Self Leadership is all about getting ideas into action and New Year is a time when many choose to make a commitment to start a new behaviour or stop an old habit.
In 2009 I will be writing on this blog about how to turn thoughts into actions and actions into results, so what I want to know from YOU is…
What are your resolutions for 2009?
Please respond by clicking on comments below… thanks, Andrew 
Oh and have a Happy New Year!
Coaching is the “in” methodology for personal development, but what exactly is coaching?
Here are a few definitions:
I am often asked whether we teach self leadership or NLP for kids; well as a father of a 3 yo (Tasha in photo) and a 1.5 yo ( Nathan) I am still getting my head around this (my wife Zurina is much better).
Today I read a great post by Jonathan Fields entitled, “Six timeless rules for my 6-year old daughter”, it made me laugh, it made me cry and made me wonder what I am in for as my daughter grows up!
Please read it and enjoy.
Have you ever said something or done something that you later regretted?
You have! Wow that’s good I thought it was just me
To make error is human, we all screw up or we are not living.
As I write this blog I can still feel the fresh emotion of embarrasment from a recent mistake. Continue Reading »
(first published May 2005 as part of Self Leadership International’s monthly newsletter)
How’s your self-esteem today?
Are you feeling super-good about yourself?
Or do you feel like yesterday’s take-out food that has been left out in the rain?
Have you been judging or criticising yourself? Or have you been considering yourself less ‘worthy’ than someone else?
If you are not feeling super-good about yourself right now, or you know someone suffering from low self-esteem, then read on and discover the keys to building a healthy self-esteem. Continue Reading »
It’s the day after Christmas and many are nursing sore heads and swollen stomachs whilst clearing away the debris of the day.
Later there may be further indigestion as we receive credit card bills that reflect our genorisity to ourselves and others.
Whether we are happy or sad this boxing day morning depends not on the quality of the presents or the size of the hangover but on the quality of the relationships we enjoy. Continue Reading »
In coaching and NLP there is a presupposition (principle) that states, “behind every behaviour is a positive intention.”
What this principle enables the coach to do is to track back from a behaviour to the frames of mind (mental map) that generated it. By labeling the intention as ‘positive’ we do not make our client wrong and are therefore able to build rapport and leverage change. Continue Reading »
Realising that in today’s world email has become an indispensible way of communication, here are 4 suggestions to make sure we use it most effectively:
“If the email message that you are reading is going to take you longer than five minutes to read and reply to, it needs to be a phone call.”
Did you know that more information can be exchanged in a two-minute phone call than in any email that takes us ten minutes to write and the other person ten minutes to read? (The door swings both ways, too). Continue Reading »
In this video I demonstrate hypnosis at a seminar. Hypnosis is a naturally occuring state of introspection; we all access hypnotic states each and every day. A trained hypnotist enables you to enter these states of introspection for the purpose of changing unconscious programming. The trained hypnotist uses specific language patterns which cause you to look inwards whereas stage hypnosis works on the fundamental principle of cause-effect with some simple social conditioning. Continue Reading »
I was asked to comment on the statement, “NLP is dangerous as it pigeon holes people and their behaviour.” The author of the statement feels as NLP is based on models and assumptions and a certain set of conditions then the user of that model cannot understand its limitations and the assumptions made.
It is a truism that people fear what they don’t understand and the statement show little or no knowledge of Neurolinguistic Programming or NLP for short.
NLP evolved as a model of language. The conditions of that modeling were the observation of effective therapists such as Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls and Milton Erickson. These therapists were able to create transformations in the thinking, feeling and behaviours of their patients through just conversation. Richard Bandler (a student of computer science) and John Grinder ( a linguistics professor) were curious about how changing language creates change and came to the conclusion that language is the software of the mind. Continue Reading »
