USING PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT TO STAY STUCK

Amazing, isn’t it, when you first come across the world of personal growth. You read books, listen to audio material, go on courses, and all around you people are making bold steps forward in their development. That’s how it can seem, anyway. But listen closer to the conversations around you, check out the nonsense . . . → Read More: USING PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT TO STAY STUCK

THE SIXTH SENSE: HUMOUR

Some years ago, I presented a workshop introducing the new field of Reality Management Strategies to a group of folks I’d got to know online. It’s a discipline you’re probably not familiar with, since one of the most dangerous things that can happen when people encounter this powerful personal development technology is that they . . . → Read More: THE SIXTH SENSE: HUMOUR

ONCE UPON A TIME…

I meet contacts for business at networking events, some of which can be soul-destroying affairs. Last night’s had to be the worst yet. Even the woman working as a trainer whose clients included charities was keen for the UK to cut overseas aid, and the air was thick with talk of double dip recession . . . → Read More: ONCE UPON A TIME…

IF WE’RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO CONTENT, HOW ABOUT WE EXPLORE CONTEXT?

Time and again you’ll hear that the heart of NLP is modelling, and in pursuit of the vital skills come across a bunch of ways one is supposed to model. Do you like your modelling implicit, or served up via an experiential array? Kick off by entering a know-nothing state or examine what’s happening . . . → Read More: IF WE’RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO CONTENT, HOW ABOUT WE EXPLORE CONTEXT?

MAKING BETTER MISTAKES

I tell myself that I like finding out I’m wrong, but it’s still a surprise when it happens. As it should be. Sometimes that’s a cause for minor amusement of some sort. I listen to a lot of jazz, and picked up some cheap CDs the other day. Two of them I was on . . . → Read More: MAKING BETTER MISTAKES

STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE

I had problems with cash machines yesterday. Five of them, in two cities, refused to give me money either because they were broken or empty. Wondering on the chances of that happening, I hit on a theory: this was clearly an early indication that the SkyNet defence system was becoming conscious. Well, I didn’t . . . → Read More: STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE

MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DOO-DOO

My computer was unusually sluggish when I fired it up earlier, prompting me to look for some software to clean it up and make things smoother. Soon enough I had the program downloaded, and as it purred through the job it displayed a graphic clocking up a total of 9,465 problems with the machine. . . . → Read More: MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DOO-DOO

RAW THOUGHTS

When I was younger, I had a breathless fascination with UFOs and other stuff that just doesn’t fit in to the way the world typically seems. I remember a family holiday in a sleepy Norfolk fishing village, aged 7 or 8. My parents and brother had gone out, but I was ill and stayed . . . → Read More: RAW THOUGHTS

BODYTALK

One of the ten commandments of NLP is that thou shalt not mind-read. God forbid you should see someone teetering at the side of the road and assume they’re going to cross it, when in fact they may have stopped to open a restaurant. Problem being that we humans have an inbuilt tendency to . . . → Read More: BODYTALK

OAF OF ALLEGIANCE

Riddle me this…

I wish I could recall where I came across this story: it’s fascinated me since I read it. The setting is Korea, and an American soldier is being held captive. They’re trying to break his will, and do what’s called brainwashing when the guys on that side to it to the . . . → Read More: OAF OF ALLEGIANCE