NLP

Three Keys to Lasting Change

How do you make a change that sticks? It’s one thing to temporally change, but how do you make a lasting change? You need to assign new meaning.

By JD February 11, 2012 8 Comments Read More →

Capturing and Sharing Strategies

In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), a strategy is a recipe for results. It’s how we order and sequence our experiences to produce a specific result. A simple way to think of a neurological strategy is it’s what you do in your mind when you do something. They are the thought patterns that produce our results. We have strategies for everything we do from falling in love to getting motivated, to feeling depressed. We aren’t usually conscious of them. If we know what they are, then we can use our strategies to get in a particular state more effectively.

By JD February 23, 2009 8 Comments Read More →

12 Little Laws of Life

Photo by Pathfinder Linden A friend of mine sent me an email titled “Twelve Little Laws of Life.” The laws were short and sweet and I was impressed. I hunted down the original author Tom Hoobyar. Tom said I was free to republish the laws. Here are the 12 laws of life, followed by my [...]

By JD December 29, 2008 4 Comments Read More →

Asking Better Questions

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are." — Oscar Wilde If you’re not getting what you want, you might not be asking the right way. It’s an easy trap to fall into. It’s easy to ask, but it’s not so easy to ask well. It takes practice. Even with practice, I still fall into the [...]

By JD May 26, 2008 5 Comments Read More →

Choose “How” Questions Over “Why” Questions

"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers." — Anthony Robbins Why are you stuck? That’s not a very empowering question. You’ll just figure out reasons for why you’re stuck. Instead, ask a question like "how can you move forward?" or "how might you accomplish that?" The key is to [...]

By JD May 26, 2008 3 Comments Read More →