The Leadership Alchemist

 Neuro Linguistic Programming is the process of modelling. The result is conscious competence, of the skills you have and desire. This then becomes a part of the unconscious and a natural part of your character.

NLP is also the process of achieving personal congruency. By setting outcomes, resolving inner conflict and managing personal change you can move towards a state of alignment in which all your energies are harnessed to pull in one direction.

Many people become skilled at storing memories in a way that leads to depression or other negative feelings. Why choose these when you could have pleasure or peace? choose the state rather than it choosing you.

Recognising the filters in others helps build the bridges of communication and how to convince people: internal or external view bias based on activity, person, object, place or time (how the memory is recalled and replayed in the mind's eye).

Do what you have always done and you will get what you have always got

It is important to appeal to all the senses: eyes, ears and feelings to gain other's understanding and attention (hearts + minds).

Empowerment is the process of tapping into and utilising your own and other's full potential.

Recognising and challenging speech patterns in yourself and others will not only improve the quality of the way you communicate, it will improve your ability to choose what you really want from life.

When talking to role models watch and listen carefully rather than relying on what your subject tells you. Watch the eyes, body language, vocabulary and tone.

Imagine the day you would like to have from waking up until the time you get home. What does it conjure up? Successes/ Problems/ Satisfactions/ Frustrations

These beliefs of excellence can be considered similar to look and feel type experiences. You try them on, what you like you keep and what you don't you discard. Keeping and using what you want is known as taking on a belief of excellence

By imagining what you want you are programming yourself to get what you want.

To find out someone's values, watch and listen for what excites them and changes their state to one of interest and curiosity. The more you develop your sensory acuity the greater your awareness to notice even the smallest of changes. As a result you can improve the way you interact with these individuals.

How you perceive other people in your mind will influence the confidence level of your interaction with them

There are 3 levels of perception:

1st person

2nd person, the person you were talking to

3rd person, an uninvolved watcher.

Anchors are useful for the following:

accessing feelings as & when you want or need them

replacing unwanted feelings & thoughts with desirable ones

gaining emotional control

influencing the response you trigger in others

tapping into memory & imagination as required as part of your personal development

To create an anchor think of a happy or confident memory and tie it to a physical movement such as rubbing forefinger & thumb together

Collapsing anchors migrates from negative thoughts to positive ones by travelling across the knuckles. The first knuckle is the present negative emotion, the 2nd one creates an emotional distractive inertia and the 3rd should be the home of a strong positive emotion. From here the 4th knuckle marries the 1st + 3rd with the latter overlaying the negative on the primary scene.

Mastering the skills of anchoring provides a better ability to master your state of mind and the effect you have on other people.