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Neuro Linguistic Programming - Tools for success and development

NLP came from the study of how successful people differ from the rest… how they feel about things, what they say to themselves, how they feel things, how they think and the way they carry themselves in any situation.

NLP is a number of techniques and tools that can help you reach your potential. Many business people and sports men and woman use NLP and similar techniques to achieve success and great results.

Tony Robbins the motivational and personal development speaker and guru also uses NLP and promotes the techniques used in NLP.

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What makes you happy?

…and would make you want to jump out of bed in the morning?

One of the key things that people who succeed in life seem to have a grasp of is making sure they identify what makes them tick, what will drive them to success, Why do they want to achieve that something?

So how do you find out what makes you happy?

• Try new things!
• Look at what you have enjoyed in life in the past.
• What did you get excited about in childhood, teenage years or early adulthood?
• What things in life get you really passionate, is it injustice, is it people, is it working with animals, are you really keen on helping others?
• If you can’t get anywhere with the above questions, just keep looking and asking, what makes me happy in life just now or in the future?

If you look at identifying what you get most out of in life you can really make a shift towards a life of abundance and true riches (happy, contentment, successful.

Also, it makes sense to define what you do like about life at present, in the recent past, and in the near future as well as dreaming about the long term possibilities in life.

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‘I am the greatest’ Mohammed Ali

If you want to achieve something extraordinary then you have to dream something extraordinary, imagine, see yourself getting what you really want, feel as though you are living it, smell what you would smell, hear what you might hear.

You simply are aiming to leave your subconscious believing that the vivid day dreams are actually real and exist in the ‘real world’.

I listened to one of Jack Blacks CD’s today, a Motivational and development speaker from Glasgow in Scotland. The CD has three tracks on it and the 3rd track is great, I was impressed because I could really relate to the ideas he presented as well as the people that he used as analogies. I have listened to hundreds of personal development and motivational CD’s but this one really struck a note with me.

One key thing that I got from the Mindstore CD is that you should not do as many motivational and management materials preach, by only dreaming of achieving things that are ‘achieveble’ and ‘atainable’. I feel free to dream of achieving things that may be a far off dream to others even if they are extremely difficult for people to achieve.

Dream big! Achieve loads and be the greatest!

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New Statesmen Magazine - On social enterprise and the voluntary sector.

Last night I had the opportunity to attend the Edge Upstarts Event in Edinburgh, with speakers including Brian Tannerhill MBE - Chief Executive of the McSence Group and John Swinney MSP Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth.

The main question to the floor of speakers was simply ‘where do charities and social enterprises differ and what are the similarities?’, but the discussion seemed to go in circles a bit and focused more on the definition of what a social enterprise ’should look and act like’.

I am glad that I attended the event held in the Grape (function room) in St Andrews Square Edinburgh and I did get some learning from going along.

I can’t help but wonder exactly why I was there, I have had a keen interest in social enterprise for about 5 years and I have had experience of small business and enterprise projects since I was about 16 years old, but I could not help but feel that I did not fit in, that I was not quite expected to be there.

It was strange, I was asked by a number of people ‘how did you get an invite?’ and ‘what are you doing here?’ as though I should not be in a room with the ‘elite’… but deep down I dont really care (well just a bit) as it is all part of the old thing about learning to deal with all kinds of people and deal with rejection.

I am sure many young euntreprenuers out there have experinced the same thing, the advice that I would give anyone who is just starting out, go for it, unless it is a waste of your time and taking you away from your desired goals and dreams… go for it!

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