How to become successful Last Sunday while cleaning my closet, I found a book, ‘Collection of short stories’ revised and edited, collected from anonymous sources, and primarily the theme was about ‘How to become successful spend time with eagles’. My father must have bought this for me when I was a child, and I never got time to read even a single story. This storybook had a disclaimer on the first page that reads: ‘Read at your own risk, you may change forever. Well, the first story goes like this… Recipe for How to be Successful using NLP Year 2040 – In the backyard of Kentucky Friend Chicken (KFC), Bangalore branch, there was a mango tree. This mango tree had an eagle nest. One day the wind was blowing hard, and an eaglet fell from the nest on to the ground. Luckily the eaglet fell on the dry grass (got away with minor injuries), which was placed by the KFC kitchen staff for the pullets to feed on. The hen saw the injured eaglet, and decided to nurture the eaglet along with the other pullets. After a few weeks the eaglet regained strength, and was able to walk. The favorite time pass of the eaglet and other pullets was to play hide-and-seek, and eat baby corn 3/4 times a day. After a few months the eaglet matured into a full-fledged gorgeous eagle and looked different from others pullets. The pullets were also mature, and could feel that the eagle looked different. Over a period of time the eagle was sick of eating corn, and one day pounced on a rat running in the backyard. The hens started shouting, “Leave the rat alone”, and the eagle had no choice but to let the rat go. The hens scolded the eagle, and told the eagle that hens didn’t eat rats. One day, while playing hide-and-seek the eagle was hiding on the roof, and while coming down managed a decent glide. The eagle started to show off his gliding skills to the other hens, and eventually the mother got fed up and told him, “Stop doing that, Chickens don’t fly”. The eagle believed this and got on with his daily routine of playing and eating corn. One day a female eagle spotted this gorgeous...
Read MoreHow to wake up early Imagine that you are a Native American youth in the year 1208AD. Being the fittest member of your tribe, you have been assigned to cross 4 horizons to fetch a rare herb that could cure an ailing member of the tribe. You will have to leave before sun is up so that you could return safely before sunset. To execute this mission, you will need a failsafe alarm clock, and the question of how to wake up early won’t be a point to bother. What Native Americans – many early civilizations did was to drink lots of water. The earlier you needed to wake up, the more water you drank. And then the onus of waking you up falls, not on your brain, but your bladder. Mission accomplished. Apache warriors used the same technique to launch surprise attacks on the enemy before dawn. Today, we have a lot of sophisticated technology to help us with this concept of how to wake up early. But that isn’t helping, is it? At a very high level, both the body and the mind play a role in determining our willingness to wake up early. How to wake up early, and the benefits of doing that is being made so popular by Robin Sharma, and he is regarding as the Success Coach who made getting up early popular. Most of the top Leadership Coaches in the world, and top NLP trainers in the world talk a lot about this concept with respect to productivity. In the end, it is a subjective and personal choice, and for those who are looking to find ways of doing this, here is an NLP technique to get up early morning. Managing the body to get up early morning Let’s quickly tackle the simpler problem of managing the body so that it is primed for the morning. It’s important here to make a distinction between the brain and the mind. The brain is an organ of the body. The mind is that intangible thing which uses the brain. Here are a few simple tips for how to wake up early: Go to bed early. This is the most obvious tip, and the most...
Read MoreCANI Lessons from Tony Robbins If you are looking for constant and never-ending improvement CANI lessons from Tony Robbins, then read further about this concept. Tony Robbins, one of the greatest examples of a person who utilized the applications of NLP concepts to offer a magnificent approach to grow in life: take one small step at a time. He popularized CANI – Constant and Never Ending Improvements for Self Mastery. Few who have sought self-improvement would not have heard of the legend of Tony Robbins and would be interested in the lessons from Tony Robbins. Through his books, CDs, DVDs, seminars, and training programs, he creates a better world each passing day. A peek at the titles of his books tells us a lot about his worldview – titles like Unshakable, Unlimited Power, Unleash the power within, Inner Strength etc. One realizes that there is a man bent upon making his students successful, happy, and fulfilled from the inside. A comparatively lesser-known book of his is titled Giant Steps: Small changes to make a big difference. As the title suggests, the book is about achieving great things by taking incremental steps on a daily basis. Tony Robbins started his journey as an NLP Practitioner with Richard Bandler, and used to train people on NLP. If he would have continued his journey as a pure NLP Trainer, he probably would have been the best NLP trainer in the world. Nevertheless, he brings more people into NLP than anybody else does, considering a lot of people who attend his grand seminars get to know about him, and stumble across the acronym NLP in some form or the other, and later on get to attend the magical NLP training program. There was a time when people used to find NLP programs because the concept of CANI constant and never-ending improvement lessons from self mastery Tony Robbins became so popular – It still is. The concept ~ CANI lessons from Tony Robbins Let’s try and understand one aspect of this concept by taking the case study of Harish. Harish relocated to Mumbai three years ago and joined a glitzy advertising agency as a junior copywriter. Things were going reasonably well. And then, within...
