The Brilliance of NLP
We are often asked ‘what has NLP done for you?’ And perhaps more intriguingly, ‘what does NLP enable you to do?’ These are not questions to which answers trip off the tongue easily. Discussing these questions in the context of our recent book Brilliant NLP we came to the conclusion that answering the first one in particular will depend at which stage of life the question is posed.
‘Has done’ would rather suggest that NLP has finished its work. NLP can be described as a life navigation tool without which life and work can be a journey with vague direction and focus; so many people these days feel unfulfilled at work, and in their personal life. It’s a sense of having arrived in a place as a result of joining a mystery tour, rather than having bought a ticket for a specific destination.
Through NLP you can begin to see things differently, be much more aware of your own thoughts, feelings and behaviour. You can discover what really makes you tick, and begin to make crystal clear decisions about what you want from work and life, and work out how to get there.
We can take responsibility for our results and make changes to improve the quality of our lives. It’s like taking firm hold of the driving wheel used to steer our work and personal life in the direction we decide to go using a real sense of vision and determination. As we look around us at our friends and acquaintances we realise that very few of them are completely happy with themselves, and they are certainly not achieving anywhere near their true potential.
NLP has been brilliant for us in so many ways. Once you have it under your belt you too can use it to generate brilliant results in many aspects of your work and your personal life including relationships, motivating people and teams, decision making, creative thinking, confidence, selling, influencing, public speaking and many, many more. NLP gives you a growing array of transferable life skills effective at work and in your personal life.
Pat Hutchinson and David Molden
