A positive start…
28 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Motivation and Positivity, My Training Updates, NLP Tags: garden, NLP, NLP techniques, relaxing
I had an unexpectedly nice weekend spent in the garden with both my children and my ex! 
I had forgotten how nice it is to spend time together like that, with no obvious agenda, no place to be, nothing special to do. Just really nice food, good company, fantastic weather and time and space to chill, relax and just, be!
Despite the difficulties we have from time to time it reminds me that I actually do like Tony very much and we should make the effort to spend time together more often; its good for the children and good for both of us to remember that we have been friends for longer than we were married!
Good to see my daughter – especially after all the recent trials and tribulations – it was nice to have her home again and to catch up on life, talk about stuff and be girly and I cant wait for her to come home for the summer it will be lovely to be able to spend some quality time with her. I also finally had the opportunity to talk about my NLP for the first time really since I have been home and I had the chance to try some of the techniques out with her – magical to see the lightbulb moment as something works! It reminded me just how amazing everything we learnt really was and how much I want to try to practice and understand so I can develop it into a key part of my business.
After the difficult week I have had it was so nice to be surrounded by my family but with no one actually wanting ANYTHING from me and how great was it to just have a nap mid afternoon cos it was quiet, I was relaxed and it didn’t matter!
All in all Sunday was a good day, just what I needed and has, I hope, put me on the right road to a more relaxed, positive, productive week. Fingers crossed…..
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NLP Vs Therapy
18 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Motivation and Positivity, My Training Updates, NLP Tags: Dorothy Rowe, Neuro-linguistic programming, NLP, Psychology, Richard Bandler, Why we Lie
Today was my seminar with Dorothy Rowe which I have been looking forward to for ages – to be honest I was really disappointed!
Don’t know whether it was the people who arranged the workshop or the type of people who usually go to these things or whether after a week spent with Richard Bandler learning NLP I am incredibly sceptical but from the outset I was silently screaming “NO”!
Last week, one of the key things I learnt and was repeated again and again was that with NLP ‘therapy’ there is no need to rehash the past, to hear every detail of the clients past, that the need to get clients to experience every detail of every horrible experience is at best unnecessary and at worst voyeuristic. And yet the first hour today was spent discussing the need to get clients to talk, to hear everything that has happened and to understand the context in which the experience happened. Why? Why will reliving the bad experience again and again help?
Sat round with a bunch (what is the collective term?) of deeply earnest psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists discussing how their clients ‘have depression’ was, unsurprisingly, a very depressing morning! So much so, I sneaked out after lunch and went home! I figured I had better things to do than sit listening to stuff I profoundly disagree with – I went to the seminar to hear Dorothy Rowe speak about her book not to dissect the intricacies of therapy since 1950!
If this morning did anything it was to teach me that some of the techniques Richard Bandler et al teach are more effective, quicker, less invasive and more positive than so many of the traditional therapy schools – tbh when they started to put Freud on a pedestal today I knew I was on hiding to nothing. Freud theories always struck me as somewhat peculiar and after last week, my distrust only deepened further so to hear people say we need to embrace Freud to understand our clients was when I started to visualise how much housework I could get done if left early!
All in all, a disappointing day but onwards and upwards!
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New goals, new plan, new future!
14 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in My Training Updates Tags: Bench press, BFP, Chin-up, exercise, fitness, goals, motivation, Neuro-linguistic programming, NLP, Push Up, Therapeutic use of Neuro-linguistic programming, training
Back in February I set down a list of goals and achievements I wanted by the end of the year and as the main flurry of training courses has now subsided I thought it would be useful to revisit it and assess what I have done and what is still under construction!
So starting with the academic stuff
- Pass my L2 PT accreditation exams – PASSED
- Pass my L3 PT exams - PASSED
- Complete my NLP Practitioner course – PASSED
- Complete marketing and branding for new business – DONE
- Develop website - DONE
- Start actually seeing clients – DONE
- Develop NLP therapy business as a complement to PT – UNDERWAY
- Complete NLP Master Practitioner course – NOW PLANNED FOR 2013
- Develop my own coaching and training materials for NLP courses – CANT DO UNTIL AFTER MASTER PRAC COURSE 2013
Well, I know it’s not a complete clean sweep but all in all that’s a pretty good set of achievements in just three months, something I would do as well to remember, life has been very hectic but just look at how much I have done! I am really proud of myself and how much I have accomplished but now its time to put the same degree of determination into my training and eating plan and to get the same degree of outstanding results!
Reviewing my fitness goals from February, its clear that although I have been in a plateau as far as weight and BFP is concerned, my shape has changed again meaning that at least two of my goals from back then I have already achieved. So, although I have made real progress academically I still have a way to go with fitness goals and its now time to focus on them and apply the same amount of commitment to getting things not just right, but perfect. So in the spirit of grabbing hold of life and reaching ones potential, the new plan starts today!
