One thing in NLP is that the focus on the attitude of success is hardly mentioned. People keep focusing on the techniques and the method, and I think that’s a little passe.
One principle I share in the success process is about giving 100%.
A number of people have asked me about giving 100% and what that really means. While this is not strictly an NLP strategy, I think the attitude of being at your 100% is very important. Personally, I find that it is a very useful concept. But, is it possible to give 100% all the time?
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Do you desire financial freedom and fame? If you do, I have news for you. NLP can help you model after those successes! However, you might have a lot of catching up the, not just in financial success, but also in terms of knowing where you are where you ought to go. If you’re one of those people who have great financial success, but are complete jerks, don’t read this. I have people whom I care about whom I want to succeed, not you.
I suppose you might have heard of the “Law Of Attraction” and stuff like that. My opinion? It basically boils back down to your thinking… which reminds me of the power of affirmation.
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An affirmation, in my view from NLP, is an internal sound. Depending on the emotional state that it generates, the internal experience of an inner sound (test this out – say something like ‘yay!’ as if you said it out loud in a room, but keep that silent in your mind, sending the sensation all through your body). If you said it right, you might probably feel lots of tingling sensations in your body. It’s like a time you wanted to shout out in joy, but you were not allowed to make loud noises.
One of the things about being effective in belief change is the way you interject and weaken undesired mental images and strengthen desired images in people’s minds.
For instance, someone may have a very firm belief (maybe even paranoia) that someone is plotting against them in the office (lol — well who isn’t). In this case, you can basically do a number of things to weaken those mental images.
One way is to use a simple pattern interrupt. If you are adept enough, you can weave this in smoothly without causing a serious break in rapport. Another way that is common is to offer counter examples within your conversation itself. The targeted undesired belief can then be diminished greatly.
Could it be that you have been living in a dream world?
NLP really opened up my own understanding of my own beliefs. It was necessary for me to consider the new possibilities. It’s the basis of my question: “What if everyone you met thought you were insane – but you believed you were not”. 
A lot of us play our habits in ourhead, turning our reality into our own “matrix” that keeps us stuck where we are. Some people call it the “comfort zone”. Imagine a world where you have basically been locked out of the reality you should have been in – to make you feel at ease, but you were simply living a lie. Wouldn’t you want to break out of it?
