What's New, What's Old, and What's Continuous

With unbridled enthusiasm, we set up two blogs at once. That's what's old. Last week, but in the web world, that's OLD. What's new is that we sold our first internet inspired and internet marketed product, "The Happy Kit", in less than 19 hours after posting. And he ordered two books as well.

This is what's continuous. I've been interviewing internet marketing experts for about a year, trying to find one who seemed to know what s/he is supposed to know as an expert. One said, "You must have landing pages. You have too many tabs on your home page." The next one said, "No landing pages. They dilute your numbers so the search engines won't count you as significant." Each contradicted the other, and their prices are astronomical. My guess is that the net changes so fast that the experts become non-experts, faster than computer programs become out-dated. In this search, I've had to use my State of Excellence often just to keep my energy high. So I decided to make the steps to the State of Excellence available to everyone. That's new!

NLP for the Holidays

One of the most useful applications of NLP is to change your internal state. This is especially helpful when you must interact with relatives in close quarters for a minute, an hour, an afternoon, an evening. Thanksgiving is a good test site for being at ease with people who irritate you. Different world views when squashed together at family dinners can ruin your appetite. Biting your tongue isn't the best strategy. A much more effective behavior is to shift from judgement ("You're stupid, ignornant, mis-guided, wrong, crazy, rigid, dumb, etc) to CURIOUSITY. Ask a question to find out where the other dinner guest or relative acquired this particular world view. Listen without judgement. Whether it's about Bush, Cheney, Iraq, Afganistan, the English aristocracy, the draft, the gasoline tax, the role of grass in medicine, the difference in opinion is a great place for you to practice remaining calm, cool, and collected while others are ranting about subjects that you know more about and have a different opinion. This ability to create and maintain your own internal state will keep you healthy, wealth-ier , and wise. You won't need Tums. You can enjoy those obnoxious family members.

Welcome to Our New Blog

After 24 years of training NLP for the corporate world, I finally have a way to reach a lot of people in a day. My adventures in training NLP are full of joys, sorrows, excitement, disappointment, and the exhileration of changing people. I wish I'd had this blog when I did my first training. I was still studying NLP on week-ends, and yet began teaching it on Mondays. I was so intrigued with how these skills worked on people' s behaviors that I could not wait to teach these to others.

I had just completed my doctorate in Gestalt Psychology and recognized immediately that NLP added to the Gestalt instruction exactly what was needed to transfer skills in useful chunks. This I set out to do immediately with colored sheets of paper that had one word printed at the top of each page. The one word designated a particular strategy which often had 10 attached skills. I would re-arrange the order of the sheets of paper for every seminar, looking for the best sequence. These pages eventually turned into work-books for more than 50,000 participants. Magic? Or miracle?