Time to clean the diet up, get tough on the carbs and get back to training all out four times a week – and if that doesn’t make a change to my body, weight and body fat percentage I don’t know what will!
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World Domination
13 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Motivation and Positivity, My Training Updates, NLP Tags: Business, Business development, Global Domination, Neuro-linguistic programming, NLP, Richard Bandler
It’s no good. If I just go for a successful business or a great revenue stream that really is thinking too small…Richard said we can do anything so personally I am aiming for Global Domination!!!!
Yesterday was the first day back to reality and try as I might I can’t actually get a handle on anything specific from last week – that is either Richard and John’s amazing techniques or complete brain overload; the one thing I am sure of though is my brain is buzzing with ideas, opportunities, plans and goals and I really can’t wait to start putting them into action.
Loads of new ideas for business development of the PT side of things plus some really good ideas to develop the NLP area – it was good to get some feedback from different people on the website and business name and reassured me that I have done the right thing; had a couple of marketing people give me some advice and the overall feedback was very positive! Yay go me!!
Desperate to book the Master Practitioner course for October but in all reality I can’t stretch the finances to cover that one as well on top of everything else I want to do so I will have to park that idea until next year and use the space to develop the business and get some experience using the techniques. That way by the time I come to take that qualification I will be a bit more experienced and can hopefully use what I learn a bit better – well that’s my rationale anyway! It will also give me a bit of time to develop one of my other ideas (shh, still very secret squirrel…….where?!)
Anyway, life is pretty damn good right and rather than have an inner cheer leader I think I should just embrace the concept completely and be my own cheer leader 24/7 – I know what I want, where I want to go and what I need to do. I understand what I need in my life and who provides me with the love, support and understanding to be there on my journey. Life is fantastic, challenging but bright, full of possibilities, hopes, dreams and potential.
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It’s over….
11 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Motivation and Positivity, My Training Updates, NLP Tags: Coaching, Get the Life You Want, Get the Life You Want: The Secrets to Quick and Lasting Life Change with Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Neuro-linguistic programming, NLP, NLP Life Training, Richard Bandler
Final day of the NLP course and on the train this morning at 7am I was weirdly chirpy, smiling at everyone – goodness knows what they thought but pesky Bandler and La Valle have obviously got inside my head! Not actually sure I want them to leave though!
At home now after finishing today and it’s really tough knowing this is the last day, that all of us will go off to our own lives now and I hope we stay in touch but conscious everyone says that and doesn’t whilst we are getting on with our lives and because…….!
The total immersion of the course means you make some really good friends over the week and there are some people there who have enriched my life and taught me lessons about myself, my business and friendship: Carol you are amazing and I cannot believe that I met someone as uplifting as you at Get the Life You Want and that we managed to meet up again for this one – you really have been my anchor and thank you for everything; Lucy you have made me think of business in new ways and inspired me to try new things, I hope we really can make things work on a joint project and I predict I bright future for us both; and Michael, your sense of calm, your peace, your curiosity was amazing and I know you will be a fantastic life coach. Lets all try to meet up again in a few months and set up our own NLP support group?
Anyway Day 7 final day and we have a test…..yuk wasn’t prepared for that!! But it was fantastic, fun, engaging and a great chance for us 
to see what we really know without stressing about it. Left for lunch feeling energised, happy, confident and knowing that all of us have learnt far more than we ever realised!
TBH my head is SOO full of NLP stuff and I think I am having trouble processing everything we have learnt but I suspect that that is part of the technique – your brain is busy trying to work out the first part the unconscious part is already handling the rest, applying it easily….. I hope!
Anyway, right now I feel like a different person and am clear I want to take this further to see what I can do more of this everyday (just practising techniques…. don’t you just love that ambiguity?!).
Although I haven’t had the space to think YET I wanted to capture the spirit of the course, the wonder and amazement, the sense of peace, happiness and potential that it has instilled in, I think, all of us. I am so happy I cannot believe how amazing I feel and know that whatever I choose to do it will be done with far greater awareness that only I can hold myself back and whatever my hopes and dreams, they are there for the taking. I can do anything I want and life, right now, is looking pretty damn amazing!
Thank you so much to everyone at NLP Life Training, the course was incredible; Richard Bandler is a genius, John La Valle has given me so much insight into how to apply techniques in the business world it has opened my horizons and Kathleen has taught me more about language than I ever thought possible. All in all it has been a FANTASTIC week and to anyone who is interested, if you ever get the chance to train with Richard and John, just do it – it will change your life!
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Day 6 NLP Practitioner Course
10 May 2012 1 Comment
in My Training Updates, NLP Tags: John La Valle, Neuro-linguistic programming, NLP, NLP Life Training, Richard Bandler
Ok, day six and boy I SOOO don’t want this to end. It’s like the most intense experience you can imagine with all of us existing in an NLP bubble all week! Reality is going to come as a bit of a surprise tomorrow night!!