Read MoreMetaphor for motivation how do you handle crisis Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean? Yesterday, a friend came to our office and narrated a story. The story goes like this: A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose. Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last, she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil, without saying a word. In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked, “Tell me what you see.” “Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” she replied. Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its richness and savored its aroma. The daughter then asked, “What does it mean, mother?” Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity – boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water. “Which are you?” she asked...
Read MoreDesign the Life you want NLP can be a manual for how to live. Use it to understand yourself, reset your beliefs, manage your emotions, and design life the way you want it to be, and Design the Life you want for yourself aligned with your highest value, and intention. Life is a tapestry of our creation. We weave it with the color of our choices and the patterns of our behavior. One day, we might choose black and white, and another day ushers in splashes of multi-colored brightness. But the tapestry comes alive only in our own hands, and nobody else can create it for us – because they’re busy weaving their own. The more adept we are at handling our tapestry, the closer we are to creating the masterpiece we deeply desire. All this is aspirational. We can become so caught up in the humdrum of life that we tend to overlook the extraordinary elements that make life worth living. Worried about somehow completing today’s to-do list makes us forget that there’s a larger plan that needs to be visualized. And there are always better motifs to replace the old, worn-out patterns that we are weaving into our tapestry. To begin with, let’s narrow down the problem area. Because everyday tasks consume so much of our time and energy, we are increasingly dependent on technology and other people to rescue us from slipping up. And because of our fixed template – of thoughts, emotional states, preferences, beliefs – we barely pay attention to the life we want to lead. The role of NLP in the design of life The mind is endless in its potential but limited by repetitive patterns of thought and belief. What NLP does is that it works like a manual that we can use to navigate through the inner workings of our mind: The way we think. How our beliefs are formed. How we learn and absorb that learning in the form of improved behavior, communication, connections. Our motivators. Our memories help recreate specific emotional states and beliefs that define and qualify our life experiences. We move from understanding and towards resolution by asking: What are our desired outcomes and the actions that...
Read MoreThe fundamental belief of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is that all actions performed by humans are based on the use of a representational system, which is basically the five human senses – Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Olfactory, and Gustatory. Three of the five senses: Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic (VAK) in Neuro-Linguistic Programming play a cardinal role in mind processing. Some human actions are based on external events: which we can see, hear or feel based in real-time, and some are based on internal representations: imaginary images, voices, or feelings. By consciously being aware of VAK, we can utilize the power of being in the ‘Present’. Someone once said, ” achieve greater success by consciously staying in the present “, and to do that requires constant awareness. Man is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future. The past is just that, the past, and should be left alone. Many of us have a tendency to relive past experiences, think about situations that are not relevant anymore, think about things that could have been done differently in order to change an outcome… The Past is a bottomless abyss, and once you dwell deep in it, it pulls you down further. Instead of letting your past affect you adversely, respect your past, as past experiences help define a person’s personality, and provides experience to act in the present and future situations. Similarly, one’s future is a chimera, something that cannot be predicted well in advance. That is not to say don’t plan ahead, but constantly thinking about something which is not in your direct control will hamper the outcome you have planned. It is important to set a future goal, but by obsessing about the goal, there is a chance that you might miss the power of the ‘Present’. If you want to achieve greater success by consciously staying in the present, then probably a person can consider joining one of our NLP courses, which is rated as the best NLP training in India, delivered by one of the top Gurus of NLP in India. This training will go a long way in ensuring that you are on top of your skills, and process the necessary tools to apply in...
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