NLP & Eating – what’s your strategy?
NLP and the T.A.T.E Model The T.A.T.E. Model is great for identifying what accounts for success or failure in how we do things. We use it in our NLP Practitioner […]
Let's get away from it all
Living vicariously – or living This month’s Pegasus NLP Newsletter is about the difference between living a fulfilling life and living your life second hand – i.e. really Living or living
Time to smell the roses
NLP Hype The five of us were sitting in the sunshine outside a café in the lovely little Victorian town of Swanage this morning – Julie, Peter, their two boys,
Communicating with customers
What’s it like for would-be customers’? The car ahead of me had stickers advertising their service. I could tell that much because of the big lettering on the car boot (i.e.
Learning as you go: the Reviewing Model
The Reviewing Model The Reviewing Model is one of those deceptively simple yet powerful methods for learning through doing and reviewing. That’s why we use in our Pegasus NLP courses.
7 More NLP Tips on Twitter
NLP Tips – Week 2 The NLP Tips’ series on Twitter has now completed its second experimental week of daily tips. This Blog article enlarges on the Twitter tips since
Advice giving: Why won’t they take the advice – and change!
Why do people sometimes seem to be their own worst enemies? They eat too much, drink too much, work too hard etc. despite advice and evidence that it is not
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NLP Twitter Tips
Daily NLP Tips The new daily NLP Tips series on Twitter is for people who have had some experience of NLP. This is because anything other than a reminder of
It's time for a group hug!
NLP, Bodywork and group hugs In the early 80’s as I was exploring NLP I also became interested in bodywork as another route to personal development. As the name suggests
Replace (some) mental chatter with The Daily Plan
Self Talk has its uses … A lot of us who do our thinking primarily through self talk or, as we term it in NLP, through Auditory Digital thinking, try
Driving your own bus
Driving your own bus? Or back-seat passenger? Bad times or learning opportunities? What’s your favourite screw-up, setback, mistake, weak spot, etc. What’s pretty well guaranteed to have you in an
A quart into a pint pot
It’s bank holiday weekend! The Dorset Coast, when I live, is a popular visitor destination and I’ve long ago learned from the locals that it’s best to avoid travelling locally
Beating yourself up about things
Do you give yourself a hard time…? What you do when you slip up? When you make a mistake, forget something, screw up, open your mouth and (metaphorically) put your
Advice giving: Why don’t they follow my advice?
For many people there is a certain satisfaction in giving others good advice on how to solve their problems or live their lives. And these people find it quite frustrating
The Get it Right Attitude (2 of 2)
The Get it Right attitude (2) In Part 1 we looked at the way the Get it Right attitude works and I suggested having a think about how it works
Is NLP only for ‘good visualisers’?
NLP techniques don’t work for me! Not long ago I got an email: ‘I have been reading … (naming a well-known NLP-based self improvement book) and listening to the accompanying
Should we teach NLP skills to everyone?
We’d like you to train our team The regional manager for the multinational had taken part, as a private individual, in our NLP Core Skills course a few months earlier
The ‘future on wheels’ pattern
People who are ‘going to’ have a great future The next Pegasus NLP Newsletter will be out shortly. It will be about people who have their ‘future on wheels’. The
NLP, Managing & Leading, and the Soft Skills
Managing and Leading in tougher times Managing and team leading in 2010 and beyond is more demanding than ever before with the challenge of raising and maintain morale and motivation
What’s beneath the word ‘Try’
‘I’ll try…’ It’s only a tiny word. Just 3 letters: T R Y Yet how a person uses the word ‘Try’ provides important clues to their beliefs and attitude. It’s
What’s beneath the words (1) ‘Hopefully’
There’s listening… and there’s really listening. Normally when we’re listening to somebody we tend to pay attention to what they are actually saying. We listen to the words, the sentences,
A very public appraisal (Part 2)
The cost of managers who don’t motivate No doubt Jack believes he is doing a good job in how he handled Mohan. In his view that’s the way to efficiently
A very public appraisal (Part 1)
How not to do an appraisal Sitting in Caffe Nero a few days ago I had the uncomfortable experience of watching and hearing a loud and brash young manager (unintentionally,
The joy of telling them they’re wrong!
No… you’re wrong! Sometimes the temptation is almost irresistible… to tell the other person just how wrong they are, that is. I experienced it this morning and, this time at
NLP & Rapport (4) ‘Gimme, gimme’ or Win-Win?
I want information!! She didn’t dither nor mess about. She got straight to the point. She wanted information which she knew she had a right to and she expected me to
NLP & Rapport (3): Rapport by skill – or by trial and error?
In relating with other people many of us unintentionally sabotage the rapport we are trying to create! Desperate to get along well with someone and to create a good impression
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NLP & Rapport (2): Communicating, talking… and listening?
Being ‘talked at’ It was a fairly dramatic example of being talked at. We were chatting on the phone and she was telling me about something. I attempted to ask
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"Sorry, it's time to feel bad again – I've got a living to earn…"
I was feeling pretty good as I made my first coffee of the day at 7.10 am this morning (for the record it’s Saturday 16 January 2010). The snow had
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NLP & Goals: your Values Hierarchy
There are articles on Goals and Values on our main website Goals and Values – your hot buttons (1) https://nlp-now.co.uk/values-feelings-that-matter/ Goals and Values – your hot buttons (2) https://nlp-now.co.uk/values-important-hierarchy/ Goals or Dreams