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Discover The Secrets Of Unconditional Happiness
I'm delighted to announce that I'm launching a set of f^ree weekly tips that will help you to apply these principles. They'll take less than a minute to read, but will serve to remind you of how to apply these principles to get what you want. Sign up immediately to receive an e-book worth £19.95 at no charge, The Top 10 Secrets of Unconditional Happiness here...
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NLP Essentials - Learn Fast On This 1-Day Training
We live in a busy world, and many people want to experience the benefits of NLP, but don't have the time to attend a full NLP Practitioner training. For this reason, we've created an exciting one-day trainings:
NLP for Business & Personal Success: This is the ideal starting point for the person who has heard about NLP and wants to have a first-hand experience of its power. We've taken the most useful, insightful and beneficial aspects of our programmes, and condensed them into this one-day intensive. This workshop has a maximum of 15 spaces. The price is £197 plus VAT, but you can attend this training on 6th May for the low price of only £147 plus VAT if you pay before April 21 by ringing the Salad offices on 01455 445705, or using our online application process.
Learn more here...
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Jamie Smart's Coming To Australia
I am delighted to announce that I'm coming to Australia in September of this year, and thought I'd take the opportunity to run some training courses while I'm there.
I'm really keen to ensure that I'm able to meet as many of my readers as possible while I'm there, and that any courses or workshops I run are of the greatest interest to my clients, so if you live in Australia or New Zealand, I'd be grateful if you could take a minute or two to complete the survey...
This will help us figure out exactly what to offer, and where. To sweeten the pot, we're having a free prize draw for everyone in Australia and New Zealand who completes the survey. First prize is a free place on one of the courses I'm running there in September, with five runners-up prizes of a deck of Salad cards of your choice. The closing date for the draw is 30 April.
Thanks in advance for taking the time to do this - I look forward to meeting you in person!
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"All These Cards - What's The Difference?"Last year I proudly announced the launch of our new NLP Coaching Cards, and immediately received a flurry of emails asking "What's the difference between these and the other cards you produce?" So here's what I said:
Irresistible Influence Cards are geared towards winning business, and bringing people around to your way of thinking. They are focused on discovering people's wants, needs and desires and then using language in the most influential way to get them to buy your ideas, products or services.
Learn more here...
NLP Coaching Cards are for finding out what's going on in someone else's map of the world, then coaching them to enrich that map. They are fantastic for setting goals, clearing obstacles, and shaking up limiting beliefs. They also include techniques for wiring in the infamous NLP Meta Model, the world's most powerful information-gathering and problem-solving tool.
Learn more here...
Ericksonian Hypnosis Cards are for putting people into trance, and guiding them to access the resources that will help them make certain changes. These are great whether you're doing formal hypnosis, public speaking, or just want to tell more engaging stories.
Learn more here...
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Tip# 146 - The Magic of Thinking BIG - 13th April, 2006
This tip is read by over 15,000 people - thanks for helping us reach our goal! Please help us reach our new target of 20,000 subscribers by the 31st of July 2006 (thanks in advance for your help.)
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"Finally I Started Earning More And Working Less"
It's over three years since I started Salad, and recently a well-known NLP Trainer asked if I would share the secrets of my business growth at a seminar he's planning. I said there was something I had to explain first.
You see, growing the business has been (and continues to be) an amazing learning experience. While I've learned lots of 'tricks of the trade', the 'secrets' that have been the most powerful in growing my business have been my beliefs.
I'd heard all about the principles of abundance, attraction & manifestation, but getting them to work in my business and my life has been another story. In the process, I discovered something extraordinary: Many of the evolutionary developments designed to help us survive as individuals can actually stop our businesses from growing and thriving!
Once I figured out how this stuff works, I started seeing big changes in my business, fast. Specifically:
- I started earning passive income, doing the work once and getting paid many times
- I increased my fees, and started charging a premium price for my coaching work
- I began to get more and more clients approaching me spontaneously
- I noticed that training courses were beginning to sell out
- Finally, I stopped worrying, and started growing my business
I've agreed to take part in the seminar (date to be announced), and as part of my preparation for it, I'm running a one-day workshop, limited to only 8 people on April 20th. The first four places have already gone, but if you want to be one of the first people to be exposed to these ideas, in a small group that allows one-to-one interactions (this is one of the only times you'll get me in a group this small), go to www.cheekymonkeynlp.com/swgb.htm
This Week's Tip...
