Whether you believe in such concepts as “fate” or “signs from God”, or (substitute your own term for divine intervention or synchronicity), every now and then life reveals glimpses or reminders of the path to which we’ve devoted ourselves. Keli, my wife, and I were walking into a store not long ago, around sunset. The […]
When we impose limits on ourselves, this is the first and some might argue, most authoritative boundary we will ever encounter. Take a simple, arguably silly, example. You awaken after hitting the “snooze” button a total of three times. Now you’re running late. You leap out of bed, adrenaline triggered by the awareness of potential […]
Robin Williams, dead at 63. He made us laugh and he made us think. In the end, he made us cry. Much has been written about movie and music stars who seemed to have had it all – fame, success, wealth, sometimes even a good relationship – then who shocked us by taking their own […]
I stay in a lot of hotels in my line of work. A lot. And depending on the size of city I’m visiting, the choices for hotels can be either quite robust…or much less so. i was staying in a hotel not long ago where they charmingly misspelled “hotel”, using an “m” instead of an “h”. I […]
It is great to be out there, interacting with the world again. A few months ago, I was involved in a car accident that made a really good point about symbols and how we perceive them. Semiotics, or the study of signs and symbols, could be applied to something as simple as traffic signs and […]
I travel quite a lot, and as anyone who does that will tell you, it’s much less exciting than it might sound. Some of the most stressful experiences human beings have now take place in airports and on airplanes (and I’m not talking about phobics, here!). Thanks to 9/11, boarding a plane is infinitely more […]
Portions of this article are excerpted from an NLP Practitioner Certification class held in 2000. Meaning reframe is the experience we’ve all had naturally where we “know” what is happening, what it means to us, and therefore what we expect will happen next. Suddenly, we have an experience or receive new information that abruptly changes […]
I was recently asked why the lack of activity in this blog during the month of November. First, I was very grateful that someone commented on this – thank you! I will share with you the reason, because within it I think we can find something useful. My mother passed away after several years’ bout […]
The Milton Model is in many ways the inverse of the Meta Model. As we covered in that lesson, through three processes, Deletion, Distortion and Generalization, we can speak and be artfully vague. That is, we can speak in a manner that’s vague enough that the listener can “fill in the blanks” with their own […]
The underlying principle here is that through three processes we will explain shortly, Deletion, Distortion and Generalization, people can create global attitudes and experiences that ignore or modify their perception of the otherwise rich experience surrounding them. By instead focusing on an impoverished experience with limited possibilities and pain, they can become very successful at […]