Minds Change
A bit about NLP
Can you imagine sitting at the feet of people who were just the best in the world at what they did and analysing for months every single thing they did that made them excel. Or to speaking to hundreds of people who woke up one morning and decided to give up the thing they were addicted to for years - everyone knows someone who one day crushed the fag packet, threw it in the bin and never went back – and having picked apart exactly what was going on for them before they made that decision, found the things that linked them all, a strategy that anyone could employ in their own lives to get the same result.
Well NLP is basically that.
In the 70’s Rickard Bandler and John Grinder decided to do a thesis about what made a great therapist. For many months they meticulously and painstakingly observed and analysed the top three therapists in the world at that time in order to find out what set them apart from all the others in their field ; the language patterns, the questions they asked even the position of their bodies. When they found ‘the difference which made the difference’ they published it so that others learn from it and become great therapist too. It was so phenomenally successful, they went on to model other ‘greats’ in sport, business, sales . The results of these and many other modelling projects are now taught by Olympic coaches, at the Harvard business school and at NLP seminars throughout the world .
Have you ever been with someone, a good friend or a mentor, and they said just the right thing at the right time and it made a real difference to your life because you made a decision there and then to do the thing you had been putting off, or the mist cleared and you saw a clear path ahead and you knew what you had to do. It was like the answer was always there, it just needed that one thing for you to see it. NLP is like that, its premise is that you already have the answer and the resources within you to do the things you really want to do. It helps you to find out what’s really going on for you and then provide you with the hints, tips , strategies of people who have achieved success.
Winners are not much different from other people, they just have great strategies!