The Magic of Thinking Big
The other day, someone recommended a book to me by David Schwartz, called "The Magic of Thinking Big". I loved the title, and immediately went out and bought it. I haven't finished it yet, but its central message really resonates with me, and with something I once read by Michele Lisenbury Christensen. She said that one of her biggest mistakes in business was trying to avoid failure.
I could really identify with this, because when I first started Salad, I was terrified of making a mistake. It took a tremendous leap of faith to even use the name 'Salad' because it was so different to everything else out there. Almost without exception, whenever I've been having difficulties in my business, it's been because I've been trying to avoid failure instead of go for what's possible. Why is this?
Neurology is goal-seeking
Human neurology is goal-seeking, and negation is handled by the unconscious mind in a different way to how it's handled in language. When someone says that they don't want to fail in some way, we understand consciously what that means. But the message they are sending to their unconscious is still one of failure (to even understand the concept of failure a person has to make an internal representation of it, and this is what the unconscious then uses to organise around).
1) If there is something you've been trying to avoid (failure, rejection, poor results of some sort), re-state what you want as a positive.
- From "I want to lose weight" to "I want to be slim"
- From "I want to get out of debt" to "I want to be financially solvent"
- From "I don't want to lose this deal" to "I want to close this deal"
I know this is basic, but I'm still amazed at the number of NLP-trained people I hear saying what they don't want instead of what they do.
When I first learned this, it was a real a-ha moment, and I shifted all my goals from being stated in the negative to being stated in the positive. So far so good, and on one level this made a really big difference. But on another level, I was still trying to avoid failure, and had just found a different way of talking about it.
See, my 'positive' goals had still been defined in relation to what I didn't want.
The conscious mind is comfortable with the concept and the energy of avoiding failure. In business, I spent lots of energy getting people booked on trainings because I was afraid of running a training with not enough people on it. In my personal life, I focused on sorting out my finances because I was afraid of being in debt.
Fear can be a useful motivator (often referred to as an 'away-from' strategy), but it is not a useful focus for one's life. Some of the wealthiest people I know, people who have vast personal fortunes, live in fear of poverty. Their happiness is index-linked!
The way to get out of this trap is to set a goal that is much bigger than avoiding failure; to create a vision that is so inspiring that, even if it seems impossible, it still lights your fire.
To achieve a goal like this, you need to let go of conscious control and trust your unconscious.
I once heard Tom Peters (business guru) say "One of my favourite quotes is by Mario Andretti who said "If you feel like you're in control, you're not going fast enough"".
This also applies to business and life. If you orient around avoiding failure, you're conscious mind gets to feel like it's in control, but the results are typically uninspiring. To quote Michele "The instant we set our intention on what could be instead of what we want to avoid, we embark on a spiritual adventure".
For me, the spiritual adventure means trusting your unconscious. Check these out:
From "I want to lose weight" to "I want to be slim, fit & vibrantly healthy. I want to look great naked, and feel fantastic, full of energy and life."
From "I want to get out of debt" to "I want to be fabulously wealthy, with an abundance of all the good things in life, and making enormous contributions to the world."
From "I don't want to lose this deal" to "I want to create amazing business relationships that create genuine value for my delighted clients, and be handsomely rewarded for it."
2) If there's an area of life where you've been trying to avoid failure, stop and ask yourself "What could be? What would inspire me? What would make me excited, take my breath away, and get me to jump out of bed in the morning?
When I first learned about goal-setting, I was told that they have to be realistic. I disagree. I insist that the big goals in my life be unrealistic. That makes it so much more enjoyable when they show up!
I'm doing a one-day workshop next week for only 8 people where we'll be looking at the principles of business success on April 20th. The first four places have already gone, but if you want to be one of the first people to be exposed to these ideas, in a small group that allows one-to-one interactions (this is one of the only times you'll get me in a group this small), go to www.cheekymonkeynlp.com/swgb.htm
Or ring Nikki on 01455 445705
Have a great week & I'll be back soon! J
Best Wishes,
Jamie
Jamie Smart
director of training
jamie@saladltd.co.uk
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