Amazing day (as usual) Richard was on good form teaching techniques and sprinkling anecdotes liberally as always. Left at lunchtime feeling very spaced out but oh so happy!!
The surprise to all of us has been John La Valle (he said he would grow on us or was that an embedded command??) his use of metaphors, language and above all his amazing trance(s). Left this evening feeling uplifted and inspired with a strange sense of calm or peace. The intensity and clarity were so overwhelming that both Carol and I cried but left the hall feeling as if we had renewed insight into our lives.
I haven’t ever experienced anything like this course before, the intensity, the life changing experiences that happen several times a day to ALL of us, the way in which all the baggage we all have is totally stripped away or transformed.
I have so much I want to do now, that I will do – if I thought the Get the Life You Want course changed my life I can only imagine the possibilities ahead of me, the potential I can reach.
For me, this course should be compulsory, the techniques should be taught in schools, anyone and everyone should do it. If we can all benefit like this imagine how much good we could all do if we just applied what we have learned? For me, I wish I had known this stuff years ago but am booking my daughter in for the Get the Life You Want course later this year and know I will be booking the Master Practitioner course as soon as I can. I want to help people be happier, live healthier happier lives, to see and reach their potential.
All in all I have to say thank you to the amazing team who put this together; you have changed my life – and there is still one day to go!!
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Day 4 NLP Seminar
08 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in My Training Updates, NLP Tags: John and Kathleen La Valle, motivation, Neuro-linguistic programming, NLP, positivity, Richard Bandler, weight loss
0835: Here we are again waiting to go in and although I am tired I can’t wait to see what today will bring.
Been thinking about my relationships with family and with friends; what works, what doesn’t work, positive, negative and most of all how those relationships affect me and how I can change them.
12:30: Lunchtime and another amazing session with Richard finishing with a trance. Feel so alive and positive but slightly anxious about tomorrow’s phobia day – I hate spiders and moths so if he can get me over that it would be incredible!
Have much more of a sense of what is possible now, how much I can achieve. Life is just full of options and we should all enjoy every second of it!
18:50: On train home after long afternoon session with John and Kathleen La Valle. Lots of language stuff with Kathleen and interesting
to start noticing language patterns in ourselves and others. Johns session was more language but its more about the application. Was really long and got a bit tedious towards the end but he finished with a really great trance for goals and motivation.
This course has made me even more sure that although there is stuff in my head that is getting sorted there are so many ways it can be applied to help other people. Weight loss and fitness seem a perfect fit but so many of us are so screwed up it would cool to be able to help people live happier more fulfilling lives.
Weirdly I am really looking forward to embracing the challenges tomorrow knowing I can do anything I set my mind to – I don’t have 
to settle for anything!
Bring on the tarantula!!
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Day 3 NLP Seminar
07 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in My Training Updates, NLP Tags: motivation, Neuro-linguistic programming, NLP, positivity, Richard Bandler
Well, if I thought I felt good yesterday I was wrong. Richard Bandler is a genius, I feel amazing and all the stuff that was bothering me last week seems totally irrelevant.
The notion that we all carry all this stuff in our heads that holds us back and stops us reaching our potential seems stupid – if we only understood that we can change our state, our emotions and get rid of negative nonsense we would all be so much happier.
We all have our issues, our past, our relationships etc but it is how we choose to respond to them now and in the future that will determine our success and ultimately our happiness.
Grab every opportunity you have in life, stop thinking about the bad stuff and concentrate on all the fabulous stuff around you.
I can’t wait until tomorrows session………………just so long as it isn’t phobia day!!
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Day 3 NLP with Richard Bandler
07 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in NLP Tags: NLP, Richard Bandler
Ok I’m on the 0730 train to London for day three and tbh, I am really physically tired. The long days and travelling are definitely taking it out of me but mentally and emotionally i feel sharp, bright and irritatingly perky!!
Need some quiet reflection time to process all of this but the underlying sense of unlimited potential and possibility just envelopes me. I cannot wait to see what today will bring!!
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NLP Practitioner – First Day
05 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in My Training Updates, NLP Tags: Coaching, Neuro-linguistic programming, NLP, NLP Life Training, Richard Bandler
OMG, first day of my NLP Licensed Practitioner course and what an amazing experience!
First of all Richard Bandler is just a genius; he has a way of talking and drawing you in and changing how you feel about yourself without you even knowing about it! After only a few hours I was sat over lunch wondering why on earth I had had such a bad week and struggling to remember what it was I had been worried about a few days before!
End of the first day, half with Richard and half with John La Valle – two very different styles but I defy anyone NOT to learn something from either of them – and my head is buzzing with ideas and new opportunities. I can see so many applications from using it in my personal relationships to communicating in business and sales meetings and I already think this has been the most useful training day I have ever had!
I can’t wait for the rest of the course, excited and slightly nervous at what each day will bring but I know without a shadow of a doubt it will change my life.
If you get the chance check out NLP Life Training.
