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4 Keys To Unlock Success by Living Your Life With NLP: Nlpcreations
4 Keys To Unlock Success by Living Your Life With NLP: Nlpcreations
4 Keys to Unlock
Success by Living
your Life with NLP
NLP has been described as the secret of successful people
NLP was created by two people
(Richard Bandler and John Grinder) who
modelled powerful communicators
and people who were leaders in
their fields. They were interested in
replicating excellence and being able
to teach this to others.
Bandler and Grinder studied and modelled very successful people and
built models of how the person did what they did. They then used these
models to teach others how to do it.
They discovered that amongst the many things that successful people
shared there were 4 key ideas or approaches that were common to all.
These ideas can be applied in any area of your life, with family, friends or
colleagues, in sport, business, teaching, sales, therapy, at work or at home.
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1. Outcome
A person without a goal is like a ship without
a rudder
Alice: Can you tell me which path I should
take?
Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on
where you want to go!
Alice: I dont really know.
Cheshire Cat: Then, clearly, any path will do!
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What do
you want?
What will
having this
give you?
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2. Take Action
A journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single step Lao Tzu
Do not be too timid and squeamish
about your actions. All life is an
experiment. The more experiments
you make, the better. What if they
are a little coarse, and you may get
your coat soiled or torn? What if you
do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt
once or twice? Up again, you shall
never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
DO SOMETHING
When you do something you have started. This will lead to results. They
may or may not be the results you are wanting (see the next section) but
you will be making progress.
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Sometimes people are so busy doing or thinking inside their mind that
they dont actually notice what is happening in the outside world.
What results are you actually getting in life?
And, are you REALLY noticing everything?
In NLP, sensory acuity is the name given to the skill of being able to notice
small details and distinctions and really pay attention to what is important.
This might be other peoples physiology, behaviour or words or your own.
Paying attention to others will give you amazing information. A famously
quoted study by Albert Mehrabian (1967) concluded that words make up 7%
of a communication. This probably isnt quite correct as the generalisations
made in study are questionable but it is worth remembering that words
make up only a small percentage of a communication. So, are you noticing
all the other non-verbal information?
Paying attention to yourself may also give you amazing information.
Some people dont pay attention to their own feelings. We could consider
emotions like a Sat Nav system, they can help guide us and let us know if
were heading in the wrong direction.
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If youre not getting the results you want notice that. If youre not getting the results
you want then notice that too!
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4. Flexibility (Part 1)
If you do what youve always done,
youll get what youve always got.
Presupposition of NLP
When one door closes, another opens;
but we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that we
do not see the one which has opened
for us. - Alexander Graham Bell
Definition of Insanity. Insanity: doing the
same thing over and over again and
expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
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4. Flexibility (Part 2)
Doing new things leads to creativity
A surprising number of inventions have actually been discovered by
accident. Most people are familiar with the Post-it note, a small piece
of paper with a strip of low-tack adhesive on the back that allows it to
be temporarily attached to paper, cupboards, walls, computers, and just
about anything else.
The Post-it note was conceived in 1974 by Arthur Fry as a way of keeping
his book marked while singing in a church choir. He knew of an adhesive
accidentally developed in 1968 by fellow 3M employee Spencer Silver.
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However, the lightly sticky stuff hadnt been used until Frys idea. The 3M
company was initially dubious about the products profitability, but in 1980,
the product was introduced around the world.
What would
you like to do
differently in this
situation?
How would
you like to BE
different in this
situation?