Two Sides Of A Deadly Coin Way back in the day, we humans lived in small tribes of a few hundred people. Life was harsh. Getting food was difficult and dangerous. Predators were everywhere, and the food tended to run away. Animals didn’t want to be killed and eaten. Hunter Gather Instincts We humans […]
Paradox Of Achievement
Four Minute Mile This is a common story that is told in many forms. It’s commonly uses as a self-help metaphor. An “if you believe it, then you can achieve it,” metaphor. These types of metaphors are used to combat the normal human, “I won’t believe it until I see it” response. Roger Bannister […]
How To Deal With Her Friends After You Seduce Her
A girls friends can have a HUGE impact on what she thinks about a potential boyfriend. Social proof works in more ways than one. You walk into a club, and you’ve got a few good looking girls with you. This, of course, makes it much, much easier to open and approach other girls, since it […]
Easy Tips To Achieve Instant Peace Of Mind
Being a peace with yourself, and having that elusive peace of mind is something that gurus have been seeking for ages. The Buddha taught long ago that life itself is suffering, and the only hope is to “detach” from reality somehow. But if you’re like most folks, you’ve got bills to pay, a job you […]
Supercharge The Law Of Attraction With Increased Congruence
If you’ve ever tried the law of attraction, you may feel as if it’s some kind of a con. You visualized a stack of money, a new car or a new girlfriend, and nothing happened. Does this mean it doesn’t work? Does this mean all those folks selling Law of Attraction products are selling snake […]
More Flexible More Better
One of the presuppositions of NLP is that the more flexibility you have in any given situation, the better off you are. Like if you’re building a birdhouse, you’d be better off with more tools than less tools. If you’re boxing, you’re better off with more defensive and offensive skills than less skills. If you’re […]
What’s The Most Important Step?
Choosing goals isn’t an easy process. As much as we’d like to believe, it’s not as simple as looking in the mirror and saying something like, “you know, I think I’m going to lose a few pounds.” In NLP there’s a step by step system to choose your goals. And once chosen, they’re sometimes referred […]
How Far Are You Willing To Go?
Most everybody’s got plenty of hopes, dreams, and wishes. Few of us have goals. Real goals. Why? Because goals require a plan, as well as sacrifice. We only have 24 hours a day, and we only have so many resources. Sadly, most of us don’t have much willpower when it comes to certain things. For […]
Same Or Different?
One of the ways we sort thing is by putting them into categories of “sameness” or “difference.” Let’s say you go to a new restaurant, let’s say an Italian place, that you’ve never been do before. Maybe it just opened up, or maybe you discovered it on a roundabout way home from work. Anyhow, there […]
What Motivates You?
When you think about doing something, from where do you get more motivation? Are you motivated internally or externally? Internally, by your own criteria, and how you’ll judge yourself, or externally, based on the criteria of others and how they’ll judge you? For most of us, we’re a mix of both. Which is better? It […]