper job”. So what can you do to cheer your Monday up? Well [...] Read more »

Bird Flu Hits the UK!

And what has this inflammatory headline got to do with NLP? Simply, it made me think of 2 things 1) Worrying. How much time and energy we spend worrying about things that may never happen and may never affect us. The “what ifs…”. Now some consideration of “what ifs” is important; it is preparation for [...] Read more »

Knowledge ISN’T Power.

So what is? Wisdom is power. What is Wisdom? Wisdom is applied knowledge. Knowledge if you do nothing with it is worthless. I have met so many what I like to call “Armchair NLP’ers” who can talk NLP all day, they can define complex equivalents and transderivational searches, can discuss the meaning of certain behaviours, [...] Read more »