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Wellness Worksheets. Recurring Revenue Revolution - powered by FeedBurner. Is Your Business Stuck? Use Your Two Most Important Resources Wisely. If you have been at your startup for a few months, or even longer, and you’ve seen a halt in growth, do you know why? Were things going well, only to stop abruptly and make you feel stuck? Just about every business owner goes through it as a result of not adjusting accordingly. Sometimes a way of doing business works great for awhile, but just as business grows, so must our habits and ways of doing business evolve as well. Connect with Professional Coaches.

16 Tips to Survive Brutal Criticism (and Ask for More) “You suck.”

16 Tips to Survive Brutal Criticism (and Ask for More)

Everyone encounters criticism, whether it is a boss pointing out falling performance, a bad review for your book, or even self-criticism after an embarrassing slip-up. Your ability to digest that criticism and make use of it says a lot about your character. Even better is to be the kind of person who can take a sharp, verbal critique, stand up and ask for more. Say what you mean. In the film ‘The Breakup’ the two characters played by Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn have a blazing row that seals the end of their relationship after a dinner party that doesn’t go quite as planned.

Say what you mean

Tone/Attitude Words. Leadership DynamiX – Executive Coaching, Workshops and Forum. What Are MindSkills Techniques?

Leadership DynamiX – Executive Coaching, Workshops and Forum

These short carefully crafted techniques are about ‘HOW’ to run your business brain to get better results, learn skills faster and make lasting life changes. Based on accelerated learning, applied behavioural modelling research (NLP) and advances in management psychology. Is Your Busy-ness Going In The Wrong Direction? Image via Wikipedia I’m sure you’re busy. Who isn’t? The question is: What are you so busy with? Too often, we get so caught up with the busy-ness of living that we don’t stop long enough to ask ourselves if the direction we are traveling is one that actually inspires us. Power to Change – 10 Tips to Effective & Active Listening Skills. Do you ever need someone to listen to you?

Power to Change – 10 Tips to Effective & Active Listening Skills

Our mentors are available. Listening makes our loved ones feel worthy, appreciated, interesting, and respected. Ordinary conversations emerge on a deeper level, as do our relationships. When we listen, we foster the skill in others by acting as a model for positive and effective communication. In our love relationships, greater communication brings greater intimacy. Listening skills fuel our social, emotional and professional success, and studies prove that listening is a skill we can learn. The Technique. While the ideas are largely intuitive, it might take some practice to develop (or re-develop) the skills. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 5 Ways to Change Someone's Mind. An expert recently claimed that knowing--and using-- a few simple rules can help you change the minds of other people.

5 Ways to Change Someone's Mind

The first rule of changing minds is to keep your message short, sharp, and simple. People tend to respond less well to long convoluted arguments, according to Kevin Dutton, Ph.D., author of Dutton's book isn't itself a short or oversimplified how-to book. Dutton, a psychologist and research fellow at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at Cambridge Univesity, fills out each of his points with numerous clarifying (and often amusing) examples and anecdotes from every nook and corner of social psychology. The crux of Dutton's message is contained in his five elements, made easy to remember with the acronym . IMPLICITY: Keep your message short, sharp, and simple to convince people it's true. NLP Learning Strategy. In the previous section we looked at the presuppositions of NLP and introduced the learning strategy around which this entire website is built, a simple metaphor which we labelled the building blocks of NLP.

NLP Learning Strategy

As you're now familiar with the concept of building block upon block, base skill upon base skill we are ready to move on and begin looking at other tools that will assist in learning these skills quickly and easily. A good way to ensure success when rising to meet a challenge such as learning a new skill is to follow these five principles for success:- Know your outcome Take positive action Have enough sensory awareness to know if you're being effective Have behavioural flexibility Operate from a physiology and a psychology of excellence These five principles for success will be explained in more detail on the next page. Limiting Decisions. Overcoming Limiting Beliefs with NLP. Destroy Limiting Decisions. Did you make a limiting decision as you were growing up?

Destroy Limiting Decisions

Maybe one that said you couldn’t do something that basically everyone else could do, but you decided you were too short, too tall, too rich, too poor, too fat, too skinny, too cute, too ugly, etc. Well, you’ve grown up and you’ve definitely changed since then, but you still seem to *think* that way. 15 styles of Distorted Thinking. 15 styles of Distorted Thinking Filtering: You take the negative details and magnify them while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation.

15 styles of Distorted Thinking

Polarized Thinking: Things are black or white, good or bad. Self-Mastery. [ Meta-Web ] [ NLP Self-Help ] [ Best NLP Online ] [Secrets of Success ] [Heroic Efforts ] [NLP Glossary ] [Best of NLP Online ] [NLP Self-Help ] [NLP FAQ ] Self Mastery Scripts Introduction This set contains 3 word-for-word self-hypnosis induction scripts to utilize a technique that Stever Robbins proposed.

Self-Mastery

Script I asks the subconscious to sort through a set of events, pick out the ten best instances and install the best techniques from those instances into your future actions. This script is idiosyncratic because it incorporates the sequence I have been using since I was a teenager to go into trance. It contains my interpretation of a propulsion system to progressively deepen the trance state.

NLP Your Self. The Top NLP Techniques. What are the most effective NLP techniques and patterns?

The Top NLP Techniques

In Michael’s years of delivering top quality NLP training, he has discovered many techniques and exercises from a wide range of NLP and non NLP sources. Here he shares them with you. Remember NLP is often more about the development of techniques which come from attitude and modelling, than the techniques themselves. The following books by NLP co-creator, Richard Bandler, are excellent for the latest approaches to NLP (all links open in a new window).

Beating Stress Exercises We all need a certain amount of stress to keep us healthy. Belief Change This is Richard’s classic approach to Belief Change, in this case to become an excellent learner. Changing Feelings by Dissociation. Coaching At Work - Coaching Magazine.