"The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty." - Theodore Parker
Many times during consultations or via email, people ask me questions about vision and communications etc.
What they're really asking me about is how can they change?
And more importantly for them, how can they change quickly?
One of the fastest ways to change the results you're getting in your life is to change your thoughts. By changing what goes on inside, you change what goes on outside.
Those little images, sounds and feelings that dart through your head during the day have a tremendous impact on you. They can alter the direction of your mindset and your results.
Even those that appear harmless can nudge you off course by a mere degree or two or three. That simple miscalculation in your thinking can cause major misfortune down the road.
You only have to be off course by a few degrees to miss your destination by what seems to be a million miles.
You can't go forward looking in the rear view mirror. You can't make a fortune if you're thinking about being broke. You can't create a fit body if you're thoughts are about you have to lose weight because you're fat...
You get the point.
Be aware of the thoughts that go through your head. If they aren't bringing you closer to your goal, then CANCEL those thoughts.
Say this out loud to yourself:
"CANCEL that! What I meant to say/think/picture is..."
This simple technique will dramatically alter your focus and thereby your direction, creating more empowering results.
If you're looking for lasting change in your life, your thoughts are an excellent place to start. Whatever is in your mind consistently and backed up with emotional intensity, will manifest in your life.
Whether you believe to be true or not is irrelevant.
This is a bit of a review and I do that for a reason.
Basics, Basics, Basics. The more you read it, the more you see it, the more you do it - the better you get.
As the saying goes, "Listen to me now, believe me later."
David Martin
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Thinking Out Loud
"The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example." - Thomas Morell
Language is a powerful filter on our individual experience. Its part of the culture we're born into and is difficult to change. It channels our thoughts in particular directions, making it easy to think in some ways it difficult to think and others.
Our language makes fine distinctions in some areas and not in others, depending on what's important in the culture. For example, we have dozens of words for a hamburger and a multitude of different names for cars.
The world is as rich and varied as we choose to make it, and the language we inherit plays a crucial part in directing our attention to some parts of it and not others.
Our thoughts are not determined by language. While we can and do think in words, our thoughts are also a mixture of mental pictures, sounds and feelings. Knowing a language is knowing how to translate these into words.
The question we want to explore here is, what happens to our thoughts as we clothe them in language, and how faithfully are they preserved when our listeners undress them?
Language, of course, has its own ambiguities. For example, the newspaper article headed: "Census Gives Facts On Men Broken Down By Age, Sex and Occupation." Leaving these sorts of examples aside, words have different meanings to different people, because no two people have had the same experiences.
Words are anchors for sense experience, but the experience is not the reality, and the word is not the experience. Language is thus two moves from reality. To argue about the real meaning of a word is like arguing that one menu tastes better than the other because you prefer the food that is printed on it.
People who learn another language, nearly all report, a radical change in the way they think about the world.
Remember no matter what you think you are, you are always more than that!
David Martin
PS - for a one on one exploration of what NLP can do for you in your pursuit of excellence, send an email to "info at answerconcepts.com". Include your phone number and the best time to call.
Language is a powerful filter on our individual experience. Its part of the culture we're born into and is difficult to change. It channels our thoughts in particular directions, making it easy to think in some ways it difficult to think and others.
Our language makes fine distinctions in some areas and not in others, depending on what's important in the culture. For example, we have dozens of words for a hamburger and a multitude of different names for cars.
The world is as rich and varied as we choose to make it, and the language we inherit plays a crucial part in directing our attention to some parts of it and not others.
Our thoughts are not determined by language. While we can and do think in words, our thoughts are also a mixture of mental pictures, sounds and feelings. Knowing a language is knowing how to translate these into words.
The question we want to explore here is, what happens to our thoughts as we clothe them in language, and how faithfully are they preserved when our listeners undress them?
Language, of course, has its own ambiguities. For example, the newspaper article headed: "Census Gives Facts On Men Broken Down By Age, Sex and Occupation." Leaving these sorts of examples aside, words have different meanings to different people, because no two people have had the same experiences.
Words are anchors for sense experience, but the experience is not the reality, and the word is not the experience. Language is thus two moves from reality. To argue about the real meaning of a word is like arguing that one menu tastes better than the other because you prefer the food that is printed on it.
People who learn another language, nearly all report, a radical change in the way they think about the world.
Remember no matter what you think you are, you are always more than that!
David Martin
PS - for a one on one exploration of what NLP can do for you in your pursuit of excellence, send an email to "info at answerconcepts.com". Include your phone number and the best time to call.
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