Stay on track

Toward the end of every Pegasus NLP course the question arises of how to keep the momentum – the buzz of enthusiasm – going afterwards, when you’re back in the world of everyday home life and work life.

It’s easy to stay focussed and enthusiastic while at the course. You’re in a wonderful cosy ‘NLP bubble’ learning, mixing and chatting, or even living with (an option on our courses for those who want a full-immersion experience of NLP) like-minded and enthusiastic people – a great way of learning and wiring-in the material.

Even between course modules you can stay in touch with others from your group or at least with your coaching team (we have small self-coaching teams on our Pegasus NLP Practitioner Part 2 and Master Practitioner courses).

But how can you keep this buzz going after the course has ended?

Do a little and… daily!

One of the best ways of doing this is to use your NLP skills every day – and to do this using the 10% New approach so that you don’t overdo things:

(1) Pick something from your course e.g.

NLP Core Skills: Values or Beliefs from the Logical Levels

Practitioner Part 2: Any of the 13 Meta Model patterns

Master Practitioner: One of the Sleight of Mouth patterns

(2) Make this topic your theme for a day or two. This sets your RAS filters for this topic ensuring you’ll notice it more readily. Write the theme on the back of one of your handy little shopping lists (sorry, business cards!) and carry it with you as a reminder.

(3) Watch and listen for the pattern when communicating with others face-to-face or by telephone – at home, at work, in shops, at the bus stop, etc. (You can also do it while listening to factual talk programmes on the radio).

And that’s it. Instead of thinking ‘I must get around to working on my NLP’… you can simply ‘wire in’ the habit of easily and naturally noticing these phenomena.

And remember… just a little!

With the 10% New approach you are aiming for a 1-2 minute observation only. If you try to do this for longer it can get in the way of other things – like hearing what people are actually talking about. So just do it for the first minute or two of an interaction – the ‘small talk’ time.

(Sometimes articles take on a life of their own. This was to have been a couple of paragraphs for this month’s Pegasus NLP Update which is due to go out today.. and then it sort of grew…)