Morning James, In NLP there are three levels of focus or mastery. The lowest level is wanting mastery over others. Making people jump through hoops. After you anchor some waitresses to blush, use embedded commands to make your friends pick their noses, or use ambiguities to confuse the bank teller into giving you an extra $20 a few times, this gets old. At least for some people, how many times can you use NLP for parlor tricks and still be entertained. The middle level is using NLP to gain mastery over some “thing”. Some thing like a phobia, fear, anxiety, or condition like procrastination. This is the level where people call me up and ask if I can do a six step reframe to get them over … Read entire article »

This quote changed my life several years ago. It took me from focusing on how to get results so much, to something much more effective and profound. “If a businessman would religiously invest one hour a day, every day, doing nothing but thinking about how he might be of better and greater service to his customers…” – Earl Nightingale. Now here is a thought. Can you use your NLP skills to help you optimize your life, optimize your thinking, and optimize your LISTENING skills so you can provide better service? Okay, I’ll admit that might not sound as fun as anchoring a waitress to ooh and ahh everytime you sip your coffee, and it might not give you as much to bragg about when you are out with the boys … Read entire article »

Okay. Maybe you’ve noticed most people struggle way to much and get way to little done. They aren’t living their visions, they are living with way too much auditory. Having to talk themselves into taking action, because they are doing what others TELL them to do, or they are just trying to FIT IN so people don’t talk about them. We are told to “think positive” and to do this by saying positive things. This doesn’t work all that well. Because we are DRAWN INTO our visions, we are drawn by vision. Maybe you’ve seen how babies reach for fire, or how men are attracted to women on LOOKS. Then we have to be told to stop, don’t get burned. We have to figure out what to SAY to a woman. When all it … Read entire article »

My grandfather told me these one sping night by the fire…. “GIVE your clients what they need, SELL your clients what they want. Provide them with BOTH” Think about it. People love givers. So give your clients what they need. And Most importantly…. If you really ARE THE EXPERT, you WILL KNOW what they NEED better than they do. So sell them what they want, while providing them with BOTH what they want and need. That’s it! Do it! Mr Twenty Twenty The Visionary . Do you know what REALLY HAPPENED in The Back Room NLP meeting? … Read entire article »

The Power of Vision. It’s not about having a powerful vision. It’s about the intrinsic power of vision. You don’t need a POWERFUL VISION. (A side thought with what’s coming up in this article.   Most people RELY on their AUDITORY instead of TRUSTING their Vision.) ++++ Every month we have folks come in for private training. And we do some kool things. 1.  Help you get your skills working much better. 2.  Get you making some very good distinctions with the duality sheet.  It’s a powerful tool. 3.  Help you shift OUT of your very very stuck patterns. 4.  Help you SEE more. Helping you SEE MORE is the most POWERFUL SHIFT.  (And the others are needed to SUPPORT THAT. It’s because of the Intrinsic Power of Vision. Here is why. Where your skills break down your vision sucks.  Either you aren’t clear about what … Read entire article »

Do you know there are only two kinds of questions you can ask? One kind of question will only generate Answers. Answers only will put you in a rut, and then take you to your grave. I’ll skip that kind for now… The other kind of question will liberate you, in just 2 or three questions because the right kind of question generates Action. Here are two of my favorite ACTION quesions. Notice how we use them quickly. “What’s working?” Ask yourself, what’s working? What’s working right in life? This isn’t hard, just notice and SAY OUTLOUD what’s working. You may want to write it out so you can SEE IT too. Then ask the next AWESOME DIRECTION SETTING QUESTION! “What’s missing?” What is MISSING in your life, in … Read entire article »

January 2002 I was in a backroom meeting with one of the NLP Founders. What I noticed happening transformed my life. I had to share what I learned. So…. In 2005 I released a 3 dvd and 3 cd crash course called The Integrity Methods. It went like hotcakes. Then we quit producing the DVD’s. I don’t know why, we just got busy with a thousand other projects. Then Dave M. told me how The Integrity Methods were helping him close some kick arse deals in the world of sales. And in the same week Mike P. shared with me what HE was doing with the stuff, he was in the original meetings where we distilled and developed the Nine Principles we share. Now you can download … Read entire article »